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Interview with Mystery Author Sparkle Abbey
Mary Lee Woods and Anita Carter write the Pampered Pets mystery series together under the names of their two rescue pets--Sparkle (ML's cat) and Abbey (Anita's dog).
Mary Lee Salsbury Woods is the "Sparkle" half of Sparkle Abbey. She is the founding president of Sisters in Crime--Iowa and a member of Mystery Writers of America, Romance Writers of America, Kiss of Death, the RWA Mystery Suspense chapter, Sisters in Crime, and the SinC internet group Guppies.
Anita Carter is the "Abbey" half of Sparkle Abbey. She is President of Sister's In Crime-Iowa and is also a member of Mystery Writers of America and Kiss of Death the RWA Mystery Suspense chapter.
Hi Mary Lee! Hi Anita! Thank you so much for taking the time to speak with me today.
Hi, Diane! Thanks so much for inviting us.
Please share with everyone how you came up with the name Sparkle Abbey?
Because we co-write the Pampered Pets mystery series, our publisher asked us to use a pen name. After considering several combinations of our names, none of which really worked; we came up with the idea of using our pets' names. Sparkle is Mary Lee's cat and Abbey is Anita's dog. We have other pets so our pen name could have potentially been Chewbacca Matisse. :-)
Sparkle, please share how you came up with the name Pampered Pets for your series?
Our series is set in Laguna Beach, California. A beautiful community and truly one of the most pet-friendly places on the planet. The main characters in our
series, Caro Lamont and Melinda Langston are cousins and are former Texas beauty queens who have relocated to Laguna where they work with some very pampered pets. Caro is a pet therapist and Mel owns Bow Wow, a pet boutique.
When you're deeply connected and immersed in a book, Sparkle, have you ever had a dream that you felt was not your dream?
While we've had some strange dreams (involving penguins no less--and Eagles, the rock band not the bird, and Matthew McConaughey), we've not had dreams we felt didn't belong to us. Those bizarre dreams may be a result of our very
active imaginations, or perhaps sleep deprivation while on deadline. Or too much Starbucks.
Do your characters dream within you?
Writing is very much like dreaming while awake. Don't you think? While it's something we've found non-writing friends and family don't necessarily understand, when you're writing these fictional people, they're very real to you. And in your head, you're in their world. Does that sound crazy? LOL
Have you had a dream that was one of your characters?
ML: I haven't. Have you, Anita? I've dreamed I was in Laguna Beach but not involving any of the series characters.
Anita: No, but that would be really interesting. Like ML, I dream about us being in Laguna Beach. And the seagulls. The seagulls in Laguna like to dive bomb the tourists. ML, I think I dreamed about that at the end of a yoga class. Remember? I fell asleep when we were supposed to be meditating or something. I was really relaxed.
What do you love most about the cozy genre?
The wonderful thing about the cozy genre is that it's an escape. We are both fans of classic Hollywood movies such as To Catch a Thief, His Girl Friday, Bringing Up Baby, and It Happened One Night. They entertain with a level of sophistication. They make you think and try to figure things out, but they're
not dark and depressing. Cozies are like that--no on-the-page graphic violence--not heavy and dark but by no means simple. The perfect escape after a stressful day!
Sparkle, please share the titles of three cozies on your nightstand? Go ahead Mary Lee, you first. Anita, you're next.Sparkle and Abbey are welcome to join in, too. *giggling*
Mary Lee: Currently on my nightstand are: Dandy Gilver and the Proper Treatment of Bloodstains (Catriona McPherson), Murder for the Halibut (Liz Lipperman) and Death Comes Silently (Carolyn Hart).
Anita: Death of a Neighborhood Witch (Laura Levine) Death, Taxes, and Extra Hold Hairspray (Diane Kelly) and Beef Stolen-Off (Liz Lipperman)
Sparkle: I'm currently reading, The Cat Who Wouldn't Come Inside
Abby: I sleep most of the day. What can I say, I'm an old gal. I've been reading Dog On It, by Spencer Quinn. I'll finish it eventually.
Who are some of your favorite mystery writers?
Mary Lee: Wow, this is hard... I read a lot! LOL I love traditional British mysteries but also love funny, very American contemporary mysteries. I grew up on Agatha Christie and went on to read M.C. Beaton and others. One of my all time favorite authors is Laura Levine who writes the Jaine Austen mystery series. I look forward to each book! Also, Carolyn Hart is an automatic buy for me, specifically her Death on Demand series. What's not to love about a series with a mystery bookstore setting?
Anita: What ML said. We have very similar reading tastes, which is one reason why our collaboration was so natural. I also love the Jaine Austen mystery series. Laura Levine is an automatic buy for me. I read Carolyn Hart, Laura Childs, Harlan Coben, Miranda Bliss (I wish she was still writing the cooking class mystery series) and so many others. Like ML said, too many wonderful authors to name them all.
How do you find balance?
We're still learning. Balance is sometimes difficult when you work full time and write full time as we do. :-/ We're incredibly lucky we both have wonderful families and beautiful, brilliant grandchildren who keep us grounded.
To keep things balanced, sometimes you have to take a deep breath and remind yourself of what's really important.
What is the guilty pleasure you find the naughtiest?
We are cozy writers. All the truly naughty stuff happens off the page.
What did you learn about yourself while penning Desperate Housedogs?
Mary Lee: I learned I could still write when life goes crazy. During the writing of Desperate Housedogs things went a little crazy. Okay, more than a little. There
were weddings and births. Operations and job changes. We lost a very dear writing friend and we also had the joy of fulfilling a long-time dream--our first published book. It was definitely a roller coaster!
What challenges did you endure while penning Get Fluffy?
Anita: Great question. Our series is different in that you have two protagonists, and they aren't speaking to each other. The readers "meet" Caro first and get "her side" of why the cousins aren't talking. I had to find a way to make Mel
likable and at the same time not belittle Caro in the reader's eyes. Presenting "Mel's side" of the story was tricky at times because the readers have already
bonded with Caro. We knew we'd accomplished our goal when one reader said she loved Caro and hated Mel in book one, but by the end of book two she loved both cousins equally. In the end, she wasn't sure which cousin was right, but she wanted to read more. I think I let out a huge sigh of relief after I read that.
What did you learn about yourself while inking Kitty Kitty Bang Bang?
Mary Lee: I learned how much I love the immersion in a story. I already knew that I love the revision process more than the first draft. The first draft is painful. The tinkering with a scene or a sentence to get it just right is the best part of writing. What was new about this third book was getting that opportunity to come back to a place and people I loved and immerse myself in that world.
What fears are you facing with the release of Kitty Kitty Bang Bang?
Our readers have been so wonderful and we hope they love Kitty Kitty Bang Bang. When you start a new series "the readers" are kind of vague. You hope you have readers
What are you most ambivalent about when you sit down to write the Pampered Pets series?
The only thing we're always conflicted about is a family heirloom in the stories. The two cousins both believe the brooch, left by their grandmother to her "favorite granddaughter" is theirs and they constantly steal it from each other. It keeps them feuding, it keeps them apart, which is great for the series but it keeps them (and us) conflicted.
What do you want your readers to walk away with after reading your books?
A smile on their face. We'd love for them to feel like they've had a brief mental vacation. We'd wish for them to enjoy Caro and Mel and the wacky fictional world we've created and we'd also hope, just a little, that they'd give their own pets an extra snuggle.
If you were able to go caroling with whomever you want (past or present), who do you pick and what are you singing about and munching on?
Mary Lee: What a great question. I'd have to pick Harry Connick, Jr. and Amy Grant. An odd combination, I know, but I think they're both not only fabulous voices but also really down to earth people. We'd be singing all the traditional Christmas carols (my favorites are "Oh Holy Night" and "Winter Wonderland"), drinking peppermint mochas, and munching homemade fudge. (Sidenote: My from-the-past choice would be Bing Crosby and Doris Day
Anita: I'm sooo old school. I'd love to hang with the Rat Pack as they sang Christmas carols during a Vegas show. I love that era. Can't you just imagine Sammy Davis Jr., Frank Sinatra, Dean Martin, Peter Lawford and Joey Bishop crooning in your ear "Silent Night" or "White Christmas"? Dean Martin singing "Baby it's Cold Outside"...that would be fun. As for munchies, probably some hot chocolate and sugar cookies. Oh, and for the present, I just love me some Blake Shelton. He has a great sense of humor and he adores his wife.
Thank you so very much, Sparkle, for this fun interview.
Thank YOU so much, Diane, for having us! Wishing you and yours all things merry and bright!
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A few months ago I joined a Facebook group - the ebay ACEO. It's a great group and things are always happening, lots of conversation and new pictures posted all the time. A really active and thriving community. While I was very close to giving birth I gave everybody a daily update as to how things were going. I think everybody got pretty eager to see me finally pop the Georgie out. It was quite good having a lot of US people in the group who would be up when I was, at 3am with some form of pain or ailment.
When I eventually went into hospital I believe I made the time to write a quick desperate message - something to the effect of, I think it's starting! Then that was it, no word from me for a couple of days.
Imagine my excitement when I came back - 19 FB updates, 3 friend requests and 2 private messages (along with 36 emails)!
Anyway to get to the point, Leola and Cheryl who are the administrators or some form of leader of the group had organised a new photo challenge. Rather than providing a picture for everybody to interpret; people were asked to make a card in honour of baby Georgie, an ACEO Baby Shower if you will. Then send all the cards to me (I wasn't expecting that at all!)
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Day three found us going to Beaver Meadows Visitor Center to take in the video on the Park, then driving over to Horseshoe Camp and the Alluvial Fan that resulted as a result of a dam break in 1982.
From Wiki: Lawn Lake Dam was an earthen dam in RMNP that failed on July 15, 1982 at about 6 a.m. It is known as the flood of 1982. The sudden release of 30 million cubic foot (849,000 m³) of water resulted in a flash flood that killed three people camping in the park and caused $31 million in damage to the town of Estes Park, Colorado and other downstream areas.
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The Alpine Visitor building...the logs on top help hold the roof on due to high winds occasionally, over 100mph at times. And below, at the visitor center.
Below, an exhibit in the visitor center.
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Here I am standing beside the headwaters of the mighty Colorado River, high up in mountains.
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Above, Rock Cut Pass at 12,000 feet near Alpine VC.
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Traditional teachers, hammering students with homework, worksheets and tests, are teaching the wrong lessons and hindering students' ability to learn.
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Inline Frames Slideshow Viewer
This "slide show" is based on Greg Shultz's articles Inline Frames Revisted (December 20, 2001) and Putting Inline Frames to Work: The Inline Frames Slideshow Viewer (February 11,2002) that were presented by http://webreview.com/2002/02_11/authors/. Schultz used an outdated table-formatted layout for the overall page. Included in the articles, besides some good basics about IFAMEs, is a list of "PowerPoint-like" transitional effects.


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Phil Armitage has been studying the formation and migration of planets around stars outside our solar system for more than a decade. He and his fellow planetary scientists know that during star formation, about 10% of the available mass doesn't end up in the star; this material becomes the building blocks of planets. In searches for planets circling more than a thousand nearby stars, astronomers had discovered more than 1730 planets by June of 2014. Many of these planets are like Jupiter and Saturn, but some are much smaller, down to masses just a few times that of the Earth. The smaller planets appear to have a rocky composition like Earth's.
Few extrasolar planets travel in the nearly circular orbits characteristic of Earth and its neighbors. Armitage and his group have investigated mechanisms that produce extra solar planetary systems like ours and different from the Solar System. For instance, they have considered the possibility that large planets form at a similar distance from their star as Jupiter, and then migrate either toward or away from the star. They have studied two mechanisms that could cause such a migration: (1) the interaction of a large planet with the protoplanetary disk in which it was formed and (2) the interaction between two or more massive planets. Both processes appear to be at work.
Giant gas and ice planets form quickly and are often closely packed. This close packing can make them violently unstable. Giant planet collisions can send planets rocketing out of a star system or cause them to have wildly eccentric orbits, setting the state for additional crashes.
Some gas planets can end up much closer to their star than similar planets in our solar system. They wind up in blistering proximity to their Sun-like parents, orbiting them in 1.2 to 8 days. There is no way these planets could have formed so close to their stars, where they are literally "roasted" by the heat from the star. Some giant gas planets, especially the largest ones, fare even worse than the roasters. They fly all the way into the stars where they are incinerated.
Interactions and collisions of giant gas planets also influence the evolution of inner rocky planets like Earth and Mars as well as the planetoids and debris found beyond the zone where the giant planets form. If the outer planets are relatively well behaved (as was likely in the early Solar System), then the inner planets are free to evolve slowly via collisions with other rocky bodies, possibly into habitable planets. However, violent collisions of giant planets can not only destroy nascent rocky planets, but also eject all the rocky material needed for their formation and growth.
Luckily for us, the Solar System's four terrestrial planets, including Earth, survived because of the relatively stable orbits of Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus, and Neptune during the 100 million years it took to form the inner planets. Only 15–25% of planetary systems around Sun-like stars are as fortunate, according to a recent study by Armitage and his colleagues. Most such systems not only formed in calm environments, but also still have large disks of gas and other debris in orbits beyond their giant planets. These debris disks mirror the favorable conditions for the formation of rocky planets so well that bright cold dust emission around Sun-like stars could well serve as signposts of terrestrial planet formation.
The Solar System is an exception, however. The Kuiper belt has a relatively meager collection of dust, rocks, and planetesimals (rocky bodies a few kilometers or more in diameter). Its small size is evidence of a somewhat unique history. About 700 million years after the birth of the Solar System, Uranus and Neptune moved far enough away from Jupiter and Saturn to interact with the then much-larger Kuiper belt. This interaction brought Uranus and Neptune into their present orbits. It also destabilized countless planetesimals, hurtling many into outer space and others straight into the heart of the Solar System. This bombardment cratered the Moon and must have inflicted even more damage on the Earth and Mars as well as on the moons of the giant planets. Fortunately for us, the inner planets remained stable. Lulls in the rain of comets and asteroids may even have allowed primitive life forms to survive on Earth.
Having garnered this basic picture of planetary formation around the Sun, Armitage now wants to understand how planetary systems form around stars. He'd like to figure out the relationship between the origins of hundreds of "nearby" planetary systems in our Galaxy and the history of the Solar System. The solution to these challenges lies in figuring out how to correctly calculate the origin and evolution of a protoplanetary disk starting from the fundamental laws of nature, or "first principles" that govern our Universe.
Armitage will need to use the information that he and his colleagues have been gathering for years. This information will include an estimate of the variation of the density (with distance from the star) of the disk of gas and dust; an estimate of dust concentration relative to the hydrogen gas that makes up most of the disk; an approximation of the variations in temperature with distance from the central star; and information about how temperature and density gradients affect the interaction of the disk with magnetic fields. He also has to account for the formation of planets inside the disk of gas and dust, their evolution inside a transition disk where gas and dust are being blown away and gravity begins to affect the behavior of new planets, and what happens to the planets when they are solely under the influence of gravity after the disk has disappeared.
Because he wants to answer the question of how giant planets grow up in a real environment, he hopes his new model will reveal why giant gas and ice planets do not typically form far away from the central star—even though protoplanetary disks can extend out to hundreds of AU (astronomical units) from their star. One AU is the distance from the Sun to the Earth, and the planet Neptune at 30 AU is the most distant large body in the Solar System. Around other stars, Jupiter-sized planets are uncommon at distances of 100 AU or more.
Armitage's experience modeling the Solar System and other star systems has prepared him for the task ahead of modeling the creation of a star system from scratch. As part of this research, he and his colleagues are already making predictions for how Chile's new radio telescope, the Atacama Large Millimeter/submillimeter Array (ALMA), can identify calm and turbulent parts of a disk, information that will help them refine their model to more closely mirror what actually happens during the formation of a new planetary system. The researchers expect to be working on this project for years to come.
The group is currently conducting a series of computer simulations of the outer disks around young stars and using new information coming in from ALMA to adjust and enhance its simulations to better reflect actual conditions that lead to the formation of planets around young stars. The researchers were recently able to simulate turbulence strong enough to cause gas in the disk to fall into the star. They found that a relatively weak magnetic field (tens to hundreds of micro-Gauss) threaded through the disk was necessary to simulate ALMA's observations. And, they figured out that the magnetic fields in the disk were likely left over from the process of star formation.
Jeffrey Linsky investigates the atmospheres of exoplanets. He studies ultraviolet (UV) spectra obtained by the Hubble Space Telescope of M dwarf stars (cool stars), which almost always have exoplanets. He and his colleagues hope to better understand how the interaction of UV radiation from stars with planetary atmospheres drives photochemistry. Linsky is also looking at ways to determinine whether oxygen in an exoplanet's atmosphere is due to photochemistry or the existence of alien life forms.
Recently, Linsky and his colleagues from CU's Center for Astrophysics and Space Astronomy (CASA) have come up with a strategy for determining whether an exoplanet's atmosphere contains oxygen, ozone, or other molecules that could have been produced by Earth-like organisms such as plants. They propose analyzing spectral lines from the host star's light to determine if the same molecules could exist in the atmosphere without life on the planet. For instance, Lyman-alpha radiation could produce oxygen molecules in an exoplanet's atmosphere via the photodissociation of water and carbon dioxide.
Linsky and his fellow researchers have developed a new technique to estimate the amount of Lyman-alpha radiation coming from cool stars like the Sun. In the future, this new method will allow astrophysicists to determine whether photodissociation is responsible for part, or all, of the oxygen in an exoplanet atmosphere.


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"Yes, of course . . ", is the usually anticipated and almost automatic response when someone comes by with a query, a problem or a story introduced by that question. And why not? A refusal might be seen as inconsiderate, or result in missing some vital or titillating information. Why not? Because to do so is often a small sign of bigger problems. Reacting to this kind of everyday stimulus automatically, either from FOMO (fear of missing out ) or anxiety about how others might view us, is an … [Read more...]
Emotional Agility
To have a decent shot at developing our personal character, we must bring the mind itself under control. For this . . . We should prepare for a lifetime of challenge, as there is no more difficult task in life. [1] One test of progress is how calm we remain under provocation. On what does our ability to do that depend and how might we enhance it? Mountaineering over a molehill I offered to support a colleague, but during the exchange he offloaded irritation in my direction. It was a simple … [Read more...]
Grit, Avoidance & Mind-hijacking
133 Seconds on Leadership, Teaching, Parenting, Coaching In just over two minutes of talking fast, Daniel Pink introduces a simple and very useful 2 x 2 matrix to illustrate something that's common to good leadership, teaching, coaching and parenting practices: an appropriate balance between being demanding and being supportive. Check out his video. The matrix is from Angela Duckworth's 2016 book, Grit: The Power of Passion and Perseverance, a new and helpful take on what others have termed … [Read more...]
It's Terrible! Let's Co-ruminate.
Three sharply-dressed passengers sitting nearby on an early morning flight were sufficiently loud, articulate and interesting for me to overhear their conversation. Mid-level managers in a high-tech industry, I figured. Over the next 50 minutes they repeatedly agreed they'd be more effective and happier if their staff, colleagues, senior executives and clients would behave better, just get out of their way, or be different people. Definitely a co-ruminating group: regurgitating and re-heating … [Read more...]
Facing Reality
Searching for easy simplicity, freedom from problems and constant stability in our lives is as futile as buying and keeping goldfish on the basis that they won't die. Dying randomly and inexplicably is what goldfish do best. Life is a series of problems to which there are no easy answers. If we want everything resolved and stable, we'll increasingly become victims of change as the world changes rapidly around us. Despite repeated awakenings from the fantasy that life should be otherwise, … [Read more...]
I Don't Trust You
We usually avoid saying this directly to those we mistrust. It's more common to report our unease and reasons for it to other parties, make vague or indirect complaints, or practice avoidance. By then the relationship has effectively failed, though the mistrusted person may be unaware of this. It can be difficult, if not impossible, to repair the damage. Given the centrality of trust to cooperation and collaboration, what can be done and how can we behave in order to develop and maintain … [Read more...]
Enhance personal resilience
Experiencing adversity . . ? Then you're suffering, right? Not necessarily, of course. At some level we all understand that emotional resilience is situational; we sometimes have it and sometimes lose it. We know that adversity can draw out and develop personal strengths. Resilience is not a rare quality limited to confident optimists with few negative attitudes. We may also accept that personal resilience is our own responsibility. Almost everyone has a degree of mental robustness and … [Read more...]
That's the problem, right there
His opening gambit was, What do you do? Not my ideal subject for small-talk during a short flight, but Oh well . . . I spoke of coaching leaders to lift their game through a systematic focus on developing their own and others' capacity for effectiveness . . . how this saves an extraordinary degree of otherwise wasted energy and . . . As his eyes began glazing over, I invited him to talk about his work. Although my companion spoke enthusiastically of recent developments in his (very … [Read more...]
Managing and reflecting on your leadership
Is leadership simply a higher form of management? Should leaders command, direct, explain, plead, role-model, inspire, cajole, threaten, bargain, encourage, coach, mentor, manipulate, or expect people to just get on with what they're paid to do without being "bossed"? Do your leadership KPIs measure leadership quality or organisational performance? Are they the same or separate issues? Can leadership effectiveness be reasonably argued if your part of the organisation succeeds and … [Read more...]
Start with why
When asked about meetings they attend, people often roll their eyes or sigh heavily and say, "Don't ask!" Clearly, something's wrong. While "ineptly-conducted" is one of the usual suspects and an obvious contributor to the problem, something deeper and frequently overlooked lies at its heart. It's a major flaw which seriously reinforces the tendency of meetings to waste time, squander potential and irritate the participants. One researcher points bluntly to it when he describes why so many … [Read more...]


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Boris Nemtsov is an important figure in Russia's liberal opposition movement. He was Deputy Prime Minister of Russia during the late 1990s under Yeltsin. Nemtsov was one of the founders, and now the main spokesperson of, the Union of Right Forces. Despite its ominous-sounding name, the Union of Right Forces is one of Russia's two main liberal opposition parties, along with the more left-leaning Yabloko. Nemtsov, in particular, is the proponent of a particular brand of Russian liberal thought that is as suspicious of the west as it is disapproving of Putin.
This outlook led Nemtsov to make a critique of Putin's nuclear weapons policies that will surprise most westerners. In his recent "White Paper" in which he critiques the legacy of Putin's presidency at length, Nemtsov claims that Putin has allowed a catastrophic decline in the quality of Russia's nuclear deterrent, and that that this threatens Russia's national survival:
This was the time to arm the army adequately. However actual arms deliveries and even plans for re-equipment have been scandalously low. According to data from the Council for National Strategy published in November 2007 published in a report entitled Results under Vladimir Putin: Crisis and Decay of the Russian Army, between 2000 and 2006, the Armed Forces received deliveries of only 27 ICBMs (27 warheads) while 294 (1779 warheads) were written off. In the penniless years 1992-1999, the army received 92 ICBMs (92 warheads). Since the year 2000, only 3 new aircraft have been delivered: one Tu-160 and two Su-34s. Around 100 aircraft were delivered during the 1990s. Since the year 2000, a little over 60 T90 tanks have been purchased while the total for the 1990s was 120. During the same decade, the Navy and seaborne frontier forces took delivery of over 50 surface and subsurface vessels. The figure for the current decade is less than ten [FN 1]. The state armaments programme for 2007-2015 plans to deliver a mere 60 aircraft to the armed forces in that time. This means that it will take … 80 years …. to renew our existing air fleet.
But the main blow has been against the most important element of Russia's military potential, the support of the country's sovereignty – the strategic nuclear forces. During the Putin years, Russia's strategic nuclear forces have decayed at a frightening rate. More data from the Council for National Strategy's report quoted above shows that between 2000 and 2007 the strategic nuclear forces wrote off 405 delivery units and 2498 warheads (as against 505 warheads only in the 1990s, during which time 60 new delivery units were bought while the army also took delivery of 1960 Tu-95 and Tu-160 strategic bombers). Under Putin, only 27 rockets have been produced – three times fewer than in the 1990s. So while Russia was overall able during the 1990s to maintain its nuclear potential at the level of that which it had inherited from the USSR, under Putin its reduction has become a serious threat to national security.
Furthermore, while the numbers of relatively invulnerable silo-based and RT-23 [FN 2] rail-mobile ICBMs (these latter look like standard refrigerated rail cars, which make them difficult to keep track of) were reduced, the armed forces continued to be given mobile Topol [FN 3] units that are highly vulnerable (these are 100-ton, 22-metre-long road-mobile units which can easily be found by optical, radar and infrared intelligence).
One hardly need say how important a country's strategic nuclear force is to its sovereignty. One might even say that no SNF = no sovereignty. The rest of today's armed forces are most unlikely to be able to resist large-scale attack by a strong aggressor. If Russia's nuclear arsenal continues to be shrunk at current rates, by the middle of the next decade Russia's SNF will have at its disposal no more that 300 ICBMs and 600 warheads. In that case, it is questionable if it will be able to perform its nuclear deterrence function: it becomes possible for an aggressor to make a disarming non-nuclear strike with high accuracy weapons to annihilate practically all of Russia's nuclear strike power and take out the few rockets that the country does manage to launch with its anti-missile defence capability. China's strategic nuclear force will equal that of Russia in the next 10 years or maybe even exceed it.
There's no sensible response to the endless jabber about "sovereignty" as the main aim of Putin's policies if in reality the main factor in that sovereignty – the strategic nuclear deterrent – has been undermined under Putin.
I don't think that this critique of Putin's nuclear policies is remotely fair (Russia does have obligations under the SORT treaty to reduce its nuclear arsenal), and claiming that the silo-based ICBMs and the rail-based SS-24s were vastly more survivable than the road-based Topols simply strains credulity. In fact, if current trends continue the Russian nuclear deterrent may be qualitatively superior to that of the United States twenty years from now--it'll be 50+ year old Minuteman IIIs and 30+ year-old Trident IIs versus road-mobile Topol-Ms and Bulavas of vastly more modern design (not to mention new weapons systems that are being considered by the Russian government right now.) Western critics of Putin tend to make the opposite criticism: that he has squandered precious resources on strategic nuclear forces while neglecting other areas of policy. But the fact that this kind of thinking about nuclear weapons exists among influential members of Russia's liberal opposition should give serious pause to those who think that it will be easy to "induce" Russia to abandon its nuclear armament.


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Cubans like to say that their impoverished country is a land of miracles. How many people can pack onto a bus? Only God knows. The same irony was there on the road to the Church of St Lazarus at Rincón. The pilgrims had set out on their trek to the church for the saint's feast-day as perfectly able-bodied men and women, but were inviting disability by grinding themselves against the blacktop for mile after mile. 'Some of them mix up St Lazarus with a god called Babalú-Ayé,' said Sister Rita Llanza tolerantly. It was a mix-up typical of Santería, Cuban voodoo, a profane marriage of the Catholicism imported by the Spanish and the faith of West African slaves. Adherents of Santería believed that Babalú-Ayé would look down on their prostration and find it pleasing. Sister Rita wasn't in the least put out by the Scriptural inaccuracies of the pilgrims, accepting their candles across the altar rail in exchange for a cheaply printed parish newsletter. Wasn't it a cardinal rule of Santería that initiates must first have been baptised? The Church in Cuba, for so many years oppressed, welcomed sinners wherever it could find them. 'And you: I suppose you are Episcopalian?' Sister Rita asked me. A fat bald man was standing at the door of the church, holding his hand out and intoning in a funny high voice: 'Could you give me something because I cannot see?' I'm sure the sister wouldn't have minded, that she would perhaps have looked on me as a challenge, but I didn't have the heart to tell her that I was a Santería man myself, a Santero, or rather that I was part of the way down the road to initiation, a chicken having been sacrificed over my head in a comical ceremony in a bloodstained chapel.
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|At the Beginning
This is the best photo I had of Son from December, 2011 when the family got together for Christmas.
|At the Beginning
Good for him. Losing weight is hard to do.ReplyDelete
Amazing in deed, what an accomplishment! He is inspiring!
Wow! Good for him. =)ReplyDelete
Congrats! He looks marvelous. Great determination.
Have a beautiful week ~
Tell him to keep doing what ever it is he's doing and he has amazing determination!!!
Congrats to your son! This is the best gift he can give himself and his children -- living a healthy lifestyle!
Your Friend,
He really should be proud of this accomplishment! He's good looking both those pictures, the second one he looks YOUNGER! Boy, if losing weight would help me look younger, that might be the motivation I need...ReplyDelete
We have found out that it is relatively easy to loose the weight if one is determined to do so -- and I certainly do not mean to taking anything way from his accomplishment at all mind you -- but once one gets to the point where one wants to weigh, then staying at that weight is darn difficult. I hope he is able to figure out how to do that successfully. We have notReplyDelete
That's impressive. Can I ask how he is doing it? I lost 45 pounds last year and have since gained it all back. I'm open to any suggestions to help me back it down again.ReplyDelete
Shelley, Basically he just started eating better, getting up off the couch and exercising like crazy. He runs, swims, works out every day and he also took some dance lessons. He's always been one to accomplish whatever he sets his mind to.ReplyDelete


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|07 May 2012
Windows 7 Home Premium
Windows boot hangs, error 0xc0000225
I tried starting my computer today, but it kept coming up with a screen that said: Error 0xc0000225 Boot selection failed because the required device was inaccessable"
I tried googling it, but the problem seems to come frop people messing with partitions.
I haven't so much as looked at a partitioner siince I got the computer (Just the two standard partitions: the system one and the C: drive)
How can I fix this?
NOTE: I already tried the MBR- the bootrec.exe tool on the install disc executed properly, but still same problem
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|07 May 2012
W7 Ultimate x64/W10 Pro x64 dual boot main build-remote pc W10 Pro x64 Insider Preview/W7 Pro x64
That would kind of rule out the need for the MS page on that. How to use the Bootrec.exe tool in the Windows Recovery Environment to troubleshoot and repair startup issues in Windows
Have you tried running the automatic Startup repair tool a few times as well? If that fails to work you might have to plan on rebuilding the BCD as long as the Partition Table(PT)/Master File Table(MFT) is still intact.
Another thing would be not allowing people to play around with the drive partitioning there or simply be stuck each time. Besides assigning a password there are a tools available for locking up the desktop when away from the machine.
|My System Specs
|07 May 2012
Can you use the computer? Yes/No.
Is this a laptop/desktop/tablet/netbook?
Can you boot from a CD/DVD?
|My System Specs
|07 May 2012
Win 8 RP, Win 7, XP
Boot selection is done by boot manager (bootmgr).
This means that:
MBR is OK, PBR is OK,
bootmgr is OK, and you have a BCD file with at least one loader entry.
The problem is that the device (partition) information in BCD does not match partition information on disk.
A simple command from Recovery prompt would do:
bcdboot drive_letter:\windows
- check that directory is there with dir command
\windows could be on c: drive or e: drive when booted from CD/DVD/USB Recovery media. ( usually d: is recovery media, c: -> active partition )
But first I would do a chkdsk
on "SystemReserved" (c: ?) and Windows partition (e: ?)
|My System Specs
|07 May 2012
W7 Ultimate x64/W10 Pro x64 dual boot main build-remote pc W10 Pro x64 Insider Preview/W7 Pro x64
If you see the 1tb drive in Windows Explorer without any problem simply right click on it to bring up the properties screen>Tools and click on the Check Now button to run the Check Disk utility.
Since you are not able to boot into that 7 install you wouldn't be able to schedule it for the next start using the "chkdsk /r" command with the repair switch added in the command. The Automatically fix system errors box should be already be checked off by default.
|My System Specs
|08 May 2012
Does the HD still show up in BIOS setup?
If so it it still set first HD to boot in BIOS setup?
If so work through these steps for Troubleshooting Windows 7 Failure to Boot
|My System Specs
|21 Jun 2012
I tried starting my computer today, but it kept coming up with a screen that said: Error 0xc0000225 Boot selection failed because the required device was inaccessable"
How can I fix this?
NOTE: I already tried the MBR- the bootrec.exe tool on the install disc executed properly, but still same problem
|My System Specs
|21 Jun 2012
Please see, and carry out, info given in post #6.
Report back please on your results using post #6.
You have a very, very unusual situation if that procedure does not cure your problem.
|My System Specs
|21 Jun 2012
W7 Ultimate x64/W10 Pro x64 dual boot main build-remote pc W10 Pro x64 Insider Preview/W7 Pro x64
When first getting this case together 7 had problems starting up following a nice fresh primary for the clean install of 7 to go onto. The default setting was then switched over to(on Gigabyte brand boards note( the Native iDE mode.
Lately following another clean install I went from that to AHCI or SCSI setting and all went well following the guide for this seen at AHCI : Enable in Windows 7 / Vista
When problems came up with the recent dual boot of 7 with the Windows 8 Release Preview resulting in drive errors(ntoskmi.exe in a memory dump analysis) the Check Disk tool solved the 7 start up and freeze up problems. The Check Disk tool is the last option before the need to repartition the drive or simply put remove the present C to see a new primary take it's place.
The Error 0xc0000225 error is the result of an interrupted partitioning process. When you mentioned "people messing with partitions" that suggests a likely corrupted Partition Table which will result in a number of problems. That includes any number of drive errors which will stall any version of Windows at start up.
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Issue No. 01 - March (1991 vol. 3)
pp: 55-64
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Problems associated with defining normal forms of relational tables relevant to statistical processing are discussed. The concepts of derived identifier, class identifier, derived class-counts, count domains, compact domains, and uniform domains for statistical relational tables are introduced. The structures of the first and the second statistical-normal forms and the relational decompositions needed to achieve them are also discussed. It is shown that the statistical-normal form can be an important method to determine whether the usual statistical analysis techniques are valid. Some suggestions are presented for extending the structured query language (SQL) statements to achieve these operations on statistical relational tables. Some results linking Codd's normal forms with statistical normal forms are discussed. Relational statistical abnormalities, called outlyers, are also discussed.

statistical relational databases; normal forms; relational tables; derived identifier; class identifier; derived class-counts; count domains; compact domains; uniform domains; relational decompositions; statistical analysis; structured query language; SQL; statistical abnormalities; outlyers; query languages; relational databases
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Today, I decided that I needed to get out and about on my last day off... see the world through tourists' eyes. So I went to the Japanese Tea Garden in Golden Gate Park. I made a friend on the bus and we talked about the bus lines we hated most, the token crazies (on the bus), and camp counselors going absolutely wild after the campers leave.
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Remote monitoring: Beyond virus protection
But what about more tangible threats? Do you have hot spots in your racks? If the cooling system shuts down, how will you know when temperatures climb out of control? Are you alerted to humidity changes or water leaks that threaten your equipment?
Planning for the unexpected is a critical task because there are more systems performing mission critical functions than ever before. These systems are often deployed without the proper environmental infrastructure to support them. Equipment density is increasing constantly, which is creating more stress on ventilation and power.
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Power over Ethernet (PoE) is invaluable for powering devices such as surveillance cameras, VoIP phones, and wireless access points over the same UTP cable used for data. In the last decade, this technology has matured and gone from a hodgepodge of home-brew and proprietary methods to the safe, reliable IEEE 802.3af PoE standard and the 802.3at PoE+ standard. But many misconceptions from the early days of PoE still linger. Here are the top five misconceptions about today's PoE:
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HIGH ALERT: Sweltering temps, dangerous winds and storms
SIZZLING temperatures will be unrelenting across the Sunshine Coast the whole weekend with some parts expected to reach more than 35 degrees.
There's only a slight chance of an evening shower and storms for today and tomorrow will put a stop to the heat.
Bureau of Meteorology said while the weekend will bring a sweaty mess, Monday will be far cooler.
"Today is going to be particularly hot, especially inland. On the Coast it will be at least 32, then inland places like Nambour, 35 or more," a BOM spokesperson said.
Happy Saturday Qld! Going for a hike? Heading to the beach? Camping with friends? Pack a hat, water bottle & stay in the shade! #QASHotTip— Queensland Ambulance (@QldAmbulance) January 12, 2018
"Tomorrow is the same. For both days though an approaching trough is bringing a slight chance of showers and storms.
"It will bring a southerly change which will really cool the whole Coast down, sunny and 28 is expected.
"But the weekend will really be hot and unstable ad very humid."
This morning coastal waters are looking at north west winds of 10-15 knots, increasing gradually throughout the day, into 20-25 by this afternoon.
"Later this evening they will be around 30 plus," the spokesperson said.
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Eastern Consolidated Arranges $2.5M Sale of TriBeCa Retail Condo
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Eastern Consolidated has arranged the sale of a 1,500-square-foot retail condo at 119 Chambers Street, currently occupied by high-end designer thrift shop Housing Works, for $2.5 million, The Commercial Observer has learned.
The condo, located in TriBeCa's densest retail thoroughfare, features a 1,500-square-foot street level space, with 25 feet of retail frontage, and a renovated 1,500-square-foot basement.
The new ownership will benefit from the tremendous foot and vehicular traffic in the neighborhood, home to a melting pot of residents, commuters, students and tourists, said Eastern Consolidated's Senior Director Adelaide Polsinelli, who represented the buyer and the seller, both local investors, with Associate Director Robert Khodadadian.
Contrary to typical retail scenarios, buyers are flocking to side streets in TriBeCa, Ms. Polsinelli added.
"Downtown is hotter than ever, and TriBeCa retail is really beginning to sizzle with the side streets now taking on the overflow from the avenues," she said. "With more than 60,000 new families now living below Canal Street post-9/11, investors and national retailers who were reluctant to have a presence here are now rethinking their decisions."
Rents on the space are currently 50 percent below market, leaving room for significant upside potential, said Mr. Khodadadian.
"The new ownership will benefit greatly from the incredible growth of new residents and visitors in Lower Manhattan, and the demand for retail and new services is only going to increase," he said, noting the property's proximity to 12 major subway lines and a number of express buses.
TriBeCa commands some of the highest rental rates and condo prices in Manhattan, in close proximity to lose the World Trade Center, the South Street Seaport, Wall Street, and a range of city, state and agencies.
Big retail names to recently stream into the area include Whole Foods Market, Barnes & Noble, Equinox and Starbucks, as well as trendy restaurants like Nobu, Tribeca Grill, Boule, Landmarc – and Megu, which, as previously reported in The Commercial Observer, is being marketed by Eastern Consolidated.
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The Saturdays have revealed the artwork for their new US single.
The group unveiled the cover for the American release of their new track 'What About Us'.
The band tweeted from their official account: "Oooh! Check out the US version for the artwork of our new single #WhatAboutUs."
The track marks their first Stateside release and coincides with their new reality series Chasing The Saturdays, which airs on E! from January 20.
The Saturdays recently revealed that they were putting the finishing touches to their new album, which is due out next year.
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Musharraf-Bhutto deal in the doldrumsNovember 14th, 2007 - 2:07 am ICT by admin
This development has given yet another jolt to the country's politics, The Nation reported.
"The question being asked most frequently now is about the future of the deal reached between the two sides most recently, whether the government would honour its commitments made in the deal with Benazir opting to return on October 18 against president's advice or otherwise," the daily argued.
The prospects of the government honouring the deal would be quite remote in case Benazir ignores the President's call, sources privy Mushrraf-Benazir deal disclosed.
The talk in political circles is government is on shaky ground, and not sure what the apex court is up to.
According to sources, Musharraf did not want Benazir or Sharif to return until he was safe and sound in the presidency for the next five years.
Political leaders from both sides expect hectic behind-the-scene activity to persuade Benazir to postpone her return. (ANI)
- Musharraf delays return to Pakistan - Jan 19, 2012
- Gilani meets Zardari after apex court's contempt notice - Jan 16, 2012
- Pakistani PM urged to implement apex court's NRO verdict - Jun 27, 2012
- Gilani convicted for contempt, gets symbolic sentence (Lead) - Apr 26, 2012
- Next government can approach Swiss courts: Zardari - Jan 08, 2012
- Gilani, in Supreme Court, backs Zardari (Evening Lead) - Jan 19, 2012
- Contempt case: SC to decide Gilani's fate Thursday (Lead) - Apr 26, 2012
- Don't come back, ISI chief told Musharraf in Dubai - Jan 24, 2012
- Can't write letter against Zardari: Gilani's counsel to court - Mar 21, 2012
- Will resign if convicted: Gilani - Feb 12, 2012
- Malik passes NRO accountability buck to Musharraf - Oct 03, 2010
- Contempt of court: Supreme Court adjourns till Feb 1 - Jan 19, 2012
- Gilani has committed contempt, rules Pakistan court - Feb 02, 2012
- Musharraf to be arrested on return to Pakistan - Jan 07, 2012
- Attorney general gets court order in Zardari case - Mar 10, 2012
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A burned-out teacher puts Kayla Carmichael, a naturally gifted art student, in charge of a group of class clowns, misfits, and troublemakers who are painting a mural on the back of Sandpiper Public High in Daytona Beach, Florida. Can Kayla help her classmates become artists—or at least get them to stop playing games on their cell phones? Kayla also has to deal with possibly insane heavy metal musicians, a gift shop manager who acts as if he's running a Fortune 500 company, a guy with a vivid violet voice, and an already wealthy teen tennis player who's about to go pro. Meanwhile, Kayla hopes to get wealthy herself by selling T-shirts she designed. She tries to decide if a manipulated photo she took with a stolen camera is worthy of a national award. And she wonders why she wants to hear—and see—that violet voice more and more.
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T.A. Pack's short stories have been published in several literary journals, including The Sonora Review, Thinker Magazine, The Louisville Review, and LEO (Louisville Eccentric Observer). THE ARTSY GIRL - IN BRONZE is his first novel. He's a writer and editor in the Communications Department at Jefferson County Public Schools in Louisville, Kentucky. The school district has more than 100,000 students, and Thomas has written nonfiction articles about many of them, including dozens of artsy students. He and his wife have two teen daughters. His mother, as well as his sister and her family, live in the Daytona Beach area, which is the setting for his novel.
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Excerpt from THE ARTSY GIRL-IN BRONZE by T.A. PackWhen she was seven, Kayla went to a birthday party for Brenda Scroggins, a girl in her class at Dolphin Spray Elementary. A lot of Brenda's classmates called her Bossy Brenda because she always had to have her way and had to be the center of attention even when it wasn't her birthday.


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Pariah is a performance series that brings together the movement-based works of 4 east-coast based artists Tsedaye Makonnen (DC) , Esther Baker-Taparga (PA) , Waqia Abdul-Kareem (MD) and Marcelline Mandeng (PA). In their performances, they will use abject gestures to collectively explore what it means to be Un-American.
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Tor Arne (born 1934) is a Finnish artist almost solely known and appreciated by experts. This tells a great deal about the mechanisms of our art world. If an artist, however important, is personally not interested in publicity, his or her works may remain unknown even among connoisseurs of art. This is clearly the case with Tor Arne: he is the painters painter, in the same way as someone like Gunnar Björling is the writers writer in Finnish literature - clear, deep and uncompromising - and almost completely unknown to the public.
Underlying Tor Arnes paintings are physical perception, landscape, experience and feeling, but they are not descriptive; they do not "represent" anything but themselves.
When a painting truly succeeds as a painting, using visual means to give the viewer a deep feeling of communion with something greater, the shared existence that we usually never attain, it is difficult to say anything sensible about it. Words seem to escape the deepest essence of such a painting, which is colour, light and their relationship with the world of experiences, our ability to experience things. Such a painting does not gossip; it is, it whispers and therefore one must calm down before it to look, feel and open up.