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The New England Aquarium
The New England Aquarium
Jan. 11, 1921: Interior of the Marine Park Aquarium, the third aquarium in Boston's history, which operated from 1912-1954. It opened to the public on Thanksgiving Day. Nov. 28, 1912. Standing on Marine Park, directly opposite the end of East 3d Street, the aquarium was built and maintained from the income of the Parkman fund, which was devoted to park purposes of Boston. The exhibition tanks, shown here, were about 6 feet wide and 4 feet high. The salt water fish lived on one side and the fresh water on the other.
April 8, 1968: The New England Aquarium on Central Wharf, which was slated to open May 25, 1968, is shown the week after a five-alarm fire gutted the wooden structure owned by the aquarium on nearby Long Wharf. Only rubble remained and the fire destroyed membership records and designs and materials for the first set of exhibits, which included valuable underseas photographs. The fire was just the first in a series of setbacks. Problems with the piping system required all the pipes to the Giant Ocean Tank, the museum's centerpiece, to be replaced, and the aquarium did not officially open until its grand celebration on June 20, 1969.
Feb. 26, 1973: Stephen Genthe, 5, from Newark, N.J., enjoyed the antics of the penguins on their fake snowy "icebergs." Ten black-footed penguins were shipped from South Africa to the aquarium for the opening in 1969. The birds, which cost $80 each, took a two-day flight without food or water. They would have become ill if fed or watered in flight. By the time this photo was taken, they were well-accustomed to their new home in Boston.
May 8, 1979: "Dolphins of the Sea," a bronze sculpture by Katharine Lane Weems, was readied for permanent berth at the aquarium. Completed when Weems was 80 years old, the sculpture was the first work of art to be placed on permanent display in the waterfront renewal project.
March 26, 1980: Head dolphin trainer Patricia Fiorelli got two of her dolphins to stand on their tails during the popular dolphin show held in the ship, Discovery, that was moored next to the aquarium. In 1991, the aquarium dropped its dolphin exhibit. At that time, they had one 12-year-old female dolphin who needed company other than the two adolescent male dolphins in the tank, and the facilities were too small to add more of these animals. So the female was sent to the Brookfield Zoo in Chicago and the males were sent to the Dolphin Research Center at Marathon Key, Fla.
May 16, 1984: A view from the top floor of the construction of the renovation of the Great Ocean Tank that featured the largest artificial coral reef system in the country. Two years in development, the fiberglass reef was the height of the existing four-story tank and held 200,000 gallons of filtered Boston Harbor water. It was stocked with 80 species of fish, nearly tripling the number held in the tank previously. The coral itself was constructed and handpainted by aquarium artists with colors ranging from bright red to purple.


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By Lisa Capobianco
Staff Writer
The former property of Ideal Forging is one step closer to redevelopment as environmental cleaning took place during the past several weeks at the abandoned property.
Meridian Development Partners reported that a variety of manufacturing chemicals and oils were removed along with hundreds of fluorescent light ballasts that were left by Ideal Forging when it abandoned the site during bankruptcy.
Meridian Architect Howard Schlesinger said ground water remediation is expected to begin in the coming weeks, followed by preparations for demolition and remediation.
Economic Development Coordinator Lou Perillo said residents and local businesses have been anxiously waiting for the Greenway Commons Project to move forward. Before the environmental clean up, there has been little activity since August 2011 when some buildings on the property were demolished.
Earlier this year, town and state officials approved a "tax increment financing district" for the Greenway Commons Project. The plan is to turn the property into a residential area with at least 250 condominium units and some retail space.
"I think the response is going to be very positive," Perillo said. "We've seen a high level of interest in a pedestrian-friendly living space."
Perillo thinks the Greenway Commons Project will attract a younger demographic, especially for college graduates. He said the project's location has a lot to offer young adults since it will be near all the shops, restaurants and other businesses downtown.
"There's a trend that is shying away from small, suburban lots," Perillo said. "It seems that in that demographic there's less use of the automobile [and] more physical involvement."
Cleaning Ideal Forging; Environmental cleanup done at site
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By using AudioIQ, one of the leading noise canceling technologies, the Plantronics Discovery 925 has a leg up on the competition. Included in the package is a rechargeable case that lets you power up the headset in style. The design of the product is meant to be eye-catching and progressive at the same time. Three different ear-tip sizes allow for a more secure and comfortable fit. A long battery life is the final addition that this product utilizes to ensure that conversations last as long as they need to.
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text: It may not be as flashy as Samsung's eight-core Exynos 5 Octa processor, but Qualcomm's Snapdragon 600 is a worthy successor to the ultra-prevalent Snapdragon S4 mobile SoC from 2012. The Snapdragon 600 was released earlier this year but is already powering some of the top smartphones on the market, including the HTC One, the LG Optimus G Pro and select models of the Samsung Galaxy S4. The 28-nm quad core CPU runs at up to 1.9GHz and also comes with an Adreno320 GPU, plus integrated LTE, Bluetooth 4.0 and 802.11n/ac wireless support. Designed to improve the Snapdragon's performance per watt and power-optimization, the 600 model is a worthy successor to the Snapdragon S4.


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This weekend marks the opening of the Harry Potter section at Islands of Adventure and all the dweebs running off to Hogwarts are in a frenzy!
I have not read any of these shitty books but I have seen these shitty movies and I can only assume that this will be a shitty park. Hey, I don't care if you fairies want to ride around on brooms and wear hats that tell you what gang you belong to. Come to my hood and the Latin Kings will show Slytherin what's up.
The park has butterbeer and disgusting flavors of jellybeans that include earwax and vomit. The only time anyone should eat earwax and vomit is when they are down on their luck and doing snuff porno flicks. Which is where Hermione will be heading after the Deathly Hollows ends its run.
Want to look like a total idiot in the 100 degree heat? Well you can purchase a wizard robe for 100 bucks and an "official" wand for 30. Just think for the low, low price of 130 dollars PLUS your admission price you can walk around in the sweltering Florida heat looking like a total douchebag.
There are redesigned roller coasters and water rides which I'm sure will have a longer wait than the Gulf cleanup effort. Hopefully, those redheaded twins who are clearly drug dealers… will come around with something that will make this experience somewhat enjoyable.
Yes, I will be seeing all this crap next weekend, so hopefully I will save the 300 dollars for my very own Firebolt before then. What will I do with it you ask? Find the CEO of BP and shove it up his English ass of course… now pass me another butterbeer.


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Missing some doses of the diphtheria, tetanus toxoid, and acellular pertussis (DTaP) vaccine increases the risk of whooping cough in young children, researchers found.
In a case-control study, children ages 3 to 36 months who missed three doses of the DTaP vaccine were nearly 19 times more likely to develop pertussis than those appropriately vaccinated, and those who missed four doses were 28 times more likely to develop the disease, Jason Glanz, PhD, of Kaiser Permanente Colorado, and colleagues reported online in JAMA Pediatrics.
"Not surprisingly, we found that the risk of pertussis greatly increased as undervaccination with DTaP vaccine increased," they wrote.
Undervaccination is an increasing trend, for a variety of reasons, including parental choice, barriers to healthcare, and medical contraindication. But researchers believe this trend is putting children and communities at heightened risk of serious infectious diseases -- as evidenced by recent outbreaks of pertussis across the U.S.
To examine the associations between undervaccination and pertussis in children 3 to 36 months old, Glanz and colleagues looked at data from eight managed care organizations in the Vaccine Safety Datalink between 2004 and 2010.
They matched each of 72 laboratory-confirmed cases of pertussis with four randomly selected patients for a total of 288 controls.
The authors defined undervaccination for the DTaP vaccine as missing or delaying one or more of the first four doses by the recommended age.
Glanz and colleagues found that of the 72 cases, 34 were undervaccinated for DTaP, amounting to nearly half of all cases (47.22%).
By comparison, only 22.22% of the 288 matched controls had been undervaccinated.
Almost a third (29.41%) of the undervaccinated kids that developed pertussis had an administrative code for parental vaccine refusal or delay, suggesting the parents "had intentionally refused or delayed vaccine doses for personal, nonmedical reasons," they wrote.
In further analyses, Glanz and colleagues found a dose-response relationship, where the risk of pertussis rose with greater magnitude of undervaccination with DTap -- although this was only significant with a higher number of doses missed:
- One missed dose: OR 2.25, 95% CI 0.97 to 5.24, P=0.06
- Two missed doses: OR 3.41, 95% CI 0.89 to 13.05, P=0.07
- Three missed doses: OR 18.56, 95% CI 4.92 to 69.96, P<0.001
- Four missed doses: OR 28.38, 95% CI 3.19 to 252.63, P=0.002
Attributable risk calculations suggested that about 36% of pertussis cases among children in this age group could have been prevented with on-time vaccination for the DTaP vaccine.
Glanz and colleagues said their data suggest that undervaccination, "whether due to parental refusal of vaccines or other barriers to healthcare, is an important contributing factor" in recent pertussis outbreaks across the country.
"We believe that our study supports on-time vaccination with DTaP vaccine, as recommended by the Advisory Committee on Immunization Practices," they wrote.
The study was supported through America's Health Insurance Plans and the CDC.
The researchers reported no conflicts of interest.
- Reviewed by F. Perry Wilson, MD, MSCE Instructor of Medicine, Perelman School of Medicine at the University of Pennsylvania and Dorothy Caputo, MA, BSN, RN, Nurse Planner
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This Centre offers many opportunities to get active, focus on health and wellness, and enjoy time with family, friends and neighbours. Conveniently located on McCowan Road at Bullock Drive next to Centennial GO Station and Markville Mall, Centennial Community Centre has something for everyone.
This facility features a state-of-the-art health and fitness centre, a pool with a diving tank that offers swimming lessons plus drop-in lane and recreational swimming, an ice rink and a gymnasium, an outdoor skate park and indoor bocce courts. There are also a range of rooms for rent, including a banquet hall and lounge.
8600 McCowan Road
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Phone: 905-470-3590
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Generally, the Community Centre can be accessed 6:00 AM – 12:00 AM Monday – Sunday. Click here for holiday hours of operation.
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Why not try our fitness centre? With state-of-the-art equipment, squash courts, group fitness classes, and access to the City's indoor running/walking tracks, public swimming and skating, this membership will suit everyone's health and wellness needs.
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I'm going to a breastfeeding support meeting at the local hospital tomorrow. My 17-day-old daughter's breastfeeding habits suddenly changed this weekend, and it's not working too well for either of us. I wanted to ask you guys if you've had any of these experiences and whether there was a solution, and if there's something I'm missing that I should ask about tomorrow at the support group.
Here's what's going on:
-Big, healthy girl who started latching, feeding, and wetting/dirtying her diapers perfectly from day 1
-My milk came in hard and fast
-She developed thrush in her second week
-Baby is on oral nystatin (side effects can include nausea and diarrhea). I'm using a topical nystatin/triamcinolone cream twice daily and an oral fluconazole tablet once a week
-After a couple of days on the medications, she suddenly became fussy and some of her stools were green and a different texture. Now she grunts and strains and kicks, but without producing a bowel movement--last night she had five runny poops in half an hour and then didn't have any for 12 hours when it picked up green again (wet diapers are still happening frequently)
-At the same time, she stopped latching properly. She sucks the nipple in and spits it out over and over, head-bangs on my breast but won't open her mouth to root for the nipple, sucks in air with every swallow of milk, and falls asleep as soon as the nipple is in her mouth. Then she spits it out and won't take the nipple again--for all of half an hour, when she starts screaming bloody murder and we start the process over. I've started feeding her in reclining and upright positions, and when she quits I burp her and try to get her to latch again or take the other breast, but no luck
So is it most likely too much foremilk? An upset tummy from the nystatin? Both? Or just a fussy baby and I need to tough it out? Or could there be something else going on?
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Biology Faculty and Staff
Mary Kostalos Ph.D.
Faculty Emeritus
Hometown : Pittsburgh, PA
Joined Chatham : 1973
Academic Areas of Interest
Stream monitoring, aquatic invertebrates
Personal Areas of Interest
Running, Outdoor activities, Reading
I am an ecologist by training and inclination and am also an environmental activist. I have been involved in local environmental issues since before Earth Day, 1970. I am particularly interested in water qualilty issues. My current research is concerned with monitoring the restoration area of Nine Mile Run, a local wtershed.
- Ph.D., Univeristy of Pittsburgh, 1971
- B.S.(Honors), Chatham College(Pittsburgh, PA), 1967
- The Wilson J. of Ornithology.(2007) Newell, Felicity and Mary S. Kostalos
- FROGLOG(Newsketter of the Declining Amphibian Task Force).(2002) Haney, J and M. Kostalos.
- J of Undergrad Research.(2002) Anderson, Amy, Joseph MacNeil , and Mary Kostalos
- NSF MSP Grant to improve Math and Science ed(K-12), co-PI(2003-2009)
- NSF Women in Science Grant(Director), 1981-1983
- Grwoing Greener Grant through the Nine Mile Run Watershed Association, 2005
- Chatham College Distinguished Almna Award, 2007
- American Institute of Biological Sciences
- Ecological Society of America
- Chair of Science Division: 1993-1994
- Director, Environmental Studies Program, Chatham U.: 1992-1997
- Founding Director, Rachel Carson Institute at Chatham University, 1989-1991
- Kostalos, Mary. Taming Storm Water Runoff and its Pollution Problems, Invited lecture as part of the Science Serving the Environment Lecture Series, Oglebay Institute Schrader Center, October, 2008


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Subscription license grants Atmel access to ARM Cortex processor IP
San Jose, CA, May 20, 2009 – Atmel® Corporation (Nasdaq: ATML) and ARM [(LSE: ARM); (Nasdaq: ARMH)] today announced an extension to their strategic relationship with a new subscription license agreement. Under the terms of the agreement, Atmel gains access to a number of existing and future ARM® Cortex™ processors for use in products aimed at a broad variety of applications and markets.
The subscription license agreement is an extension of the long-term relationship between the two companies and reinforces Atmel's commitment to the ARM architecture, complementing its existing licenses for the ARM7TDMI®, ARM926EJ-S™, and ARM1176JZ-S™ processors, and most recently, the Cortex-M3 processor.
"The agreement with Atmel demonstrates the exceptional momentum behind the ARM Cortex family of processors," said Eric Schorn, vice president, marketing, Processor Division, ARM. "We look forward to working closely with Atmel as it introduces new designs and enhancements in products ranging from microcontrollers through to high-end system solutions."
"This new agreement is the next phase in the long-term and highly fruitful working relationship between Atmel and ARM," said Alfredo Vadillo, Atmel's managing director for ARM microcontrollers. "It secures the roadmap for future members of our industry-leading ARM processor-based product family. Our ARM products capitalize on the ease of application development thanks to the code compatibility across the ARM architecture, and to the vast and growing support ecosystem that exists around ARM processor-based microcontrollers and embedded microprocessors. This is a supplement to our strong AVR® and AVR®32 microcontroller portfolio," he concluded.
About Atmel
Atmel is a worldwide leader in the design and manufacture of microcontrollers, advanced logic, mixed-signal, nonvolatile memory and radio frequency (RF) components. Leveraging one of the industry's broadest intellectual property (IP) technology portfolios, Atmel is able to provide the electronics industry with complete system solutions focused on consumer, industrial, security, communications, computing and automotive markets.
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ARM designs the technology that lies at the heart of advanced digital products, from wireless, networking and consumer entertainment solutions to imaging, automotive, security and storage devices. ARM's comprehensive product offering includes 32-bit RISC microprocessors, graphics processors, video engines, enabling software, cell libraries, embedded memories, high-speed connectivity products, peripherals and development tools. Combined with comprehensive design services, training, support and maintenance, and the company's broad Partner community, they provide a total system solution that offers a fast, reliable path to market for leading electronics companies. More information on ARM is available at http://www.arm.com.
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C'mon Seb....take it all the way.
Kimi, c'mon dude, beat Ricci to the first turn and play d-fence.
Forza Ferrari.
C'mon Seb....take it all the way.
Kimi, c'mon dude, beat Ricci to the first turn and play d-fence.
Forza Ferrari.
Seb to drive off for a comfortable win, Kimi to keep Hamilton behind
have a Bad feeling :( , but hoping for the victory none the less
Sitting at turn 1 for the race. Dark clouds still hovering and the tension is unbearable, hoping Seb gets a good start and controls the race.
i want it dry as possible if seb is at the front
Hoping for a win for Seb, podium (second place for Kimi) and that third podium place can go to anyone except Lewis.
And as Italians would say, sempre e comunque forza Ferrari!
Brundle thinks the mercs won't even be able to keep up with kimi if they don't jump him at the start.
rain starting again
rain oh no
Light rain..Likely to stop 15 minutes from start
#PrayforMH370 #KeepFightingSchumi
Mercs have soft new tyres, so more laps safety cars take away the better they will be with the 1stopper strategy, ferrari n rb dont have soft tyres
Ferrari were good on inters. So looks like inters as it is slight rain.
Oh dear, here we go again!
According to the UK's Channel 4 coverage, because its raining in Singapore, Lewis Hamilton has already won the race 45 minutes before it has even started!
Apparently, Hamilton is the only driver who can drive in the wet!
Hopefully it starts under safety car


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Moriel Rothman - 2012
Name: Moriel Rothman
Age: 23
Location: Jerusalem
Why I am one of the Shministim:
"…But it cannot be said lightly, the time has long passed for gentle language and "hear-able" rhetoric: The Occupation– which is the IDF's primary function these days- is cruelty and injustice manifest. The Occupation is anti-God, anti-Love and staggeringly, constantly violent. The Occupation is based on a system of racial/ethnic separation that does, in fact, resemble South African Apartheid and segregation in the Southern United States until the 1960s. And this "temporary" Occupation is not "on its way out," but is rather growing in strength every single day. There is almost zero political will within Israel's government to end it, and the Israeli public has largely accepted the status quo, in which the occupation is basically a theoretical question, and one of which many have grown tired. But the occupation can only be theoretical if you are not occupied, and thus my refusal to support the occupation by serving in the IDF is also an act of solidarity with Palestinians living under occupation."


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The Republican-controlled Missouri House endorsed a pair of measures Wednesday that would expand early voting, though Democratic critics called it a "sham" that could circumvent a separate voting initiative that would go further.
The Republican-controlled Missouri House endorsed a pair of measures Wednesday that would expand early voting, though Democratic critics called it a "sham" that could circumvent a separate voting initiative that would go further.
Missourians currently can cast absentee ballots under limited circumstances, including if they will be out of town on Election Day.
The proposal that won first-round approval Wednesday would send a constitutional amendment, HJR 90, to the ballot allowing early voting for nine days and ending the week before the election. Companion legislation, HB 2271, would call for polls to be open weekdays from 8 a.m. to 5 p.m. and on Saturday for four hours.
Separately, the Missouri Early Voting Fund is attempting to gather thousands of required signatures from registered voters in hopes of getting its proposal on this year's ballot. That measure would allow early voting for six weeks and require officials accommodate early voting on Saturday and Sunday for the final 21 days before federal or state elections.
A former chief of staff for Attorney General Chris Koster is the campaign's treasurer, and the group is using professional petition circulators and volunteers to obtain signatures.
Some Democratic lawmakers said a meaningful early voting period would be longer than the House's proposal. They said Sundays have been the most popular day for early voting in other states.
Rep. Randy Dunn said politics are at play.
"This is a sham. It is an attempt to trick the voters into thinking they're getting something they are not," said Dunn, D-Kansas City.
Rep. Tony Dugger, who is sponsoring the House proposal, said opening polls on Sunday would mean requiring many state and local election officials to be working that day.
"I don't think Sunday is a good day to be voting," said Dugger, R-Hartville.
The House's constitutional amendment and companion bill require another vote before moving to the state Senate. The bill would go to Gov. Jay Nixon if it wins final legislative approval and the constitutional amendment would go on the ballot. It would appear on the November ballot unless Nixon sets a different election date. If supporters of the initiative petition gather sufficient valid signatures, that measure will appear on the November ballot.
Missouri law states that if conflicting constitutional amendments pass at the same election, the measure receiving the largest affirmative vote takes effect.
The Legislature referred a two-part constitutional amendment to the 2012 ballot to authorize voter photo ID and early voting laws, but it never appeared before voters because a judge struck down legislators' summary of the measure.


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A Dragon Study
-By Justin Gerard
Sometimes, before I begin a painting, I will do a study of the subject from the painting just as a warm-up. Why? Because like most artists, I lost my mind a long, long time ago.
If I'm being positive about it, I tell myself that it's like a color study, but with a portrait mixed in. If I'm being realistic with myself, I know it's more like delayed adolescence; just another way of not actually getting started.
But today is not a day for being realistic with oneself! Let's be honest: Nobody paints dragons to be realistic with ones self. You paint dragons to escape! You paint dragons to imagine a world filled with one great challenge, which while daunting, can be met and defeated, the outcome of which, is total victory over the forces of wickedness and entropy. That's why we paint dragons!
For this painting I will be working in acrylics. I use a mixture of Golden Open acrylics for glazes, and heavy body acrylics for details and highlights. The video below shows the general progress taken for laying in shadows and colors and then detailing over them. (I apologize for the complete silence. I have no video-editing skills. I made this out of bailing wire and matchsticks)
The final product is quite small (4" x 6") but has gotten me really excited to begin the actual painting. I feel more grounded and confident knowing what colors I will be using to slay this beast. As I said before, we want a challenge that is daunting but that we know we can accomplish. That is what these studies are about. Ensuring victory through practice. (Well that and truly committing ourselves to madness)
Next post:
The actual painting!
For now, here is a sneak peak of the color comp and drawing.
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Smashing Plates by Maria Elia
The angle: Shake up your idea of Greek cuisine, one dish at a time
Recipes for right now: Cauliflower Soup with Fava Beans, Feta, Almonds, Mint, and Lemon; Wild Greens, Macaroni, and Cheese; Kalamata Olive Gnocchi; Lamb, Orange, and Chile Kebabs; Feta Polenta; Carrot Tabbouleh; Blackberry and Ouzo Sorbet; Apricot and Orange Blossom Meringues
Who would enjoy this book? Cooks who love the flavors of Greek cuisine, cooks in the mood for a bit of armchair-travel cooking.
Quick Facts
• Who wrote it: Maria Elia
• Who published it: Kyle Books
• Number of recipes: 120
• Other highlights: A lot of cookbooks come across my desk, and a fair number of them claim to be a "modern" take on a traditional cuisine. Most of these leave my desk without making much of an impression. Smashing Plates is different.
Maria Elia starts by pairing the Greek cuisine of her heritage down to its essential flavors and ingredients: fava beans, rose water, mint, fennel, tomatoes, olives, Greek coffee, yogurt, figs, lamb, octopus (and so many more). Then she puts them back together again in surprising and alluring ways — combinations that nod to traditional Greek dishes, but aren't afraid to move beyond them. This is how we get dishes like seared scallops with watermelon, zucchini-coated calamari, and a savory baklava pie with tomatoes and string beans. I love it all.
There's an emphasis on shared dishes in this book — small plates and sharing plates, party-pleasing sides and big desserts — but the recipes still feel simple and elegant. The recipes aren't necessarily "shared" in the dinner party sense, but rather "shared" in the sense of sitting down together at the table. Some recipes are definitely more involved, but plenty could be made on a weeknight with a little bit of planning or even thrown together spur of the moment.
I'm so glad to have discovered this cookbook just as we're jumping into the fresh fruits and vegetables of summer. I can already tell that it will become a favorite before the season is over.
Find the book at your local library, independent bookstore, or Amazon: Smashing Plates by Maria Elia
• Visit the author's website: Maria Elia
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Physically moving a project in a Visual Studio solution has always been cumbersome. It's often needed if you rename your [insert favorite language] project's folder.
In previous versions of Visual Studio, you would move the project into the new location and either :
That's been an annoying situation, but that could be worked around.
But every time, you'd lose your solution wide settings, such as default startup project or build configuration. And if you have many build configuration, I think you understand the pain of restoring all these settings properly.
Fortunately, there's been a very small change in VS2012 that allows to provide a new location of a project file, if it failed to load because it was not found.
@MatthieuMEZIL is a fellow MVP and friend of mine, and back in february at the MVP summit we shared our mutual interests with Rx on my side, and Roslyn on his side.
I've yet to blog about Roslyn, (even though a blog post is in preparation) but he started using Rx and is a bit blogging about it.
Now, Rx is a tricky beast and there are many ways to do the same thing. I've promised Matthieu I'd give him a few tricks on how to improve his code. Now that I do have a bit of time, here it is.
TL;DR: Windows 8 added support for SSD TRIM commands in its VHDX format, making very easy to boot from a virtual drive on an SSD drive. This allows to never install Windows directly on a physical disk anymore, easing backups, cloning and virtualization. It also allows for very easy migration between different versions of Windows 8.
It's been a very interesting year with Windows 8. We've been fed with two new releases since the Build conference, the Consumer Preview and Release Preview, and now it's the RTM that's coming along in August.
With all these releases to play with, it's a game of install, re-install and co-existence of multiple windows instances on my machine.
I do not like losing to much time staring at my computer while it reinstalls everything from scratch, particularly Visual Studio, and both booting a physical machine from VHD and/or virtualizing it Hyper-V has been very helpful to save time.
TL;DR: This article discusses the differences between async Task and async void, and how async void methods and async void lambdas, used outside the DispatcherSynchronizationContext, can crash the process if exceptions are not handled.
You can also read the part 3, Tasks and the Synchronization Context.
In the first part of the series, we discussed the behavior of async methods. The second part discusses how async Task and async void methods can differ in behavior, while seemingly being similar.
Async methods can be authored in three different ways:
async Task MyMethod() { }
which creates a method that can be awaited, but does not return any value,
async Task<T> MyReturningMethod { return default(T); }
which creates a method that can be awaited, and returns a value of the type T,
async void MyFireAndForgetMethod() { }
which is allows for fire and forget methods, and cannot be awaited.
You may be wondering why there are two ways to declare a void returning method. Read on.
Cet article est aussi disponible en francais.
TL;DR: This article is a discussion about how C#5.0 async captures the executing context when running an async method, which allows to easily stay on the UI Thread to access UI elements, but can be problematic when running CPU-bound work. Off of the UI thread, an async method may jump from thread to thread, breaking thread context dependent code along with it.
You can also read : Part 2, Async void
C# 5.0 has introduced, language-wise, just two of new features (async and caller information) and a gotcha fix (a lambda lifted foreach loop variable scope change).
The biggest addition though, in terms of compiler magic, is the addition async. It's been covered all over the place, and I will just comment the addition feature by itself, and the impacts it has when using it.
This article is the first of a small series about some C# async tricks and gotchas that I will try to cover to give a bit of insight, and hopefully help developers avoid them.
TL;DR: Microsoft introduced the Multicore JIT, which allows the recording of JITted methods during the startup of the app. This recording can be packaged in a Metro Style app for faster startup on Multicore CPUs by performing background compilation. Improvements range between 20% to 50%.
Since the beginning of the year, I've had the chance to work with some very interesting people at Microsoft, and one of the feature that came out from them was about the use of a new .NET 4.5 feature called Multicore JIT in Metro Style apps.
Cet article est disponible en francais.
As would say this guy, since you've most probably been using threads the wrong way (as Microsoft seems to think), you won't be able to use the Thread class anymore in Metro Style applications. The class is simply not available anymore, and neither are Timer or ThreadPool.
That may come a shock to you, but this actually makes a lot of sense. But don't worry, the concept of parallel execution is still there, but it takes the form of Tasks.
Threads are very powerful but there are a lot of terrible gotchas that come with it :
There are some more, but these a main scenarios where using Threads fall short.
TL;DR: This article talks about an app startup error that can happen with Metro Style apps in Windows 8, how the presence of an app.config file can prevent the app from starting and how the Windows event log viewer's new Immersive-Shell section can help.
The Windows 8 Metro style Xaml/C# application development is an interesting experience.
Since .NET is merely on top of a WinRT and its native structure, you're left in a bit of a darkness sometimes, when it comes to debugging problems that come from WinRT.
Silverlight and Windows Phone also have their fair share of blind issues of this kind, either by having the application that exits with no apparent reason (when it is in fact a StackOverflow) or because you've set two namespaces names with the same content.
You've basically left at guessing, particularly on Windows Phone and Silverlight for the desktop, and if you're lucky enough you're having a error code that specific enough so that you can narrow your solution to a dozen google can find for you. If you're not, well you've got a E_ERROR. Fail, as they say.
Windows 8 is actually a bit better at that, because of the Event Viewer. There's a lot of details that appear there, and it's very informative.
TL;DR: This article talks about the internals of the WinRT/Xaml implementation in Windows 8 and how it deals with databinding, its use of the IXamlMetadataProvider interface, tips & tricks around it, and how to extend the resolver to create dynamic databinding scenarios.
Xaml has been around for a while, and it's been a big part of Silverlight and WPF. Both frameworks are mostly managed, and use a CLR feature known as Reflection, or type introspection.
This is a very handy feature used by Silverlight/WPF to enable late binding to data types, where strings can be used to find their actual classes counter-parts, either for value converters, UserControls, Data-Binding, etc...
It comes with a cost, though. Reflection is a very expensive process, and up until very recently in Silverlight, there was no way to avoid the use of Reflection. The recent addition of the ICustomTypeProvider interface allows for late binding without the use of reflection, which is a big step what I think is the right direction. Having this kind of interface allows for custom types that define pre-computed lists of fields and properties, without having the runtime to load every metadata available for an object, and perform expensive type safety checks.
This burden of the reflection is particularly visible on Windows Phone, where it is suggested to limit the use of DataBinding, which is performed on the UI thread. The Silverlight runtime needs to walk the types metadata to find observable properties so that it can properly perfrom one or two-way bindings, and this is very expensive.
There are ways to work around this without having ICustomTypeProvider, mainly by generating code that does everything the Xaml parser and DataBinding engines do, but it's mainly experimental, yet it gives great results.
In Windows 8, WinRT is pure native code, and now integrates what used to be the WPF/Xaml engine. This new engine can be seen at the cross roads of Silverlight, WPF and Silverlight for Windows Phone. This new iteration takes a bit of every framework, with some tweaks.
These tweaks are mainly related to the fact that WinRT is a native COM based API, that can be used indifferently from C# or C++.
For instance, xml namespaces have changed form and cannot reference assemblies anymore. Declarations that used to look like this :
Now look like this :
Where the using only defines the namespace to be used to find the types specified in the inner xaml.
Additionally, WinRT does not know anything about .NET and the CLR, meaning it cannot do reflection. This means that the Xaml implentation in WinRT, to be compatible with the way we all know Xaml, needs to be able to do some kind of reflection.
To be able to do some kind reflection, the new Metro Style Applications profile generates code based on the types that are used in the Xaml files of the project. It takes the form of a hidden file, named XamlTypeInfo.g.cs.
That file can be found in the "obj" folder under any Metro Style project that contains a Xaml file. To find it, just click on the "Show all files" button at the top of the Solution Explorer file. You may need to compile the project for it to be generated.
In the entry assembly, the file contains a partial class that extends the App class to make it implement the IXamlMetadataProvider interface. WinRT uses this interface to query for the details of types it found while parsing Xaml files.
This type acts as map for every type used in all Xaml files a project, so that WinRT can get a definition it can understand, in the form of IXamlType and IXamlMember instances. This takes the form of a big switch/case construct, that contains string representation of fully qualified types. See this example :
private IXamlType CreateXamlType(string typeName)
XamlSystemBaseType xamlType = null;
XamlUserType userType;
switch (typeName)
case "Windows.UI.Xaml.Controls.UserControl":
xamlType = new XamlSystemBaseType(typeName, typeof(Windows.UI.Xaml.Controls.UserControl));
case "Application1.Common.RichTextColumns":
userType = new XamlUserType(this, typeName, typeof(Application1.Common.RichTextColumns), GetXamlTypeByName("Windows.UI.Xaml.Controls.Panel"));
userType.Activator = Activate_3_RichTextColumns;
userType.AddMemberName("RichTextContent", "Application1.Common.RichTextColumns.RichTextContent");
userType.AddMemberName("ColumnTemplate", "Application1.Common.RichTextColumns.ColumnTemplate");
xamlType = userType;
return xamlType;
It also creates hardcoded methods that can explicitly get or set the value of every properties a DependencyObject, like this :
case "Application1.Common.RichTextColumns.RichTextContent":
userType = (XamlUserType)GetXamlTypeByName("Application1.Common.RichTextColumns");
xamlMember = new XamlMember(this, "RichTextContent", "Windows.UI.Xaml.Controls.RichTextBlock");
xamlMember.Getter = get_1_RichTextColumns_RichTextContent;
xamlMember.Setter = set_1_RichTextColumns_RichTextContent;
Note that if you want to step into this code without the debugger ignoring you, you need to disable the "Just my code" feature in the debugger options.
Also, in case you wonder, the Code Generator scans for all referenced assemblies for implementations of the IXamlMetadataProvider interface, and will generate code that will query these providers to find Xaml type definitions.
Now, this code generation approach is very interesting for some reasons.
The first and foremost is performance, because the runtime does not need to use reflection to determine what can be computed at runtime. This is a enormous performance gain, and this will be beneficial for the perceived performance as the runtime will not waste precious CPU cycles to compute data that can be determined at compile time.
More generally, in my projects, I've been using this approach of generating as much code as possible, to avoid using reflection and waste time and battery on something that can be only done once and for all.
The second reason is extensibility, as this IXamlMetadataProvider can be extended to add user-provided types that are not based on DependencyObject. This is an other good impact on performance.
It is possible to extend the lookup behavior for standard types that are not dependency objects. This opens the same range of scenarios that ICustomTypeProvider provides.
All that is needed is to implement the IXamlMetadataProvider interface somewhere in an assembly, and the code generator used for XamlTypeInfo.g.cs will pick those up and add them in the Xaml type resolution chain. Note that for some unknown reason, it does not work in the main assembly but only for referenced assemblies.
Every time the databinding engine will need to get the value behind a databinding expression, it will call the IXamlMetadataProvider.GetXamlType method to get the definition of that type, then get the databound property value.
A very good feature, if you ask me.
By hidden dependency properties, I'm talking about DependencyObject types that are not directly referenced in Xaml files. This can be pretty useful for complex controls that generate convention based databinding, such as the SemanticZoom control, that provides a implicit "Key" property to perform the Zoomed out view.
Since this XamlTypeInfo.g.cs code is generated from all known Xaml files, this means that these hidden DependencyObject types that do not have code generated for them. This forces the CLR to intercept these failed requests and fallback on actual .NET reflection based property searching for databinding, which is not good for performance.
This fallback behavior was not implemented in the Developer Preview, and the binding would just fail with a NullReferenceException without any specific reason given to the developer.
If your architecting a bit your solution, you're probably using MVVM or a similar pattern, and you're probably putting your views in another assembly.
If you do that, this means that there will not be any xaml file in your main assembly (aside from the App.xaml file), leading to an empty XamlTypeInfo.g.cs file. This will make any type resolution requested by WinRT fail, and your application will mostly likely not run.
In this case, all you need to do is create a dummy Xaml file that will force the generation of the XamlTypeInfo.g.cs, and basically make your layer separation work.
Until next time, happy WinRT'ing !
Now that Windows 8 Consumer Preview (CP) is out the doors, I'll start publishing a series of articles about Windows 8 development in various areas, but primarily focused on development.
I'll start today with some tips and tricks that allow to run Windows 8 natively from a VHD, but also run that same VHD from Hyper-V, within Windows 8 Consumer Preview.
The common scenario is simple, you want to try out stuff that worked in the Developer Preview (DP) inside Win8 CP, or run a two instances of the Win8 CP for testing purposes. Chances are you installed the DP on a VHD, from the excellent blog post from Scott Hanselman.
Hyper-V's been here for a while on the Server side, but chances are you never looked at it. Hyper-V will most likely completely replace Virtual PC, as it now supports 64 Bits virtual machines and the very useful dynamic memory feature. Dynamic memory basically add or removes physical memory assigned to the virtual machines depending on the actual demand. This allows to have higher virtual machine density on servers, but on client machines this is also pretty useful because you may not have 32GB of ram, and still want to use it for your primary OS.
This is why this tutorial suggests to have a machine starting with 512MB of RAM, so that it can grow to the appropriate amount, and not arbitrarily reserve 2 or 4GB of ram, just in case.
So now that Hyper-V is now included natively in Windows 8, and even though the final SKU in which it will be included is unknown, we can use it from the CP.
If you're like me, you may have installed the CP directly on a SSD to make it pretty darn fast. Now, here's how you install Hyper-V :
Chances are that your machine will not boot and ask you to replace the disk with a bootable one.
Here's how to fix that :
Note that this section can be used to register pre-installed Windows 7 or 8 VHD to an existing Windows 7 or 8 physical machine. But in this case, you may need to find the actual hidden boot partition that the Windows Installation creates automatically. You'll find that partition with the "list partition" command.
Happy Windows 8 CP'ing !
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Templeton Farmers' Market
Saturday mornings on the park in Templeton. (7 miles)
Nature's Touch
Organic produce, foods and plants. (Templeton)
Happy Acres Goat Farm
Visit a functioning goat farm, feed the goats and buy goat milk beauty products as well as cheese. (7 miles)
Olive Farm
Huge old growth olive trees make one feel like it's Italy. (12 miles)
Windrose Farms
One of California's great organic farms is in Paso Robles. (9 miles)
Mount Olive Farm
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A woman once called me asking why her husband won't share his feelings with her. They have normal conversations about the kids and things around the farm, but she can't get him to talk about their future or retirement finances.
"He won't even look me in the eye," she said. "He clams up. I know it's a tough subject, but we simply have to talk about it."
Like most women, she feels nurtured and supported when she and her husband talk face to face, and he looks her in the eye. But he's uncomfortable doing this, especially with such emotional subjects as how they'll weather a crisis, or if they want to continue ranching.
The situation is complicated by the fact that both of them, in their mid 50s, are in midlife transition and often feel emotionally raw and are easily upset.
I suggested she ask her husband to walk with her, or go for a drive, and talk then. Here's why:
Men often find it easier to talk while doing something (walking, driving or fixing something), and we're specifically not looking into our wife's eyes. According to Jed Diamond in his book, "The Irritable Male Syndrome," having to look into your loved one's eyes during intense discussions puts men on the spot and makes them defensive.
Her husband's withdrawal is what John Gottman, a University of Washington psychology professor and marriage counselor, calls "stonewalling," meaning disengaging from a conversation or refusing to talk. While it appears he's not interested in what his wife wants to talk about, he in fact cares so deeply, he's too overwhelmed to handle a conversation.
Gottman's research makes sense of this reaction. Gottman discovered a difference in male and female reactions to a heated discussion. Men tend to become more upset physiologically during an intense discussion than women, and the distress continues long after the woman has calmed down.
Men become "flooded," feeling so emotionally and physically overwhelmed, they can't think clearly. In an intense interaction or argument, men are likely to have sweaty hands, a pounding heart, shallow breathing and the feeling that they need to get away.
This may be explained by evolutionary survival, when the male had to be more alert in order to protect the female and her young, and be quickly and easily roused to red alert. A modern man doesn't need this kind of evolutionary afterburner, and is stuck with all engines roaring and nowhere to go.
The only way he knows to cope is to shut down and withdraw into stony silence. This increases the frustration in the woman, who "pursues" him to get him to talk.
If you and your spouse have a problem to discuss, it might be best to do so on a walk, a drive, or doing mild work around the farm. Under low-key circumstances, you might be able to talk about important topics. Of course, be sure to use the "I statements," discussed in the last newsletter's article.
Edmonton-based Noel McNaughton lectures to groups on "Farming/Ranching at Midlife — Strategies for a Successful Second Age." To learn more, call 780/432-5492, e-mail email@example.com, or visit www.midlife-men.com.


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Lemon8-XML Roadmap
From PKP Wiki
Development Roadmap
Milestone 3 - 1.0 (Current - Q3 2008)
- Automated installer script (like OxS)
- Per-user accounts and self-signup with captcha (eg. reCaptcha ?)
- Refactor to add plugin classes:
parse, lookup, import (Google Docs), export, metadata schema
Convert incoming content into UTF-8
Section Editor
- Change section heading level
- Add/upload new figure
- Allow upload of custom XSL/CSS for preview/export
- Set default metadata values (eg. copyright statement)
XML Export
- XML pre-validation & libxml notices
- NLM: metadata generation w/full aff linking
- NLM: Improve figure/abstract/list transformation
- NLM: Add figures/tables to xref detection
- NLM: Integrate feedback from Open Medicine
Unfiled Bugs
- Parser does not find a title in a .odt when it is in the document properties (Peter Sefton)
- Extraneous "Aff1" with nothing attached to it - on first author.
- Occasionally random "<name name-style="western">" appear when an article has many, many authors
- Does not properly output "et al" for citations with more than X authors (6?) (in HTML)
Proposed for Future Release
Document Parser
- UI to present user with content that is left unparsed
- Investigate alternative DOM-marking approach to retain ODT
Metadata Editor
- Enable multiple article ID
- Add primary author selector / role-aff association
- Add acknowledgements, reviewers, review dates, etc.
- Create markup for abstract sections in XHTML
- Enable collapsable sections (authors, affiliations, etc)
Section Editor
Enable collapsable sections
- Add/paste/edit XHTML tables and sections (TinyMCE)
Citation Editor
- Citation types and elements mapped to NLM?
Refactor UI using AJAX and JSON-type methods
HTML/PDF Preview
- Improve PDF XSL (as per OJS development)
- Tweak XHTML stylesheets for tables/figures
XML Export
- Integrate Pubmed Central Style Checker / Article Previewer
- Add Docbook, Erudit DTD export schema
- Add initial Scribus 1.5 DTD export schema
- Add form data validation
- Better error/warning messages (eg. citations, required fields, etc.)
- Full I18n and L10n to French, Spanish
- Five steps to an XML document by Tarek Lubani


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These are the official Rules of the Gamemore
New Rule Changes - January 1 2009
Theses rules relate to the following areas:
Crossing the Centre Line
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UPDATES - Social Volleyball League Volleyball finished up last night with their finals, results have been posted. Teams get ready for the next tournament, and prepare for 2014 Social League Tournament.
CONSTITUTION CHAMPIONSHIPS - Cook Islands Volleyball will be running a Championship Volleyball tournament during the first week of the Constitution, there will be an Indoor and Beach Tournament, this will be a first for Volleyball. Players who have blood tie to their islands can form a Volleyball team for this tournament, including the Vaka on Rarotonga. This tournament will be run over a period of 3 - 4 days, with prizser to be won. For registration contact Robert Graham on Mb: 55100, Email: firstname.lastname@example.com.,
Regeistrations will close Friday 5th July 2013, reminder registration fees must be paid in full prior to commencement of tournament.
2013 SEASON - Those interested early next year we will be kicking off with the Social Volleyball League, which will run for 11 weeks. Following the Socila Volleyball League, Club Competition will be organised, so keep posted and check this site for more updates. 2013 Calendar listed below;
National Champs 29th – 31st July
Beach Nationals 2nd – 3rd Aug
BHV Tournament 25th Sep - 27th Nov
RESULTS of the Finals
Aremango Sharks - 88 vs Spikers - 84
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Kitten found covered in industrial glue
A kitten found covered in industrial-strength glue and unable to move is recovering after strangers teamed up to save him.
A woman found the kitten in a downtown Salem, Oregon parking garage on July 18, stuck in what turned out to be floor adhesive.
The Salem Fire Department responded to her call for help and managed to get the kitten free by cutting out part of the floor.
The struggling animal was still covered in the glue, which had apparently been freshly applied to the parking lot floor.
"He got into the corner and the more he felt he was stuck the more he would dig into that epoxy and the deeper he got. So then it was hopeless," said rescuer Penny Mack.
Someone also called a local Ace Hardware, asking if they knew of any type of solvent that would get the glue off the kitten without hurting him.
"He was covered pretty much his entire bottom side and his legs were stuck from the adhesives to his chest. He couldn't walk or move," said Joshua Braden, who works at the animal hospital.
The 10-week-old kitten was taken to the Willamette Valley Animal Hospital in Keizer for treatment.
Veterinarian Laura Magruder spent ten hours carefully pulling hair away from the tiny animal's skin to remove the glue.
No one ever found a solvent that seemed safe to use.
The kitten is expected to recover and he already has a new home lined up, too.
The woman who answered the phone at Ace Hardware decided to adopt the kitten and named him - Ace.


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.38 Caliber (.357) 125 gr. JSPAccuracy at 50 to 100 yards and tough construction were the main design criteria for the 125 grain #8310 bullets when they were introduced in 1970. Accuracy rivaling the best target grade wadcutters makes this an exceptional hunting bullet for the 357 Magnum or larger cartridges in handguns or rifles when deep penetration and expansion are required. Best suited to medium game and heavy loads, each bullet is also right at home on the Handgun Silhouette range.
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NEWS : MON, APR 30, 2012 at 6:08 AM
Next Ambiance/Sub Pop will release Debo Band's self-titled debut on July 10th, 2012
Debo Band have announced their spring and summer tour schedule in support of their self-titled debut, out July 10th via Next Ambience / Sub Pop. Highlights include June 9 in Manchester, TN at Bonnaroo, June 10 in Toronto, ON at Luminato Festival and June 30 in Cleveland, OH at Solstice Festival at Cleveland's Museum of Art. Debo Band will also embark on a short northeast US tour Grupo Fantasmo, which kicks-off July 11 in Allston, MA at Brighton Music Hall and wraps up on July 13 in Brooklyn, NY at Bell House. Full list of tour dates are listed below and can also be found on subpop.com's tour page.
Debo Band's live shows at SXSW festival won praise from the likes of SPIN, NPR, Boston Globe, San Francisco Bay Guardian and more. SPIN called their show one of the best of the fest, and said "The Boston-based crew rumbled through Ethiopian wedding songs and mighty, constantly evolving originals. Every hot blast of brass or well-placed outburst of strangled guitar combined to resemble a smartly tweaked, off-kilter version of what you might find in the Ethiopiques series. Tonight it all felt like a celebration: wild, unabashed dancing during every song, and hugging between friends and strangers alike in between." And NPR raved, "I gushed about this Boston group enough at GlobalFest 2012, but here I'll just say that even though their music is steeped in 1960s Ethiopian music, to me, they're a rock band first. That means the beat is hard, the guitar is blistering, the horns are lyrical and you don't have to understand what is being said to understand the emotions behind the voice. Their appeal is universal."
For more on Debo Band, please look to their artist page right here on subpop.com.
Debo Band On Tour
May 06 North Adams, MA – Rock the Block
Jun. 09 Manchester, TN – Bonnaroo Festival, Manchester TN
Jun. 10 Toronto, ON – Luminato Festival
Jun. 30 Cleveland, OH – Solstice Festival / The Cleveland Museum of Art ^
Jul. 11 Allston, MA – Brighton Music Hall (record release show) ^
Jul. 12 Northampton, MA – Iron Horse ^
Jul. 13 Brooklyn, NY – Bell House ^^
Aug. 18 Portland, ME – Space Gallery
^ w/ Gang Gang Dance, Nortec Collective & more
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Hugh is ready for Broadway
As mentioned yesterday, if you're in Toronto, or if you can get to Toronto, you need to get to Hugh Jackman's one-man show at the Princess of Wales Theatre. Because there's not another performer like him in the business right now. This is not hyperbole. He can literally do it ALL.
Hugh's Toronto performances are earning outstanding reviews and many have said that they are a major improvement over what he debuted in San Francisco a couple of months ago. After the initial feedback, Hugh tweaked the programme and it has resulted in unanimous praise...so much that they now believe that he's ready to take it to Broadway which, I mean that's the ultimate, right? To be good enough for Broadway?
They're saying it could happen quite soon, to build on the momentum and the positive buzz. Word is they're looking to move around things on his schedule to clear the way for a triumphant but short 12 week or so run in New York. It's likely but it's not definite yet so for now, Toronto is your only option.
We have been talking so much about the death of the Movie Star, about the reign of Medium, and then there's Hugh Jackman, who is anything BUT, and if that matters to you at all, his show is kinda like mandatory viewing. Click here for more information.
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FRITZ!Box 6590 Cable Service - Knowledge Base
FRITZ!Box 6590 Cable Service
AVM Content
Using a debit card reader
You can connect a debit card reader to an analog extension, the "FON S0" port, or a LAN port on your FRITZ!Box and then use the device to read debit cards.
Important:If the debit card reader has a LAN port (Ethernet), connect the device to a LAN port on the FRITZ!Box and then configure it for use in the FRITZ!Box home network.
1 Configuring a debit card reader as a telephone
- Click "Telephony" in the FRITZ!Box user interface.
- Click "Telephony Devices" in the "Telephony" menu.
- Click the "Configure New Device" button and follow the instructions.
- Enable the option "Telephone (with or without answering machine)" and click "Next".
- If you cannot select the extension the device is connected to when configuring it, then another telephony device has already been configured for this extension. You must delete this device first.


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No. 22 Discount Tire Dodge Challenger Preview-Ford 300
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No. 22 Discount TireDodge Challenger News and Notes
• This Week's Challenger… Brad Keselowski and the Penske Racing Discount Tire Dodge Challenger team will use chassis PRS-222during Saturday's Ford 300 at Homestead-Miami Speedway (HMS). Keselowski last drove this chassis to a victoryat Kansas Speedwaylast month.
• The No. 22 Discount Tire Dodge Challenger in 2011... After 33 events, Keselowski and the reigning NNS champion No. 22 Discount Tire Dodge Challenger team are ranked fifthin the 2011NASCAR Nationwide Series (NNS)owner point standings. The team is coming off a second-place finish in the Wypall 200last week at Phoenix International Raceway (PIR).
• Keselowski Climbing the Charts…By taking the checkered flag in last month's Kansas Lottery 300 at Kansas Speedway, Keselowski entered into a tie for 15th place with Jeff Green and Joe Nemechek on the NNS all-time wins list with 16 victories.Keselowski is now four wins away from tying Greg Biffle for 14th place on the all-time list.
• Approaching 350… The victory by Sam Hornish Jr in the NASCAR Nationwide Series event at PIR last Saturday gave Penske Racing 349 all-time race victories. One of the most-successful teams in professional sports, Penske Racing will attempt to grab win No. 350 this weekend at HMS.
• Congrats to the New Champion… This weekend's race at HMS will be the final event for Keselowski as the reigning NNS champion. He will go into the history books as the last series champion that was allowed to compete for both the Nationwide and Cup Series titles in the same season.
• Keselowski Speedway Stats…In 100 speedway starts in the Nationwide Series, Keselowski has accumulated eight wins, 44 top-five finishes, 63 top-10 results and five pole awards. In addition, he has led the field for 1,577 laps at tracks between one and two miles in length.
• Follow Brad on Twitter… Fans can follow Keselowski on Twitter at http://www.twitter.com/keselowski. Followers can get a glimpse inside his everyday life while keeping up-to-date on the latest Cup Series and Nationwide Series news for the Penske Racing driver.
• RubyTuesdayRacing.com… When Brad wins, you win. Visit www.rubytuesdayracing.com following any of his wins, either in the Cup Series or the Nationwide Series, to register for a delicious Ruby Tuesday hamburger of your choice, compliments of Ruby Tuesday and Brad.
Brad Keselowski on his final race as the reigning NNS champion
"Championships are very special and winning the 2010 Nationwide Series title will definitely go down as one of the highlights of my racing career. It was the culmination of a dream. The fact that it was the first NASCAR championship for Penske Racing just adds another layer to it. I think we've built a very formidable Nationwide Series team at Penske Racing over the last couple of years. I think we showed that last weekend at Phoenix where Sam and I ran one-two. It's a series that really means a lot to me. That's why I will always race, though maybe not full-time, in the Nationwide Series and I was proud to represent it as its champion this year. Congratulations to the new champion this season, whoever it ends up being."
Crew chief Todd Gordon on his first season at Penske Racing
"After taking over a program that, from the outside had a lot of continuity, but internally had a lot of new faces, including myself, we have seasoned into a team that is capable of winning every week and we have developed the chemistry necessary to compete for an owners championship. Five DNF's in the first 14 events put us out of contention for this year, but the focus all of the Discount Tire/Ruby Tuesday guys have kept since then has shown the strength of this group and potential going forward. We want to end the season on a positive note and Homestead would be a good place to do that. I really look forward to getting to another intermediate banked track that is similar in ways to a group of tracks(Chicago, Kansas, Kentucky) that we have had a lot of success on this year. The progressive banking should lead to great racing."


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The warm winter and spring in almost all southern tobacco-growing areas led to an early crop of transplants coming out greenhouses.
That was especially true in the Appalachian ridges and valleys of east Tennessee, western North Carolina and southwestern Virginia where the burley type has traditionally been grown.
David Miller of Abingdon, Va., who produces plants for his own use and also to sell, says his burley plants grew quickly in the two 30x96 foot greenhouses he operates. The crop in the area was at least a week earlier than normal, with the first plants going out to the field on May 5.
Danny Peek, Virginia Extension burley specialist, agrees that plants were earlier than normal this year in Appalachian Virginia, which is in the southwestern corner of the state. "It was warm, and they grew quickly."
He didn't expect any problems as a result. "We should be okay as long as it doesn't turn off wet. But if transplanting is held up, we might be looking at a lot of clipping."
In Tennessee, there was a little more spiral root in the greenhouse than normal because of heat early in the planting season, says Extension specialist Paul Denton. But he expects there will be enough transplants to go around.
Despite the early start, it seemed likely that planting would continue into July.
There certainly was no shortage of plants in the Appalachians, and that worked in favor of farmers who buy their plants instead of growing them. Kenneth Reynolds, a neighbor of Miller's in Abingdon, Va., has used greenhouse plants since 2000, But he has never owned a house himself.
It has never seemed economical to me to have my own," he says. "I can buy plants cheaper than I can produce them."
He contracts ahead of time with a local plant producer.
Living with greenhouses
What's the single most important management practice in producing tobacco plants in a greenhouse? Frequent inspection, says Miller.
"You've got to practically live with them," he says. "We inspect ours five to 10 times a day."
In Tennessee, Shawn Light of Rogersville looks to produce varieties that will help him spread out harvest. He is planting three varieties this season, and they are all of different maturities.
"We plant KY 14 x L8 early, in sod grounds, and cut it in July," he says. "KT 206 is later in maturity. We try to cut it in September. Hopefully, we can cut NC 7 somewhere in between. If you plant only one variety, you may have trouble getting it all cut on time."
Denton says that KT 206 along with KT 209 have become very popular in Tennessee, as has its sister variety KT 209. KT 210 and some TN 90 are still significantly planted, and there will still be a lot of KY 14 x L8 on farms where black shank isn't a problem.
The outlook for burley produced in the Appalachians seems pretty good now, says Peek. "Every grower who wanted a contract this year got one. The demand for the kind of tobacco we grow here is pretty good."
"There has been a shift in preference among cigarette manufacturers in favor of the Appalachian style of leaf," adds Denton.
There was some fear production in the area might be disrupted when Altria closed its receiving station in Midway, Tenn., near Greeneville. The station handled a large volume of burley.
But Peek says the closing hasn't caused the disruption that was initially feared. Other companies have increased their orders.
R.J. Reynolds took up some of the slack, as the Burley Stabilization Corporation took up much of the rest. A few growers are committed enough to Altria to make the long trip to the company's nearest station, in Danville, Ky.
Blue mold breaks out
There was one bit of bad news from the greenhouse. Blue mold was identified at the end of May in two greenhouses near Oxford, Pa., not far from Lancaster.
The plants from one were destroyed. But plants from the other, which showed fewer lesions but were nevertheless infected, were taken to the field, a development that discouraged the Extension agent in charge of tobacco in the area.
"The farmer took a chance, which is not what we want to see with this disease," says Jeff Graybill, Pennsylvania Extension educator. "But the air movement around these little plants (that have been set) is good, and we can hope the blue mold will dry up."
There's no reason to think the disease has gone systemic on these plants, he adds.
The blue mold apparently over-wintered in the houses, an accomplishment that was eased by the mild weather. The type grown in the greenhouses was Pennsylvania seedleaf, a "cigar" type now primarily used in chewing tobacco.
Tobacco production in Pennsylvania appears to be up about 10 percent from 2011, to 11,000 acres. Growers there grow four types: burley, Pennsylvania seedleaf and Southern Maryland, along with a small amount of Green River, a dark air-cured type grown mainly in Kentucky.
Plantings of the other three types are roughly equal, says Graybill, although Southern Maryland increased some this season.


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With more focus placed on team-based tactics and hardcore, fast-paced gameplay, Tactical Intervention goes far deeper than the everyday FPS. Packed with new environments, game modes, weapons, equipment customization options, and more, Tactical Intervention sets a new benchmark in the evolution of the tactical team-based FPS genre. Players will get behind the driver's seat, shoot hanging out of vehicle passenger windows, call in attack dogs, and even make use of tactical rappel ropes to gain the upper hand on the opposing force. They will also have to be conscious of civilians who can be taken as hostages and used as human shields. It is up to you and your team to strategize, execute, and eliminate your target!
These new elements create a dynamic environment that gives each round a unique feel and challenges the players to always be aware of his surroundings.
All of these features are vividly portrayed using Valve's latest Source engine. Experience the chaos of firefights within an extremely immersive and interactive environment. Networking and physics have been fully optimized to make the gameplay experience as smooth as possible while still retaining a large number of dynamic objects in the playing world.
Meant to be a realistic yet fun shooter, Tactical Intervention will cater to both battle hardened clan warriors and the casual FPS fan.
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Developer Task Lists for KOffice
The KOffice Developer Resources have now a few task lists. Please note that the tasks are meant for KOffice CVS HEAD. Nevertheless some can be done on KOffice 1.3.x too and some are even general enough to be done elsewhere in KDE too.
Keeping lists of TODOs and such in the codebase is a useful thing; heck, that's why KDevelop red-flags comment lines containing FIXME. But is it really necessary to set up yet another infrastructure here? Just last week we had the JJ: article on the dot, explaining that trivial or easy wishlist items and small bugfixes can be entered in bugzilla and marked with JJ: in the summary field in order to attract new volunteers that feel they need a little handholding, but would still like to help out. Why doesn't KOffice do the same?
By Ade at Wed, 2004/05/19 - 5:00am
Re: Yet-another-tasklist-approach
Sorry, I was aware of the JJ: idea well after I had started the task lists. (I would not mind to mark a bug as JJ: if I would find a wish in KDE Bugs that fits into this category.)
As for TODO and FIXME, that is how it is done in KOffice too, but practice has shown that mostly potential new developers do not search tasks in code. That is why this method is explicitely explained in the task list index.
Have a nice day!
By Nicolas Goutte at Wed, 2004/05/19 - 5:00am
Just an idea...
I think it is a great idea to supply customised task lists. These are just some things that popped up in my head as I was reading...
Perhaps some kind of task tree could be constructed, so each kind of developer, from junior to pro, can find appropriate tasks at one place and see the relations between tasks. I do not know whether a similar system already exists, but some kind of graphical representation of the bug tracking system would certainly render a lot mare accessible, an additional tree-representation, for instance. (A picture says more than 1000 words...)
What about presenting the current task lists and properties (difficulty and shareability) as a table? It will probably yield a more compact representation and overview of the tasks.
By CML at Fri, 2004/05/21 - 5:00am
Re: Just an idea...
As I am not doing anything with KDE Bugs, I cannot answer your anser about a graphical (or any better) representation of the bugs. KDE uses Bugzilla and will remain so in at least near future.
As for the KOffice Task Lists, yes, the look could be improved. (I will keep your idea of a table in mind.) The current look was more make quickly to fill a need, as some developers seemed to think that KOffice is too difficult for them.
Have a nice day!
By Nicolas Goutte at Sat, 2004/05/22 - 5:00am
yet another vote for JJ
I'd like to see KOffice adhering to the JJ bug marking in the future, it is much easier to find bugs and features to implement that way.
By Pupeno at Tue, 2004/05/25 - 5:00am
Re: yet another vote for JJ
There are currently 3 KOffice bugs marked as junior jobs:
Personally I am hesitating to put these 2 bugs as junior jobs:
Otherwise in the KWord and KOffice "products" of KDE Bugs, I do not see what other bugs could be marked as junior jobs. However that does not mean that they are not any easy tasks to do in KOffice, but reported bugs are mostly not easy.
Have a nice day!
By Nicolas Goutte at Wed, 2004/05/26 - 5:00am
Query for Junior Jobs
By the way, a query for Junior Jobs was added directly in the entry page of KDE Bugs: http://bugs.kde.org
The query is KDE-wide.
Have a nice day!
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Kenneth Milligan was born in Winnipeg, Canada in 1915. His parents had decided to emigrate after they married in April 1913. It was the first wedding to be conducted at the newly built St James Church in Rosefield Place. Ken's father, a carpenter, found work with the Western Railway Company. They came back to Portobello on return tickets when Ken's younger brother died. They never returned, moving in instead with Ken's maternal grandfather at 2 Hope Street. Prior to its merger with Edinburgh, he had been the Superintendent of Parks in Portobello. They moved into no. 7 in 1926 and were the first household in the street to have an electricity supply in that year. Ken moved to no. 14 in 1948 and was married to Helen in the following year. During the war he served in the medical corps and worked thereafter as an administrator in the Health Service until his retirement.
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The following shows why crytograpy methods shoud be public. There is some common misconception, that assumes that the most secure crypto methods are "proprietary" or "secret" ones. This is a terrible error, since only knowing the "recipe" (the algorithms) behind a given method can assure us that it is actually robust.
The question can rise: how can a publicly known crytographic method be secure? By definition, everyone will know how it works! Not quite. The operation method can be known to all, and an eavesdroper could know what method we are using, but if the method is secure, the eavesdroper will not be able to decipher a given message. It might be tempting to think that if an eavesdroper doesn't even know what encryption we are using, or she knows the "name", but the method behind is secret, then the security of the message is increased. This is called security through obscurity, and is actually a very dangerous error, because it might lead us to be less exigent in the robustness of the encryption algorithm. A communication can only be considered secure if even knowing the encryption algorithm, an eavesdropper could not decrypt it.
To achieve this, it is vital that the encryption algorithm be publicly known, and rigorous tests applied. This is the case of the crypto standards of the North-American NIST. All the standards "accepted" by them have to be subject to open scrutiny, which happens to be a Good Thing(tm). You'll see it if you read the following articles in The Register and Wired.
In summary: one of the components of cryptographic methods is random number generation. One of the ones approved this year by the NIST (called Dual_EC_DRBG), relied on a set of initial numbers to generate the "random" result (I'll call this set P, public). This is normal, and correct. The problem comes from the fact that this set of numbers is apparently related to another (unknown) set of numbers (that I'll call B, backdoor), knowledge of which could empower someone to break the resulting encryption. The way I understand it, is like having the known set of numbers P = (6,12,18,24,30), but then realizing that they are all built from the set B = (2,3). In the Dual_EC_DRBG method, some experts have realized that the set P is related to another set, but they still haven't found what are the elements of B.
Now, the scary part is that (life's full of casualities) the Dual_EC_DRBG was introduced in the standard proposed, and pushed, by the NSA of the USA, aka "the eavesdroppers of the world". So I'll invent a little fiction, with no relationship with the reality: imagine that a given government agency N of nation U takes a set of numbers B, and comes up with an encryption method M that produces the apparently innocent set P from it, and then M uses P to perform encryption. If the encryption method M becomes a standard, and people all around the world use it for anything from private e-mail to secure government or militar communications… guess who has a the key to read all these messages? (a backdoor).
Thanks $GOD, this is science fiction, is it not?


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i highly recommend to all our clients that they read Seth Godin's new book Meatball Sundae, which demystifies 'New Marketing' very succinctly. it basically says that if you're selling meatballs, don't go sprinkling toppings all over your offering, toppings in this case referring to an elaborate and badly thought out web presence.
i know from my experience clients are very keen to jump on the facebook wagon, and they think the easiest way to do this is create an application that users will add, but if we're to be completely honest here, apps have lost the novelty allure that got users to add them in the first place. this post i found on 3 Minds is a useful guide to what will and won't work. my reccommendation is simply: don't do it. there are a million apps out there now, and when my friends invite me to add the 'Which cupcake are you' quiz, i delete them, because facebook apps have become the new spam.


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Yesterday I checked my emails, and on July 19th I received an email from Austin Macauley, praising my manuscript, along with a 14-page contract with terms and conditions, relating to the publication on my book, should I sign the contract, today I received a hard copy of the contract in the post. I skipped though the details just to see their list of fees the writer (me) is expected to pay, should I go ahead, and they are: £1900 for paperback, and eBook publications. £2900 for hardback, paperback and eBook publications. £4400 for audio, hardback, paperback and eBook publications. Needless to say I will not be going ahead with this. Furthermore I have emailed a synopsis and three chapters of my book, along with a covering letter to two more legitimate literary agents, listed in the Writers' & Artists' Yearbook, and would rather take my chance with them.
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July 2016 I also go an email from Austin Macauley telling me they wanted my entire manuscript. It gave me an euphoria as if I had won the jackpot. When they sent me a contract with me having to choose between £1700 and another fee, I got depressed as if a judge had given me a 20-year sentence without me having committed any crime at all. So I sent them a sort of legal email asking them to assure me they were not going to use my text. They sent me a long email back, assuring me of that and said something peculiar, is that their legal department notified other competitors writing negative things on them, namely that they are a vantage press pretending not to be one. So now, I published my books with the Internet and wonder how my water molecule will become visible in the ocean of reads. How to convince an agent or a reader to read your stuff? JK Rowling had an incredible luck that she made all that money before people found out the number of ideas she took from Anthony Horowitz's "Groosham Grange". Getting an idea seems to be, sadly, less alimentary than fructifying an idea, in literature and in science.
Congratulations on dodging the vanity press (not "vantage press," btw) bullet, and on publishing your books. When you say you "I published my books with the Internet," I assume you mean you self-published them via Amazon or you posted them on a website. Every writer who self-publishes their work faces the same problem: how to find a readership and make their voice heard over the clamor of other authors. The most successful find that readership before publishing, by establishing an online presence and engaging with potential readers. If you're looking for an agent for your already-published books, I'm afraid that ship has already sailed. By self-publishing, you've used your first publication rights, and few agents will be interested.
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A couple of weeks ago I went into Waterstones bookshop taking a list of Authors and their book titles published with Austin Macauley, to see whether or not they accepted books from them, and when I approached the young woman on the checkout and read out the titles and authors, she was very helpful, by telling me that next year they are taking in the said titles and books published by AM. As a rule bookshops don't accept books from Vanity Publishers, do they? Well all I can assume is that AM are deceiving bookshops by hiding the fact they are Vanity Publishers.
I suspect the bookseller you spoke to was being kind when she said her bookshop might start ordering those books next year. And that it's not likely to happen.
I suspect the same thing as old hack, the sales staff being pleasant, since you asked. If you want to have another go, I'd ask to speak to the manager, they will likely give you a more realistic answer. You'll occasionally see a self pub/vanity press book in stores. It's always that the Author was local and came in and asked the store to put a copy on their shelf. Some of them will oblige to be kind and because that Author is also a customer, the customer is always right.
Thank your comments Old Hack and Ctripp, unlike yourselves who seem to be clued up on publishing, I'm new it all, nevertheless I'm learning, and all I can say is thank God I found out what AM were like before receiving the contract they posted and emailed me, in that instance I consider myself to be one of the lucky ones who used common sense and did research. Ref: Your previous posts Old Hack, an employee at AM was threatening you with legal action just because you more or less pointed out that, that company's practices were wrong by the way they fleeced money from writers. It's obvious what happened, you rumbled them for they shysters they are, and they clearly didn't like it. That person's threat of legal action was nothing short of 'bully boy' tactics. I emailed Victoria Strauss telling them about AM wanting a large fee from me if I agreed to go ahead with the publication of my book, and she replied saying AM threatened to sue a writer because after he complained that they made false promises after he had regrettably paid them a substantial amount of money. Vanity publishers are nothing more than thieves who give writers false hope.
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I've spoken with a friend who manages a few branches of Waterstones. She told me that she had no knowledge of any plans for Waterstones to start stocking books published by A&M, and said it would be very difficult if they wanted to because A&M has no distribution.
Old Hack- Ref: Your reply yesterday about your friend who is a manager of Waterstones, and that they have no plans to stock books published by AM, there's going to be plenty of disappointed writers, who AM have led them to believe Waterstones, along with other bookshops will stock books published by them.
Old Hack- Ref: Your reply yesterday about your friend who is a manager of Waterstones, and that they have no plans to stock books published by AM, there's going to be plenty of disappointed writers, who AM have led them to believe Waterstones, along with other bookshops will stock books published by them.
However, this is not the same as the books being on the shelves nationwide. For that, the publisher needs a proper contract with a book distributor and sales team, which I don't think they have; the publisher needs to give good discounts to the booksellers; and the publisher needs to make its books returnable, which I don't think A&M does. It also really needs to produce its books by offset printing rather than POD which I don't think A&M does, as POD books are usually too expensive to discount as needed, they aren't usually returnable, and they don't withstand shelfwear in the same way that offset books do.
You have to be careful about weasel-wording when it comes to a number of vanity presses and their ilk.
"Your book will be available nationwide" - if people special order it or order it from their on-line stores.
"We'll be at (BEA, London Book Fair, Frankfurt Book Fair, etc.) - sure, they may be. Doesn't mean your books will be there or that they'll have a table there.
"We give the highest royalties in the business." - 80% net of 100 sales is not quite the same as 8% cover of 15000 sales. Do the math and see what works best for you given realistic numbers. Don't be fooled by gaudy percentages, especially if the publisher it talking "net". Find out how they derive net to begin with
The biggest take-away is don't get in a hurry to get published. Do your homework and you'll start recognizing weasel-wording soon enough.
there's going to be plenty of disappointed writers
Unfortunately there are going to be plenty of disappointed writers in any case
If anyone still thinks this publisher is interested in selling the books they print to anyone but the Author, they just need look at the art used in their children's book selection. No, this is NOT what a commercial publisher would use!!! Either the Authors have Illustrated the books themselves (and are not Illustrators) or their child has or a friend
I saw 3 out of dozens and dozens of children's books there that I would consider professionally Illustrated and not a surprise, most times the Author WAS already an Illustrator.
No Publisher hoping to sell would use poor quality art on a novel cover, let alone a "PICTURE book" where the art represents at least half of the books value, appeal and marketing potential.
Old Hack - I have bookmarked 'The Author Exploitation Business' web page by David Gaughran, and that gives a very informative insight into other publishing in general, and it would seem apparent, that Penguin, has bought the world's biggest vanity press, Author Solutions. Yet Penguin publishers are listed in the 'Writers' And Artists' Yearbook, I am confused, since I thought only legitimate publishers and literary agents were only allowed to be listed in there. All I can assume is Penguin still publish traditionally, but advise writers to use their partner publisher Author Solutions. What are your thoughts on that?
Ctripp -Ref: Your comments about Austin Macauley's book covers, I have to agree they're not very good quality, and I'm no artist. My husband, who used to be an illustrator and sculptor, and was very well paid for his skill, by companies who demanded a very high standard, of work, and people who were hard to impress, would certainly say so, and it's not as though he would be judging them purely on his own level of work.
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Don't assume people in the WAAYB are legitimate or trustworthy. No one in those directories is checked out in any way: if they want to be included, they are. You still have to check them out yourself, it's just a listing, that's all.
There's also the small detail that 'twasn't Penguin who owned AS, but parent Pearson. Don't blame the kid for having to wear what Momma bought 'im.
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Don't assume people in the WAAYB are legitimate or trustworthy. No one in those directories is checked out in any way: if they want to be included, they are. You still have to check them out yourself, it's just a listing, that's all.[/QUOTE]
That throws a different light onto the agents/publishers listed in 'The Writers' And Artists' Yearbook.' The only thing writers can do when submitting their work to an agent or publisher is to use good old fashioned common sense when sorting the 'wheat' from the 'chaff,' meaning: legitimate publishers from vanity publishers. After all common sense is king.
You should always do your research. After all, a very good publisher or agent still may not be the right one for you or your book.
Use them only as a starting point.
Also, can anyone actually find a good word to say about vanity publishers, what exactly do they do other than scam hopeful writers out of thousands of pounds for very little in return? When I sent my first three chapters to AM, plus synopsis, along with a covering letter, their response was very quick, saying they wanted to see the rest of my manuscript, needless to say, I was ecstatic and emailed it to them, but when I calmed down and found out what they were like I was disappointed, fortunately, I didn't part with any cash, I couldn't afford even the basic package of £1900 they offered me. Even if I could, I still rather hang onto my money.