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December 30, 2009 in Dzanc Books, Non-Profits | Permalink
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Dawn Raffel on working with one specific magazine editor:
I'd like to put forth an appreciation of Robley Wilson, who is one of the under sung heroes of American fiction. A brilliant novelist, short story writer and poet, Robley Wilson was also the editor of the North American Review for more than two decades during its glory years, when the magazine was publishing Margaret Atwood, Louise Erdrich, Raymond Carver, Andre Dubus
and a lot of other writers who later became very well known. His
magazine was remarkably eclectic (long before I heard the terms
"microfiction" and "flash fiction,"
he was out there running "four minute fictions"); there was no one
style, and along with short stories, readers could find serious
nonfiction: essays and reportage. Decades before the green movement,
the NAR was paying real attention to the environment. One day
when I was working as an underling in the fiction department at
Redbook, I answered my boss's phone and it was Robley Wilson. Luckily
for me, my boss was out of the office. I ended up having a longish
conversation with Robley, after which I decided to risk sending him the
short story I had been poking at for three years. I didn't think he'd
say yes but I figured he would be nice enough not to laugh at me and
might offer some useful criticism. Several months later—he read
everything but was never known for speed—he stunned me by accepting the
story. This was over the phone again, and I was so excited that he
genially told me to calm down because I was getting only $40. He did
not ask for revisions and he did not make changes; instead he told me I
had "something" and suggested I find a good teacher. (Translation: Yes,
you can do this and yes, you have a long way to go.) Another tip: Tell
everyone I was working on a collection because eventually I would have
one.Robley published one more of my stories in the NAR after that, and then I did find a teacher: Gordon Lish.
I have thanked Lish a few million times and will probably thank him a
few million times more before I check out, but I also want to
publicly acknowledge Robley Wilson, whose genius as an editor was to
read everything with an open mind and a laser-sharp sharp eye, and to
shine a light on the people he believed in. He has long since left the
NAR but a few years ago he was guest editing Lost and published one of
the stories in my forthcoming collection, again with no changes. He
once told me that he would rather live with a story's flaws than insert
himself into the text. Every time I see Robley, which isn't often, I am
surprised all over again by how tall he is and how softly he speaks. In
his quiet, hands-off, unassuming way, he launched the careers of
dozens, perhaps hundreds, of writers. As readers and writers, we are in
his debt.
Dawn Raffel's new story collection, Further Adventures
in the Restless Universe, comes out from Dzanc Books in March, 2010.
She is the author of a previous collection, In the Year of Long
Division (Knopf) and a novel, Carrying the Body (Scribner).
December 30, 2009 in Experience With Editors | Permalink
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Samuel Ligon on the various editors he's had the pleasure of working with:
I've heard horror stories from other writers, I've never had a bad experience
with an editor, and, in fact, my work has benefited tremendously from editorial
help I've received over the years. Carolyn Kuebler at New England Review has an excellent eye for line edits. Chris
Chambers at New Orleans Review helped
me make the entry to a story much more fluid. Derek White at Sleepingfish asked me to change one word
that ran through an entire story—an offensive word that I did not want to
change, given my fondness for offensive words. But struggling with that one
word forced me to re-imagine the story, and I ultimately discovered the right
word that deepened the entire piece. Alison Callahan at HarperCollins provided
the most insightful, specific, and useful critical read for Safe in Heaven Dead of any editorial
response I've ever gotten, and in so doing helped me reanimate and finish that
novel. Sharon Dilworth at Autumn House Press had great instinct and advice in
helping choose the stories that would ultimately be included in Drift and Swerve.
only had one experience in which I felt an editor was absolutely wrong about a
significant edit. That editor wanted to cut a last line I thought was crucial
to the story. Cutting the line would have radically changed the story, I
thought. I still feel that way. I said I wouldn't make the cut, and the editor
left it alone. That was the only time I thought the editor didn't understand
the story. Often, they understand it better than I do.
second published piece was in StoryQuarterly,
when Diane Williams was editing. She chopped four or five pages off the
opening—maybe a quarter of the story—and it was a perfect edit, teaching me a
lot about point of entry. My strangest, and in many ways best experience with
an editor was with Gordon Lish at The
Quarterly, where my first published story appeared. I was young and
ecstatic that the story had been taken. When I got the proofs, there were
several edits I remember—the word
"thighs" was cut, as was some throat-clearing, superfluous language. But what
seemed strangest to me then was a comment at the top of page, let's say 10 of
the proof. "Cut three words," it said. Three words? Any three? I had no idea. I
started looking at the page. I mean really looking at that page. I ended up
cutting about, I don't know, maybe forty words and inserting 37 new ones. That
would teach him, I thought. When I look at that story today, I still recognize
the page Lish made me read so closely. I didn't realize it at the time, but I
learned about reading and editing my own work from that experience—paying so
much attention to every single word—and how cutting one word can cause previous
or later sentences to collapse.
I know I've been lucky to have had such great
editors, and I know that bad ones exist out there. I also know how to say no to
an editor, though I haven't very often, because they've usually been right,
helping me improve, expand, tighten, and deepen the work, and teaching me
something about how to read and understand it. Thanks.
Ligon is the author of a collection of stories, Drift and Swerve (Autumn
House 2009), and a novel, Safe in Heaven
Dead (HarperCollins 2003). His
stories have appeared in The Quarterly,
Alaska Quarterly Review, StoryQuarterly, Noise: Fiction Inspired by Sonic Youth, Post Road, Keyhole, Gulf Coast, New England Review, and elsewhere. He
teaches at Eastern Washington University and is the editor of Willow Springs.
December 30, 2009 in Experience With Editors | Permalink
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An experience with a publishing editor from a specific series - the Flannery O'Connor Award for Short Fiction - which long-time readers of the EWN know is probably my favorite:
the fall of 1986, I was notified that my collection Silent Retreats won the Flannery O'Connor Award for Short
Fiction. Melissa Pritchard was a
co-winner that year, and the two books resulting, hers (Spirit Seizures) and then mine, would be published by the
University of Georgia Press in the ensuing months. And so according to a plan set up by the
press, in mid-summer of '87 I was contacted by phone by the Flannery O'Connor
Award series editor, Charles East. For
the next few weeks, line by line, story by story, we worked through my
collection. We did it all on the
phone. He told me, "Look, we're going to
print this no matter what – so let's make it as good as it can be." I never met him face to face, but after all
that time on the phone, his kind, reflective, appreciative voice and vector, I
feel to this day that we were very good friends. His eye for detail was far greater than mine;
he saw deep into the stories. He got the
humor. He appreciated – actually seemed
to love – the characters, even the ones I wanted readers to hate. He was gentle, and at the same time he was
exacting. He caught double meanings of
sentences I only saw one way. Without
exception, every change he recommended showed full understanding of my intent
and his recommendations showed an appreciation of my writing voice. I would say we worked about twenty hours over
those months, including much time on the phone and then close review of the
galleys by mail. A lot of it was line
editing, but he saw conceptual issues and line editing as equal – for him, it
was all in the interest of fully realizing and finalizing work that was already
"there." I've had many other editors over
the years since, but it is this man's way with me, his blend of warmth and
generosity with unrelenting editorial precision and artistic insight, that I've
sought to imitate in my work with students and mentees. After a long illness, Charles East died in
early October of this year, and so even though I thanked him many times over
the years, it would be crazy for me to miss this EWN opportunity to raise a
toast in his memory.
December 30, 2009 in Experience With Editors | Permalink
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Lori Ostlund hits us with experiences of working with both journal and publishing house editors:
Perhaps it's the season for such things—taking stock that
is—but I've been thinking a lot lately about the last year, particularly as it
relates to my writing. I have had, by my
reckoning, a lovely year—eight stories and a book—but I'm 44 and have been
writing over half my life, so my feeling was that it was about time. I came into this knowing very little about
the whole world of editing and publishing—I had no MFA, no writer friends, and
I did my time in the slush heaps. Over
the last year, however, as my luck has changed, all of the editors I've worked
with have been, without exception, great.
Georgia Review, for example,
edited with an eye to each word and comma.
Aaron Burch at Hobart was a
pleasure to work with, expediting the consideration process when asked and
offering a seemingly small suggestion that made the opening of my story more
cohesive. Two editor experiences stand
out: Nancy Zafris, the Flannery O'Connor series editor, and Carolyn Kuebler and
Stephen Donadio at New England Review. While I have appreciated their editing
comments, perhaps the most important contribution they've made is their
enthusiasm and guidance as I worked my way through the publishing process.
I'll begin with New
England Review since my relationship to them goes back to 2006, actually
2005, which is when Carolyn Kuebler first wrote to me about my stories. After a couple of notes, she accepted a
story, which ran in 2006. For the next
couple of years, nothing really happened, beyond a lot of "good" rejections. I did not try NER again during this time because I felt sheepish about not
having placed work elsewhere, but when my book won the Flannery O'Connor Award,
NER took two of the stories and
Carolyn was always generous with advice regarding publicity and blurbs for my
While I know that the slush piles are daunting for writers and
editors, Carolyn and Stephen seem particularly careful in their efforts to
notice new writers, and I credit that early publication with keeping me focused
and not entirely discouraged during the dry years as I was writing the rest of
the book and trying to get stories placed.
When Nancy Zafris chose my collection as one of the two
recipients of the 2008 Flannery O'Connor Award for Short Fiction (the other was
Black Elvis by Geoffrey Becker), only
two stories of the eleven had been published.
Nancy was amazing. Really. And I imagine that anyone who has worked with
her already knows what I mean. She gave
me daily instructions on how to proceed, which involved writing to the journals
where the stories were currently under consideration and asking them to
expedite, something I probably would have been too nervous to consider on my
own. Next, she gave me a list of
journals that she thought each story would be a good fit for, and she then
queried editors she knew and had me query those she did not. She was always excited on my behalf when
stories were taken, and after years of rejections, this was an extraordinary
experience. She also gave feedback on
the work itself. When Kenyon Review wrote to her saying that
they liked the story but had trouble with the first three pages (flashback
within a flashback), she first played around with the structure and then sent
me her suggestions for where the story should begin. KR was right about the problem, and she was
right about the solution. I had worked
on that story for four or five years, but I simply couldn't see either. Even now that Nancy's job with my collection
is technically finished (and was months ago), she stays constantly on top of
things, wondering how sales are going, asking about reviews, and recommending
the book to numerous people. (Plus,
she's funny.)
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Kirsten Sundberg Lunstrum fills us in on a great publishing house editor:
I can join
in the chorus of writers posting here who have said that their experience with
editors has been overwhelmingly positive.
(The stories in my last collection, Swimming
With Strangers, are so much the better for the expert work of editors
Hannah Tinti at One Story, Sandra
Costich at The American Scholar, and
the very patient and insightful Sam Ligon and Adam O'Connor Rodriguez at Willow Springs.) But I want to especially sing the praises of
Jay Schaefer, formerly of Chronicle Books and now of Algonquin, who edited both
Strangers (Chronicle Books, 2008) and
my first collection, This Life She's
Chosen (Chronicle Books, 2005).
When I sent
the manuscript for This Life to Jay,
I was two months out of my graduate writing program. The manuscript had been my thesis, and none
of the stories in the collection had been previously published anywhere. I was agentless, and sent the collection
fairly blindly, relying on the verbal recommendation of one of my professors (she
said she knew an editor at Chronicle and would mention my collection the next
time she had dinner with him) to save my manuscript from languishing in the
slush pile. Beyond her good word, Jay
had no reason to even glance at my stories.
But as it turned out, he did pick them up, and then called me a couple
of weeks later to tell me—in a phone call that changed my life—that he wanted
to publish the book.
I cannot say
enough good things about Jay and working with him on that first book, and on
the second collection three years later.
He is the kind of editor writers—especially new writers—dream
about. First and foremost, he truly
loves the short story form. I, like most
writers, had fully absorbed the notion that editors would only show interest in
a collection if I could first produce a novel.
(Novels sell, right?) So I was
pleasantly surprised with Jay's enthusiasm for my collections. He was a careful and meticulous reader,
always very patient with my questions and willing to patiently read seemingly
infinite drafts as I struggled to get things right. He intuitively understood what I intended
with the stories, and was able to help me see where I'd missed the mark and to
guide me back. Reading his suggestions,
I'd often wonder, "Why didn't I think of that?"
His edits improved the stories in so many ways, yet he was also always
respectful of and faithful to my original vision.
Beyond his
excellent work, Jay is simply a nice guy.
From our very first phone conversation, I was able to trust him—about
the writing and the business of publishing—and as a young writer I found that
invaluable. Jay cares about his writers
as artists and as people. (Evidence of
this: he called me the day of my first bookstore reading, knowing how anxious I
was, to wish me good luck. And a year
later, when my son was born, one of the first congratulatory cards in my
mailbox was from Jay.)
Sundberg Lunstrum is the author of two collections of short stories: Swimming
With Strangers (Chronicle Books, 2008) and This Life She's Chosen (Chronicle Books, 2005), which was selected
as a Barnes and Noble Discover Great New Writers title. She has been the
recipient of a PEN/O. Henry Prize and a Pushcart Prize nominee, and has
received fellowships from the Sewanee Writers' Conference and the MacDowell
Colony. She teaches fiction writing at Purchase College, SUNY.
Everyday Genius, the online literary journal from Adam Robinson and Publishing Genius, is one that I certainly should have highlighted more than I did (which may simply, which would also be sadly, this post). Let this post be the first in the rectification project toward eradicating that mistake (and no, I did not get one of those Word of the Day calendars for Christmas).
Amelia Gray, okay, I know you've read that name here one or a dozen times this past year, reminds us all of the true meaning and spirit behind Christmas with her wonderful short story, Christmas House. As with all of Amelia's writing, go enjoy, wonder, think, and then realize about two days later that this story is still stuck in your head.
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The next story in the debut issue of The Quarterly was Tom Spanbauer's "Sea Animals." At 12 pages long the story is one of the longer short stories in this issue, though it is dwarfed by a couple of efforts that would probably be considered novellas. Spanbauer's story begins
I asked her to show me what was wrong with him.
The second sentence is
It was still winter when I asked, sometime within the first ten days of his one hundred days, after he got home from the hospital, before the time when she thought she had smothered him, before the time when the pigs got out, before he dies in the spring, after the chores were done, and after school and before supper.
Two widely different sentences, but both do perform a very similar task - let the reader know what he/she has in store for them. The first sentence, spare and short allows the reader the knowledge that something is wrong with a character in the story. The second sentence, still spare in its language, yet long and windy in nature, is as close to a re-cap of a story as a second sentence ever might be. Each of the sections between commas within this sentence receives full sections of elaboration during the rest of the story. The writing within those sections remains spare in nature - it appears to be a trait, at least within this story, for Spanbauer.
An interesting aspect of the story is that the narrator is a young child, and one with a sister in third grade. This sister attends school while the narrator performs chores around the family's farm. As the narrator plays with Lincoln Logs and Tinkertoys, I came to the conclusion that his not being in school was due to being too young to attend, and not so old as to be out of school. This would lead to our narrator being fairly unreliable in his memory of the events of his younger brother's birth, and very short-lived life. Especially in cases where he specifically notes that his memory does not coincide with that of those that were older than he was
On the day of the funeral it rained. Barbara says it was sunny, but I remember that there were umbrellas and that we all stood under umbrellas, and that I was wearing my overshoes.
How much of his memory do we as readers believe? Does it matter?
December 24, 2009 in Literary Journals, The Quarterly | Permalink
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The first issue of The Quarterly, a literary journal with the tagline, The Magazine of New American Writing, right on the cover, was published in Spring 1987 by Vintage, with Gordon Lish at the helm as Editor. After a drawing titled "A Mother's Love," by Don Nace and referred to as a Nace Page in the Table of Contents, the first actual writing in this debut issue was Amy Hempel's short story, "The Harvest."
It began:
The year I began to say vahz instead of vase, a man I barely knew nearly accidentally killed me.
Having only recently "discovered" Hempel's writing earlier this year, and having really enjoyed this particular story, I quickly noticed that "The Harvest" only seemed about half of the length of the version I'd read in her Collected Stories. I'm not sure what the process was back nearly 23 years ago, but the point where Hempel's narrator truly becomes one of the most unreliable narrators I've read, when she utters the line:
I leave a lot out when I tell the truth
is actually preceded by the following:
About the piece of fiction I have with you in this issue--I just wanted to say that
and it actually appears nearly 290 pages after the preceding sentence, and does so in what appears to be a Letter to the Quarterly, from Amy Hempel. Did readers of "The Harvest" back when this first came out maybe only see that first half? And not get hit with the massive unreliability of the narrator? Everybody doesn't read every page of each literary journal they pick up. It would be interesting to find out what process led to that breaking up of the story - did Hempel write that first half and then get prompted by LIsh to write the second half? Did she send in the full story and he suggest the split? Did she?
Beyond that, this is probably the fifth or sixth time I've read the story now, and the narrator's unreliability still does come through, in more subtle ways than the big, bold means of doing so listed above, such as the early admission that
one of my legs required four hundred stitches, which, when I told it, became five hundred stitches, because nothing is ever quite as bad as it could be.
and that's followed by
The five days that they didn't know if they could save my leg or not I stretched to ten.
This story has many spot-on sentences - dialogue that doesn't read like that from many stories, but instead read the way that people actually talk - disjointed and jumpy and not point a and then point b. The story also brims to me with humor, albeit slightly to completely dark, but that's usually my favorite kind.
The split of this story has "The Harvest" ending at the point where the narrator goes to the beach and tells a young boy that the scars on her leg are from a shark bite, and yes, she's going back in is a pretty powerful image, which is an ending that certainly made the story feel complete.

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Pro-Russian separatists attacked Ukrainian military checkpoints and other strategic points in eastern Ukraine overnight but they were beaten off with only minor casualties on the Ukrainian side, a government forces spokesman said on Tuesday.
In a three-hour battle near the airport of Kramatorsk, rebels attacked the army with mortars but government forces returned fire, destroying their position and killing 40 "mercenaries", said the spokesman, Vladyslav Seleznyov.
This figure could not be independently confirmed and there was no immediate word from the side of the separatists.
In Slaviansk, just north of Kramatorsk, two Ukrainian soldiers were wounded when rebels, who control the city, attacked an army position on the perimeter using grenade-launchers.
In Luhansk, on the border with Russia, separatist fighters opened fire on the airport and nearby Ukrainian army positions.
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Conditional probability
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At the heart of Bayesian statistics is the concept of conditioning; that is, quantifying uncertainty based on what you know. When we observe data, we wish to condition our beliefs based on those data. This article introduces conditional probability and ultimately Bayes rule.
Joint and marginal probabilities
You are an employee at a coffee stand. Your coffee stand has two sizes of drink: regular and large. Suppose you are interested in how men and women order drinks at your coffee stand. Your population can be divided into four groups:
- Men who order large-sized drinks
- Men who order regular-sized drinks
- Women who order large-sized drinks
- Women who order regular-sized drinks
For the sake of this example, we assume that each person only orders one drink.
Each of these groups makes up some proportion of the population. Assuming that these four groups are the only groups that are possible, the four proportions must sum to exactly 1. Notice that if you add up all the numbers in the four central cells, they add up to 1.0.
Suppose that the four central cells in the table below shows the true proportions of each of these four groups (ignore the cells on the bottom and right margins for now). For instance, the proportion of the population who are men that order large drinks is or
These four probabilities are called "joint" probabilities, because they are the probabilities which correspond to jointly knowing two relevant features of a person. Joint probabilities often use the word "and"; for example, if I ask "What is the probability that a patron is a woman and orders a large drink?" This probability is or We can write joint probabilities in mathematical notation like this: \[ Pr(A, B) \] which can be read as "the probability of both events \(A\) and \(B\) jointly occurring."
With joint probabilities, we can ask questions about the probabilities of events occurring together. Some examples of questions regarding joint probabilities are
- "What is the probability that a patron is a man and orders a small drink?"
- "What is the probability that the all students will pass the test tomorrow?" Here, we are asking about all students jointly.
- "What is the probability when rolling two dice that both show 1?"
- "What is the probability of that a randomly selected person will have HIV and test positively for HIV?"
All of the above are examples of joint probabilities, because they ask about the probability of two or more events occurring jointly.
Marginal probabilities
Occasionally your boss comes to you to ask you some questions about the makeup of the patron population for the stand. From the central four cells, it is easy to ask question about joint probabilities. If your boss asked you "What is the probability that the next patron will be a man and will order a small drink?", you know immediately from looking at the table that the probability is
Suppose, on the other hand, that your boss comes to you and asks, "What is the probability that the next participant will be a man?". Contrasting this question to the questions in the previous section reveals a key difference: in this case, your boss is not interested in the size of drink ordered by the patron. The answer to your boss's question can be easily determined from the information in the table. There are two types of partons who are male: those that order a large drink, and those that order a small drink. Since each patron can only be in one category, we can obtain the proportion of men by adding up these two proportions. Since the proportion of men who order large drinks is and the proportion of men who order small drinks is the probability of a parton being a man is
In the table, you'll notice that the sums of the cells in each column are given in the bottom margin, and the sums of the cells in each row are given in the right margin. These probabilities are called marginal probabilities.
Marginal probabilities can be thought of as probabilities of one factor, while ignoring (or "marginalizing out") other factors. This simple idea can be translated into mathematical notation, using Sigma notation. \[ Pr(A) = \sum_{k=1}^K Pr(A,B_k) \] where \(K\) is the number of total levels of factor \(B\). In our example, \(A\) is the event that a patron is a man, each \(B_k\) is a size of drink, and \(K=2\) because there are two sizes of drinks. This notation is just a formal way to say "sum the probabilities of being a man over all sizes of drinks."
Conditional probabilities
One day, you are working at your coffee stand, and a woman walks up to the stand. Before she orders, what size drink should you reach for? To answer this question, we could rephrase the question in several other ways:
- "What is the probability that she will order a large (or small) drink given that you already know she is a woman?"
- "What is the proportion of women patrons order large (or small) drinks?"
These questions are not exactly about either joint probabilities nor marginal probabilities, although, as you'll see, we can use joint and marginal probabilities to answer them. In these questions, we know one piece of information: that the customer is a woman. We would like to work out, given this information, what the probability is that she will choose a particular size of drink.
The first thing to notice is that the probabilities involving men in the table are completely irrelevant to answering this problem. We know that the patron is a woman; it seems, then, that we should be able to concentrate only on the cells of the table involving women. That leaves the two cells in the right column, which together comprise the proportion of the population: the marginal proportion of women.
The main idea behind conditioning is that we restrict our attention to only the cells which are consistent with the information we know: that is, the cells in the right column. If we treat women as if they were the entire population, what proportion of this new, restricted population orders large drinks? in order to answer this question, we need the joint probability that a patron is a woman and orders a large drink, and the marginal probability that a patron is a woman. "Women who order large drinks" is the group for which we want to find our conditional probability, and "women" is the population of interest. We can thus find the proportion of women who order large drinks by simple division: This is the probability that the patron will order a large drink, conditional on (or "given") the fact that she is a woman.
We can take generalize the preceding example into a formula, which is the definition of conditional probability: \[ Pr(A\mid B) = \frac{Pr(A,B)}{Pr(B)} \] This equation has three parts, which I describe in turn:
- The left hand side of the equation is the notation for "the probability of \(A\) given \(B\)"; the vertical line \(\mid\) means "given".
- The denominator of the right hand side, \(Pr(B)\), is the marginal probability of the event we are conditioning on. The denominator corresponds to restricting our attention to a particular row (or column). In our example, this was the probability of that the patron is a woman.
- The numerator of the right hand side, \(Pr(A, B)\), is the joint probability that both of the events in question are true. In our example, this was the probability that a patron is a woman and orders a large drink.
If you move your mouse over the column names or row names in the table, you can see the conditional probabilities computed automatically. Moving your mouse over the column names, for example, will show the probabilities of ordering a large (or regular) drink given that the patron is a man (left column) or a woman (right column). Moving your mouse over the row names will show the probabilities that the patron is a man (or woman) given that the patron ordered a large drink (top row) or a regular drink (bottom row). This should enable you to answer the following question: "You are told that a patron just ordered a regular drink. What is the probability that the patron is a woman?"
Using the definition of conditional probability, we can rewrite our equation for marginal probabilities. Since \(Pr(A\mid B)Pr(B) = Pr(A,B)\), that means that
This equation is often called the law of total probability. It means that if I want to know the probability of some event \(A\) (say, the probability that a child will have dichromacy), all I need to know is the probability of the event given all possible scenarios (for example, the sex of the child), and the probabilities of those scenarios.
The probability of a male child having dichromacy is about 0.024, and the probability of a female child having dichromacy is 0.0003. If the probability of a male child is 0.52, then the marginal probability of a child having dichromacy is
\( \begin{eqnarray} Pr(A) &=& \sum_{k=1}^K Pr(A\mid B_k)Pr(B_k)\\ &=&Pr(\mbox{dichromacy}\mid \mbox{male})Pr(\mbox{male}) + Pr(\mbox{dichromacy}\mid \mbox{female})Pr(\mbox{female})\\ &=&0.024\times 0.52 + 0.0003\times 0.48\\ &\approx&0.013 \end{eqnarray} \)
That is, the marginal probability that a child will have dichromatic vision is about 1.3%.
Conditional probability is a critical concept for Bayesian data analysis. All conditional probability statements are statements about the probability of some unknown quantity of interest given something known. In data analysis, our known values are the data we collect. The unknown quantity of interest may be the true effect of a drug, the expected value of a population, or the number of whales in the ocean. Conditional probability gives us a way of stating the problem: "Given the data I observed, what do I believe about the effect of this drug?"; Bayesian statistics gives us a way of getting an answer, and the foundation of Bayesian statistics is Bayes' theorem.


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Hello Lovelies!
Have you ever considered traveling solo? Do you think the idea is great, but that you could never do it yourself?
I think everyone should travel solo at least once in their lives. Traveling by yourself has a dimension that traveling with a friend, partner or group doesn't. It has its own challenges for sure, but the experience can be so much richer.
People can be intimidated by heading into unknown territory by themselves and that's understandable. Really though, you CAN do this! If I can manage it then you can too, promise!
My first solo adventure to South Africa was about eight months in the making and it took a lot of saving, research and planning to put together. Was it worth the hard work? Absolutely yes! The experience gave me back so much more than it cost. It helped me develop a greater sense of confidence and self assurance. It helped me to better understand what I want to accomplish in my career and how I want to prioritize my day to day life.
A Couple Highlights From My Trip
// The first layover on the way to Cape Town was in Paris, France. I selected my flights so I landed first thing in the morning but didn't fly on to Africa until that evening. I wanted to get out of the airport and explore a bit so I booked a downtown walking tour. I love walking tours because you don't have to worry about navigating, you can just relax and soak in the sights, sounds and feel of the city's hot spots. I'm a huge fan of 'off the beaten path' travel but since I was on the ground for such a short amount of time the quick, touristy option felt like the way to go.
// Favorite experience in Cape Town? Climbing the iconic Table Mountain. There are easier marked routes to the top that can be hiked on your own, but I hired a guide to take me up a more challenging, remote and rarely used part of the mountain.
// The whole reason I was in South Africa in the first place? To see and cage dive with Great White Sharks in Gansbaai. This tiny spot in the world boasts the largest year round concentration of Great White Sharks and is where many of the Discovery Channel and Nat Geo documentaries about the animals are filmed. My fascination with them turned to passion for their conservation, as well as public education about them, the second I saw one in person.
So enough about my trip, why should YOU try travelling solo?
Why Solo Travel is Different
// You're more introspective and mindful when traveling alone. You have more time to process and reflect on your experiences as they happen.
// You get to travel on your terms. No compromising on where to eat, what to do or when to get started in the morning. You are the Captain of your own ship. Want to change the itinerary at the last minute? Awesome! Your choice! Aaah, freedom.
// You tend to forge deeper connections with the people you meet on the road. When you travel with others it's easy to limit your social experience to just the people you came with. You can stay in your own little bubble to a certain degree. When solo you're forced to reach out to others if you want to interact with anyone at all.
// You can't defer tasks or responsibilities to your travel buddies. You may be able to avoid things you don't like when you're with someone else (like navigating or bargaining over price at the market) but you have no choice other than stepping up when you're solo. You're on your own, no backup, baby! The most terrifying thing I did on my trip was rent a car to leave Cape Town. It seemed easy enough when I was planning it, but I was NOT feeling confident on the actual day. It wasn't just the tight, busy streets and my poor navigating skills that worried me, it was the fact that I'd never driven on the left side of the road before. If I had been with someone else willing to do it I wouldn't have challenged myself. And I would have missed out on the major sense of accomplishment that came with successfully getting to my next destination.
Why People Think They Can't Travel Solo
// That "you're on your own, no backup" thing I just said… it's not just a benefit, but a serious deterrent. It's hard to take a big leap into the unknown but I'm sure you'll discover that you're more capable than you think. Educate yourself, have a plan, have a back up plan and go DO IT! Even if things don't go perfectly that's OK. Sometimes the best experiences come from a hiccup you didn't expect. Just go with it, at the end of the day, it's going to be another great story to tell.
// There's a perceived lack of safety about solo travel, especially if you're a woman. Here's the reality though. We get a distorted picture of the "scariness" of the outside world painted for us by what we hear in the media. We tend to attribute an overinflated sense of danger to the unknown, simply because it's the unknown. All travelers should observe some basic, common sense rules to stay safe, whether you're alone or in company. But please know, every place you go the vast majority of people are good. That's the true way of the world and you'll learn that the moment you start exploring it.
// People worry it will be too lonely. Even if you're leery at first, trust me, it is so easy to meet people on the road. Prime ways to (safely) make a new friend or two? Staying in a hostel tops the list, but there are all kinds of ways to meet people on the road. Take a boat tour, sign up for a guided group hike or wildlife adventure. Take a city walking or bus tour, great low key ways to meet other travellers. A shared experience is always a potent conversation starter!
// People worry that they don't have the skill set to go it alone. Since when does "I've never done it before" mean "It's impossible for me to do it now?" Those two sentences are not the same! You can do a lot more than you give yourself credit for. Trust me, I've been there.
// It's scary to go outside your comfort zone. That's OK. It's a new experience and all the responsibility for making things go right is on you. Of course it's nerve wracking! It's not about being without fear, its about doing the thing that scares you in spite of the fear. If we only ever do things that don't scare us, that don't challenge us, how will we ever grow? I was a nervous wreck on the way to the bus station for the first leg of my trip. I seriously questioned whether I should actually go through with my plans but I am SO glad that I did! You will be too.
Recommended Resources
The planning phase is important and it's easy to get overwhelmed. There is so much information out there it can be hard to separate the quality stuff from all the noise. Here are my hands down favourite resources for solo travel.
// Nomadic Matt : This hard core traveller has probably forgotten more places than I've been! His website should be your first stop for organized, relevant and specific solo travel information.
// Solo Traveler Blog : Another great resource with an active and engaged online community.
// The Blonde Abroad : Lot's of high quality and inspiring posts for the solo traveller.
How about you dear readers? Have you ever travelled solo? Where'd you go? If you haven't tried it, what's holding you back? We love hearing from you!
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In the wake of the horror and grief in Newtown, CT, last week, many of us (including me) ask where God is. Even those with a strong relationship with Him wonder why He allows such tragedy.
In the words of Habakkuk, an Old Testament prophet, "Why do you make me look at injustice? Why do you tolerate wrong? Destruction and violence are before me; there is strife, and conflict abounds." (Hab. 1:3)
First, I think it's a good sign to wonder. It means we're still capable of caring, that we retain some vestige of God's image and character in us. The day that something like this doesn't upset our collective human spirit and bring cries of protest (think Job or David) would be an alarming day indeed.
Second, no one has all the answers, least of all me. However, I believe the answer has to do, oddly enough, with the fact that God's love is far stronger than ours. We usually think of this as a good thing until tragedy strikes. Then we don't like God's love so much. It doesn't make sense.
You see, our kind of love seeks to protect at any cost the objects of our love. Safety, rather than freedom or experience or understanding, tends to take precedence. And the priority is not just safety for the loved one, but to protect ourselves from pain and grief. This kind of love is a bit selfish and thus weaker than God's.
I don't say this critically. It's just how it is with finite beings who don't have full knowledge and control over the entire spectrum of life, death, and everything in between. We aren't God; and part of not being God means being vulnerable to a certain amount of fear.
By contrast, God's love isn't selfish or weak. Our freedom and understanding, rather than physical safety or protection, takes precedence because from His vantage point, all is well in hand even when He doesn't like what's going on. His posture is more relaxed because He has full knowledge and control over the entire spectrum of life and death.
This highlights what I've recently been writing about: the difference between love and pride. Pride insists on having its own way—in this case, that safety is more important than freedom or understanding. But love doesn't insist on having its way. Love is patient, love is kind. And because of its very nature to sacrifice its own protection, God's love temporarily allows evil for the sake of a greater, long-term cause.
The greater cause is for the objects of His love to learn goodness freely through experience. His goal is for us to choose giving and receiving it on our own without being dictated to. The downside is precisely that we must learn through experience. How will we know what maximum goodness is if we don't know first-hand what maximum evil is? How will we know joy with no grief? Health and wholeness without illness and ruin?
And that's when we don't like God's love very much. If God wants to love humanity, why should innocent bystanders pay? In my limited self, I don't like that my 10-yr.-old grandson might suffer just so others can learn compassion or wisdom or hope. I don't like that I would suffer, too. I simply wouldn't do things the way God does.
And so, I think that's why we wonder where God is. We don't yet have His patience. We don't have the stomach or strength to let innocents suffer. We say it's needless and senseless, but in the big picture, it's probably more thorough and effective.
I'm sure God could instantly vaporize evil, but if He did, we'd never develop His kind of character deep inside. So He chooses a slower process and lets us contribute to the death of evil. I believe this is why trust in Him is the first thing He says we must learn and practice. And He's right here with us offering comfort, assurance, and peace through it all, although it takes eons longer than I'd like.
For me, this week seems a good time to go back to square one: practicing the presence of God. I'll take comfort that there's nowhere in this universe that God isn't. "Where can I go from your Spirit? Where can I flee from your presence?" (Psa. 139:7)
I'll reflect on His nature and character, the strength and qualities in Him I'd like to develop in myself. I'll compare my understanding to His, look for areas I still struggle with, and invite His help.
I'll remind myself that even if He doesn't prevent suffering the way I would, He's very mindful of destruction, violence, strife, and conflict and knows what it's like to have a Son murdered. I'll remember that nothing is irretrievably lost in His world, that nothing is ever wasted, and that as trite as it sounds, all things eventually work for maximum good.
Violence and grief may sicken me, but I don't want to fill with evil—anger, contempt, or a desire to lash out. I'll continue to pray for healing of the families that suffer such terrible pain, including the gunman's family. And, as one inspiring father of a little victim told the world, I won't let sadness or fear define me or degenerate into a spirit of disgust and despair.
If that tearful dad can do it, surely the human spirit of good will—like God's—is alive and well right under evil's nose.


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September 14th, 2013
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Police guidelines for moped crime 'out of touch' says Bob Neill as home secretary grilled by two Bromley MPs
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Bob Neill and Ellie Reeves put questions to Amber Rudd on Monday
Fears over moped-related crime saw the home secretary grilled by two of the borough's MPs yesterday.
Speaking in the Houses of Parliament yesterday, Bob Neill warned of "young people" taking off helmets to avoid a chase with police, thus evading capture.
The Bromley and Chislehurst MP's concerns were backed by fellow borough MP Ellie Reeves, who claimed Penge had seen dozens of motor vehicle thefts and a rise in moped-related crime in the past six months.
With concerns still mounting, a government review has begun, during which Mr Neill asked home secretary Amber Rudd what was being done to stop reduce the two-wheeled crime wave.
He warned: "Cynical and street-hardened young people, such as some in my constituency, are taking off their helmets when the police appear on the scene because they believe that the police will not chase them under the current guidelines. The guidelines are utterly out of touch with reality and frustrate police officers who are trying to do their job."
The cabinet member responded: "We recently brought together motorcycle insurance industry leaders, law enforcement partners, the Local Government Association, charities and representatives from the motorcycle-riding community to have a full and open discussion about the issue. All parties agreed to work together to devise a comprehensive action plan to tackle this type of crime. As a first step, we have announced a review of the law, guidance and practice surrounding police pursuits and response driving."
In June, Bromley police launched Operation Lexington, a scheme to crack-down on the growing crime trend.
Labour MP for Lewisham West and Penge, pointed out crime was continuing to rise, saying: "Over the past six months, 35 motor vehicle thefts and a rise in moped-related crime have been reported in Penge. Many of my constituents are becoming increasingly concerned. What exactly is the department doing to combat such crimes?"
Ms Rudd responded: "We take this matter seriously and we must address it, particularly because such crimes tend to evolve and can hold a fashionable attraction for different communities. That is why we are having this review. That is why we are bringing together the different parties, and I urge her to engage with the process.
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NEW YORK (Reuters) - Novak Djokovic clawed his way back from the brink of defeat to beat Roger Federer in an epic semi-final at the U.S. Open on Saturday and join Rafa Nadal in Sunday's championship.
Djokovic, who lost to Federer in New York the past three years, twice came back from a set down and saved two match points to win 5-7 6-1 5-7 6-2 7-5 after a match of unrelenting tension and incredible shotmaking from both players.
The Serbian world number three, who thumped himself in the head with his racket during the third set as the frustration began to build, jubilantly threw his arms into the air after sealing victory and planted a sloppy kiss on the court.
"It's one of those matches you'll always remember in your career. I'm so thrilled to be in the final," Djokovic said in courtside interview.
"To be honest, I was just closing my eyes and hitting forehands as fast as I can on the match points ... I managed to come back. I was very lucky."
Djokovic's nail-biting victory robbed the tennis world of what might have been the ultimate grand slam final. Federer and Nadal have played each other in the final at Wimbledon, the French Open and the Australian Open, but no two men have ever met in the finals of all four majors.
"I can only try to imagine the excitement around the two of us maybe playing," Federer said. "I would have loved to play against him here."
For Federer, a five-time winner of the U.S. Open and a finalist last year, it was his earliest exit from New York since 2003, while Nadal moved tantalizingly close to completing his own career slam.
Only six men, including Federer, have won all four titles and the current world number one only needs the U.S. Open to become the seventh.
"It's great for tennis and it's great for him at the young age," Federer said. "I won't watch but I hope he wins."
The absence of Federer and the exhausting way Djokovic got through has ensured that Nadal will go into Sunday's final as the overwhelming favorite after he thrashed Russia's Mikhail Youzhny 6-2 6-3 6-4 to reach the final without dropping a set in the entire tournament.
Still just 24, he already has eight grand slam titles and a victory would see him become the first man since Australia's Rod Laver in 1969 to win the French Open, Wimbledon and U.S. Open titles in the same season.
"To me it's a dream. I'm going to play for the first time in the final here in the biggest center court in the world," Nadal said. "I have tried my best for a lot of years. So now after a lot of work I am here and I'm happy for that."
Nadal, armed with a stronger serve and more precise volleys, was in superb form against Youzhny, belting 23 winners and committing just 19 unforced errors.
His only moments of concern were late in the match when he dropped serve for just the second time in the tournament and had his left foot retaped and a bandage placed to ease discomfort from a blister.
Youzhny tried hard but the Russian was also battling fatigue after being pushed to five sets in his previous round.
"I was moving well, but my head was one step back (behind) my hand and my legs," he said.
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KAMLOOPS - A local man wants the province to stop turning clocks back in favour of remaining on one standard time year-round.
Former Kamloops Chamber of Commerce president and local business owner Bob Dieno no longer wants to spring forward or fall back and has created a petition to call on the province to consider dropping Daylight Saving Time.
"I would love to see the next (change) be our last one," he says. "It's getting the conversation going. It's going to take a while to do it, but if we don't start it, if we don't push it forward, we don't have a chance."
On his petition, Dieno outlines the various reasons why he no longer wants the change saying it's not only annoying, but can affect sleep health and create unnecessary schedule re-arrangement.
"The primary goal of Daylight Saving Time is to conserve energy but whether (it) actually saves energy is unclear and there are many contradictory studies. There are, however, even more studies that tell us that the change itself can cause accidents, injuries and even deaths. Many of these issues are related to sleep pattern change that the biennial shift mandates," he says. "Moving clocks forward and backward every year in an ever increasing complex digital world is not without consequences either. Air traffic schedules, train schedules, public transport schedules, all must be changed biennially. It complicates timekeeping, disrupts meetings and even livestock have been shown to have trouble adjusting to new routines."
Dieno, who owns NuTech Fire and Safety, says he became annoyed with the tradition after missing a final exam because of it. He says he started looking into its affect on safety and health after bringing a similar proposal to the chamber, which was later dismissed. In his studies, Dieno says he discovered a time change can have deleterious effects on seniors and can lead to incidents caused by sleep deprivation.
But beyond sleep, Dieno notes most people are likely concerned with the lack of daylight once they finish their work day.
Along with Dieno's petition, there's a Facebook page to carry the message.
The next time change is scheduled for Nov. 1.
What do you think? Should B.C. move away from Daylight Saving Time?
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What services are available to women veterans?
A full continuum of comprehensive medical services including health promotion and disease prevention, primary care, womens gender-specific health care e.g., hormone replacement therapy, breast and gynecological care, maternity and limited infertility (excluding In-vitro fertilization), acute medical/surgical, telephone, emergency and substance abuse treatment, mental health, domiciliary, rehabilitation and long term care. VA researchers at many VA facilities also conduct medical research on womens health.
How do I access the system for services?
Veterans can apply for VA health care enrollment by completing VA Form 10-10EZ. The 10-10EZ may be obtained by visiting, calling or writing any VA health care facility or veterans benefits office. You can also call the VA Health Benefits Call Center toll-free at 877-222 VETS (877-222-8387) or access the form on the Internet at
www.va.gov (click on on-line applications.)
How do I contact a coordinator for options for women veterans who are homeless with children?
Contact the local VA homeless coordinator (or point of contact), Social Work Services department, or Women Veterans Program Manager at your local VAMC. There are homeless women veteran and homeless women veterans with children pilot programs located at eleven designated VA facilities as well, and the Women Veterans Program Manager can discuss what options are available in your area.
Are there any VA medical facilities in the North Texas area and where are they located?
Yes there are three primary medical facilities and one community based clinic located in the North Texas area. The locations are as follows:
Dallas VA Medical Center 4500 S. Lancaster Rd. Dallas, Texas 75216 Phone: 1-800-849-3597
Fort Worth Outpatient Clinic 2201 SE Loop 820 Fort Worth, Texas 76119 Phone: 1-800-443-9672
Sam Rayburn Memorial VA Center 1201 E. 9th St. Bonham, Texas 75418 Phone: 1-800-924-8387
Denton Community Based Outpatient Clinic * 2223 Colorado Blvd. Denton, Texas 76205 Phone: 940-891-6350 * Note: This facility is only available to veterans with at least a 10% service connected disability.
How and where do I find historical information on women veterans?
Contact the Women In Military Service for America Memorial (WIMSA) located at the gates of Arlington Cemetery in Arlington, Virginia at
I have been turned down several times before for my service connected injuries and no one can help me.
This office understands the law under which the VA must operate, Title 38 Code of Federal Regulations. We apply the law in the interest of the veteran not the VA.
Are VA services authorized for women veterans who were involuntarily discharged from the military for pregnancy prior to May 1974? If not, how does one get this issue addressed?
The provision of health care services to veterans is established by certain eligibility criteria and discharge status requirements. To determine your eligibility for services contact your nearest VA health care facility.
What is the process of getting quality of care issues addressed?
Contact the Women Veterans Program Manager at your local health care facility (white pages under U.S. Government, Department of Veterans Affairs) or the Veteran Health Administration (VHA) Office of Women Veterans Health at (202) 273-8577 or the Department of Veterans Affairs Office of the Center for Women Veterans at (202) 273-6193.
How can the Veteran Services Office help me?
The Veteran Services Office serves veterans and their dependents with the filing of complex claims for the various benefits they are eligible to receive. The Service Officer holds numerous accreditations with a service organization and attend mandatory training conferences two times a year to stay abreast of the ever changing laws and regulations concerning veterans.
The advocacy doesn't stop after the filing of a claim. We continue to follow the progress of the claims process with the Veteran/Dependent throughout the often lengthy time it takes the VA to reach a decision.
How can I get gender specific services, including well woman exams, mammography, pre-natal and childcare?
Apply for VA health care enrollment by completing VA Form 10-10EZ. The 10-10EZ may be obtained by visiting, calling or writing any VA health care facility or veterans' benefits office. You can also call toll-free 877-222 VETS (877-222-8387) or access the form on the Internet at
www.va.gov/elig. The provision of health care to non-veteran children is limited to those instances where specific authority is given to VA by law. Contact your local VA health care facility and ask to speak with the Women Veterans Program Manager (white pages under U.S. Government, Department of Veterans Affairs).
A full continuum of comprehensive medical services including health promotion and disease prevention, primary care, women's gender-specific health care e.g., hormone replacement therapy, breast and gynecological care, maternity and limited infertility (excluding In-vitro fertilization), acute medical/surgical, telephone, emergency and substance abuse treatment, mental health, domiciliary, rehabilitation and long term care. VA researchers at many VA facilities also conduct medical research on women's health.
How do I get evaluated for nursing home care?
If you have never been seen at a VA health care facility, you must first enroll for benefits. Then you must enroll in a primary care clinic and ask for an evaluation for nursing home care. The evaluation will be done either by the primary care provider or a geriatrics care team.
If I select a Service Organization as my representative, are there any charges or meetings I must attend?
Organizations selected to represent claimants before the VA must provide a statement that no charges, fees or gratuities will be charged or accepted. Membership in the organization or attendance at meetings is not required, but is permitted.
How do I enroll in the VA Medical System?
Visit any VA health care facility. Before you go to the facility ensure you have and bring with you your DD-214 (Military Discharge) showing the character of discharge. You may visit any FDVA office located in the VA Medical Centers or go to the VA "Enrollment Section" of the facility.
Will the VA fill my prescriptions from my private doctor?
You may bring the prescriptions to the VA if you are enrolled and if your Primary Health Care Provider agrees with the medications. He or she may provide you with a VA prescription for the medications.
NOTE: The VA physician may or may not agree with the need for these medications.
How do I get a clinic appointment when the waiting list is 6 months for an initial appointment?
If you experience an urgent or emergent medical condition you can contact your local VA health care facility telephone care program; visit their walk-in (urgent care) clinic or emergency room. Non-acute problems will be scheduled on a next available appointment basis.
Where can I get inpatient psychiatric care as a woman veteran?
Most VA Medical Centers have inpatient mental health programs. Contact your VA Primary Care Provider or the local Mental Health Program office for assistance. If you already have a therapist and need inpatient care, please discuss your concerns with your therapist. If you have urgent or emergent needs, you can contact your local VA health care facility telephone care program or urgent care clinic.
What happens in the case when a veteran has an obstetrics related emergency prior to enrolling?
If a women veteran is enrolled and we know she is pregnant, fee-basis care would have been authorized in advance. In the event of an obstetric emergency, she would go to the hospital and the hospital would be reimbursed for services provided under VA contract.
Eligible veterans are encouraged to enroll for VA health care as soon early as possible in the pregnancy to ensure that any maternity care provided by non-VA providers can be reimbursed.
Why doesn't the Veteran's Administration deliver babies?
DVA has no authority to provide care to the newborn infant. Local facilities will assist the veteran in accessing community resources. When the pregnant veteran has a total disability, permanent in nature, resulting from a service-connected disability, and the child is not otherwise eligible for medical care under the Civilian Health and Medical program of the Uniformed Services (CHAMPUS), then newborn infant could receive care under Civilian Health and Medical Program of VA (CHAMPVA).
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Well the RA started in my fingers last year and now my knees and shoulder are killing. RA specialist injected steriod straight into my knee 3wks ago but I feel has made no difference. Has anyone else felt that opinion?? I stiffen up all the time and Im not sleeping so im increasingly grumpy. I have 1st session of physio tomorrow as got reffered when my shoulder froze because of it 2 weeks ago. I have an ATOS assesment on Monday and Im terrified im convinced I will fail. Iv worked all of my adulesant life (im only 27) and now feel that I am going to be judged on this horrible illness that everyone says you fail on as it is not recognised enough. To top it off im in a custody battle to get my 6yr old son so back on anti depressants and stressed to the hills. Has anyone else had an ATOS assesment recently? Like iv said im terrified.


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Wow! What an incredible weekend! That pretty much sums it up but I am sure you want more details than that!
Friday morning we left Ellisville for the 300 mile drive to Pine Prairie, Louisiana. We stopped in Baton Rouge at Golden Corral for lunch and then arrived in Ville Platte at the hotel a few minutes before 3:00. We rested a few minutes and then it was time to get ready for the first Youth Rally in the new sanctuary of Christian Tabernacle.
The building was full and the service was powerful. Bro. David Webb preached an outstanding message and the altar service was incredible. God blessed and helped so many folks that night including our family.
Saturday morning was the actual dedication service for the new sanctuary. I will probably have more pictures and information about that later in the week but here are a few pictures now.
After food and fellowship Friday afternoon we pointed the Green Machine toward Ellisville, Mississippi. About 2 1/2 hours later we were stopping in Baton Rouge for supper at Golden Corral again. It was so good both days and we are such creatures of habit!
We were back in the BoggsMobile by 9:00 PM Saturday evening and God blessed us all with a very good night's sleep. I was up early Sunday morning feeling refreshed and ready to go after two great services in Louisiana.
Sunday was a super great start to revival in Ellisville, Mississippi. God spoke to us and moved among us and visited us in the altar. Praise God for His help and I am in great anticipation He will continue to bless all this week.
It is so good to be here with Pastor Kenny Morris and all of our dear friends. Here are a few pictures from Sunday in Ellisville but I am sure we will have many more later in the week.
It is so good to be here with Pastor Kenny Morris and all of our dear friends. Here are a few pictures from Sunday in Ellisville but I am sure we will have many more later in the week.
I updated Sunday morning's post mid-afternoon. Last year when we were in Ellisville I posted this about the view out the front door.
This is one of our absolutely favorite places to park. It is so easy to get into and pull out of. It is close to 50 amp power, close to water and easy to empty the holding tanks. It is also directly next to a laundromat and just two or three doors down from Sonic. Plus it is right here with some of our favorite people in the world. It does not get any better than that.
That definitely makes up for the view of the fellowship hall out the front door.
That definitely makes up for the view of the fellowship hall out the front door.
Sis. Mandy Morris determined that the view out the front door would better this year. Here is our view this year. Look out our door.
That is so funny! I just looked again and sure enough they are still out there and they sure look cold!
One more thing from the weekend. Pastor Darius Templeton called me Sunday afternoon with an absolutely terrific praise report. They had a man saved in their Sunday morning service and that is awesome. What is even more awesome is that the salvation of this man was the cry of his son's heart during revival! God heard that cry! God answered that prayer! Praise God for His faithfulness.
That pretty much wraps up our weekend. Thank you for reading.


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The good news is that Brazil survived the 2016 Olympics. The bad news is that the economy is still terrible so tourists continue having to deal with epic crime including sexual assault, armed robbery, armed assault, burglary, theft, political unrest, Zika virus, and that doesn't count the other infectious diseases, and pollution. As such, Brazil is ranked as #10 in the 2017 List of 10 Most Dangerous Countries for Women Travelers.
Rating: Very Dangerous and Unhealthy
According to Forbes, Brazil's daily death toll from crime is higher than Syria's death rate from war. Other crime remains high, according to the latest OSAC report which notes that the crime situation is considered critical for those posted to embassies. Sexual assault, armed robbery, armed assault, burglary, and theft are the principal concerns, and most likely due to back to back years of severe economic recession.
The Aussies are fairly representative of most countries who warn their citizens about exercising a high degree of caution as to the crimes listed above as well as demonstrations and yellow fever:
Additionally, Brazil continues to have the hazard known as 'quicknapping' where a tourist is kidnapped briefly for a stop to the ATM to get cash and then released. There are also 'motoboys' who speed up on motorcycles, rob at gunpoint and then flee quickly. Carjackings are also a problem. Tourists are specific targets in Brazil, with a rising amount of crimes by children and teenagers. It's particularly unsafe in major cities like Sao Paolo and Rio de Janeiro; however popular tourist areas like beaches and restaurants are also vulnerable to crime.
There's also infectious disease to deal with, including Zika virus, which peaked at 8,000 new cases a week in Spring 2016. But let's not forget malaria, yellow fever and other infectious diseases. There is also extensive water pollution that affects water recreation.
Finally, driving in Brazil is not recommended since Brazilians tend to drive fast, and the roads are often rough and not well maintained. Also worthy of note is that during the summer months of November through March, there are serious landslides and flooding.
If you want to go to Brazil or must go: Natal is known as the City of the Sun and is the capital city of Rio Grande do Norte, a North-Eastern state on the northeast tip of Brazil as clean and bright and a spot where Brazilians take their families for beach vacations and buggy rides. According to Brazil's Institute for Applied Economics, it is the safest city in Brazil. It is known as the City of the Sun. There are coral reefs, beautiful beaches, a medieval fortress, and Dunas State Ecological Park (a very large, urban park).
Conclusion: Perhaps you are thinking it would be better to go where a woman can travel freely and safely, if so, please refer to our 10 Safest Countries for Women Travelers, Best Countries in Africa, Best Places in Oceania, and Best Countries in South America.
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