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How to Grow Perennial Vegetables
Low-maintenance, low-impact vegetable gardening
By Martin Crawford
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Perennial vegetables are a joy to grow and require a lot less time and effort than annuals. In this book Martin Crawford gives comprehensive advice on all types of perennial vegetable (edible plants that live longer than three years), from ground-cover plants and coppiced trees to plants for bog gardens and edible woodland plants.
There are many advantages to growing perennial vegetables, for example:
- they need less tillage than conventional vegetables and so help retain carbon in the soil
- the soil structure is not disturbed in their cultivation
- they extend the harvesting season, especially in early spring
- and, of course, they are much less work.
Part One looks at why and how to grow these crops, and how to look after them for maximum health.
Part Two features over 100 perennial edibles in detail, both common and unusual – from rhubarb to skirret; Jerusalem artichoke to nodding onions. This book offers inspiration and information for all gardeners, whether experienced or beginner, and also includes plenty of cooking tips. It includes beautiful colour photographs and illustrations throughout.
Foreword by Hugh Fearnley-Whittingstall
Part 1 An introduction to perennial vegetables
What is a perennial vegetable?
The case for growing perennials
2. Growing perennial vegetables
Types of perennial plant
Perennial beds
Planting patterns
Perennial polycultures
Perennial grains
Perennial tuber and root crops
Perennial vegetables and ground-cover plants
Growing perennial vegetables under existing trees
Growing aquatic perennial vegetables
Native and non-native plants
3. Maintenance of perennial vegetables
Soil pH
Disease management
Harvesting and yields
Part 2 Perennial vegetables A–Z
Appendix: Common and Latin names
"A lot of information is packed into a relatively short space… Lots of the plants listed were new to me entirely, or as an edible possibility. Now I'm not only thinking where edible perennials may fit on my allotment, but also in my garden too! This is an informative and detailed book, which I shall be returning to again and again."
"This lovely book makes it clear that we are not just missing a trick, we are missing a feast."
"I admire tremendously the first-hand experience which informs Martin Crawford's writing. This book leads us down the path to a wealth of perennial vegetables and tells us how to combine them successfully."
"A really useful book... Let us start freeing ourselves from the tyranny of the annual sowing, thinning and planting regime."
"At last an in-depth book on perennial vegetables combined with Martin Crawford's usual diligence of research - essential reading."
"Martin is a true pioneer and his work deserves respect and celebration." - Permaculture Magazine
"Martin Crawford is a frontiersman, a pioneering teacher and an inspiration. Both his work and his garden are national treasures." - Chris Nichols, Director of the Ashridge MSc in Sustainability and Responsibility.
Martin started his working life a computer programmer but his passion for organic gardening quickly led to a change in career. He has had broad and varied horticultural/agricultural experience over the last 25 years – he has worked for the Yarner Trust in North Devon, teaching small-scale organic agriculture; grown food for a small hotel on the Isle of Iona; restored the walled gardens of a manor house in mid-Devon; and run his own organic market garden and tree nursery in South Devon.
His experience led him to the concept of forest gardening as a sustainable system that can flourish in our changing climate conditions, and it was this that led to the founding of the Agroforestry Research Trust in 1992, a non-profit-making charity that researches into temperate agroforestry and all aspects of plant cropping and uses, with a focus on tree, shrub and perennial crops. At his 2-acre forest garden in Dartington, Devon, planted 15 years ago, Martin systematically researches plant interactions and unusual crops. He also runs a commercial tree nursery specialising in unusual trees and shrubs, and has an 8-acre trial site, researching fruit and nut trees.
Martin teaches courses on Forest Gardening and Growing Nut Crops, writes books and edits a quarterly journal, Agroforestry News. His book Creating a Forest Garden – the forest gardening 'bible' – was published in 2010. His other books include Cherries: Production and Culture, Directory of Apple Cultivars, Directory of Pear Cultivars, Peaches and Apricots, Plums: Production, Culture and Cultivar Directory, Currants and Gooseberries, Blackberries and Raspberries, Chestnuts: Production and Culture, Hazelnuts: Production and Culture, Walnuts: Production and Culture, Bamboos, Ground Cover Plants, Nitrogen-fixing Plants for Temperate Climates, Timber Trees for Temperate Climates, Edible Plants for Temperate Climates,Useful Plants for Temperate Climates, Plants for Hedging, Plants for Basketry, Bee Plants and Dye Plants. His latest book, How to Grow Perennial Vegetables, was published in 2012.
He is a director of 'Gaia', a Trust formed by James Lovelock to further his work. He lives in Dartington with his wife and two children.
See www.agroforestry.co.uk for more information.
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Sunday 16th June sees the broadcast of the 1985 Colin Baker story, The Mark of the Rani on Australian and New Zealand television. The story is presented as part of the 50th Anniversary season of Doctor Who on the UKTV channel.
The story screens at 4:20pm in both countries. New Zealand has an additional screening on Monday 17th June at 4:30am.
The UKTV billing describes The Mark of the Rani as follows:
In 19th century England, the Doctor finds himself facing two competing enemies: his old adversary, the Master, and the Rani, another Time Lord with a sinister plan.The Mark of the Rani was first broadcast in Australia in 1986. New Zealand did not get to see it until 1989. The story was originally screened in Britain as two 45-minute episodes, but was first broadcast in Australia and New Zealand in four parts. UKTV will screen the two-episode version of the story.
UKTV is showing stories throughout the year in the lead-up to the anniversary in November. Colin Baker's sixth Doctor is the focus of the stories screened during June. Upcoming stories include The Two Doctors (23 June) and Revelation of the Daleks (30 June).
Up-and-coming broadcasts from both 20th and 21st Century series of Doctor Who can be found via UKTV's Doctor Who sections for Australia and New Zealand.


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This is my first post in my Festive bakes series! Festive bakes you ask? I told you guys last time that I had a number of big cake projects lined up at the end of the year. This one is the first! Well it is a 4 part series made up of two fondant cakes and two designed celebration cakes. While I know this may be a boring post (self reflection post), baking does that to me.
Yes that is a cinnamon roll on top the cake but I get to that later. (or you can scroll down and get the recipe now, I do not mind). However if you want to hear my rant; proceed
Sometimes our expectations are too great for our skill level. As a self-taught baker, making the transition to professional or industry standard baking has been incredibly difficult. I am not talking about the skills you need to refine or the tricks you learn from experience; I am referring to the rapidly changing standards you have for yourself (well your baking anyway).
Think about the first time. When you first begin to bake for yourself; your standards are quite low. Most likely first time you made a cake or a new dessert it did not turn out perfect but you were over the moon that it resembled what you were trying to achieve.
However as you research and study your cook books, you try the recipe multiple times (with your adaptations) and find out the tips and tricks of getting it right. The expectation for success grows as you learn more. Of course this happens! It is main reason why people practice skills in the first place
However I think the internet is partly to blame for the rise in "unattainable perfection" syndrome in the amateur cook. As much as I love the authors and cooks who put their soul into developing recipes then writing up a tutorial on EXACTLY how to do it; I think the tag line of "If I can do it; any one can" is overused.
With people posting up recipe for perfectly shaped croissants, macarons with no holes and cakes decorated to sugar art perfection; it is hard to stay realistic. If you think I was hard on myself before; over the past few months it seems like I can never be happy with my baking. There is always a texture problem, colour problem or design problem. Even when people cannot see it; you still have the urge to point out the mistake to them.
I know my techniques may not be perfect and I have a long way to go to become a professional; but I hate when people tell me to not compare myself to them. Industry baking and home baking are two completely different things. Home baking is fun and light hearted; as long as it taste really good, I am happy. On the flip side when bake with professional standards in mind; nothing can go wrong or else… MELTDOWN…..
Can you guys relate? Anyone looking to break into the professional business struggle with their expectations? Maybe you can share some thoughts with me.
Now enough with myself indulgent rant. The occasion I made this cake for is my Dad's Birthday. If you saw last year's cake; you will know this is completely different. No sprinkles; no confetti and no chocolate for that matter.
Here is key example of home baking. This cake did not turn out how I imagined it. Not the look but the texture. All the components where very nice but my constructing technique was not right. I left the cinnamon roll topping in the fridge for too long and dried out; for anyone that know bread (bread does not go the fridge EVER).
However the cake combination at the bottom is one of my faves. The butterscotch sauce heavy flavoured by bourbon seem bring some Christmas cheer to the cake. Layered with whipped cream, crunchy brown sugar meringues and egg yolk sponge; I thought it was too pretty to be covered up by a layer of buttercream (not that I was too lazy to make a batch or defrost it).
Simply this is a cake that may not win a beauty contest or even come close to professional bakeries but it does remind you of the classic cream filled sponges.
Slightly sweetened; yielding fragrant cake layers; not too robust but highly flavourful due to good quality ingredients. In addition the extra special spark that comes from baking with love. The cake is a bit last minute job but it is well worth it.
Cheesy? Yep but He deserves it.
Boozy caramel Cinnamon roll cake.
Egg yolk Sponge cake From Daily Delicious
I simply doubled this recipe to fill 4 18cm round cake tins.( left overs are too eat^_^)
- 80g cake flour
- 60g corn flour
- 4 large eggs
- 4 egg yolks
- 100g caster sugar
- 3g pink sea salt
- 1 tbsp clear vanilla extract
- 125g rice bran oil
- 125g Melted butter, melted and warm
Pre heat oven to 190C
Shift your corn flour and cake flour over large bowl twice.
Line your 4 greased 18cm pan with baking paper.
Combine oil and butter in a jug.
In a stand mixer whip the eggs, yolks, sugar and salt until it is triple in size and forms a thick pale ribbon.
Add vanilla and beat again.
Sieve over flour and fold into the egg mix.
Pour butter/oil mix down the side of the bowl in three stages. Fold it in while turning the bowl at the same time.
Pour into your lined pans, try to get them as even as possible.
Once in the oven turn the heat down to 170C and cook for 25-30 minutes or until a skewer comes out clean.
Once fully baked, invert to cool on a wire rack.
Butter scotch sauce adapted from Nigella Lawson
- 50g light brown sugar
- 20g raw caster sugar
- 180 golden syrup
- 45g butter
- 100g flavoured butterscotch thicken cream
- 40ml Bourbon
In a sauce pan melt caster sugar, brown sugar, syrup over low heat for 6 minutes. Bring to gentle boil for 3 minutes.
Remove from heat source and whisk in thicken cream.
Set sauce aside until needed.
Brown sugar meringues
- 3 egg whites
- 180g brown sugar
- Pinch of salt
Pre heat oven to 120c. Line two baking trays with baking paper.
In a large bowl whip on high with an electric mixer till soft peaks. On medium speed add your brown sugar one table spoon at time whisking well between each addition.
Place tablespoons of egg mix on trays. Any shape will do.
Bake in oven for 1 hour and half. Turn oven off and leave the door slightly open to finish drying out.
- One cake recipe
- One cinnamon roll recipe from the Pioneer woman (I did not post this as everyone has their fave recipe; I used the Pioneer's woman's one. Make it ON THE DAY you serve it to prevent the problem I had. Simply cool to room temp and top it on the cake when ready)
- Two batches of butter scotch recipe
- One meringue recipe
- Stabilised Whipped cream ( Whip 500ml of cold thick cream and one bloomed sheet of gelatin to soft peaks)
- Pecans (optional)
Place on cake at the base of your cake plate. Spread with whipped cream; making a shallow dam in the middle. Pour 50ml of butterscotch in this dam. Crush your brown sugar meringue in large pieces on top the cream and butter scotch. Repeat for all 3 layers.
Place cinnamon roll on the top of the cake (you with have the cream to help it stick)
Transfer to fridge for 30 minutes.
Serves with more butter scotch sauce and top with pecans.


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I was very happy to see what my awesome husband gave me for my birthday.
I truly wasn't expecting anything. We tend to save up the money we would normally spend on birthdays and Christmas and pool it together to buy something we both really need for the house.
I opened up the card and there was a Modcloth Gift Cert included with it - EEEEEEEE! I love all the pretty dresses at Modcloth!
But the really amazing thing about the gift cert was the poem included in the note:
Your Birthday ticks closer. Oh what should I buy?
With so many options it brings me to sigh
Then, out of the blue I did blurt
Why not nab a Modcloth gift cert!
With this you could pick up many a dress
To help define your massive breas....
Then off to the interwebs I did go
With the hope that this purchase will help to show
That you're so pretty, beautiful and smart
You deserve all the riches that exist in your heart
(an original poem by Terry)
Awwww.... isn't that the sweetest? Even the part about my boobs?
I spent my gift cert today on these two lovely dresses if you were wondering ;)
I know! Too adorable for you to stand right? The dresses and the poem. :D
Note: Modcloth did not pay me for this promo. I just really loved my birthday present and wanted to share it with you. And if any of you out there are looking for something awesome to give me for Christmas? *hint hint*


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- Phase 1: Pre-Student Teaching Field Experience - Candidates begin pre-service (IMPACT) in area schools as freshmen, minimally 20 hours each semester across five semesters. Transportation is provided to students as needed. And placements are arranged by the university in accordance with education/professional coursework and the area(s) of certification. Candidates are expected to complete all required field experience to be eligible for their teaching assistantship, establishing a comprehensive clinical experience.
- Phase 2: Teaching Assistantship - Aligned with the methods (400-level pedagogy) courses, candidates complete two placements resulting in a minimum of 60 hours in a classroom. Candidates in this phase are expected to continue to develop the competencies set forth by the program standards and to have experiences with various methodological approaches as relate to actual classroom practice and address student learning across content field and grade-level curriculum expectations.
- Phase 3: Student Teaching - Student Teaching is a culminating experience that is required of all candidates for completion of the program and teacher certification. Students will spend a total of 14 weeks student teaching (two full-time seven-week placements, one in each area of certification). The Student Teaching Handbook outlines all candidate expectations, which include planning, teaching and assessing instructional units, aligned to the curriculum and addressing student needs.
It is the mission of the College of Education to prepare educational leaders and clinical professions, who demonstrate the knowledge, skills and dispositions needed to serve others and who further the values and practices of their respective professions in a global society. We seek to inspire our candidates in the Vincentian tradition and to foster core values of professional commitment and responsibility, professional relationships and critical thinking, and reflective practice.


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WADA urges Feds to hand over Armstrong info
The World Anti-Doping Agency on Tuesday urged U.S. federal authorities to quickly hand over evidence collected in their lengthy probe into seven-time Tour de France winner Lance Armstrong and doping in American cycling.
WADA president John Fahey said federal agencies in the United States gathered "significant evidence" in the criminal investigation that was abruptly closed last week with no charges filed and no explanation given.
Fahey said it would be "very, very helpful if that information was handed over" to the U.S Anti-Doping Agency. That agency has said it will continue its own probe into doping in cycling.
Federal prosecutors dropped the investigation of Armstrong last Friday, ending a nearly two-year effort aimed at determining whether the world's most famous cyclist and his teammates joined in a doping program during his most successful years.
"There has been significant evidence taken on anti-doping areas, on what may have occurred in the way of doping. It would be very, very helpful if that information was handed over," Fahey said of the U.S. probe that was led by federal agent Jeff Novitzky, who also investigated baseball players Barry Bonds and Roger Clemens.
"The United States anti-doping organization is keen to get hold of that evidence and we would like to see that happen because there could well be some very relevant information there," Fahey said.
WADA's director general, David Howman, noted that U.S. federal agencies previously shared evidence gathered in their probe of the Bay Area Laboratory Co-Operative steroid distribution ring that brought down American sprinter Marion Jones and others.
He said WADA anticipates that evidence from the Armstrong probe "will be shared in the same way" and expressed hope that could be done in the six months before the London Olympics open in July.
"It is important that that happen as quickly as possible, just in case there are athletes who might be looking at going to London and where there is evidence in relation to them," he said.
WADA's code has an eight-year statute of limitations for doping offenses. That raises questions about whether USADA would be able to make full use of evidence gathered in the federal probe and, if needed, initiate proceedings against Armstrong or any other rider for supposed offenses that may have happened before 2004. The federal probe was thought to have focused on the period when Armstrong rode for the U.S. Postal cycling team until 2004. He is now retired.
But Howman cited the case of American runner and Olympian Eddy Hellebuyck to suggest that there can be exceptions to the eight-year limit.
Last week, USADA announced that a U.S. arbitration panel had invalidated Hellebuyck's results from Oct. 1, 2001, to 2004, when he was banned for two years for testing positive for the banned performance enhancer EPO. At that time, he insisted he had not used performance-enhancing drugs.
But in 2010, Hellebuyck acknowledged using EPO since 2001. Based on that and other information, the panel last week ruled that all of his competition results dating back to October 2001 should also be disqualified. The panel rejected Hellebuyck's argument that the statute of limitations should safeguard those results.
"They were able to prosecute him for something that took place in 2001, in 2012," Howman said. "The statute of limitations is there, but the interpretation of how it works depends on the facts of each individual case."
Fahey added: "Circumstances may exist that allow the rule to be set aside."
"If there is a cheat out there, I'm very disappointed if that cheat is going to get away with it. I don't say that in respect of Lance Armstrong or anyone else. But, generically, I don't want cheats to succeed," Fahey said in a separate interview with The Associated Press.
In the Armstrong probe, "we will never know in the criminal sense of what might have eventuated because they have dropped the criminal proceedings" he added. "Who knows, though, what might still be there."


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I am offended that Kirk thinks I always post cat pictures and videos. Appalled, even. I never do that.
So to make up for all the lack of cat and animal related things I absolutely never get away with posting here, allow me to introduce a video of a bunch of animals getting really confused by looking into mirrors. The video was compiled by none other than the compiler known as Compilariz.
Why did I never get this amount of hilarity with my own cat? I used to pick her up and put her face in front of a mirror, but she'd just look at me for a while and then headbutt my face. And then I'd go all "awww I love you" and forget about the mirror thing. Oh well.
Hope you all have an awesome, laugh-filled Wednesday evening while Kirk is doing video gamey things. Head over to the Talk Amongst Yourselves forum for more conversations, off and on-topic.
Animals Confused by Their Own Reflections [YouTube via BuzzFeed]


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A bit of background for newcomers
Joe (aka 'Mac' to his RAF comrades) was my Uncle, but we never met. His precious letters have come into my possession some near-70 years after they were written. It is my honor to transcribe them, and the poignancy of hindsight about what happened to Joe makes this all the more difficult to write, but all the more important that I do. One letter will be posted to this Blog each and every Friday until they are done.
Please see below for a link to Joe's full story and the other letters in this series so far.
In this letter, Joe is 6 months in to his RAF experiences and is wearing his newly acquired Sergeant stripes with pride. He is now stationed at Upper Heyford in Oxfordshire.
Letter 40 – 17th June 1944
"Same Place.
Dear Mom and Kids,
I am writing this in haste. It is about 10.30pm and I have a hell of a lot to do. Hope you will excuse me. You see I have to PAINT my number in all my flying kit, so has every one else. With this extra lot of kit I have quite a job on. I look like getting to bed about 12-12.30 at present. It sure is a lot job!
Well how are you all? OK I hope. Up to now I'm doing OK too. We sure get plenty to do here. We had one lecture today lasting 2 and a half hours and about 4 hours on guns alone. They sure go for things here in a big way! By the way I had a letter from Jean today and yet another photo of her. It's good too. I expect your letter will arrive tomorrow morning.
Upper Heyford by air
We went for a swim this evening and it was great. We were supposed to be on dinghy drill!! By the way the food here is swell! I'm living like a lord again! It's as if I'm back on leave again.
I have written to Joe Lee's father to get his address. I'll send it on to you if you like. By the way if I can scrounge 8/4 I shall be home for 24 hours French leave on MOnday night!!! Keep your fingers crossed like me!!
So long, afraid that's all this time. I will write more tomorrow night. God Bless.
Joe xxxx
P.S. Everyone is thick with white paint in here!!
P.P.S. Small envelopes?! Only a few of these big 'uns left!"
The move to Upper Heyford saw the two Joes separated. They had become excellent friends, and it looks as though they will try to stay in touch by letter. Jean is beginning to appear as a regular correspondent, and Joe is clearly happy about receiving her news and her photographs!!
To read more about Joe's letters please follow this link. There you will find the full selection of letters to date, as well as more information about his fascinating yet ultimately tragic story.
He was our family hero. He IS our family hero. If I knew how to complete an effective RAF salute, I would salute you now, Joe. Long may your memory live in our family stories. I hope to post a new letter from Joe's correspondence with his Mother here every Friday until they're done. It will be a turbulent and heart-wrenching journey. Subscribe to the Blog to make sure you don't miss any of it.
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We are always wanting to glean what other authors know about writing. This blog by Steve Silberman gathers together authors and has them give suggestions on how to improve your writing and make your book great. I thought it was something worth sharing. Have a blessed day. Shirley
I love books. My late father Donald, who taught Wordsworth and Melville to inner-city kids for decades, used to read Ulysses to me while he carried me on his shoulders. Perhaps it was inevitable that I grew up to be a writer. Now, after years of investigative reporting for Wired and other magazines, I'm finally writing a book of my own.
The subject of my book is autism, the variety of human cognitive styles, and the rise of the neurodiversity movement. The seed of the project was an article I wrote for Wired in 2001 called "The Geek Syndrome" about autism and Asperger syndrome in high-tech communities like Silicon Valley. I'm happy and humbled to say that it was an influential article, and I still get email about it from the families of kids on the spectrum and from autistic people themselves, though it was published more than a decade ago.
The science of developmental disorders has made significant advances in recent years, and some of the social issues that I raised in the piece — such as the contributions that people with atypical cognitive styles have made to the progress of science, technology, and culture — seem more relevant than ever. At the same time, the wave of kids diagnosed with Autism Spectrum Disorders in the '90s is now coming of age, and their heroically devoted families are facing fear and uncertainty about the future as crucial government-funded services and support provided to families of special-needs children dry up. Meanwhile,neurodiversity advocates are challenging narrow definitions of "normal" cognition, and autistic people — even those who are unable to employ spoken language — are using assistive technology like the iPad to express themselves. There's a lot of new ground to cover.
I've signed a contract with a wonderful publisher — a Penguin imprint called Avery Books — and a sharp and enthusiastic editor named Rachel Holtzman. One of the most thrilling moments of my life as a writer was walking into Penguin headquarters in Manhattan and seeing classic jackets for Jack Kerouac's novels like The Dharma Bums framed on the wall. It was reading the exhilarating, compassionate, and perennially fresh poetry and prose of Kerouac, Allen Ginsberg, Gary Snyder and their friends that made me want to grow up to be a writer in the first place.
I'm not sentimental about old media vs. new media. Nothing will ever replace the sublime feeling of sanctuary created by the printed page, but I treasure the books on my Kindle too, particularly when I'm reading at 30,000 feet. What I love is words — storytelling, the flow of well-wrought sentences, the gradual unfolding of a long and thoughtful tale, the private communion with an author's mind.
But now comes the hard part. It's one thing to work up a 4000-word magazine feature and another to sit down and write a 100,000-word book. I'm acutely aware that I've been granted a precious opportunity to cast light on forgotten history and provide a platform for voices that are rarely heard. At the same time, I'm scared out of my wits that the two decades of journalism that have led up to this project have not prepared me to write a good book. I wake up at 3am staring into the darkness, wondering if I'll have the skills, discipline, and inner resources to pull it off.
I've chosen to deal with my anxiety by tapping into the wisdom of the hive mind. I recently sent email to the authors in my social network and asked them, "What do you wish you'd known about the process of writing a book that you didn't know before you did it?"
I'm delighted with the sheer range of practical advice that poured in. The writers in this group are as diverse as the volumes that line the shelves in my home office. There are top science writers and journalists like Carl Zimmer, Jonah Lehrer, Deborah Blum, Paula Span, and David Shenk; prolific blogger Geoff Manaugh of the endlessly fascinating BLDGBLOG, which focuses on architecture and the future of urbanism; award-winning poet and essayist August Kleinzahler; a wise-beyond-his-years entrepreneur named Ben Casnocha; a Zen master named John Tarrant and an author of Buddhist bestsellers, Sylvia Boorstein; two-time Rock and Roll Hall of Fame inductee David Crosby of the Byrds and Crosby, Stills, Nash and Young; and two of the geniuses who helped launch 21st century digital culture and the spunky "maker" movement, Cory Doctorow and Mark Frauenfelder of BoingBoing. A more diverse group of writers, talking about the nuts and bolts of their craft, would be hard to find anywhere on the Web.
A few things became clear as soon as their replies came in. First of all, I'll have to throttle back my use of Twitter and Facebook to get this writing done (and I may never rev up my idle Quora account after all.) Secondly, scheduling intervals of regular exercise and renewal amid the hours of writing will be essential. And thirdly, I'll certainly be buying and downloading a software program calledScrivener, which is a powerful word processor specifically designed for writing books and keeping vast amounts of related data in good order.
Reading these tips has made the voice in my head that whispers I can do this a little louder when my eyelids snap open before dawn. I hope the advice here inspires the creation of many great books, not only the one I hope to write. I'm deeply grateful for the time and attention of the master writers assembled here.
Enjoy — and good luck with your own writing!
Carl Zimmer
Author of A Planet of Viruses, The Tangled Bank, and Brain Cuttings
- Do as much research as possible away from the Internet — with living people, in real places.
- Be ready to organize vast amounts of data. Use a wall, or software like Scrivener.
- Be ready to amputate entire chapters. It will be painful.
David Shenk
Author of The Forgetting and The Genius in All of Us
- Make it great, no matter how long it takes. There's no such thing as too many drafts. There's no such thing as too much time spent. As you well know, a great book can last forever. A great book can change a person's life. A mediocre book is just commerce.
- Get feedback — oodles of it. Along the way, show pieces of your book to lots of people — different types of people. Ply them with wine and beg them for candor. Find out what's missing, what's being misinterpreted, what isn't convincing, what's falling flat. This doesn't mean you take every suggestion or write the book by committee. But this process will allow to marry your necessarily-precious vision with how people will actually react. I find that invaluable.
- Let some of you come through. You're obviously not writing a memoir here, but this book is still partly about you — the world you see, the way you think, the experiences you have with people. And trust me, readers are interested in who you are. So don't be afraid to let bits and pieces of your personality and even life details seep into the text. It will breathe a lot of life into the book.
Cory Doctorow
Author of With a Little Help, For the Win, Makers, and Down and Out in the Magic Kingdom
- Write every day. Anything you do every day gets easier. If you're insanely busy, make the amount that you write every day small (100 words? 250 words?) but do it every day.
- Write even when the mood isn't right. You can't tell if what you're writing is good or bad while you're writing it.
- Write when the book sucks and it isn't going anywhere. Just keep writing. It doesn't suck. Your conscious is having a panic attack because it doesn't believe your subconscious knows what it's doing.
- Stop in the middle of a sentence, leaving a rough edge for you to start from the next day — that way, you can write three or five words without being "creative" and before you know it, you're writing.
- Write even when the world is chaotic. You don't need a cigarette, silence, music, a comfortable chair, or inner peace to write. You just need ten minutes and a writing implement.
Bill Wasik
Author of And Then There's This: How Stories Live and Die in Viral Culture
- The first tip is that readers expect books to be exhaustive on their subjects. That doesn't mean they want the books to be long — it means that they expect that you will cover all the basic ground that needs to be covered to understand the subject, even if they know some of it already. This piece of advice may or may not be relevant to your subject. In my case, with a very idiosyncratic book on viral culture, it led to people asking me at readings why I hadn't included an analysis of X or Y viral phenomenon in my book. "Because you already know about it," the magazine guy in me always wanted to respond. But in the book world, people want to see you mention the stuff they already know, at least in passing (or to knock it down)– otherwise, how can it claim to be a book on the subject? It's worth taking that point of view seriously.
- This is a basic piece of advice, but it can't be overstated when you're trying to go from magazine-length to book-length writing: hone your outline and then cling to it as a lifeline. You can adjust it in mid-stream, but don't try to just write your way into a better structure: think about the right structure and then write to it. Your outline will get you through those periods when you can't possibly imagining ever finishing the damn thing — at those times, your outline will let you see it as a sequence of manageable 1,000 word sections.
Geoff Manaugh
Author of The BLDGBLOG Book
- Don't hold back on that fantasy site visit / phone call / interview / query / meeting that you have always wanted to do, lest it become too late to include the results in your book. Do it now! This book is your golden ticket.
- Don't lose track of your notes and/or future ideas for inclusion by writing things down in multiple notebooks or on scattered pages of the same notebook; concentrate, aggregate, cohere, reread, and compress. Keep it all in one place (with back-ups). Obsessive-compulsive organizational habits are your bestfriend; telling insane and vaguely embarrassing stories later on, about how you used eight different colored markers, four highlighter types, and multiple versions of extra pages stapled into a vast mega-notebook that you re-read every night before bed – and that you also took digital photos of lest you lose the whole thing in a house fire – will be a lot more fun than explaining how you forgot to include certain things and your book sucked because you never got your shit together.
- Quick, tossed off, last minute additions, typed right before you submit the final manuscript, probably aren't a good idea, no matter how funny or emotionally powerful you might feel they are at the time of impulsively writing them. Always allow time to come back and read something from a distance.
- And run all quirky one-liners that you hope to include in your author's bio (do you "always enjoy a good latté"?) past a close friend; they don't age well.
Mark Frauenfelder
Author of The Mad Professor and Rule the Web
- Use Scrivener to write your book. Awesome organizing tool as well as word processor.
- If you have the feeling an interview isn't yielding much, get off the phone as soon as you can. On the other hand, when you strike interview gold, keep it going as long as you can.
- Don't forget to write the book that you want to read.
Deborah Blum
Author of The Poisoner's Handbook and Ghost Hunters
- here are a few things that i've learned or that people have told me along the way. i've written five books. the first two (monkey wars, sex on the brain) were issue books. the best advice i got when writing an issue book was to write the first chapter LAST. this isn't absolute, but it's in the research and writing of later chapters that you often figure out what your primary points will be and how best to frame them.
- the best advice i got in writing narrative non-fiction was to get my hero in trouble and keep him there. this was with my first narrative book, love at goon park. my editor suggested that as the over all arc — how is harry harlow ever going to persuade the scientific community that love matters? — and within that to have him confront an obstacle in every chapter. i'm a little looser with that now, not an obstacle in EVERY chapter, but it's still a great way to think about structure. for instance, in poisoner's handbook, every chapter is a poison. so my heroes must confront arsenic in one chapter and thallium in another…
- i usually try to have a single sentence that describes the primary message of the book. this turns out to be really useful when your editor asks you for the one sentence the sales force can use to persuade book sellers to buy your book. but, again, it's also a useful organizing principle. so with monkey wars, the primary sentence (not brilliant for sales, but still) was "animal research is really about us." number one species on the planet, can do whatever we want to other species. and i used that to frame every chapter around a decision that a researcher was making in his use of non-human primates, from brain surgeries to testing on endangered species.
- i let my first draft suck. kind of the anne lamott advice on "shitty first drafts." to me my first draft is just an attempt to start unfolding the flow and logic of the story. if i get stuck, i just put xxx in the draft (for figure this out later.) with one of my books (sex on the brain) i did this so often that i had literal nightmares about it, that people were coming up to me and asking me if i had adopted an avant garde writing style.
- i'm obsessive about the research. i organize and cross-list and file from the very beginning. i make notes of key points, issues, and themes. the amount of research one does for a proposal is very different from the amount of research one does for a whole book. so i keep track of all these key moments in a way that lets me recognize patterns that i didn't see earlier. and also so that when i'm later actually writing, i know where to find everything. writers waste a lot of time looking for that study that they filed, well, somewhere.
- i recognize that today's book author isn't done even after the manuscript is accepted. publishers expect us to be part of the marketing of the book and the sooner that starts the better. i used to tell people that i wanted to be the j.d. salinger of science writing and just stay home and let the royalties wash over me. but that's mostly in the moments when i'm just overwhelmed. the new public version of a science writer is actually pretty fascinating.
August Kleinzahler
Author of Sleeping It Off in Rapid City and Cutty, One Rock
- I find it helpful sometimes — and still to my surprise — trying to explain to someone what it is I'm trying to write about, usually someone bright but in a different intellectual zone, and not a writer. Or, likewise, in a letter or email to such a person.
- When my self-disgust reaches critical mass I seem to be ready to go.
- I tend to discover the structure, a structure, after diving in the deep end and swallowing water awhile, until I stop swallowing water, make my way to the surface and figure out how far it is toward shore or the side of the pool, and what mixture of treading water and the Australian crawl, given my limitations/aptitudes, might get me safely home.
Ben Casnocha
Entrepreneur and author of My Start-Up Life
- Shitty first drafts. Anne Lamott nailed it! But with books, it seems to be more like "shitty 20th drafts." So shitty, for so long.
- Develop a very serious plan for dealing with internet distractions. I use an app called Self-Control on my Mac.
- Develop a very, very, very serious plan for dealing with internet distractions.
Author/editor of The Mindfulness Revolution and In the Face of Fear
- You're better off than you think, because you've done this before, just not in as large a format. Almost every technique and skill you've used to structure and tell a story at feature length scales to book length. So, let go of the excess anxiety about never having done this before.
- Planning. Planning. Planning. It's a campaign. I used some project management tools in the end to put some order into the vastness. That's the thing about the bigger scale. It requires more management to support the creativity. Cultivate a good relationship with your editor from the beginning. He/she is going to be your task master at some point. That's going to go so much better if he/she is also your friend, colleague, supporter, and fan. The campaign of writing a book can get so lonely sometimes, you need a good attaboy just to remind yourself of why you're doing it and that you're not the crazy loser who needs to get out more.
- As Trungpa Rinpoche said (I paraphrase): enjoy refreshing activities from time to time. If you're planning and scheduling well, you can find opportunities regularly to breathe more fresh air into your life and replenish yourself, because "the work fills the available space" is nowhere more true than on a book project. Watch out for self-indulgent and cheap substitutes for actually taking an honest to god break, of whatever duration.
Peter Conners
Author of Growing Up Dead: The Hallucinated Confessions of a Teenage Deadhead and White Hand Society: The Psychedelic Partnership of Timothy Leary & Allen Ginsberg
- When I'm writing a book I only read other books that somehow inform my book. If it doesn't serve my process — no matter how much I want to read it — I don't. I suspect there are a lot of people who will give the opposite opinion (take a break from reading about your subject matter, etc.), but I'm not one of them. This is your time to be completely and justifiably obsessed. So go ahead — bask in the madness.
- Non-fiction shouldn't mean poorly written. Writing is writing and art always counts. Make your book beautiful to read and you're more likely to communicate your messages to your reader.
- Don't focus on the promotional aspects of social media. Just share your passion for the subject matter as it filters through your writing process. The promotion aspect will be an organic extension of your passion.
David Crosby
Singer-songwriter, founding member of the Byrds and Crosby, Stills, Nash and Young, author of Long Time Gone and Since Then
- Cathartic effect.
- Love of the well-turned phrase.
- Set specific times to work.
Paula Span
Author of When the Time Comes
- You already know what you need to know to do this. The fact is, my 60,000-plus-word book was pretty much like writing 8 to 10 long-form pieces. I didn't do it differently, in terms of research or writing or rewriting. My existing skills were perfectly adequate to the task; yours will be too. It took me 2.5 years but then, I was teaching and freelancing at the same time; had I focused solely on the book, it probably would've taken 18 months. So you will make your deadline, even if your book is longer and more complex.
- Unhelpful, right? But maybe not. Bottom line, this is not some whole different sphere for which you are ill-prepared. For better or worse, whether you use some nifty software to organize your material or you use a whole bunch of yellow legal pads and photocopies in hanging files (like me — so retro), this is familiar territory and you are an old hand. So get to it.
Rudy Simone
Author of Aspergirls: Empowering Women with Asperger Syndrome andAsperger's On the Job
- I had the easiest time of my life writing my three Asperger books. I just ran like Secretariat once I got going. But, I did learn that questionnaires make good research tools. I had three levels of questionnaires, each expanding on the one before it, so I didn't have to individually interview each person. I did that by email or phone if and when it was warranted. By the time I wrote Aspergirls I had it streamlined: The questionnaires were posted on my site, the first one visible to the public so anyone could use it, then the 2nd and third were on hidden pages that I gave my participants the URL to. The data was compiled and I received email alerts whenever there was a new entry. So while I was researching certain elements of my book, the questionnaires and the people who used them were doing a lot of the legwork. Being that I'm fairly uneducated, I think I did a pretty good job with it.
John Schwartz
Author of Short: Walking Tall When You're Not Tall at All
- Advice from a Newsweek editor I worked with in the '80s, Nancy Cooper. Roughly my age, but so much smarter and more worldly and sophisticated. I was worried about writing the opening story of the nation section. And she sent me a note that read: "You just start working and you keep working til it's done. That's all there is to it; no mystery."
Sylvia Boorstein
Author of Happiness is An Inside Job and It's Easier Than You Think
When I settle into writing, i.e. proposal signed, accepted, etc., I…
- Do not open email until 5PM on any weekday or other day when i expect to be writing much of the day.
- Do not read other people's work on the same subject. That might be hard for you, since you are collecting research data, but I say very little about what other people have said or thought. They've already said or thought it.
- I am VERY selective about having other people read it as I go along other than my editor, and that only when I have enough written to feel secure that I have found my voice.
- When I do not like how what I'm writing is sounding, I quit. I leave the computer. I do something else, like cook soup. I "hear" what I am about to type before I type it and if it is not sounding like me naturally talking, I know i am not clear or balanced enough to go on.
- I do not write from the beginning to the end. I write in the order that particular parts take form in my mind and I enjoy mulling them over… I mull and mull and imagine I am explaining them to someone and then I write them down. I have the order in mind, so I write whatever part is bubbling energetically in my mind, print it out (always) and begin a stack on THE BOOK on a corner of my desk into which I can add pieces (in their proper order) as they get written and so I have a visible proof at all times that something is happening.
- I take the due date for the first draft EXTREMEly seriously., like everything depends on that day. it makes the project energetically alive for me, like a James Bond five-minutes-and-fifty-two-seconds until the whole world blows up movie and even if the draft is finished a week early I push the SEND button just after 12AM on the day it is due. Theatrical, I know, but I learned it from a friend of mine whom I admire as being a fine writer who prides himself on doing that.
Author of notable books on science and psychology
What I wish I didn't know now that I didn't know then:
- How hard writing a book would be on my body — two major illnesses and two surgeries in two years, a health record unprecedented in my life, and unrepeated in the two years since. No idea what to do differently, other than maybe make sure I have good health insurance. (But you shoulda seen me revising my last draft as they wheeled me into the OR for an appendectomy.)
- How important and valuable the final reward would be. Not the money, but (in my case) the promised trip to a very special place. Wish I had put the photo of my destination on my screensaver long before I did, as it worked like an extra force of gravity pulling me to the end. The trip also gave me a coda to write into the book, just an extra added benefit.
- How inept publishers are at selling books, even books that, as in my case, they have a significant financial stake in and that they profess to love. Once they get rejected by Today and Terry Gross and once the Sunday Timespasses (or, as in my case, assigns a review and then never runs it), they've exhausted their playbook. Solution: what you're already doing, which is to build your brand among your intended audience.
David Gans
Musician, radio producer, and author of Playing in the Band and Conversations with the Dead
- The most striking thing about my book processes was that no one at the publisher did any editing at all. No fact checking, no line editing.
Josh Shenk
Author of Lincoln's Melancholy
- Get through a draft as quickly as possible. Hard to know the shape of the thing until you have a draft. Literally, when I wrote the last page of my first draft of Lincoln's Melancholy I thought, Oh, shit, now I get the shape of this. But I had wasted years, literally years, writing and re-writing the first third to first half. The old writer's rule applies: Have the courage to write badly.
- Find ways to break it into chunks and set concrete deadlines with friends/agent/editor. I'm sending my agent material every week now. The shit is super rough, but at least I've got *something* on page. Also consider a writer's group. When I asked Bruce Feiler for this advice at the start ofLincoln's Melancholy, he said: "emotional management." I told him, yeah, but I really want practical advice, etc. etc., and he repeated the phrase. Writing a book is a crushingly lonely experience in ways that no one who hasn't been through it can really imagine.
- What's the idea/argument in a sentence or two? You shouldn't have this necessarily at the start but will want to by the time the book is done.
- Apply to MacDowell, Yaddo, Blue Mountain Center, Headlands — a few other good residencies, including one in Cali I can't remember now. Four to eight weeks of you, quiet, among other artists, with people feeding you on schedule can do wonders.
John Tarrant
Author of Bring Me The Rhinoceros & Other Zen Koans That Will Save Your Life, and The Light Inside the Dark: Zen, Soul & the Spiritual Life
Here's a triplet of things that may apply only to me.
- Ideas don't come from anywhere identifiable, so I've come to trust that they will be given. This is along the lines of not whipping the donkey.
- The process of lining the book up, giving it a bedside manner, asking "Is this what it is about? But what is it really about?" was a plunge. I had to explain the work to myself in more and more elementary language. I came to enjoy doing this. It helped when I realized that the discovery process was part of the writing and I didn't have to be through it already.
- There is always period when I wrestle alone with my own process and at the same time I like collaboration. So I've learned what kind of editing works for me. A good editor is an impersonal force who says things like, "You could ditch the first half of your first chapter and start with what comes next," and immediately I know if the edit is true or not. So I learned to be confident about sharing my work when it is not fully formed, learned that the process is robust and will look after itself.
Jonah Lehrer
Author of How We Decide and Proust Was a Neuroscientist
- My one piece of advice is to insist that your editor be brutal — there should be red pen on every page. At least in my experience, the book only gets decent during this phase, as all the darlings and digressions get killed. It's such an important process, and yet too many editors are too meek (or overworked) and too many writers resist their edits. A good editor is a great thing.
Author of The Panic Virus and Feeding the Monster
- If you're a Mac guy, I whole-heartedly, full-throatedly recommend using Scrivener. I think you can get a free 30-day trial, so it's at least worth checking out. Especially with this last book, it totally saved me from having hundreds of (virtual) stacks of thousands of (virtual) scraps of paper.
- For me, it was vitally important that all non-book related reading be as mindless as possible. I binged on mysteries…Rex Stout and Donald Westlake/Richard Stark in particular.
- I tried, not always successfully, to start each day with some discrete goal I wanted to accomplish: write 200 words, or get through a certain amount of research, or conduct two interviews, or whatever. If I set out to spend a day "writing," that would be so overwhelming I'd end up just farting around online all day instead of starting the climb the mountain.
- Finally: assume your book is going to completely tank commercially. That'll help you remember that you're not writing this for the purpose of writing a best-seller (at least I assume you're not), but because it's something that you care passionately about and excites you intellectually and because you hope to be able to share your thoughts and observations and conclusions with a group of people you respect and want to discourse with. Everything else is gravy. At the end of the day, what's important is producing something you believe in…not producing something that'll catch people's eyes at B&N.
- Find an organizational scheme for your notes and materials; keep up with it (if you are transcribing sound files or notebooks, don't let yourself fall behind); and be faithful to it: Don't obsess over an apparently better scheme that someone else has. At some point during your work, someone will release what looks like a brilliant piece of software that will solve all your problems. Resist the urge to try it out, whatever it is, unless 1) it is endorsed by people whose working methods you already know to be like your own and 2) you know you can implement it quickly and easily without a lot of backfilling. Reworking organizational schemes is incredibly seductive and a massive timesuck. (I use DevonThink, OmniOutliner and Filemaker Pro. David Dobbs apparently has a quite different flow. We hope to do a workshop on this at NASW.)
- Don't wait too long to start writing, especially if your book incorporates descriptive or narrative elements. Write at least a quick sketch of the sensory and emotional elements that stick with you as you come back from field reporting.
- You're going to spend a lot of time in your head. Take care of your physical self too. Be just as committed to that as you are to getting your writing done every day. If you don't care about your health, think your vanity — there's an author video and a lot of public appearances in your future.
- Bonus tip: Be good to your spouse/partner and protect time for them. They're in this with you, but unlike you, they didn't choose it.


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NHT Bows SuperPower Desktop Speakers
NHT is gunning for ownership of the desktop – at least in the personal loudspeaker department.
The company on Thursday unveiled its new SuperPower compact, self-amplified mini speaker ($199 each) – a design it says is an amalgam of the best elements of its SuperZero 2.0 passive mini speaker and its 75-watt powered professional series M-00 (otherwise known as "the moo") that is used in recording studios. It's optimized for use with smartphones, portable media players, tablets, electronic musical instruments and desktop and laptop computers.
Each SuperPower speaker, however, boasts 90 watts of amplification, and each's acoustics section uses NHT's mini-monitor driver complement (a 4.5-inch long-throw woofer and 1-inch silk-dome tweeter) acoustically suspended in a sealed box that's finished in the company's signature high-gloss black laminate.
Complementing the SuperPower is the new SuperPower DeskStand ($59/pr), of 10-gauge carbon steel and designed to isolate the speaker from the desktop. Also being made available is NHT's PVC PC ($99), a passive volume control interface that isolates computer-generated noise from the speakers.
The new speaker was designed to integrate with NHT's Super 8 110-watt subwoofer, which is being offered at $299 when purchased with a pair of SuperPower speakers.


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Guilford man expected to get 3½ years in fatal boating accident
NEW HAVEN -- A 27-year-old Guilford man implicated in a 2009 fatal boating crash apologized in court Tuesday to the victims' mothers and will receive prison time for driving the vessel while intoxicated.
Having reached a plea deal in the case, Arthur King Hall pleaded no contest in the Part A division of Superior Court Tuesday afternoon and is to be sentenced July 2. Judge Roland Fasano said Hall is slated to receive a sentence of 10 years in prison, suspended after 3½ years served, and five years of probation.
Hall has been in custody for a year, as he was arrested twice since the crash on disorderly conduct and breach of peace charges.
Though Hall will be speaking at his sentencing about the crash and his time in custody, on Tuesday he briefly addressed the mothers of Jonathan Cook, who died in the accident, and Devon Hardy, who was seriously injured.
"I've just been wanting to say how truly, truly sorry I am for your loss. I'm going to say more at the sentencing, but I've been wanting to say something for a long time," Hall told the women.
Essex attorney Christopher Morano, who represents Hall, noted that he had advised Hall not to speak during prior court appearances.
Prosecutor Brian Sibley said in court Tuesday that Hall had admitted to authorities that he was drinking the night of Sept. 3, 2009, when the Boston Whaler owned by his father crashed into a rock wall at 49 Old Quarry Road. Tests showed his blood-alcohol level at 0.32, four times the legal limit of 0.08, and an examination of the boat showed there was no mechanical issue, Sibley said.
Emergency personnel found Hall on top of the sea wall, Hardy unconscious inside the boat, Cook in the water, and Elizabeth "Libby" Protzman, another passenger, at the 49 Old Quarry Road residence. Cook, 24, was pronounced dead at the scene, while Protzman, now 23, and Hardy, now 24, were seriously injured. The families of Cook, Protzman and Hardy have filed lawsuits against Hall.
Hall originally was charged with second-degree manslaughter, second-degree manslaughter with a vessel, two counts of second-degree assault, first-degree reckless endangerment and first-degree reckless operation of a vessel while under the influence of intoxicating liquor or drugs.
As part of the plea deal, Hall pleaded nolo contendere only to manslaughter with a vessel while under the influence, first-degree reckless endangerment and second-degree assault. A plea of nolo contendere means Hall neither disagrees nor agrees with the facts of the case and that he feels if he went to trial and was found guilty on some or all of the charges, he would face a harsher sentence, Fasano said.
Probation conditions include Hall sitting on a victim impact panel, making yearly contributions of $100 to the state's victim injury compensation fund (preferably on the boating crash anniversary), treatment for alcohol use, random urinalysis, a one-year boating certificate suspension and 100 hours of community service. He has received in-patient and out-patient treatment since his initial arrest.
Morano said his client had been helping others while incarcerated by assisting with literacy efforts and another program that helps inmates get their GEDs. Morano said Tuesday was "a sad day for all concerned."
"This was the first opportunity my client had a chance to express his extreme sorrow and remorse. He wanted to express his feelings and how he feels every day the loss of his friend, as well as the harm others suffered," Morano said after court. "But he's committed to somehow making a better life for himself and others after his sentence."
About the sentence and plea deal, Morano and Sibley said they will comment in detail at the sentencing. Attorney Joseph Mirrione, who is representing Cook's family and attended the court appearance, said after court, "This family wants to heal and that is not accomplished seeing Hall go to jail for a decade, because they believe in forgiveness. If Hall truly learns from his conduct and helps others in the future, then maybe they can find peace and believe that their son was honored by the system and by the community."
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Neighbours team up to create rural lifestyle lots
RURAL life, with all the comforts of town close by.
It's a lifestyle Vicki Heilbronn has enjoyed for roughly 30 years.
But things have changed over the decades and, looking to downsize, Ms Heilbronn took advantage of an opportunity with Rockhampton Regional Council's planning scheme presented the perfect timing.
Under the superseded council planning scheme, Ms Heilbronn could subdivide her property into lots roughly 10ha in size.
It was something she had been considering for some time, but with time running out to apply under the old planning scheme, Ms Heilbronn made the decision to go for it.
The adjoining landowner took the chance to do the same, with the pair working together to share costs for road upgrades and create easy access.
Ms Heilbronn's lot sits in Parkhurst, the area set to be the next growth corridor for the region.
The 10ha lots Ms Heilbronnhas planned will offer buyers a rural idyll, with the convenience of the new Parkhurst shopping centre two minutes away.
The plans, approved by council last week, will see three new lots created on her property.
Town planner Brendan Standen, from Reel Planning Pty Ltd, dealt with both applications.
Mr Standen said cooperation between the neighbours was necessay and resulted in a better outcome for both.
He said the pair would share the cost of council required road upgrades, and easy access to Ms Heilbronn's property via Alfred Rd rather than Rockhampton-Yeppoon Rd.
Mr Standen said the application process was complex, due to State Government planning and environmental regulations.
"(These) called for a fine balance to be struck between creating the additional four vacant rural-residential lifestyle lots in Parkhurst, while also conserving existing natural features, including remnant vegetation and watercourses," he said.
"The subdivisions will assist in providing a gradual transition from the land use pattern to the west, which is designated to accommodate future low density residential living, and the land to the east that holds unique scenic and environmental values."
Before the lots can be created, there are still a number of council conditions to work through.
For Ms Heilbronn, the new lot will signal a chance to downsize.
She plans to sell her existing home, sitting on what will be the largest lot of roughly , and move to a home on one of the newly-created lots.
But after the sale of a second block, Ms Heilbronn said she planned to hold on to the other three lots for some time.
"It is a growing area and there's not too many of that size block where you can have that rural lifestyle and also be near town," she said.


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Seth MacFarlane's Oscar nomination presser received mixed reviews Thursday. Entertainment Weekly called the 39-year-old comedy writer's bit-filled performance "smug" and "condescending," while The Hollywood Reporter thought he proved "right on tone for his fans."
MacFarlane, with actress Emma Stone as his partner-in-crime, carried out the pre-6a.m. nominations announcement with a series of jabs at Hollywood, Harvey Weinstein and the Best Supporting Actor contenders.
He even dropped a reference to Hitler, Germany and the well-received film "Amour": "I read Amour was co-produced by Austria and Germany. The last time Austria and Germany co-produced something, it was Hitler."
In response, social media users readied themselves for what just might turn out to be a very interesting Academy Awards show:
Seth MacFarlane doesn't make a living trying to be funny, does he?— Richard Lawson (@rilaws) January 10, 2013
"Hi, I'm Oscars host Seth MacFarlane and this reminds me of the time...[cut to montage of Hanna-Barbera jokes and Hitler references]"— Dave Itzkoff (@ditzkoff) January 10, 2013
If there was an Academy Award for "stupidest use of lazy Hitler joke," Seth MacFarlane would be on track to win it.— Joseph Hunter (@joesoldout) January 10, 2013
On a positive note, already clear that @sethmacfarlane is going to be a wonderfully inappropriate, snarky and hilarious host. #Oscars— Piers Morgan (@piersmorgan) January 10, 2013


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The latest White House 2012 analysis of polls, conditions, and circumstances in individual states projects a slightly smaller Electoral College vote total for Governor Mitt Romney than he had last week, but Romney still remains above the magic number of 270, that he needs to win in the Electoral College.
This week, WH12 has seen the battleground states of Iowa and Nevada taken out of Romney's column and designated as toss-up states. This switch has taken away 12 electoral votes from the Romney-Ryan ticket and brought them from last week's total of 291 electoral votes , to 279 electoral votes this week. But as Mitt Romney sees 12 votes go from him to the undecided column, President Obama sees his previous Electoral College projection decrease by 10 votes as WH12 now takes Wisconsin out of the President's column and classifies it as a toss-up state. So President Obama now finds his Electoral College vote drop from 247 last week, to 237 this week.
But the big story here ends up not being the new numbers projected in White House 2012's analysis. The real story here is the increasing importance that these numbers places on New Hampshire, Nevada, Iowa, and probably most of all… Wisconsin.
Based upon WH12's current level of confidence in Mitt Romney having solid leads in all his base states* and strong leads in the once very competitive states of Colorado, Florida, North Carolina, and Virginia, combined with our increasing confidence in Romney's ability to at least squeak out a win in Ohio, what we find ourselves with here is a race that really hinges upon Romney's need to win any combination of New Hampshire, Nevada, Iowa, and or Wisconsin.
With former toss-up states like Colorado, Virginia, and Florida projected to be solidly behind Romney, as seen in the map below, all the Romney-Ryan tickets needs to secure victory is Ohio. With Romney's base states, and locks on the battleground states of Colorado, Florida, North Carolina,and Virginia, if Romney can squeak by in Ohio, he can lose New Hampshire, Nevada, Iowa, and Wisconsin and still win with 5 more electoral votes than he needs to secure the presidency. That would produce an electoral vote of 275 for Romney, to 263 for President Obama.
But Ohio is too close for comfort for Romney to count on. So the Romney-Ryan ticket must secure an optional path to victory to rely upon. Based upon the current projection which gives Romney the battlegrounds of Colorado, Florida, North Carolina, Virginia, and New Hampshire, , if President Obama wins Ohio, the only state that Romney needs is Wisconsin. In that scenario, even if the Obama-Biden ticket won the remaining battleground states of Iowa and Nevada, Mitt would still win in the Electoral College with 271 electoral votes to Obama's 267 electoral votes.
Without Ohio, this New Hampshire plus Wisconsin combination to victory for Romney is currently the best and most logical strategy to pursue.
In New Hampshire, the Romney-Ryan ticket is behind Obama-Biden by only approximately 1%. That is well below the 2.2% margin of error that WH12's projection formula adds to Romney's numbers in an attempt to compensate for the erroneous turnout models that pollsters are using in their polls. So by WH12's standard, Romney is actually ahead of President Obama in New Hampshire by approximately 1.2%. Then there is Wisconsin.
While Real Clear Politics has Obama ahead of Romney by approximately 2.8% in Wisconsin according to White House 2012 that is only a .06% lead for the President. It is a lead so small that that it could easily by overcome. Especially if its favorite son, Republican vice presidential nominee Paul Ryan, focusses on Wisconsin during this last two weeks of the election. That is a point White House 2012 made last week in a post entitled "Checkmating Obama with Wisconsin: A Romney Win in the Badger State Dooms Obama". Furthermore, Ryan's focus on Wisconsin could also produce an overflow effect that impacts the close contest in Iowa which borders Wisconsin and possibly provide the margin of victory for the G.O.P. ticket there.
What this all means is that if projections that give Romney his base states and the critical battlegrounds of Colorado, Florida, North Carolina, and Virginia, but he losses Ohio, the Romney-Ryan ticket can still win the election if they take Wisconsin and either New Hampshire, Iowa, or Nevada. But under this situation, if Romney does not win Wisconsin, Romney would have to win all three states of New Hampshire, Iowa, and Nevada.
So it becomes clear to us that while several states remain quite important in this election, if Mitt Romney's momentum continues to hold, Wisconsin and New Hampshire may be the states that offer him the best assurance of a victory in the Electoral College. Especially if Ohio remains as tight as it currently is and goes down to the wire as a state so close that its results might not be known until days or even weeks after they are litigated in the courts. However, the outcome of such litigation would be meaningless if Romney can put New Hampshire and Wisconsin safely in his final Electoral College vote total.
In the meantime, while White House 2012's current projection classifies 22 electoral votes as toss-ups, no matter which way they ultimately go, the most Barack Obama could get is 259 electoral votes. That would leave and Romney with at least 20 more electoral votes than Obama and nine more than Romney needs to win in the Electoral College.
Meanwhile, if Barack Obama fails to curtail the Romentum that we currently see, it won't be long before White House 2012 finds itself issuing the very best but still realistic projected outcome that Mitt Romney could see. That projection may end up with a far more lopsided Electoral College than anyone is expecting. As seen in the map below, existing trends may soon establish a projection that looks like th e map below. It's a Romney led Electoral College result of of 302 electoral votes to 236 electoral votes.
Right now, that is the best case scenario for Romney but if current trends to continue, it is the result we are most likely to see. It is also a result that would include something new… the splitting of Maine's electoral vote between Romney and Obama. Maine, like Nebraska splits their electoral vote between their congressional districts. Some recent polling has shown that in Maine's second congressional district, Romney was leading Obama 49 to 44%. If that holds up, it would be the first time Maine ever actually split it's electoral vote. And it would also give Romney at least 1 electoral vote from a region of the country that Romney has been all but written off in.
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The OS is the new browser -- apps are the tabs
With the advent of Web 2.0 and webapps like Gmail (circa 2003), everyone started talking out how all desktop apps would be eventually converted to webapps. Prior to Gmail, people didn't believe that such a paradigm shift was possible. Websites were not considered as heavy-duty as desktop apps for a lot of use cases.
Gmail gave us new hope. Around the same time tabbed browsing became popular. The combination of tabbed browsing and rich webapps was supposed to deliver a death blow to traditional desktop apps -- aka "thick clients".
This combination promised that we will finally get rid of the nagging problems associated with desktop apps. Some of the serious problems that webapps addressed were:
- Each tab of a browser was completely sandboxed. To try a new app you didn't have to install anything. It promised us freedom from DLL Hell. Business apps were no longer dependent on arcane ODBC drivers!
- Keeping multiple tabs open and switching back and forth was very convenient making us super productive.
- App delivery and upgrades were simplified. The executable code that made up the app was distributed and managed from central servers.
- New apps didn't impact the performance of the OS. No virus problems (with the notable exception of webpages embedding ActiveX controls!). No Registry conflicts. No spyware.
All of a sudden, the future didn't look so bright after all.
A few years later, we saw another wave of optimism with HTML5. HTML5 held the promise to solve world hunger. Everyone was dreaming of an Utopian world where you could write rich apps once and those apps would run on different platforms with little or no modification.
HTML5 was a standard. No single company controlled HTML5 and developers would no longer be held hostage by Microsoft APIs. No vendor lock-ins. For the first time in the entire history of computing, it seemed possible to learn one front-end technology and deliver apps on all platforms. The promise once Java made, but failed to deliver -- especially for the UI layer.
Ironically, the problem with HTML5 is that it was a "standard". It was evolving rather slowly. It was a democracy-led development, not a dictator-led development. Historically, some of the most successful technology companies were dictator led. Notable examples are Apple, Microsoft and Oracle.
Meanwhile, all of us continued to love our browsers and its tabs for a lot of computing activities.
Then the iPhone launched. With the launch of iPhone, we were unknowingly transitioned to a new era. In my opinion, the best way to define this era is -- "The OS is the new browser -- apps are the tabs"
The new era retained the richness and power of desktop apps and the delivery and sandboxing advantages of webapps. Additionally, you can use industrial strength languages C, Java and C# to develop apps.
iOS, Android and Windows 8 are designed ground-up to act more and more like browsers. There are some striking similarities.
- Launching an app became as trivial as launching a new tab
- Switching between apps became similar to switching between tabs
- Installation and upgrades are seamlessly delivered through central servers. Those central servers are called App stores.
- Complete sandboxing of apps. One app cannot access the data of another app. No DLL hell. Virus and spyware were contained.
In the classic browser and webapp model, seamless transition from one webapp to another was done naturally, using hyperlinks and URL parameters. In the app world, such seamless linking between apps is not popular yet. However, things are changing. Many apps now support URL schemes. For example, from the Twitter mobile web, you can launch the Twitter app with the right context. Over time, this integration will evolve and you can pass data from one app to another in more sophisticated ways.
Developing apps for multiple platforms is expensive when compared with HTML5 apps, that have a common codebase.
If development cost is the only reason you are settling down with HTML5, you are not working hard enough to create a killer browser tab for your app. You are going to miss out. Users don't care about the cost implications of the developer. They care about the quality of their experience. Products that are winning provide the best experience.
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Conservation experts from 24 world-leading organisations including the
WWF, Conservation International and Birdlife International have
identified one hundred key scientific questions that, if answered,
would help conserve global biodiversity. Scientists say if the
questions are answered swiftly, it could stem massive biodiversity loss.
Some of the questions include: 'are there critical thresholds at
which loss of biodiversity disrupts ecosystem functions and services?'
and 'how effective are different methods for assessing ecosystem
services?' The conservationists are also keen to find out how
nanotechnology impacts on biodiversity. Other contentious topics such
as how ocean acidification might shape marine biodiversity and the
effects of the changing water cycle on biodiversity – are also on the
According to the International Union for Conservation of Nature
(IUCN), loss of biodiversity is accelerating despite a global
convention committing governments to halt the decline. Experts say
species and habitats are disappearing so fast there needs to be more
effort focused on research that helps scientists understand what's
behind the loss.
But there is a problem for conservation bodies trying to curb
biodiversity loss. Sometimes, there is a mismatch between the
conservation topics academics study and the information
conservationists need to help them preserve biodiversity. The one
hundred questions, published online this week in the journal
Conservation Biology, could help address this issue.
"With the current crisis in the loss of habitats and species it is
important that we ensure we are carrying out the most important
research," says Professor William Sutherland of the University of
Cambridge, lead author of the study and Miriam Rothschild Chair in
Conservation Biology. "When research is designed to meet the needs of
real natural resource protection projects, it can lead to substantial
gains for biodiversity," he adds.
To address the mismatch, 761 conservationists from 24 of the world's
leading conservation bodies and 12 academics generated a preliminary
list of 2291 questions relevant to conserving global biodiversity.
The group of experts used email voting to short-list the 2291
questions before a smaller group of 44 met for two days at the
University of Cambridge to decide on the final one hundred questions.
The questions are not ranked.
Before a question could be included in the one hundred, it had to
meet eight strict criteria, including: it had to be answerable through
realistic research; it had to address important gaps in knowledge; and
it had to be on a time and space scale that could be addressed by a
research team.
The resulting questions are divided up into 12 key sections
reflecting issues the conservationists are worried about, such as
'climate change', 'ecosystem management and restoration', 'impacts of
conservation interventions' and 'ecosystem function and services'.
Many of the one hundred questions are at the heart of the
biodiversity theme in Nerc's strategy: Next Generation Science for
Planet Earth, 2007 – 2012. The main overarching challenge within the
theme is to understand the role of biodiversity in key ecosystem
processes. Specific goals include: understanding which biodiversity
thresholds will ultimately lead to extinctions and ecosystem change;
understanding the impact of biodiversity loss on health; and developing
new methods to assess the direct and indirect value of biodiversity to
The list of one hundred questions builds on a hugely successful
exercise conducted in 2008 to identify the top 25 emerging threats to
biodiversity in the UK – also led by Professor Sutherland – widely used
by researchers, funders and NGOs to direct their own research agendas.
The research was funded by the Natural Environment Research Council and the Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs.
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Consider the following properties of scheme $X$:
A: $X$ is of finite type over $\mathbb{Z}$
B: $X$ is Noetherian
C: $X$ is of finite Krull dimension
What implications are there between these three? I believe that B and C are independent of each other (although I can't find a reference right now), and it follows from EGA I, 6.3.7 that A implies B. But does A imply C?
(Apologies if this question is "trivial", but I'm not an expert in algebraic geometry.)
As an aside, I would also be interested if any of these properties can be related to some notion of cohomological dimension (not sure what kind of topologies would be relevant for this).


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|ClinicalTrials.gov Identifier: NCT00164333
Recruitment Status : Completed
First Posted : September 14, 2005
Last Update Posted : September 27, 2012
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|Phase 2
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|Official Title:
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- Self-reported, unprotected (without condoms) anal or vaginal sex with HIV-negative or unknown-status partners.
- Self-reported incidences of missed doses of treatment regimen.
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- HIV+ men who have sex with other men, age 18 or over, in HIV care at one of the collaborating clinics, any sexual contact within the previous six months.
Exclusion Criteria:
- self-reported low likelihood of remaining in treatment or in the study location for 12 months, inability to comprehend the consent quiz administered during the Consent and Enrollment Visit, or unwilling to provide required locator information
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When first released this was the only item attainable from [Brewfest Prize Tickets] that weren't BoP, however this was a bug that was fixed shortly after Brewfest ended.