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The humble Snook has a reputation for having a glass jaw when hooked! It is a very sluggish fighter and is also considered to be a relatively poor table species. Most Snook are encountered by anglers targeting other more desirable species such as tailor and herring. Snook do make exceptionally good bait when used whole or cut into strips for such species such as mulloway and yellow tail king fish!
Snook can be located from as far south as Albany up to Shark Bay throughout Western Australia. They may also be encountered in S.A. and VIC as well as northern Tassie.
Snook are a fast growing species that can reach lengths of up to one meter plus and weigh as much as 5kg although most Snook encountered throughout Australia average around 600 grams to a kilo and anything larger is considered to be a horse.
Snook prefer shallow bays and inshore reef systems with large areas of healthy sea weed beds as well as sheltered sandy bays with heavy cover near by. Water depths of 1 – 15 meters are most suitable.
Snook are often mistaken for their smelly cousins the pike which are much shorter in body length and posses a kerosene like smell. Snook can be easily identified by their much longer, thinner body shape and lack of foul smell. They are generally brown to green in colouration with a silver belly. The mouth has a set of large teeth used for clamping down onto small bait fish with before consumption.
Snook are considered to be a poor quality table fish by most!
Snook posses average fighting abilities at best!
Ultra light spin and fly combos are ideally suited to targeting Snook both from shore or from boat with braided, gel spun and nylon lines with a breaking strain of around 2 – 3kg proving ideal. Light 10 – 20lb nylon or fluoro carbon leaders of around one rod length help to prevent the fish from seeing brightly coloured lines when fish are being fussy during calm, clear conditions and also prevent bite offs.
Small cut or whole pieces of peeled prawn or fresh fish as well as squid are sensational baits for catching Snook, with very small soft plastics, metal lures, small stick baits and fly's also proving to be successful at times.
Using powdered or pellet berley with fish oils added will not only help to attract herring into your fishing area but Snook also. The activity of all the herring buzzing around will soon bring Snook calling and more importantly, keep them there! An old rag doused in fish oil will also work well in most herring/Snook fishing situations.
Rising or full tides are best suited for targeting Snook around most areas although some deep water locations will also produce good numbers of fish during low and falling tides. New moon phases are also preferable for most fish species including Snook.
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Christian Palestinians, along with Muslims, held a protest in front of Nativity Church after Sunday prayers, to express there rejection of US President Donald Trump's decision to consider Jerusalem as the capital of Israel.
The protesters assure that they would not meet his deputy Mike Pines because of his US administration pro-Israel positions.
Participants also raised Palestinian flags and slogans in English and Arabic denouncing American decision on jerusalem and warning against US Vice President's visit to the city.
George Zeina who spoke on behalf Palestinian factions, Follow – up Christian Committee and Christian institutions in Bethlehem, stressed the popular position that rejects USA Vice President visit to the city, which carries the meaning of war and aggression.
Zeina added that Trump decision to consider Jerusalem as the capital of Israel harms Palestinian Christians and Muslims he said also that US president have no right to forget religious and historical significance of the city and its indigenous inhabitants.
He assur that Trump decision is against international laws and conventions and will not change the Christian and Islamic reality of the city.
He called on international community to challenge this American arrogance and pressure Trump to withdraw his decision on Jerusalem adding that the Christian in the city is not welcoming US Vice President Mike Pines visit.
Revolutionary Council member of Fatah movement, Mohammed Lahham, called for not receiving the US Vice President in Bethlehem.
He said: "We will receive US vice president with shoes and more."
He added that Mike Pines unwelcome person and would be expelled from Bethlehem.
On Thursday, senior Fatah official Jibril Rajoub said that Pence was "unwelcome" in Palestine.
"In the name of Fatah I say that we will not welcome Trump's deputy in the Palestinian Territories.
He asked to meet (Abbas) on the 19th of this month in Bethlehem, such a meeting will not take place," Jibril Rajoub stated.
On response for the reports that Palestinians not meeting and welcoming Mike Pence a spokesperson for Vice President said that by refusing to meet the latter during his upcoming trip to the region, the PA was turning its back on a dialogue about the future of the Palestinian-Israeli conflict.
It is unfortunate that the Palestinian Authority is walking away again from an opportunity to discuss the future of the region, the White House lamented in a statement released Sunday evening.
Pence is expected to visit the region later this month. He is set to travel to Israel and to the West Bank city of Bethlehem.
It was not clear what Rajoub's remarks meant for the West Bank portion of Pence's trip, but Politico reported Thursday that Pence "still intends to meet with Abbas and Palestinian leaders and thinks any decision to pull out of the meeting would be counterproductive," a White House official was quoted as saying.
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Fed Chairman Jerome Powell may use his first press conference to counterbalance an obvious hawkish tilt among this year's voting members of the central bank's policy panel.
The Fed's interest-rate committee is "a hell of a lot more hawkish" this year, said Carl Tannenbaum, chief economist at Northern Trust.
So it's easy to expect a hawkish tilt to the Fed's policy statement and its dot-plot, which projects the course of interest rates and economic forecasts, when the central bank wraps up its latest two-day meeting on Wednesday.
Read:5 things to watch from the Fed decision
Powell, therefore, will use his 60 minutes with reporters post-meeting to turn down the temperature and stress that rate hikes will be remain gradual.
"At the end of the day, the Fed will be more hawkish and he'll temper that," said Kevin Cummings, senior U.S. economist at NatWest Markets.
In essence, economists expect Powell will replay his two-day testimony to Congress from last month. On the first day, Powell sounded hawkish, pointing to the risks of the economy overheating, but on the second day he stressed any overheating was nowhere in sight.
See:Even as Powell softens tone, 4 rate hikes still on the table for 2018
Cummings said Powell has no reason to upset the apple cart now that the market
For years, the market doubted Fed forecasts, but now they are on roughly the same page.
"Why would [Powell] feel compelled to change perceptions now," Cummings said.
Economists expect Powell to be extremely cautious when he talks about Republican economic and trade policy.
"Powell is a savvy guy. He's going to really be apolitical as possible," said Diane Swonk, chief economist at Grant Thornton.
The Fed could become the target of the President Trump's ire if the rate hikes
Swonk said that former Trump economic adviser Gary Cohn "ran a lot of interference for the Fed" and stressed the need of an independent central bank.
With Cohn's departure, there is now the risk "of a much more combative" White House, she said.


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My first 7-day blood sugar monitoring experiment
As a dietitian in private practice who sees clients one-on-one to discuss personalised nutrition advice,I end up talking about blood sugar control a lot. That is because our blood sugar levels seem to affect us in many more ways than what we might think. From a clinical perspective, when someone says blood sugar, your mind immediately jump to diabetes (and I'm probably not the only one who's thinking this). However, our blood sugar levels seem to affect everything from our appetite, food craving, mood, sleep quality, and ability to lose weight. Blood glucose touches just about every cell in the human body. That means, when it runs awry, we can feel pretty awful in many different ways.
To further my understanding as a relentless health hacker and clinician, I have been wearing a continuous glucose monitor. This blog is a summary of my personal discoveries from this first week.
Also to clarify, throughout this blog I will be using blood glucose and blood sugar interchangeably. Glucose is a single molecule sugar and is the primary carbohydrate currency used by our body. All carbohydrate we consumed is shuffled around the body as glucose at some point in time.
High-intensity exercise has a huge glucose requirement
In the last few months of recently joining a CrossFit gym the newly-introduced very high-intensity exercise has seriously pushed my fitness. I certainly saw the extremity of high-intensity training in my glucose responses giving me a weekly high of 9.7 mmol/L.
In the session on the 30th, we did 25 min of mostly cardio with many burpees and 3 km running in total. Looking at this huge glucose spike, I feel totally amazed at the human body's capacity to respond to extreme physical demand. Humans are primed ready to run. We have these awesome hormones called adrenaline and cortisol which give us the capacity to be alert and ready to flee from predators on demand. Despite showing up to training fasted that morning my body had the reserves to show up as needed.
High-intensity exercise also has a very powerful residual blood glucose lowering effect. I had consistently more readings in the red zone (below 4.0 mmol/L) in days post CrossFit. I also felt more hungry. Exercise stimulates non-insulin dependent glucose transport into muscle tissue. This means when you train hard, your muscles are primed for soaking up carbs and glucose from your food.
The major demands for the new style of training I'm doing has been a serious shock to my body. Especially on the 30th of November, after the ultimate peak-level effort training session, I crashed near the end of the day hitting a pre-dinner hypo of 2.7 mmol/L – we call anything a hypo if it comes with symptoms such as anxiousness, blurry vision, cold sweats, panic, and hunger. For future training session of this intensity, I'll be aiming to include more post-workout carbs to prevent any hangriness.
Alcohol lowers bloods glucose levels
Big surprise here! Alcohol actually doesn't tend to spike blood glucose levels. In fact, while red wine has less carbs than a white, they might both leave you with the same blood sugar levels. I'm not going to claim to understand the physiology here but I imagine alcohol has some impact on the liver's role in glucose release (glycogenolysis). Maybe the liver is too busy trying to detoxify alcohol that it can't be 'effed keeping blood sugar levels under control.
After a few sips of white wine before dinner, I saw my BGLs trickle down from the high 3's to low high 2's mmol/L. This is might help to explain why we crave carbs when drinking.
About fruit
After seeing what fruit does to my glucose levels, I felt like it was a total waste of time snack choice. As one of the highest GI whole foods I eat on a regular basis, one orange or one apple spiked my glucose up to the 7's. Within 30-minutes of finishing eating, my glucose totally dropped again to where they were before eating. This means, within 30 minutes of eating a piece of fruit, I was left feeling the same as before having a snack = equally as hungry. This is why I usually advise when having fruit or simple carbs it's best to avoid having them "naked" – always "dress up" your carbs with other fat and protein-containing foods such as yoghurt, peanut butter, or a handful of nuts.


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Being a celebrity strumpet, I was immediately intrigued by the small camera crew crowded behind a gent at a pedestrian crossing. We were on our way to catch a train, and eyed up this unusual gathering with interest. What seemed to be a TV troupe had all equipment trained on this fairly ordinary-looking, middle-aged guy.
"Someone famous," I said casually.
"Get your camera out," said husband.
"No, you," I said, pretending not to care that we might be in the proximity of a celeb.
As we stood, my family on one side of the road, the big shot gathering on the other, us staring with uninformed fascination, them waiting for the green man, the personality glanced above our heads, laughed and waved. I turned and saw some people hanging out the window of a building, several floors up, waving with excitement.
The green man lit up like a flare and I fumbled for my phone. "He is famous," I justified. As we passed each other on the crossing and I unashamedly pointed my phone and snapped, the man genially waved the peace sign at me.
Some asking around later revealed that he was Junji Takada, an actor and comedian. My source informed me he is very famous and very funny. My celebrity fix was sated.
A note on the road system, since I was talking about a pedestrian crossing. Lol – it really isn't as boring as it sounds. Shut up, it isn't. The thing is, I'm pretty obsessed by the prioritisation of cars and road traffic in the UK so the shared spaces philosophy they have in Japan is one of my top five favourite things about the country.
So, yes, pedestrians will inexplicably stand and wait for the red man to go green, even if there is no traffic. This seems to be almost a rule of etiquette, as well as safety. But, if a pedestrian were to wander into the road, he doesn't get beeped at. I mean, come on, that's unheard of in the rest of the known universe. If a pedestrian so much as thinks about encroaching on a vehicle's precious space in the UK, the driver will swear, wave a middle finger and shake their head angrily. Like pedestrians are a new and unwelcome invention or something.
Japanese drivers don't beep at pedestrians and they don't beep at cyclists. They beep at each other occasionally, yes. But there seems to be an understanding that cyclists, pedestrians and all other forms of vehicle and human have as much right to all routes through the city.
This is especially important for many of the side roads and lanes, on which there are no pavements anyway, so drivers have to take special care not to kill anyone. (Oh, but cyclists do seem to be allowed to ride on pavements, which does require a bit of extra alertness on the part of the pedestrian.) It means that, despite the traffic, the noise, the busyness, there is little sense of stress, injustice or near death experiences.
(Weirdly, this carries over onto the commuter trains, those insanely packed ones you might have seen photos of, with people literally being squished into carriages by uniformed rail workers. We accidentally found ourselves on one of these, when we made the mistake of using the railway in rush hour – though there was no-one physically pushing passengers in, they did a pretty good job of doing it themselves. At each stop, daughter and I became more and more condensed into a small space. What struck me most of all was that this gradual increase in discomfort and insane inhumanity was greeted by almost total silence. There was no tutting, no humphing, no aggressive shoving, no shouting of "Why don't you move down inside the carriage?!". Just persistent squeezing.
Just as I thought I might get to be a few centimetres thinner we arrived at our stop and the compacted commuters exploded out the opening doors onto the platform.)
The home schooling's going well now. Son has accepted that I'm being serious about pretending to be a teacher, and no amount of sulking or pre-pubescent behaviour is going to stop our morning routine. We're almost enjoying the experience, especially when we're tired and just do it in bed. There was me, before we came, thinking we'd get up each day at 8am by the latest, have breakfast, get dressed, and settle down in a civilised fashion to engage in some learning, before marching off for some cultural enlightenment after lunch.
Nah, that's gone tits up. We wake up when we do. We have breakfast. We climb back into bed with tablets, paper, pens and worksheets. We work through our timetabled tasks, stopping every now and then for a snack. Then we shove everything aside and ask ourselves what we can be arsed to do for the rest of the day.
Home schooling for the win.
Son has even learned not to judge me for not knowing something I clearly should. I was overtly excited when we (we!) grasped how to calculate cubic volume. I'm pretty certain I never did that at school. (I really hope my Maths teachers aren't reading this.) Long division was an eye-opener, and as for long multiplication… I am delighted to have mastered that skill. I say mastered – I solved a couple of problems.
However… "This will be 2.25," I informed son as we worked out how to calculate decimals from fractions. "Are you sure?" asked son. "Yes, look," I said smugly. "This is one, this is two, and this part makes it 2.25."
"I'm going to put 2.5," said son. I waited for him to learn from his mistake. Turns out I had to learn from mine, since the answer was 2.5. Which was embarrassing.
Son's precocious abilities did come in handy in the restaurant when we were ordering dinner. "Wain wa arimasuka?" I asked the waitress. Do you have wine? "Hai…" she replied, followed by a sentence in which the only words I recognised, though I didn't know why, were aka and shiro. I silently looked at her.
"Red or white wine, Mum?" asked son. "Aka is red, shiro is white." I have never been more proud.
(If it's beginning to sound as though I'm the weakest link in this family, I would just like to say that husband also had a moment of embarrassment when dining out with son. Having forgotten the Japanese for could I have the bill, "Look," he said smugly, "I'm going to do the international hand signal for could I have the bill," and, catching the eye of a waiter, he pretended to scribble across the palm of his hand. The waiter marched over and stood with paper and pen in hand, waiting for husband's food order. "Only international in the rest of the world," said son.)
If you are a fairly dyed-in-the-wool vegetarian, and especially if you are vegan, you will struggle to eat out in Tokyo. As mentioned before, you haven't a hope in hell of ordering something completely meat free even if you do understand the Japanese menus, since not all ingredients will be mentioned. A Hong Kong-based friend has a theory that, if there is only a smattering of, say, bacon in a dish, it will not be called "bacon and egg fried rice" in case the diner is expecting a substantial amount of bacon. It's a matter of honour and modesty. That's certainly a theory.
Pescetarian son and I have a what goes on tour stays on tour philosophy and have decided that given the choice we'll try to eat just fish and veg but, if we are served unexpected meat, we'll eat it. We have, however, discovered Lima veggie café in Shinjuku, and I thoroughly recommend you track it down. It wouldn't look out of place in the hipster lanes of Brighton, and served by far the best fried rice I've had in Japan. "What does macrobiotique mean?" asked son, reading a sign on the wall. I looked at scientist husband. "Healthy," he said. And it was indeed the most vitamin-infused meal I've had so far on this trip, washed down by a gloriously fiery organic ginger beer. Cheap and cheerful, wholesome and happy.
End note: my children do not stop talking.


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In episode 14 of Morality in the Real World, Alonzo Fyfe and I discuss the habit of arguing about definitions, and why we don't do it.
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ALONZO: Luke! You're still alive! Where have you been?
LUKE: Ummm… mostly reading neuroscience. I want to be able to defend what I say in this podcast, and we ran into something where we didn't have the evidence we needed. So, I hit the books.
ALONZO: That sounds a bit suspicious – kinda like trying to find evidence to support a belief you already have?
LUKE: Well, if that's what I was doing, I did a poor job. I actually didn't find much evidence for what we were planning to cover in today's episode, so later I'm going to end up claiming something else instead.
ALONZO: Does this mean that are you giving up on desirism?
LUKE: No. But I am going to propose some adjustments to what we said earlier based on some data from the fields of neuroscience and artificial intelligence.
Also, some things in the field of meta-ethics really clicked for me as I did that research, and I'm really excited to get it written up to see what other people think. But for now, we should get back to talking about different theories of desire.
ALONZO: Right. When we left off, we had just finished talking about action-based theories of desire.
Action-based theories of desire are those theories that say that to desire something means to be disposed to act to make it the case that what one desires is realized.
In this episode, we were supposed to be talking about pleasure-based theories of desire. Pleasure-based theories say that to desire something is to experience pleasure when it seems to be the case that it has been realized.
LUKE: Right. We are going to talk about pleasure-based theories of desire. But I need to distinguish two types of arguments. Well, actually, we already started distinguishing between these two types of arguments, but that distinction is going to become more important now.
ALONZO: What distinction are you talking about?
LUKE: The distinction between disputes over facts of the world versus disputes about the words we use to talk about facts of the world.
Part of the struggle in writing about pleasure-based theories of desire has been a blurring of this distinction. I find that a lot of people writing in this field agree on the facts of the matter. They just can't agree on the words to use in describing those facts. A substantial portion of the debate is a debate over which words to use, not over which facts are true.
To me, these fights over words are a waste of time. Pick a definition and move on. I'm interested in the facts of the world, not the words.
ALONZO: That's what you said earlier. On the idea that a lot of the dispute in morality seems to be about determining the best super-dictionary definition of a word, you said that this was not your project. Your project was to look at the world and see what the facts were.
LUKE: Right. Following Eliezer Yudkowsky, I've come to speak of this as replacing the symbol with the substance. If there's a dispute over which symbol to use (which word to use), then perhaps the best way to get past that roadblock and move on is to drop the symbol and replace it with the actual facts you are intending that symbol to stand for. So if the word 'planet' is ambiguous, we can skip the word 'planet' and instead talk about 'objects large enough to become roughly spherical because of their own gravity,' or something.
When it comes to symbols, we should be less concerned with whether our use of them conforms to some super-dictionary definition and more concerned with whether we can use the term efficiently to communicate ideas about the world. That's the whole point of using words in the first place, right? Efficient communication.
In fact . . .
ALONZO: . . . In fact . . . What?
LUKE: Well, Alonzo, you invented these terms, "thwarting" and "fulfilling" to refer to relationships between desires and states of affairs. A desire that P is fulfilled in any state of affairs in which P is true, and it is thwarted in any state in which P is false.
ALONZO: Well, yeah. I wanted to make it clear that desire fulfillment is not about achieving some psychological sensation like pleasure or happiness. It is about making or keeping a proposition true – about realizing states of affairs where the things one wants actually exist in the real world.
LUKE: Yep. And every time you present your idea to a new audience you have to explain how you are using those terms, because it's not obvious. And a lot of people who encounter your writing don't encounter the explanation of what you mean by those terms, so it confuses them.
ALONZO: Well….
LUKE: I have a solution to that problem. I found a couple of people who picked what I think might be better words for making this distinction. Instead of talking about 'desire fulfillment' versus 'desire satisfaction', they talk about 'objective desire satisfaction' versus 'subjective desire satisfaction'.
What you call desire fulfillment – a state where the propositions that are the objects of a desire are actually true – they call objective desire satisfaction. And what you call satisfaction – the sensation of pleasure or happiness one often gets when one thinks – rightly or wrongly – that what one wants has been realized – they call subjective desire satisfaction. In the first case, we are talking about situations in which what a person wants has been realized. In the second case, we are talking about whether the agent merely believes it has been realized.
ALONZO: So, in my favorite example, a parent's desire that their child is healthy and happy.
LUKE: Yeah. That desire is objectively satisfied if the child is healthy and happy. The desire is subjectively satisfied if the parent believes that their child is healthy and happy, even if the child lays cut and bleeding in a dark alley.
I think, with these terms, people can get an idea of what you are trying to say without wading into an explanation of how you are using your terms, because people have some idea of what 'objective' and 'subjective' mean, even before you explain them. That makes these terms better than the ones you originally suggested. They are more efficient for communication, I think.
ALONZO: So, you want me to give up talking about fulfilling or satisfying desires, and talk about objectively satisfying or subjectively satisfying desires instead.
LUKE: Yeah, I think so. And I can point out cases in the professional literature where people are already doing that. And your old distinction was kind of confusing because people in the professional literature have often been using the word 'satisfy' to mean objective satisfaction, whereas you were using the word 'satisfy' to mean subjective satisfaction.
ALONZO: And the reason for this change isn't because you discovered that this is more consistent with the super-dictionary definition of these terms – a careful exercise in conceptual analysis. It is because you think that this would be more efficient.
LUKE: Exactly. That's the point of using our word-tools in the first place. Efficient communication.
ALONZO: Okay. I'm convinced.
Henceforth I shall use the term 'objective desire satisfaction' when talking about states in which an agent desires that P and P is true. And I will use the term 'subjective desire satisfaction' when talking about states in which an agent desires that P, and believes that P is true.
LUKE: Right, though maybe try not to use so much algebra. Our podcast episodes are hard enough to follow as it is!
ALONZO: But our listeners have been clamoring for a detailed, accurate presentation of desirism. How else can we give it to them?
LUKE: Yeah, it's true. That's the reason we've gotten so technical and precise and scientific on this podcast, but we don't want to lose all our listeners, so we've got to strike a balance.
Anyway, I want you to notice something. We just had a dispute where we resolved a question about the use of words by looking at the issue of efficient communication. A different way to debate the use of terms – the one that bogs down a large chunk of analytic philosophy – is this issue of looking for the best super-dictionary definition of a term; what philosophers call 'conceptual analysis.'
Here, let me give you an example of what I am talking about.
Ummmm… If a tree falls in the forest and nobody hears it, does it make a sound?
ALONZO: Well, that's kind of a dumb question.
What do you mean by 'sound'?
Are you asking whether the tree falling sends off shock waves that a person, if present, would have perceived as a noise? The answer is "yes".
Or are you asking whether it actually generates sensations in the brain of somebody present, in which case the answer is 'no', because there is nobody present?
LUKE: Well, but what's the right answer? Yes or no?
ALONZO: Well, what's the right question? Which definition of the word 'sound' did you intend? You tell me which question you are asking, and I will tell you what the answer is.
LUKE: Can't you tell what the right question is just by listening to my question?
ALONZO: Actually, No. I can't.
LUKE: Exactly.
Now, imagine two people who think that we should be able to tell what the "right question" is – which definition for the word 'sound' is correct or best. So they go looking for all sorts of evidence about how the word "sound" is used and they get into this long detailed fight over which is the right question – which is the right definition of 'sound.' They propose outlandish hypothetical scenarios to test what their intuitions tell them about the one correct meaning of the word 'sound'. One person suggests a 'correct' meaning of the word 'sound', and then another person proposes intuitive counterexamples to that definition, and someone else proposes another definition of the word 'sound,' but then still more people propose intuitive counterexamples to that definition, too!
And they keep debating: What question are people actually asking when they ask about the possible sound of a tree falling in the forest when nobody is present?
ALONZO: First, maybe the question is just vague. Maybe the language of the common person on the street just isn't very clear on this subject. And, second, I still don't see why my original answer isn't good enough. Just tell people that the question is ambiguous and have them ask a more precise question. Ask them which definition of 'sound' they have in mind.
LUKE: Exactly. And I think that's what we need to do with respect to these theories of desire. The question, "What is a desire?" is ambiguous – just like the question, "If a tree falls in the forest and there is nobody around to hear it, does it make a sound?" is ambiguous. We have to disambiguate the question before we can give an answer. And it's not very productive to argue about what the 'correct' definition of 'desire' or 'sound' is – we can just propose a definition and move on to talk about the actual facts. Or we can skip the definition issue altogether – avoid using the words 'desire' and 'sound' – and just argue about what certain motivational structures in the brain are doing, or what certain shock waves in the air are doing.
ALONZO: Okay.
LUKE: Now, back to the pleasure-based theory of desire. Tim Schroeder in the Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy describes pleasure-based theories of desire like this:
For an organism to desire p is for the organism to be disposed to take pleasure in it seeming that p and displeasure in it seeming that not-p.
ALONZO: And you were complaining about my use of algebra.
I would think that this is just one version of the theory. There are probably people who would substitute happiness for pleasure, for example. Something like:
For an organism to desire p is for the organism to be disposed to find happiness in it seeming that p and unhappiness in it seeming that not-p.
LUKE: Sure, but the issue I am describing will apply to all of those theories.
ALONZO: But a lot of people do think this way. Back in the first season when we were talking about Alph having a desire to gather stones, a commenter named Keith wrote:
I'm a little uncomfortable with the assertion that some desires, like Alph's desire to gather stones, are simply ends in themselves, with no real justification. In reality, it is more likely that if someone has a desire, it is because fulfilling that desire feels good. So, if Alph has a desire to gather stones, it is probably because gathering stones is pleasurable or fulfilling to him in some way.
The thing is, psychological hedonism was widely held in the 1800s, but it was discredited over 100 years ago.
LUKE: Well, wait a minute. There is a difference between a pleasure-based theory of desire and psychological hedonism. Psychological hedonism is a theory about the world. It says that the only thing we pursue is our own pleasure and freedom from pain – or happiness and freedom from unhappiness in some versions.
A pleasure-based theory of desire is a theory about language. It says that the only thing worthy of the name "desired" is that which brings about pleasure when it seems to obtain, or displeasure when it seem not to obtain.
Somebody who holds a pleasure-based theory of desire can be perfectly comfortable with the thought that we can be motivated to pursue other ends – ends that have nothing at all to do with pleasure. But they would deny that these ends we pursue without pleasure are actually 'desired'. They would need some other word to describe ends pursued without pleasure.
We see this in the way they argue for their theory.
One of the arguments in the debate concerns a hypothetical case of "weather watchers". We mentioned them in our last episode. These are beings who have a preference for one type of weather over another, but are not interested in any way in acting so as to bring about one type of weather over another. They say, "Whatever comes will come, but we prefer sunshine over rain."
ALONZO: Well, yeah. Galen Strawsen uses this to argue that our concept of desire tracks with our concept of pleasure more closely than it tracks with our concept of motivation.
He says that it makes sense to say that these weather watchers desire something that they are not motivated to bring about, which means that the concepts of desire and motivation don't always fit together and action-based theories of desire are to be rejected for that reason.
Now, I think he's wrong.
Let's assume that we gave these creatures an option to pick tomorrow's weather and they answered with a shrug, I would take that to be a shrug of indifference. They don't care. If they did care, they would pick.
LUKE: No, Alonzo. Don't go there. You are stepping into a tar pit from which you can never escape. You're not discussing any difference in how the universe actually works. In fact, you're not talking about anything real at all – these weather watchers don't even exist. You are getting bogged down in the philosophy-of-mind equivalent of the question of whether a tree falling in the forest makes a sound when nobody is present.
Here is a place where, instead of getting bogged down in a discussion about definitions of words, we can just replace the symbol with the substance and get on with the factual investigation.
If a tree falls in the forest and there is nobody around, does it set off a series of compression waves propagating through the air such that, if there was a normally functioning human present, it would register those waves as a sound? Yes. End of the discussion.
If a tree falls in the forest and there is nobody around, does it set off a series of compression waves propagating through the air such that it actually does register in a brain as a sound? No. End of the discussion.
Problem dissolved.
We don't need to endlessly debate what the 'best' definition of the word 'sound' is, or what the 'correct' definition of the word 'sound' is. We don't need to do conceptual analysis on the word 'sound.' We can just replace the word 'sound' with whatever facts of the world we intend to bring to mind with the word 'sound', and then answer the question about those facts of the world.
And, rather than debate whether our intuitive concept of desire tracks with motivation or with pleasure, one of the ways around this question is to just discuss motivation and pleasure and skip the question of which one is called 'desire'.
Now, desirism is built on motivational states – not pleasure-states. Admittedly, we called it 'desirism' because we took for granted an action-based theory of desire. But if somebody wants to challenge us on that, we can tell them to call the theory motivationism instead. We don't care. We are not going to fight over definitions. I cannot tell you how many oceans of ink philosophers have spilled arguing over definitions. I cannot tell you how much incredible brain power philosophers have wasted arguing over definitions instead of arguing over facts.
ALONZO: Okay, let me give you another argument I've heard when people are debating different theories of desire – one that doesn't involve anything like imaginary weather watchers.
Here it is, a nice Saturday morning – a great day for hiking in the mountains – and I am stuck here washing my neighbor's car. Why am I washing his car? It's a nice car and I said that – if he would let me borrow it on Friday night when my wife and I were celebrating our anniversary – then I would wash it Saturday morning. So, here I am on a Saturday morning stuck washing my neighbor's car. I don't want to be washing his car. I want to be hiking through the mountains. But, here I am.
Here, I am obviously motivated to wash my neighbor's car. That's what I am doing, after all. But what I want to be doing is hiking through the mountains. The argument here is that this is a case in which people use words like 'desire' or 'want' to refer to the option that gives them pleasure, not the option that motivates them.
Now, here's the answer I would have typically given to this kind of objection.
The word 'want' isn't tracking with what gives pleasure, but what is desired as an end.
We used this idea when we talked about Alph gathering stones. Without ever mentioning pleasure, we talked about Alph's motivating desire to gather stones. Because of the limited number of stones, sometimes Alph had to scatter stones so that he would have stones to gather again. We admitted that he did not want – that is, did not desire-as-an-end – to scatter stones. It was a chore. It was work he had to do in order to return to a state where he was gathering stones again.
When it comes to the washing the car example, we can say that I don't 'want' to be washing the car in the sense that it's not what I desire as an end, though it is what I desire as a means. So the action-based theory of desire can accommodate this use of our language just fine.
LUKE: Okay, but, Alonzo: listen to me.
It doesn't matter.
It . . . does . . .not . . . matter.
ALONZO: What? You come back from your reading and not only have me change the words I have been using to describe desirism, but you would have me just toss these arguments aside as well? I spent a lot of time on these arguments.
LUKE: You wasted a lot of time on those arguments.
First: notice that, once again, this is not a dispute over how the universe actually works. The first question you should ask is whether these different theories make different predictions about what happens in the world – other than predictions about how people will use a term.
If it makes different predictions, we should be looking to discover which predictions are more accurate. If it's a dispute about words, we shouldn't be trying to discover the best super-dictionary definition of the term. We should be asking which definitions will be more efficient in communicating ideas about the world.
And if it's not clear which definitions will be more efficient for the purposes of communication, then we can get around the problem by jumping past that particular symbol – that particular word – and talking directly about the facts in the world you mean to call out by using that word in the first place. You can talk about motivational states or pleasure states or whatever instead of talking about the word 'desire' and arguing about which definition of 'desire' to use.
ALONZO: Well, I suppose.
It does sound like another Planet Pluto debate now that you put it that way. In the case of Pluto, one group wants to define the word "planet" so that it includes Pluto. Another group wants to define "planet" so that it excludes Pluto. These people have no real dispute about what Pluto is. They only disagree about what language to use when talking about Pluto.
Here, in the case of desire, instead of debating whether non-motivating pleasure, or motivating non-pleasure, gets to count as a desire, we can talk about non-motivating pleasure or motivating non-pleasure directly, if it exists at all.
LUKE: Right. It doesn't really matter who wins the "pleasure is necessary for desire" debate any more than it matters who wins the "Pluto is a planet" debate. The former will not change the way the brain works, and the latter will not change the orbit, size, or composition of Pluto.
ALONZO: Looking at it this way, I do have one more point to raise. I have a practical consideration to raise for why the word 'desire' should, for the sake of efficient communication, track with motivation rather than with non-motivational pleasure.
LUKE: Good. Let's hear it.
ALONZO: We have reasons to be concerned with what motivates people to act in different ways. Your actions have an effect on my world – and my actions can have an effect on yours – for better or worse. You have reason to worry about me flying airplanes into skyscrapers – I have reason to worry about whether you will give me help in an emergency.
But I have no reason to be concerned with your non-motivational pleasures. And you have no reason to be concerned with mine. I don't even have a reason to want you to help me to realize the experience of non-motivational pleasure. By definition, such states are non-motivational. A non-motivational pleasure doesn't give me any reason to act any differently, and it certainly does not give me a reason to cause you to act differently.
So, they're pointless to talk about. It's more useful to use the word 'desire' to talk only about brain states that motivate people to perform actions.
LUKE: Sure. That's the type of practical consideration that actually makes sense to argue about.
It's like the practical considerations that went into the debate over whether to call Pluto a planet. It is efficient, in science, to lump similar objects under the same name. Pluto simply has more in common with trans-Neptune objects than it does with planets. So, for the sake of efficiency, we no longer use the word 'planet' to talk about Pluto.
Some scientists still say that things that are big enough to be round because of their own gravity need to be lumped together because they are alike in many ways, and they want to use the word 'planet'. So, for the sake of convenience, Pluto and a few other objects in our solar system get lumped under the name "dwarf planets".
Notice that astronomers didn't have to look at how the word was used in the past or whether Pluto fit our intuitions about the meaning of the word 'planet.' In fact, those who supported this change were ready to admit that they are breaking with tradition on how these terms are used because they value communication efficiency over tradition.
And when we discuss desire, we value communication efficiency over tradition.
But: I have to stress that if somebody comes back and argues that using the word 'desire' to talk about something other than motivational states is more efficient for communication, and this debate is not easily resolved, then I'm not going to waste my time arguing over definitions. I'm going to say, "Fine. Whatever. I'm not going to argue over definitions. We can just replace the symbol with the substance – replace the word with the facts we meant to call up by using the word – and then we can argue over the facts instead of arguing about the word. It's really not worth my time to argue about definitions."
These tree-falling-in-a-forest arguments are a huge distraction from talking about how the world actually works.
ALONZO: Okay, so when we come back, we'll be arguing not about our definitions for words like 'pleasure' and 'desire', but about the facts in the world we might mean to call to mind when we use those words.
LUKE: Great! I'm looking forward to it.
Audio clips
(in order of appearance)
- "Hour Five" from Somnium by Robert Rich
- "Envelop" from The Magic Place by Julianna Barwick
- "Theory of Machines" from Theory of Machines by Ben Frost
- "Krovinka Moya" from Kasha Iz Topora by Gultskra Artikler
- "The Bath of Stars" from Winter Songs by Art Bears
- "The Oh of Pleasure" from Deep Breakfast by Ray Lynch
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The Elephant in the Room: Bioethical Concerns in Human Milk Banking ISBN: 9781532371875, Cove International Publishers, e-book by September Williams & Mother's Milk Bank, San Jose.
The book opens with a forward explaining that human milk banking has a century of history built on the mission of saving infants. However, badly needed development has only recently begun as the result of "the sheer passion of women seeking to help mothers and babies". The idea is to develop milk banks as an altruistic culture of milk donation, its collection, processing and distribution based on scientific knowledge. Finally in 1985 the Human Milk Banking Association of North America was formed to provide and advance all pertinent information with a basis of the operation "to support the mother's journey to successfully breastfeed her own infant." The specifics of the program and relevant features are set forth here under six major headings: I, A Request for Consultation; II, Should we let Babies Starve? Bioethics, Cases & Stories; III, Clinical Medical Ethical Decision Making: the Box Method; IV, The Elephant in the Room: Infant Mortality, Premature Birth and Health Disparities; V, Famine in the Midst of Plenty; VI, Conclusions. There also is an Appendix, an interesting description "About Mother's Bank San Jose", which is a 'working Milk Bank', and a brief "About the Author". Each of the almost incredible number of pertinent factors associated with these major headings is presented at some length. Randomly selected are the subjects of the cost of breast milk as a tissue versus as a corporate product; introduction of payment vs altruistic giving of milk and the many ramifications, including a pertinent case involving Cambodian women; a history of commodification of human beings and their parts; numerous cases of horrendous usage of individuals and/or their bodies/tissues without their permission; disclosure as well as existing barriers to it; changing fate of premature babies and increased need of an increasing milk supply and almost countless more factors requiring consideration. Each section is followed by an impressive list of references.
Discussion: The author has made a most interesting case for the establishment of "Milk Banks", a subject seldom entering the minds of the everyday citizen. Further she has provided a highly detailed and quite all-encompassing discussion of the factors of importance in accomplishing this mission. And she has presented her material in a most readable form in spite of simultaneously fortifying her compelling arguments in a quite scholarly fashion bolstered with 176 supporting references. The only somewhat deterrent feature is the absence of judicious editing of the repetition/redundancy that occurs throughout the book.
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Your Talent is not Enough!
Everyone has a talent, whether it has been discovered or not! Some talents are discovered early, the story we often hear from professional athletes or musicians; yet some are discovered later, such as being a great Sales Person or effective Manager. Either way Your Talent is not Enough! Talent is not synonymous with Success! Often the good and great are separated merely by their work ethnic and habits, which flow through their careers and professional…Read More


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PUBLISHED: 11:12 06 February 2014
Honiton Netball League round up.
In Division One OPG and Flamingos continued on their winning ways with victories over Sidmouth Toucans and Signs South West respectively.
Both losing sides played well and did enough to gain a point in defeat. For OPG the star of the game in their 34-23 victory over Toucans was Carol Goddard whilst Emma Davey turned in a fine performance for the Sidmouth side.
Signs South West really needed their point from the match against Flamingos and with Faye Hawkins getting back to her best on her return after her baby, they did it!
The game started evenly and at half way SSW were only two goals in arrears, but in the third and final quarters, Flamingos, with Rachel Burrows in fine form, moved ahead to finish 31-18 winners.
The crucial game of the evening was between Hi Q and Uplowman who are both chasing the points needed to maintain their first division status. Hi Q got off to the better start and by half way were 21-11 in front thanks to good work from Kerri Callon. The third quarter belonged to Uplowman as they reduced the deficit to 22-27 with Heather Adcock playing well. The final period went goal for goal with both teams scoring seven so the score finished with a victory for Hi Q by 34-29.
In Division Two leaders Tip Top Trees maintained their four point lead after a 34-21 win over Howden Hawks. This defeat for the Hawks put paid to their outside chances of promotion whilst it strengthened the chances of 3Ts making a return to the top flight!
With Phoebe Confrey playing well the Trees had led from the start and, although Alice Quick had a fine game for the Hawks, they could not get back into the game.
Pixies continued their fine run of form with another victory that saw them move up into second place thanks to a victory over bottom placed Blackdown Ladies by 27-13. Anna Boison took the honours for the Pixies whilst Rosie Cooke was the Ladies player to watch. Closest game of the evening was the match between the third and fourth placed sides – Otter Valley Dairy and JD Tyres – who switched places as a result. Both now have 26 points but JD have a superior goal difference.
At the start of the game it looked different as OVD moved into a 4-0 lead at quarter time. By half way JD were just one goal behind at 6-7 and going into the final quarter it was all square at 11-11.
The last quarter was a nail biter and the game could have gone either way but it was JD who edged the game by 16-15!
Helen Freemantle at GD was the Player of the Match for JD whilst for OVD the honour went to Sarah Dyer.
With just two or three matches to play there are still four teams chasing the two promotion spots.
Division One: Uplowman 29, Hi Q 34; Flamingos 31, Signs South West 18; OPG 37, Sidmouth Toucans 23.
Division Two: Pixies 27, Blackdown ladies 13; JD Tyres 16, Otter Valley Dairy 15; Tip Top Trees 34, Howden Hawks 21.
Tables. Division One
P GD Points
Flamingos 12 206 33
Hi Q 12 -2 23
Signs South West 12 -31 18
Uplowman 12 -40 17
Sidmouth Toucans 12 -348 4
Division Two
P GD Points
Tip Top Trees 13 130 33
Pixies 13 41 29
JD Tyres 12 52 26
Otter Valley Dairy 13 14 26
Howden Hawks 12 -52 18
Blackdown Ladies 13 -185 6
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Pan-Roasted Radishes with Italian-Style Greens
Cooked radishes taste a lot like turnips, their Brassicaceae cousins, but with a milder flavor. If your radish greens look bug-eaten or browned, substitute watercress or arugula in the recipe.
- 6Servings
- 1/2 cup thinly sliced dried Mission figs
- 2 Tbs. olive oil, divided
- 2 cups trimmed radishes, halved or quartered (10 oz.)
- 8 cups baby spinach and
- 4 cups radish greens
- 1/4 cup pine nuts
- 1/4 cup chopped black oil-cured olives, optional
- 2 tsp. balsamic vinegar, plus more to taste
1. Place figs in small bowl, and cover with boiling water. Plump 5 minutes, then drain, and set aside.
2. Meanwhile, heat 1 Tbs. oil in large skillet over medium-high heat. Add radishes, cover, and cook 3 minutes, or until browned on one side (do not stir). Shake pan, and cook, uncovered, 3 to 4 minutes more, or until radishes are just tender. Transfer to bowl, and season with salt, if desired. Set aside.
3. Return skillet to heat, and add remaining 1 Tbs. oil. Add spinach and radish greens, and cook 2 minutes, or until barely wilted, turning with tongs. Add pine nuts, figs, olives (if using), and radishes. Cover, and cook 3 minutes more, or until greens are tender and radishes are heated through. Transfer to serving bowl, and drizzle with balsamic vinegar.
Nutrition Information
- Calories: 136
- Carbohydrate Content: 15 g
- Fat Content: 9 g
- Fiber Content: 4 g
- Protein Content: 3 g
- Saturated Fat Content: 0.5 g
- Sodium Content: 94 mg
- Sugar Content: 7 g


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Video Tutorial
In this project we will be integrating an accelerometer to measure movement in three dimensions with our Werkstatt using an Arduino microcontroller. An accelerometer is a device that measures acceleration in three dimensions and outputs a corresponding voltage.
Jumper Cables
1 x Breadboard
1 x ADXL335 Accelerometer
1 x Arduino Microcontroller
Please download hi res images and Fritzing files for this project HERE.
For this mod we will be using an Arduino Uno micro controller. The Arduino is based around the ATMEL series of micro processor IC's, and is a very versatile tool across multiple disciplines. Refer to Figure 1 for a closer look at the exact digital and analog I/O configuration for the Arduino. For more information regarding the Arduino please visit arduino.cc
Figure 1. Arduino UNO
We will also be using an accelerometer breakout board from SparkFun. The ADXL335 is a very common cost efficient accelerometer. An accelerometer is a device that measures acceleration in three dimensions (X, Y, Z) and outputs a corresponding voltage. The three dimensions of space are based on a Cartesian coordinate system with origin set at an upright and flat accelerometer position.
Other accelerometers would work with this project as well but the V+ requirements may vary. Our ADXL335 needs a power regulated 3.3V+, we can pull this from our Arduino's 3.3V power rail. First lets run our power jumper and ensure that our ADXL335, Arduino, and Werkstatt all share a common ground.
Run a 3.3V+ power jumper from the Arduino and share ground between the Werkstatt, Arduino, and Accelerometer.
Run signal jumpers from the X, Y, and Z pins on our Accelerometer. These send an analog signal based on position so we will need to run these into our Arduino's analog inputs to ensure accurate readings. Since the ADXL335 sends a true analog signal it is possible to power through a voltage divider from the Werkstatt and run this mod without the Arduino. However, without the Arduino we loose a larger V+ spread and with it the expressivity of the mod.
Now that our Arduino is wired to accept the ADXL335 signal we need to send control voltages to our Werkstatt. In the above configuration only HIGH/LOW control signals would be sent due to PWM nature of Arduino digital outputs. If we want a true analog control voltage we would need to create a low-pass filter exactly like the one we built for our Arpeggiator/Sequencer mod. The figure below is an example of a low-pass RC filter using a 10kΩ resistor and 2.2uF capacitor.
Now that our ADXL335 is wired into the Arduino we are ready to upload our code.
Please download the Arduino code for this project HERE.
We will need to upload our code to the Arduino for this mod to work properly. To upload simply plug your Arduino into your computer, open accelerometer .pde in the Arduino IDE, select which functions we want to control our Werkstatt, and press upload. As long as the moog_werkstatt library is in the IDE's path, the code will compile and upload.
First we will see in the the sketch that our accelerometer class is called and named with input arguments that set the three analog inputs for ADXL335 data capture. The included accelerometer.pde sketch has two functions we can experiment with and these are defined as n_axis and n_pulse. The variable n changes as we select what dimension we want to call to manipulate our control voltage.
N_axis functions are scalable one to one mappings of incoming accelerometer data. Input arguments for this function are as follows; (PWM out pin, minimum output PWM, maximum output PWM). Functions of this type need to be run through a low pass filter for the best results as discussed earlier.
N_pulse functions send digital on/off pulses at specific MS intervals based on captured sensor data. Input arguments for functions of this type are as follows; (digital out pin, minimum output MS, maximum output MS).
Fritzing is an open source visual breadboarding software.
The Arduino is a micro controller and programming environment for interactive systems.


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Today we publish 'Working for all?', our new research about experiences of employment support among disabled people with high support needs. Aidan is 27 and works in London. In this blog he talks about his experiences of accessing support and colleagues' attitudes at work.
Like many people, I get up at 6am each morning and commute to London to do a long day's work at a job I love and an organisation I'm proud to be a part of. The only difference is that I'm blind, having been born with a genetic condition that affects my retinas. I've experienced a lot as a disabled employee: the amazing and the truly awful. I want to share what I've learned and explore where in-work support goes wrong and, most importantly, how we can get it right.
Not all employers think flexibly
I have had experiences in work where my disability has been viewed as a problem. The simplest adjustments have been refused, despite many adjustments not being expensive or requiring a lot of effort to implement. I once asked a line manager if I could structure my tasks in a way that would enable me to get the most out of my Access to Work support worker on the days she was in. This was met with the dismissive retort that it wasn't "a part-time role."
In another job, it was virtually impossible to get the managers to commit to the highly practical job descriptions that Access to Work require. I was refused simple requests such as using an alternative to PowerPoint or recording meetings. As a consequence, I'd often be working at home until 11pm to catch up and require far more support than would otherwise have been necessary. I was even told that because I had help with minuting, "you don't look like a leader. You don't look in control." The message was always the same: I was presenting them with problems, and that is all they were. It was one way or no way.
I can't hide my disability and wouldn't want to, but I've developed tricks for subtle positive advocacy. At interviews, I always ask a question about the practical day-to-day work involved with the role. It allows me to slip in that I'm considering whether I'd need to use certain bits of equipment, or seek some support from the Access to Work scheme. I use a question to give them a crash course in case they were hung up on the disability. I believe that, right from the start, disabled employees should have a strong partnership with the employer. We are, after all, experts in our own disabilities. We need to support our managers, who in turn must take into account our needs in order to get the most out of us.
Employers' mindsets need to change
In my experience, there are many people willing to challenge themselves and learn more about disabled colleagues. In my current organisation, for example, describing slides in meetings and running through proposed events in advance, have all become standard practice.
Colleagues understand that a disabled person is a person first and foremost. Combining their adaptability, my skill in offering solutions, good will and a sense of humour on both sides, we just make it work. Indeed, the fact that I require help sometimes has brought me into contact with colleagues in many different departments and roles. What might be thought of as a weakness is actually an asset for building strong networks, knowledge about other areas of the organisation and relationships that enable us to work better.
I want to see us get to a point where, instead of persuading employers to take a chance on disabled talent, they would say, "Why ever wouldn't you?" I believe that with disabled people increasingly willing to express themselves and talk about their experiences, more and more employers are going through that game-changing mindset shift. That's a great thing, but we've still got many more battles to fight before we win the war!
Find out more about experiences of employment support amongst disabled people with high support needs. Read our new research report, Working for all?


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1) Get to grips with social media:
Aim to focus on one or two social media sites and to do them well. When beginning your social media campaign think about the persona you want to present and the brand you want to create. Keep personal and professional accounts separate – you never know who will be looking you up in the future!
Facebook allows people to follow you and for you to start building a buzz about your work. Initially invite your friends to follow you and ask them to encourage others to do the same.
Twitter readily enables you to reach a wider audience. Follow other writers and those people who may be your future readers, they may follow back. Use hash tags such as #amwriting and those relating to your book. Aim to be interested in others and interesting yourself. Check out opportunities for promotion such as @TheAuthorHour.
You Tube is becoming hugely popular as the place to promote yourself and your work. You can record and post interviews, events, and things relating to you, your research and your book. Aim to post regularly and to promote when your posts will appear through your other social media pages.
Pinterest or Instagram may be useful if your book or research lends itself to image or photo sharing, especially to drive traffic to your website.
If you decide to undertake a social media advertising campaign, such as Facebook advertising, it is advisable to research what works well before you begin.
2) Create a professional website that reflects your brand:
Create a page about you, your books, where to buy them and helpful reviews. Include a press page providing professional photographs of you, your book cover and useful links for those wishing to write about you or your work; you can also link to existing articles from here.
3) Get reviews – connect with book bloggers:
Research book bloggers who enjoy your genre. Follow them on social media, read their blog and follow their review policy. Make your request personal and don't hassle them; almost all book bloggers are doing it in their spare time because they love books. Once you have a review be grateful, add it to your website and link to it from your own social media.
4) Contact local papers, magazines and radio stations:
Local papers and magazines will write about you if you provide them with an angle, an article and a photograph. Check out their website and always approach them politely following their guidelines. Don't be afraid to give it a try, most are more welcoming than you might think.
With local radio it is useful to have a link to something they are covering on their show as a way in. Consider things in the news, or future discussions they are promoting.
5) Find fellow authors:
There is safety in numbers, so working with fellow authors can be of benefit. I met the Chindi, Chichester Independent Authors, group and have worked with them on promotional events. We have monthly meetings and a private forum (where we share ideas) as well as our public pages http://www.chindi-authors.co.uk.
Obviously these are just starting points to bulid upon but if you are starting out I hope you find some of them useful.
Carol Thomas lives on the south coast of England with her husband, four children and excitable young Labrador. Carol has taught in the primary sector for many years and works as a copywriter for commercial websites. She has a passion for reading, writing and people watching and can often be found loitering in local cafés, drinking too much tea and working on her next book.
Carol has two books coming out in 2017, the first is a children's picture book called Finding a Friend and the second is a contemporary romance novel, currently titled Regret Me Not.
Love can drive you crazy... in more ways than one!
When Abby met Simon, a drink in the uni bar lead to keeping in touch, late-night phone calls and intimate catch-ups. It was the start of something special, a love Abby believed would last a lifetime.
A wedding, two daughters and fifteen years later, Abby's world is falling apart. Having discovered Simon has had an affair, her normally ordered mind is spiralling out of control. Crushed by the betrayal and shocked by her own reaction, she knows she needs to get herself together; she's just not sure where to start.
With Simon on a mission to win her back and a close friend hiding a secret that could push her further over the edge, Abby finds strength and support where she least expects it. But as she attempts to gain control of her life and make decisions about her future, it may be more than the limits of Abby's mind that are put to the test!
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Event Archive - 22nd Century, Jesus Krysler, The Factory Sessions, Redrick Sultan (duo)
Event CategoriesMusic: Pop / Rock / Indie, Punk / Metal / Hardcore, Tribute / Cover
22nd Century - SPRING CONCERTO - Hosted by Jesus Krysler with the Redrick Sultan duo and special guests
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THree veterans of the west coast music scene pumping out loud, 4/4 time hard rock with a cynical and infectious style. 22nd Century plays venues from New York to L.A. and usually sells out. If you like Foo Fighters, GreenDay and Nirvana, you'll like them. more info
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Jesus Krysler is soulful rock trio from British Columbia who has been steadily climbing in to the indie music spotlight in Canada. With no prescribed formula, the group comprises skillful guitar work with solid song structure and has put forth a strong third album with their 'Rock 'n Roll, What's that?' mixed by Mike Fraser and mastered by ... more info


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Unknown Monochrome Ribbon shown when using Color Ribbon on Zebra Performance Line Card Printers.
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Ribbon type showing as unknown with using Color Ribbon in Zebra Performance Line Card Printers
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Zebra P330i and P430i Card Printers
When installing a new ribbon it is important that the ribbon be placed all the way onto the ribbon supply spindle. The Flanged side of the ribbon has a white sticker on it with ribbon information such as part number, ribbon type and lot number.
This needs to be loaded onto the spindle first so that it is against the wall of the printer. "see Appendix A for how to load the ribbon"
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After a great whitewater experience in Turkey we went to Georgia. It was like a different world. The roads are bad, people are driving crazy, and you have to be careful for cows on the road. 4 wheel drive is strongly recommended. The pictures in the gallery show only a fraction of Georgia's amazing nature and beautiful rivers! The rivers are suitable for any kind of whitewater paddlers and people are very kind and helpful.
The water levels were pretty high. We started kayaking in Adjara region. First we paddled the Kintrishi River, which was really magical, with crystal clear water and all the rhododendrons beside. Then we paddled a nice fast creek called Machakhlistskali and Chvanistskali. We also went to Bzhuzha River which offers different levels of difficulties, perfect for organising a race. It was held by Two Blades adventures and Georgian National kayaking federation. Matjaz finished up 8th , Luka was 11th with some misunderstanding, but it didn't really matter, we had a great time there! After that we went to the capital city Tbilisi, which is an amazing old city. Later we went to the massive Rioni river and their side streams which were just great.
Georgia offers a lot of versatile and high-quality whitewater. From small crystal clear creeks to fast, high volume rivers. The best thing about it is the short distance between them. Or at least on the map… you can easily drive 20 km for 2 hours.
After 14 days of kayaking in Georgia, we wanted to sell our van there, and go back with a plane. It didn't work out so easy, so we had to drive back to Slovenia and we made extra 3000 km.
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Gnarly (as in awesome) tale about the great whites lurking about the Farallon Islands 20 miles west of San Francisco. Casey gets hooked on the place after seeing a BBC documentary of the Shark Watch project in the 90s, and eventually obtains a permit to visit the island, meets with Peter and Scot (the bird/shark experts), and obsesses about learning more and becoming part of the crew. Peter decides she can rent a sailboat and be the water-born part of the shark expedition, mooring off the island (and thus not subject to all the rules and permits of the sanctuary). Lots of research went into this tale, diving into the history of the islands themselves (they used to have a school and small population, the Egg Wars, nuclear waste dumped nearby, etc.). But the true stars of the book are the sharks themselves, massive 15-20 foot monsters investigating the trailing decoy surfboards, spilling dark pools of seal blood into the sea, circling and creating awe wherever they appear.
The Farallons is one of the few places where great whites are known to congregate year after year (Sept thru November), and thus the perfect place to study the species. After a few years of tagging, GPS sensors were able to track where they went post-Farallons, and they discovered that sharks also congregate at a spot in the middle of the ocean, far from anything, and presumed to be hard-coded into their 400 million year old DNA as a mating ground.
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18-Pound Crucifix Used to Beat Woman
ROCKVILLE, Md. (AP) A Maryland man has been convicted of attempted murder for beating his estranged girlfriend at least 20 times with an 18-pound crucifix taken off an apartment wall.
County prosecutors said last Thursday that 33-year-old Carlos Ovalle was also convicted a day earlier of burglary, stalking and two violations of a protective order.
Police say Ovalle broke into the woman's apartment in December and jumped out of a closet when she came home, trying to stab and strangle her.
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This weekend I had my first experience with the CodeIgniter v2 framework. I was hoping to be impressed, but as I started digging into it I was severely disappointed. Just from a few hours of peeking into the core system code I noticed a number of things...
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- And comments on other aspects, like the object properties, is completely missing.
- The index.html files littered in every directory are a 10+ years out-of-date method to manually disable directory browsing.
- The config files are numerous, and duplicative. Version 2 didn't support multiple environments out of the box, and even now it's hacked in.
- To create a config for an environment it has to be completely copied, and if any changes are made in one it has to be manually copied to any others.
- It's not very object-orientated. The objects are more like static singletons hacked on top of the controller/view.
- It strikes back to the phase of OOP development where objects are thought of as containers for logic rather than discrete actors of functionality on specific data.
- The objects have a heavy mixing of concerns. For example, the email class contains logic to build an email, and all the methods to send said email. This limits the ability to change the transport layer (to, for example, a file) while still using the same object to build the original message (one has virtually nothing to do with the other).
- It uses functions and static variables in those functions to bind all the objects together.
- I would hate to see how they would try to create automated tests for any of this.
- It attempts to support a 'escape everything' paradigm, which has been shown to be flawed and gives a false sense of security (even PHP is removing and/or disabling that 'feature').
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Near Yet Far: Stars Beyond Reach Now Due In September
Do you remember how Arcen Games had planned to launch their alien 4X strategy game Stars Beyond Reach [official site] on June 5th? Well, yeah, you can guess how that worked out. But this time, for real, for really real, they have a release date: September 25th.
The Last Federation and Valley Without Wind devs decided to delay their new game than release it wonky, figuring that the game being in development longer will cost them less than if they were to released it "substandard". You might think that fairly obvious, but some people nowadays…
Arcen explain in a blog post:
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"And I do think that we can really recoup this. Both TLF and AI War have exceeded the amount it will take to break even on this game, and I think this game will be notably more attractive to customers than TLF – if we finish this up right. As for the total yearly income for the company, I think that the biggest blow would be releasing a substandard game rather than a delay of (sigh, yet another) another month."
They plan to use the delay for polishing, balancing, honing the game's systems, and so on.
A delay's a delay, but do go read the blog post for some interesting chat on why diplomacy in 4X games usually sucks, and how Stars Beyond Reach tries to do it differently.
Here's a short SBR gameplay trailer from a few months back:


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The Wildcats for the Wright Cause Benevolence Fund supports members of the Woodrow Wilson Academy community directly affected by cancer.
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Andrew Higgins' Story – CA
Small Claims Case No. 01WS05885 through negligence lost
and destroyed the remains of my pet dog, Tango.
Superior Court of California
West Justice Center
8141 13th Street
Westminster, CA 92683
December 04, 2001
Higgins, Andrew
Rooks, Robert L.
All-Care Animal Referral Center
Plaintiff's Claim:
Defendant owes me the sum of $5,000.00, not including court costs, because defendant through negligence lost
and destroyed the remains of my pet dog, Tango.
Trial date: 01/14/2002
Judgment was entered on 02/14/2002.
Defendant Rooks, Robert L. & All-Care Animal Referral Center shall pay plaintiff Higgins, Andrew $500.00 plus costs of $80.00.
Judges Comments:
Higgins v. Animal Critical Care
Case submitted
The court denies the request to consolidate. It finds that the cross-complaint served on plaintiff arises from the same set of facts. There is no compulsory cross-complaint in small claims matters. The court believes that the cross-complaint is filed against the plaintiff simply for the purposes of delay and in order to allow defendants discovery which is unavailable in a small claims action.
The court finds as follows:
Defendant misplaced and lost the ashes of Rottie named Tango.
The plaintiff has proven an ownership interest in the dog. The defendant is liable to plaintiff under the following theories of liability.
Breach of contract
Negligent infliction of emotional distress
The court finds that plaintiff suffered emotional distress as a result of the negligently lost ashes of his dog. The court finds that these damages are recoverable under the law based on the following cases.
Windeler v. Scheers Jewelers (1970) 8 Cal. App. 3d 844. This case involves emotional distress recovery arising from the loss of rings with sentimental value. The court found that emotional distress was a foreseeable result of the breach of contract. Similarly, here the loss of Tango's ashes, a dog which the owner spent thousands of dollars to keep alive, was foreseeable to the defendant.
The court also notes the numerous cases in which morticians have been held liable for emotional distress arising from mishandling of corpses. See e.g. Allen v. Jones (1980) 104 Cal. App. 3d 207.
The courts finds that the plaintiff suffered severe emotional distress over the loss of Tango and Tango's ashes. It notes that plaintiff's last bill in excess of $500 has been forgiven by defendants. The court believes that plaintiff's grief is primarily due to the loss of his dog and plaintiff has not received any medical treatment for the loss.
The court awards plaintiff the amount of $500.


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If you travel extensively either for business or leasure, you've heard it over and over and over. The questions that never stops…
Where are you?
Almost without fail, the first question I'm asked when catching up with anyone (on the phone, in person, or via social media channels) is "where are you?" I answer it over and over and over, at least 2-3 times a day it seems.
You care where a lot of people are.
You always care about where your family is. Your close friends. Some influential public figures you'd love to meet. The person you're scheduled to speak with in 30 minutes. Your fraternity brother who happens to be in the same city as you next weekend. The individual interested in kiteboarding and Pearl Jam (if those are two of your interests) arriving in town in 3 days. The super hot girl (or guy) you met in Australia 6 months ago and still have a crush on.
But you don't care where everyone is. Not your friend across the country you haven't seen in 3 years. Not your fraternity brother you would rather not see again. Not the random guy you met in Asia 3 years ago. Not someone you haven't seen since high school currently in China.
Wouldn't it be great to have one place that answers the "where are you?" question no matter who you are wondering about?
Right now, the process to answering the "where are you?" question comes down to one of the following:
- Hope that the person you're wondering about either emailed, called, or texted you — but we all know this is a very small use case. Unless you're a close family or friend, this literally never happens.
- Hunt around Facebook for the last status update that includes a location
- Hunt around on their blog to find out where they currently are. In many cases, even once you find it, the most recent location is wrong (my personal blog fits in this category)
- Call, email, or text them and ask them.
- Continue wondering where they are for eternity until you hear from them…
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VSTO 'v3' CTP Released
As you can imagine, we're working hard on the early stages of our Orcas release of Visual Studio. VSTO is the one SKU of Visual Studio that is closely aligned with Office. So, as we make our CTP (Community Technology Preview) releases between now and Orcas RTM, we'll aim to align them with Office releases.
Bill Gates announced the first VSTO CTP release at the Office Developer Conference this week. This build of VS is based on the Whidbey (VS 2005) release, and built against Office 2007 beta1 Tech Refresh. In order to get this CTP, you need to have the Office 2007 beta1 TR. Only customers currently registered with the Office 2007 beta 1 program (including the Office DevCon attendees) are able to install this CTP. If you're not on this program, you'll have to wait for a later CTP release which will be available to the general public.
The download itself, including an extensive readme is here.
A covering tutorial is here.
The primary goal of this CTP is to give Office 2007 beta 1 TR developers an early glimpse at some of the key new features and feature directions in the area of Office programmability. The next version of VSTO is designed to help developers take better advantage of those new capabilities in Office 2007, as well as to provide additional infrastructure to ensure .NET solutions in Office run more reliably, efficiently and securely. Feature highlights of _this_ CTP release:
- We've extensively strengthened the underlying VSTO runtime.
- We've changed over to use the new Office Open XML file format - no more hidden runtime storage control.
- We have add-in projects (both design-time and runtime support) for app-level add-ins for all the Office apps that support COM add-ins (10 of them).
- Runtime support for the new Office 2007 UI extensibility features (app-level custom task panes, customizable ribbons, Outlook custom form regions).
- Minimal design-time support for customizable ribbons only (design-time support always lags behind runtime support, and we'll be focusing on design-time in later CTP releases).
Note: As with any pre-release software, you should not install the VSTO 'v3' CTP on a production machine. Uninstalling this CTP might not bring your computer back to its original state. Hence, it is strongly recommended that you either set up a separate computer for this purpose, or create a backup image of your computer, before installing any of the software referenced here. Alternatively, use a Virtual PC.
Eventually, the next version of VSTO will be an independent product, much like the previous versions. Currently however, this CTP is available only as an update to Visual Studio 2005. Therefore, in order to install this CTP, you will also need a spare licensed copy of either VSTO 2005 or VSTS 2005. If you do not have one, then you may download and install VSTS 180-Day Trial at no cost from here. You will also need to install Microsoft WinFX Runtime Components - February CTP, which you can get here.