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Let's Chat! Author Sheila Hudson
Welcome, Readers. And welcome, Sheila.
This week we're chatting with super-successful veteran author, Sheila Hudson, a Georgia girl who mainly writes cozy mysteries. I'm honored Sheila has agreed to join us this week. Find a comfortable spot, prop up your feet, and enjoy.
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Congratulations to Melissa Henderson, winner of Sheila's cozy mystery, Classic City Murders!
Before Sheila Hudson Authored
In 1968 I married seminary student Timothy L. Hudson. With graduation we accepted an assignment with our first church along with parenthood. We served several churches before my husband accepted a position as a professor at a Bible college. Both from Georgia, our first winter in West Virginia with an infant proved quite a challenge.
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Sheila Hudson's First Steps
My writing career began with a writing course from my husband while recuperating from surgery. I've written for the Athens Banner Herald, Athens Magazine, Christian Standard, The Lookout, Chicken Soup, and numerous other publications.
Sheila's Debut Experience: "Pure Gold" Nonfiction
In 2014 Dancing with Bear Publishers published my first book, 13 Decisions That Will Change Your Life followed in 2015 by 13 Decisions That Will Transform Your Marriage. It was a thrill like no other to finally reach that milestone. The first box of books was like receiving pure gold. (Click to Tweet!)
Sheila Hudson's Next Steps: Cozy Mysteries
Initially, I experimented with fiction and wrote a short novella – a cozy mystery. When I sent it to a friend to see if I was on the right track, she asked to publish it and two more just like it. (Did I mention she's an editor and publisher?) That began my fiction career as the author of seven cozy mysteries known as The Thursday Club. I enjoyed these humorous stories about five women (drawn from my circle of friends) so much I later entered another contest by Winged Publications.
My Classic City Murders won that contest, and ThomasMax Publishers in Atlanta, Georgia published it in two volumes.
Since then I have begun a new cozy series called Silent Partners with Winged Publications. Kiss and Make Up is the first book in the series about twins who solve a murder. The second book in the series, Dead Ringer, features the same characters and will be available for the holidays.
A Little Advice from a Veteran
I advise anyone who wants to write to start with the inner circle. Start small with articles and start local. Pay your dues and take small bites in the writing world. Develop thick skin for critics and those who might be jealous of your successes. The world's best editor and my writing partner and friend for over twenty years, Amy Munnell, blesses me. Amy introduced me to Southeastern Writers Association where I have been affiliated for over 23 years. I consider serving on the board in many capacities and as President a privilege.
I consider writing a ministry and have mentored others in this capacity. My husband and I served in campus ministries in two universities and currently minister at Classic City Community Church in Athens, Georgia. We have been married 49 years, have 2 daughters and 2 sons-in-law, 1 son, and 7 grandsons. God has blessed us beyond words.
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I plan to continue working with SWA, the church, and a mission that is dear to us – SonSafaris, Inc. Hopefully we will visit their handiwork in South Africa in the coming year—a subject, no doubt, to write about.
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Sheila S. Hudson authored the Thursday Club series: Murder at Golden Palms, Murder at Sea, Murder at the Mandelay, Murder at the Monastery, Murder on the Marquee, and Murder Under the Christmas Tree published by Take Me Away Books.
Furthermore, Sheila also penned Classic City Murders: Volumes I and II published by ThomasMax Publishers, Inc. She first published two nonfiction books: 13 Decisions That Will Change Your Life and 13 Decisions That Will Transform Your Marriage (Dancing with Bear Publishing). Sheila has contributed to Not Your Mother's Book (2), Chocolate for Women (8), Chicken Soup, Patchwork Path (2), Love Stories (2) plus numerous periodicals.
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How faithful You are, Lord! You lead and direct and surprise us at times. Your ways are perfect. We ask You to remind us of that eternal truth and bless every word Sheila writes for You. ~ For Jesus' sake


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Leaders from the disability rights, civil rights and medical communities speak out against assisted suicide. View these video testimonies outlining the numerous problems and issues that arising from assisted suicide legalization.Read More
Sacramento, CA - The California assisted suicide law unfortunately goes into effect on June 9th. Moving forward, the opposition coalition - Californians Against Assisted Suicide - and its partners - will be monitoring loopholes, continuing to be a steadfast voice against the law, and providing resources for Californians to bring to light the potential for and examples of mistakes, misuse, coercion, and abuse. The coalition will also continue supporting partners and organizations that are educating interested parties about their options to opt out as permitted by the law.
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While we may discuss the relative merits of certain games or gameplay trends, the fact that gaming is a business is often overlooked. The Entertainment Software Association has released its Video Games in the 21st Century report for 2010, and it shows that not only is our hobby a big business, it's a growing business.
"The real annual growth rate of the US computer and video game software industry was 10.6 percent for the period 2005-2009 and 16.7 percent for the period 2005-2008," the report states. "During the same periods, real growth for the U.S. economy as a whole was 1.4 percent for 2005-09 and 2.8 percent for 2005-08."
The ESA estimates around 120,000 are employed by the gaming industry, either directly or indirectly. The industry added $4.9 billion to US GDP (gross domestic product), and the ESA also lets us know that the industry is creating actual careers. "In 2009, the average annual compensation per employee (wages, salaries and employer contributions for pensions, insurance and government social insurance) was $89,781," the report explains.
One surprise is the size of the industry in Texas. "The six states with the greatest number of entertainment software industry employees were, in order, California, Texas, Washington, New York, Massachusetts and Illinois."
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The U.S. Postal Service is losing $25 million per day and Congress is apparently unwilling to let the agency do anything about it.
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And that's an ugly proposition.
"The status quo is not an option for us," USPS spokesman David Partenheimer told The Washington Post. "We continue to lose $25 million a day, and we continue to contend with a serious liquidity crisis."
They have already cut costs by closing post offices and eliminating jobs — saving about $15 billion.
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As a means of keeping the issue in the spotlight, we hope the Postal Service listens to Sen. Tom Coburn, R-Okla., and Rep. Darrell Issa, R-Calif., who think they have found a loophole in the six-day-delivery requirement. They contend that it does not specify what must be delivered, only that delivery occur six days per week.
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I hope you guys are all enjoying your summers! My summer is coming quickly to an end. I have to report to work on August 7th, and I will have students in my classroom on August 8th. Seeing as tomorrow marks the end of July, I do not have long. I'm excited to go back. I've been missing my students. One of the perks of working in a small school is that I will still get to interact regularly with my students even if I they aren't in my math class this year. The other math teacher's classroom is right across the hall from mine, so I will still see them every day. I can't wait to see their faces when they realize how much algebra they are going to get to use in geometry!
Now, what I haven't done a lot of (or any of) this summer is lesson plans. So, the next week is going to be spent mapping out, in detail, at least the first full unit for each of my three preps - Algebra 1, Algebra 2, and (AP?) Statistics.
This summer, I've focused a lot on learning. 16 days of my summer have been spent at conferences. I've learned a ton about the Common Core State Standards, teaching Pre-AP Math, teaching AP Statistics, and just teaching in general. In a way, it's kind of been information overload. I've learned about using Socrative, Edmodo, Fathom, and TI-Nspire calculators in my classroom. I've learned about how to teach math using M&M's, Barbie Dolls, Tennis Balls, Racquet Balls, Fruit Loops, Nerf Guns, pieces of rope, and other everyday items. I haven't found the time to process most of this new information this summer via my blog, and I regret that. A lot of my blogging is for me. If I don't blog about something, odds are I will forget about it.
I am still amazed today that others find my ramblings useful. With one year of teaching under my belt, I don't feel like I'm anywhere near having this teaching thing figured out. And, I'm not sure I will ever get it figured out. There will always be more to learn, and I don't think I would have it any other way. Over the past few months, I've found lots of questions in my inbox regarding interactive notebooks. Actually, I think searching for information on interactive notebooks is the way most people find my blog. And, you can thank @druinok for that. She kinda made me promise to post lots of pictures of my interactive notebook pages.
So, I thought I should share some of the questions and my answers here in case they were of interest to anybody else. If you have other questions, please leave a comment or click the tab at the top of the page that says "Contact Me." And, when I finally get around to answering the rest of the e-mails that are languishing in my inbox, I'll have another post full of tips for you! (Hopefully this post will motivate me to tackle the rest of my inbox!)
Interactive Notebook Q & A
I am going to use interactive notebooks this year and really love what you've done, but I teach geometry, so I was wondering if you knew anyone, or worked with anyone who has a blog, with as much material and ideas, but in regards to geometry..
Off the top of my head, I would recommend checking out a blog called Journal Wizard for geometry interactive notebook resources. I've seen SO MANY amazing geometry ideas there lately. You also might want to check out Everybody is a Genius for other interactive notebook resources!
I've tried to collect all of my Geometry findings on this pinterest board in case I ever find myself teaching Geometry. From my pins, it looks like there are quite a few blogs that may feature some Geometry foldables and activities.
I have been reading it for the past couple of weeks getting ideas for INB's. I'm super excited about using them in my Algebra 2 classes next year and I'm trying to get a head start on planning.
I see that you use a composition book for your notebooks. How many did you have to use in your Algebra 2 class, or was one composition book enough? I'm new to the INB's and I'm trying to get all my ducks in a row :)
I see that you use a composition book for your notebooks. How many did you have to use in your Algebra 2 class, or was one composition book enough? I'm new to the INB's and I'm trying to get all my ducks in a row :)
One composition notebook was enough for both my Algebra 1 and Algebra 2 classes. I think the number of notebooks needed depends on exactly what you put in the notebook. I only have my students put notes in their notebook. Other teachers have them do their bellwork and homework in the notebook as well. That takes up a lot more pages. I can see benefits to that approach, but I prefer to reserve our notebook pages for notes. My students know that if something is going in our notebook, it must be important. They have a tendency to remember exactly where they have written everything in their notebook, and they can flip to the needed information in just a few seconds.
I have recently been encouraged to do interactive notebooks with my students but I'm not sure how they work and where to start. Do you have any helpful advice for me? I am very interested from your slope posts as to how helpful this would be for my students!
I would start off by determining what the most important things you want your students to learn from your math course are. Can you turn this information into a graphic organizer or foldable?
Or, can you give the information to your students in note form and have them transform it into a drawing, flow chart, or other sort of representation?
With my Algebra students, I try to have them create one interactive notebook page per lesson. Some lessons are finished in a day and some span a week. I have seen other teachers who have their students create notebook pages every day. Others might only do a page or two per chapter. Megan Hayes-Golding has created a sort of interactive notebook home page that contains links to lots of informative posts on interactive notebooks. I think this would be a great starting place.
When I decided to implement notebooks last summer, the best thing I did was to set down with my textbook and a old, partially used composition notebook. Without really knowing what I was doing, I just started creating pages. There is a definite learning curve, and a lot of the pages I did with my students looked nothing like those first drafts of pages I created during the summer. There are tons of ideas on the internet, and I can't tell you how many pages have been either stolen from or inspired by things I found on the internet.
Do you have any suggestions for school supplies that the students will need to bring with them?
The only supplies that I required my students to bring last year were a composition notebook and something to write with. I provided my students with colored pencils, scissors, glue sticks, markers, tape, notebook paper, graph paper, calculators, rulers, and anything else they needed. One of the reasons I provide so many of my students' supplies is that I teach in a high poverty area. In many schools, these items would probably be provided by the students.
Love your math notebooks. Which do you prefer, composition books or binders? I have done the Notebooks for science and social studies both ways but this year I'm doing one for math also.
I prefer for my students to use composition notebooks. I find that my students are more likely to keep up with a composition notebook than a binder and less likely to steal paper from it for other classes since it is bound. I had several students last year who did use a binder, and that was perfectly fine. I let them choose whatever worked best for them. I also had one class of students that used spiral notebooks instead of the composition notebook.
If your students are already used to carrying a binder, that may be the way to go. That isn't the case in my school. And, I have many students who end up leaving their notebooks in my classroom. The notebooks take up much less space than binders would. I guess there are tons of variables to consider!
Did you give your students written instructions on how to set up the interactive notebook? If so, could you post it?
I didn't give my students written instructions to set up their notebooks. At the beginning of the school year, I would model how I wanted something done and then give them time to complete it in class. We spent one entire class period creating our cover page, gluing in the syllabus, and making the table of contents. I did include some limited information about their interactive notebooks in the syllabus.
I am always looking for ways to make students fall in love with my "love". I am very interested in your interactive notebook. Would you please let me in on your tips? I noticed that you use composition notebooks. Do you pre print the notes and have them cut and paste into their notebook? Are they glued in with something like glue sticks? How time consuming is it? For you and the students? (for me ....because I currently have 6 different preps) Were the students already used to this type of notebook? (I just think it's the coolest thing.)
Composition notebooks are great. The pages are bound and cannot be easily torn out. Spiral notebooks provide more space to write, but their pages can be torn out much more easily. I had several students move in from another teacher's class that ended up using spiral notebooks. I think either can work great. I pre-print the notes and have my students glue them in their notebooks. We use glue sticks, but many other teachers prefer to use scotch tape. I invested in several dozen of those gigantic glue sticks, and they seemed to work quite well. I'll be honest. It's time consuming. I'm pretty sure that my students are the slowest cutters and gluers in the world. But, my students use their notebooks all the time, so it's a price I'm willing to pay. I spent a lot of time preparing stuff for the interactive notebooks last year. I worked late many nights, but it was also my first year of teaching. So, I would have probably been working late whether I was doing interactive notebooks or not. As the year went on, my students became faster at putting things in their notebook, and I became faster at creating notebook pages. I can't imagine having six preps, and I applaud you for that. I have three preps, but I only used the notebooks with two of those preps. My other class got really jealous, though, when they found out that the other classes got to do "arts and crafts." My students were not used to interactive notebooks. This was a new experience for all of us. I did have a student move in part of the way through the year, and he brought his interactive notebook from his old school with him. It was pretty cool!


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"He had six at-bats [on Sunday], so I'm thinking he's good," Gonzalez said. "I expect him to be here tomorrow and in the lineup tomorrow."
Gonzalez was to speak with Gwinnett manager Brian Snitker on Sunday afternoon just to make sure Gattis is not dealing with any stiffness or pain in his back.
Gattis, who has been sidelined since first feeling the effects of a bulging thoracic disc on June 27, played the fourth and likely final game of his rehab assignment with Triple-A Gwinnett on Sunday afternoon.
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VIENNA'S Schoenbrunn Zoo is reporting the first live birth of an elephant through artificial insemination using frozen sperm.
Zoo veterinarian Thomas Voracek calls the birth of the female calf on Wednesday evening "a milestone."
It's relatively common for elephants to be impregnated using artificial insemination, but Dr Voracek said on Thursday that using frozen sperm successfully is an important contribution to the preservation of the species. That's because the method allows sperm to be used over a longer period.
The zoo says the sperm came from Steve, a wild bull elephant at the Phinda game reserve in South Africa's Kwazulu-Natal province.
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A number of local brewing companies, including one from Pasadena and one from Los Angeles, earned top honors this weekend at the World Beer Cup, touted as the largest commercial beer competition in the world.
Haven Brewing, which operates Haven Gastropub in Old Pasadena, earned the silver medal in the American Style Strong Pale Ale category for its Hops Inc. beer at Saturday's awards ceremony in Boulder, Colo. The beer was chosen from among 97 entries.
"It's an honor to win a silver medal at the World Beer Cup for Hops Inc. in the American Style Strong Pale Ale category," Wil Dee, Managing Partner of Haven Brewing, said in a statement. "This is the result of the hard work that our Head Brewer Brian Thorson has put in over the years to produce a world-class beer that's recognized by the World Beer Cup and Brewer's Association."
In addition, Ohana Brewing Company, which recently opened in Los Angeles, earned the silver medal from 31 entries in the Belgian-and French-style Ale category for its Ohana Saison Noir beer. The brewery opened a tasting room last week in Alhambra.
"What an amazing week!" the brewery posted on its Facebook page. "We started with a ribbon cutting ceremony and opening our tasting room. We end it with a Silver Medal in the World Beer Cup! Congrats to the entire team and grateful thanks to our supporters!"
According to the Brewers Association, a not-for-profit trade group for craft breweries in the U.S., the World Beer Cup saw more entries than ever before this year, with 1,403 breweries from across the globe submitting 4,754 beers. The World Beer Cup occurs every two years, and results are determined by an international panel of judges, the organization said in a release.
Haven and Ohana were among a handful of winning breweries from California. Coronado Brewing, from Coronado, took first place in the American Style STrong Pale Ale category for its Islander IPA. Coronado also won the award for Best Mid-Size Brewing Company.
Among the other California winners were: Beachwood BBQ and Brewing, of Long Beach, which took home the bronze medal in the Coffee Beer category; BJ's Restaurant and Brewery, of Huntington Beach, which took home the gold and silver medals in the Indigenous Beer category; TAPS Fish House & Brewery, with locations in Corona and Brea, which earned the silver medal in the German-Style Brown Ale category as well as the bronze medal in the French-and Belgian-Style Saison category; Oggi's Pizza & Brewing Co., of San Clemente, which won the silver medal in for its Wood-and Barrel-Aged Beer; Bayhawk Ales, of Irvine, which took home the bronze in the Brown Porter category; and Figueroa Mountain Brewing Co., of Santa Barbara, which won the bronze medal for its Vienna-Style Lager as well as the silver medal in the American-Style Brown Ale category.
For a full list of winners, visit www.worldbeercup.org.


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SELF-REPRESENTATION, CULTURAL FORMATION, AND MEXICAN-AMERICAN MODERNISM by JESSICA BREMMER _______________________________________________________ A Dissertation Presented to the FACULTY OF THE USC GRADUATE SCHOOL UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA In Partial Fulfillment of the Requirements for the Degree DOCTOR OF PHILOSOPHY (ENGLISH) DECEMBER 2012 Copyright 2012 Jessica Bremmer
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Want to be an instant big shot on an airline you don't fly regularly? Sign up for an "elite status challenge." American, Delta or United will give you elite status for several months or more and continue it if you fly a certain amount within that period. Scott McCartney reports. Photo: Getty Images.
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In an impoverished young nation with a habit of overthrowing its rulers, the future now balances on a mountain of gold at the top of the world, where the air is so thin collapsing visitors may be rushed to a pressure chamber for oxygen.
After two revolutions in eight years, nationalists in Kyrgyzstan are threatening to return to the streets to topple another government unless it expropriates the Kumtor goldmine, a treasure they say was sold off too cheaply to foreigners.
Parliament in the remote ex-Soviet Central Asian state has set a deadline of June 1 for the government to renegotiate – or repudiate – a deal struck in 2009 with Canadian firm Centerra Gold <CG.TO> to operate the mine.
A state commission said the Canadian firm has been paying too little to run the mine, and accused it of inflicting environmental damage leading to $457 million in fines.
Three lawmakers were convicted last week of trying to seize power in the country by force after leading demonstrations late last year demanding the mine be renationalised.
Prime Minister Zhantoro Satybaldiyev, who took his job last September as a technocrat pledging to alleviate poverty in the country of 5.5 million, says compromise is vital and banishing Centerra would dash hopes of winning more foreign investment.
"Our investment climate will directly depend on how successfully we resolve the Kumtor issue," the 57-year-old told Reuters in an interview.
A landlocked country half way between Moscow and Beijing, Kyrgyzstan holds its national treasure at the mine 4,000 metres (12,000 feet) up in the Tien Shan mountains, near one of the world's remotest borders, the old Soviet frontier with China.
Trucks the size of three-storey houses chug in a gigantic open pit to deliver rocks to a gold-extracting mill, which runs 365 days a year.
Inside a guarded room, two workers move slowly in silvery heat proof overalls, pouring bright orange molten gold from a crucible into moulds. Minutes later, four shiny bars worth $2.6 million are stamped and sealed in vaults.
Under the deal reached with ousted President Kurmanbek Bakiyev before he was toppled in a 2010 revolution, the mine's operating company pays 14 percent of its gross revenue to the Kyrgyz state.
The state commission that investigated the deal concluded that the royalty is far too low, leading to parliament's call for the deal to be revised or repudiated.
The dispute has reached the streets. Last October, three nationalist lawmakers led a crowd of supporters trying to storm the government headquarters, demanding Kumtor's nationalisation. The trio, from Kyrgyzstan's poor, volatile and ethnically mixed south, were jailed last week for up to 18 months.
"We only voiced the will of the people to return Kumtor to our nation," their leader, Kamchibek Tashiyev, parliamentary head of the nationalist Ata Zhurt party, said before he was sentenced.
Supporters, who rallied in the southern city of Jalalabad last month, have demanded they be freed by April 7 – third anniversary of Bakiyev's fall – or they will launch nationwide protests.
Kyrgyz leaders have long seen Kumtor as the country's ticket to stability and prosperity.
In 1995, independent Kyrgyzstan's first president, mathematician Askar Akayev, visited the mine and declared: "We are transferring gold from the mountains to the banks, and this will help us become the Switzerland of Central Asia."
Akayev was toppled in 2005, and his hopes of making his country into a new Switzerland have long since become a cruel joke. With its per capita GDP of $1,100,Kyrgyzstan is 12 times poorer than its former Soviet neighbour Kazakhstan, which has oil, gas, metals and grain-producing farms.
Kumtor, which means Sand Peak in the Turkic national tongue, accounted for 12 percent of Kyrgyzstan's gross domestic product in 2011, and more than half of its total exports.
Last year, glacial ice flowed into its giant open mining pit, causing its output to collapse by 46 percent to 315,238 ounces of gold and revenues to fall to 43 percent to $534 million, sending the entire country's economy into recession.
While the head of the Kumtor Operating Company (KOC), Michael Fischer, expects output to rebound to between 550,000 and 600,000 ounces this year, there is no sign of a recovery in its relations with some hostile politicians.
"We've gone through two revolutions, the first democratic parliament was elected, and we've managed with several governments," said the New Zealander, who since arriving in 2009 has overseen exploration work that has added enough reserves to extend the mine's expected lifespan by more than a decade.
"We believe that we are part of the fabric in Kyrgyzstan, and we'll still be here up to the mine's closure in 2026."
The mine, discovered in Soviet times, produced a total of 8.7 million ounces of gold from 1997 through 2012. According to its own data, the operating company expects to produce as much as 9.5 million more ounces of gold before the mine runs out.
Kyrgyzstan will become even more dependent on Kumtor from next year, when the United States is set to shut the country's other big Western venture, the Manas air base leased for $60 million a year for the war now winding down in Afghanistan.
Russia, happy to see the Americans leave its ex-Soviet back yard, has promised to spend hundreds of millions of dollars on big hydroelectric power projects inKyrgyzstan, but any work is years away and opposed by down-river neighbour Uzbekistan.
For the 3,400 full-time and contract workers at Kumtor, monthly wages of $2,000 – 10 times the national average – compensate for the physical hardships. After two-week shifts of labour at high altitude, they are give a rest to recuperate.
Nurdin Usenov, a 35-year-old mill superintendent who came to Kumtor as a trainee in 1997, knows he drew a lucky ticket.
"I support my family, my children receive education, and we help relatives," he said, standing in a control room packed with computers. "Such an enterprise should not be halted."
Operating company boss Fischer says the company has filed notice it will appeal against the huge environmental fines.
"We feel these claims are exaggerated or without merit," he said. "The Kumtor project complies with Kyrgyz laws, and meets or exceeds Kyrgyz and international environmental, safety and health standards."
The political pressure has hit Centerra's shares, which have fallen by nearly three-quarters since peaking in September 2011, reducing the firm's value to $1.4 billion.
Kumtor is the main asset owned by Toronto-listed Centerra, in which the Kyrgyz state owns a stake of nearly 33 percent.
According to public filings, Centerra's other shareholders include U.S. hedge fund boss John Paulson – who made a killing in the subprime debt crisis but has struggled with bets on gold.
Satybaldiyev has pledged not to expropriate the mine and added that, despite pressure on his coalition government, he is determined to serve out the remaining two years before the next parliamentary elections are due to be held.
"To our great regret, investors are not lining up to come here. They are still waiting to see how March, April and summer pass in Kyrgyzstan. Then they will wait to see whether autumn is calm," he said at his state residence outside Bishkek.
"Any investment loves peace. But do we have it?" he said, sitting before a carved wooden mural that depicts a historical scene in which Kyrgyz khans are seated in a circle and debating.
After overthrowing two presidents, Kyrgyzstan shifted from a presidential to a parliamentary system of government. But the reform has not brought stability:Satybaldiyev's government is the third in less than three years.
"Change of government through revolution appears to have become the norm rather than the exception," said Lilit Gevorgyan, who follows the region for consultancyIHS Global Insight. "This is the greatest weakness of Kyrgyz democracy."
Salmurbek Daikanov's National Renaissance Party has no seats in parliament but makes up for its lack of numbers in the clamour it has caused in Kyrgyzstan's raucous public life.
Daikanov, who studied mathematics in Russia, led a crowd of supporters that broke into a TV studio last August, disrupting Kyrgyzstan's first attempt to auction a batch of mining licences to international investors.
He spent 41 days in custody and is charged with hooliganism, but says his action has prevented worse conflict. In some cases, men on horseback have plundered prospectors' camps, setting them on fire and beating their workers.
"Why dig and cripple our land to extract gold and then hide it in the basement of a bank?" asked Daikanov. "The world must impose a moratorium on gold output."
His ideas get a hostile reception in the once bustling township of Kajy-Say, 300 km (188 miles) east of Bishkek and just 90 km (56 miles) from Kumtor.
The local uranium combine closed in 1968, replaced by a plant which produced diodes and semiconductors until it died in 1993. Finally, a factory extracting quartz was closed in 2005.
Kajy-Say's population has shrunk to about 2,500 from 15,000, and its abandoned apartment houses gape with broken windows. Jobless locals eke out a living by dismantling idle industrial buildings for construction materials.
Local resident Cholponbek Zhumadylov, 31, has never had a steady job. He, his wife and little son all survive on his mother's pension of 4,000 soms a month.
He said foreign investors would be most welcome in Kajy-Say, which like most of Kyrgyzstan sits on vast natural resources, while the central government has no funds for their development.
"If they honestly work and invest here, if they employ local youths, everyone will be working," he said. "We now have no future, and I don't know whether any future will be seen later. I hope it won't remain as it is."
Giving people like Zhumadylov and his family a stake in Kyrgyzstan's future will be vital to stabilising the country.
"Kyrgyz voters have shown in the past decade that they are unlikely to tolerate authoritarian corrupt regimes, where they remain economically disenfranchised," argues analyst Gevorgyan.
"The bad news is that it will take a few turbulent years to move away from wild political swings, of jumping from one revolution to another, for many voters to see value in political dialogue, compromise and stability."


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Josh Johnson replaced his tiger-striped helmet with a Bengals stocking cap after practice on a sunny, 82-degree afternoon. The fifth-year quarterback was the only player looking for a little extra warmth.
No, he's not from around here. Nor are the two others trying out for the same job.
The competition for Cincinnati's backup quarterback job has started with the team's first offseason organized workouts. The Bengals are looking for someone to replace Bruce Gradkowski, who was Andy Dalton's backup the last two seasons before leaving for Pittsburgh.
Rather than get one guy to take the job, the Bengals signed Johnson – a former Tampa Bay starter – and claimed John Skelton off waivers from Arizona to compete with inexperienced Zac Robinson.
The Bengals want to see which one develops a knack for making the most out of very limiting chances during OTA workouts, minicamp and training camp.
"We're going to have to see the efficiency of it and the ability to handle the football team," coach Marvin Lewis said after the workout on Tuesday. "To play unnerved and to play where we have confidence."
So far, the Bengals haven't needed their backup quarterback much. Dalton has started all 34 games during his two seasons, including a pair of first-round playoff losses to Houston.
Gradkowski was needed only once. Dalton hurt his throwing wrist during the first half of the season opener in Cleveland during his rookie season. Gradkowski played the second half and threw a 41-yard touchdown pass to A.J. Green, who was uncovered because the Browns were slow leaving their defensive huddle.
Otherwise, Gradkowski's biggest contribution was helping Dalton adjust to the NFL and Cincinnati's new West Coast offense.
"He'd been in the league for a while and he understood the game," Dalton said on Tuesday. "To come to the sideline and talk to him about things of what he saw and talk through some of those things, it was good to have Bruce here. I think he definitely helped me out."
There's no clear-cut favorite to become his successor.
Johnson has a connection to the coaching staff. He was Tampa Bay's fifth-round pick in 2008 and played in 26 games, starting five of them, from 2008-11. He became familiar with Bengals offensive coordinator Jay Gruden in Florida.
Johnson was released by San Francisco before last season. With no NFL team interested, he signed with Sacramento of the United Football League. The injury-depleted Browns needed a quarterback for their final game of the season and signed Johnson, who then became a free agent again.
Cincinnati represents a chance to get his NFL career back on firm footing.
"I would rather be doing nothing else," Johnson said. "I was out of the game - well, not the game completely. I was in the UFL, but that was only for four games. But just to be back on the grass (fields), once you have it taken away from you, you really understand how much you appreciate it. So I'm just excited to be back out here."
Gruden was an assistant coach at Tampa Bay during Johnson's rookie season, so there's some familiarity with the way he likes things done.
"I spent a good year with Jay," Johnson said. "He would interact with the quarterbacks a lot, even though he wasn't our quarterbacks coach. And then with (former Oakland and Tampa Bay coach) Jon (Gruden) being his brother, I learned a lot from him as well.
"To walk into this situation, it's good to have that comfortability."
Skelton is looking for a return to stability after a very strange year in Arizona. The Cardinals signed Kevin Kolb before deciding to hold a competition for the job last season. Kolb was injured during the Hall of Fame game in Canton, Ohio, and Skelton won the starting job. But he suffered an ankle injury during the closing minute of the season opener, and Kolb became the starter.
The Cardinals lost nine in a row and used three different starters – rookie Ryan Lindley received a chance, too – during the slump.
"It was just a roller coaster the whole season," Skelton said. "We never got any stability. And you have those seasons sometimes in the NFL, and a lot of it is how you come back and how you respond from a season like that."
Unlike Johnson, Skelton has little familiarity with Cincinnati's offense.
"It's a completely new offense for me, the first time I've been in any West Coast system," he said. "The terminology (is) a little different, but the freedom that the quarterback gets to play with is enormous in this offense. Once you learn everything and learn the ins-and-outs of the offense, it's very user-friendly for a quarterback and for the offense as a whole."
Robinson was New England's seventh-round pick in 2010. He has been with Seattle, Detroit and Cincinnati, but has yet to appear in a game.


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Just like the Ford Taurus SHO the new Explorer shares a platform with, power comes from an EcoBoost twin-turbo V6 putting out 350-hp and 350 lb-ft of torque. It's AWD. This sounds like something I should like.
Overall, power is down about 10 horsepower and 27 lb-ft of torque compared to the HEMI-powered Dodge Durango R/T, but it puts out a slightly better 16/22 mpg (city/highway) fuel economy.
Oh, and it weighs 4,859 pounds. Base. Maybe that's why I'm so unenthused. That means even with all the proper towing equipment it can barely pull another Ford Explorer Sport.
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I think collectors need to be prepared to compromise. Get on board with a figure line that has a majority of characters with broad appeal, and a SMALL minority of collector focused figures.
Man, I would happy with them just rereleasing thie Hoth Rebel Soldier.
You know what? If it's a new dude then I don't care who it is, I want him. Yeah, there's 100 figures I'd rather have first, but it beats another Vader or Obi-Wan.Practiced optimism my dear freinds!
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What's going on in this set photo from Continuum, the Canadian show about a time-traveling cyborg hunting terrorists from the future? The show's creator Simon Barry sent it to us, with the note: "INT. SADTECH FACILITY."
And that looks like Lucas, the time-traveling terrorist who used to be a technician. Are we going to learn more about the invention of time travel, and SADTECH's role in the terrorists' journey back to 2012? Here's the whole thing:


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"The Third Hokage, Forever…" (三代目よ、永久に……!!, Sandaime yo, Towa ni……!!) is episode 80 of the original Naruto anime.
Critically damaged, Orochimaru calls off the invasion and flees the village with his forces. In the forest, Naruto and Gaara both lay on the ground, devoid of chakra. Naruto sympathizes with Gaara for his childhood but threatens to kill Gaara if he should ever bring harm to his friends again. Sasuke comes to Naruto's side and informs him that Sakura was going to be all right. Realising that Naruto's strength came from the desire to protect others, Gaara begins to reshape his view of the world as his siblings take him home, and apologises to Temari and Kankurō, much to the two's surprise. The next day, the ninja of Konoha mourn the deaths of those who died during the invasion, especially the Third Hokage. Naruto wonders why people sacrifice themselves for others, and Iruka says that it leaves behind a legacy to others, and they are remembered forever. At the same moment, two shinobi are standing outside the village. One asks the other if he feels sorry for his old village. The other hesitates a little but eventually says "no", and moves his head up a little, revealing the eye of a Sharingan.


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The work, which researchers believe may lead to a new class of materials, is described in a paper appearing in the December 18 issue of the Journal of Physical Chemistry B (online Dec. 11). The findings eventually could prove useful in the fields of engineering, nanotechnology, renewable energy and, potentially, medicine, because proteins, DNA, RNA and other large molecules within cells may well move in the same way as those in plastics.
Traditional theory behind the processing of plastic materials since the 1960s has focused on the movement of individual macromolecules as they move by one another. Materials researchers, under this approach, end up with poorly understood products and unexplained data. The new theory of cooperative motion in liquids of polymers successfully explains these observations by considering the coordinated motion of macromolecules with their surrounding neighbors. The end result could remove guesswork and the costly, time-consuming testing of thousands of samples at various stages of production.
"The level of agreement between the data and the theory is remarkable," said Marina G. Guenza, a professor of theoretical physical chemistry at the UO. "We are making the connection between the chemistry of molecules and how they behave. It is really fundamental science. Our findings are exciting for experimentalists because we can see phenomena that they cannot understand. This theory is now explaining what is happening inside their samples. They are no longer dealing with just a set of data; our theory provides a picture of what is happening."
Guenza simplifies her mathematics-heavy theory - built on Langevin equations that describe the movement of particles in liquid or gas - to watching students disembark from a crowded bus. Any one student wanting to exit is stuck in place - or meanders randomly in available spaces - until other students begin moving toward the exit. As students organize into a group they become coordinated and speed their departure.
The theory addresses the often-seen subdiffusive behavior of molecules as they begin to form a glass under processing - explaining why molecules slow and freeze into disorganized structures rather than ordering into a crystal, Guenza said. "We would really like to be able to control the properties of the material so that we can tailor the synthesis to achieve exact results."
The theory was put to the test under a variety of scenarios in labs in Germany, France and Switzerland after German plastics researcher Dieter Richter of the Max Planck Institute for Solid State Research, a co-author on the paper, approached Guenza after a conference session and said he had unexplained data that might be explained by Guenza's theory. The unexplained data and Guenza's theory merged under examination, which included the use of neutron spin-echo spectroscopy, a high-energy resolution-scattering technique.
"If you look at just one polymer, as is the case under conventional theory, you don't see any anomalous motion," said Guenza, whose research is funded by the National Science Foundation and the Petroleum Research Fund. "You don't see slowing one molecule alternating between slow and fast motion. Only if you treat the dynamics of a group of molecules together can you predict anomalous behaviors. That's what my theory can give you."
The theory now is being applied to other experiments to test its application to other anomalies, said Guenza, who is a member of three UO interdisciplinary institutes: the Institute of Theoretical Science; the Materials Science Institute and the Institute of Molecular Biology.


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Snapshots from Sunday's Slice Meet-Up
Yesterday we had a Slice meet-up for A) the heck of it and B) well, to celebrate Slice's 7-year anniversary (October 13, for those keeping score at home). We met at DBA bar in the afternoon with the idea that Slice would order some pies in and that Slice'rs would bring a pie (or pies) from their local fave — or even make one of their own — to share.
After a slow start, a nice-size crowd showed up — about 16 total, with five pizzerias represented — Rosario's on the Lower East Side of Manhattan; Sam's of Cobble Hill, Brooklyn; Rizzo's of Astoria, Queens; the South Brooklyn Pizza location just across the street; and Luzzo's just up the street from the bar.
Thanks to everyone who showed up and to those who brought pizza and to DBA bar for putting up with our pizza-crazy ways! Peep the slideshow for more.
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Over on the PC World site, there's a new article posted about Etsy and its development practices and how it "grows in a unique fashion" because of them.
The Etsy staffers are also completely serious about their work, and these two features they share in common with their customer base, who are tying to earn side money, if not pay the rent, by designing the hand bags, walking sticks and hand-made chocolates that have made Etsy famous in the artisan and sustainable business scene. [...] The quality model for Etsy is cutting edge, but not unique. New developers are expected to push code to production on day one. That's not commit code, but push it to production.
The article gets into some of the technology they use there at Etsy (including NodeJS, Nagios and, of course, PHP), the atmosphere they try to maintain, how they do their code deployment and how they conform to various regulations, security and privacy concerns.


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From an iOS or iPadOS device or Apple Watch to your Mac: The Handoff icon of the app you're using on your iPhone, iPad, iPod touch, or Apple Watch appears on your Mac at the left end of the Dock (or the top, depending on the Dock position). Click the icon to continue working in the app.
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