I've set up two projects, an 'init' and a library, which is required by the init. They both have PSR-0 autoloads set, but the autoload values from the library are not added to the vendor/composer/autoload_namespaces.php in the init project.
The library contains the class LXP\Library\Something in the file src/LXP/Library/Something.php.
The project that requires the library contains the class LXP\Init\Now in the file src/LXP/Init/Now.php.
When running composer install in the 'init' project, it downloads the library project and puts it in vendor correctly, but vendor/composer/autoload_namespaces.php doesn't contain the library's autoload information, only that of the current project.
What am I doing wrong? If I run dump-autoload in the library project then the autoload_namespaces.php file is correct, and a quick bootstrap script confirms that it does indeed pick up the class.
EDIT - This is a problem with the satis-generated packages.json. To fix it, I had to add the autoload information from the library's composer.json into the json file I supply to satis, which seems like an unnecessary duplication and so I'm probably doing it wrong. Is there a single place that autoload information can be stored for satis libraries? For example, can satis read the composer.json files that exist in the libraries it scans?
EDIT #2 - Satis does not read the composer.jsons from repositories specified as 'package' type. This is obvious in hindsight, because 'package' is used for libraries that do not have a composer.json, and is a way to wrap composer-like dependency management around them.
Changing the satis.json's repository to 'vcs' type meant that the composer.json was read, and the information (including the autoload specification) was parsed and stored in the packages.json.
@Seldaek - thank you for suggesting that my satis config was the problem, and I hope that this clarifies satis / composer behaviour for anyone else in my position.
You are running composer install from a lock file, and that means composer just reads the info from the composer.lock file and does not update package metadata to the latest version available in satis. To solve this you should run composer update instead.
It depends how you installing your library via Composer. For example, when downloading it as package type (same I believe with composer type), Composer never reads the composer.json file, so instead you should use vcs or git type. See: GH-6846.
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1847, Berlin – 1935, Berlin
Max Liebermann is born on the 20th of July in Berlin
Studies in philosophy at the University in Berlin and private lessons in painting
Studies at the academy in Weimar
Move to Paris
Relocation to Munich
Wedding and marriage with Martha Marckwald
Move to Berlin
Liebermann takes part in an exhibition at the Salon in Paris
Appointment as professor at the Royal Academy of Arts in Berlin
Founding member of the "Berlin Secession"
Publication of his essay "Phantasy in painting"
Liebermann becomes a member of the "Free Secession"
Major retrospective in the Royal Academy of Arts in Berlin in celebration of his 70th birthday
Liebermann becomes president of the Prussian Academy of Art
Appointment as honorary president of the Prussian Academy of Art
The National Socialists order Liebermann to stop painting
He leaves the Academy
Max Liebermann dies on the 8th of February in Berlin

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How to Make Day of the Dead Sugar Skulls
by Alia Hoyt Oct 22, 2019
Artist Diego M. Rios designed these sugar skulls and also teaches the craft to others. Diego M. Rios
If you're looking to step up the authenticity of your Día de Los Muertos, or "Day of the Dead" celebration this year, try your hand at the art of making sugar skulls, also known as calaveras de azúcar. Don't start licking your chops just yet, though. Although these beautifully decorated creations are typically made of sugar, they're not for eating. Instead, they are made to adorn altars erected to honor departed loved ones for the occasion.
"The sugar skull is both an expression of artistic beauty and a deeply religious symbol," says Diego Marcial Rios, a California-based artist and sugar skull expert, who frequently lectures on the topic, and also teaches workshops on how to make sugar skulls.
Long celebrated in Mexico, the Day of the Dead has been increasing in popularity the U.S. in the last few years. Some attribute this partly to the success of the 2017 Disney film "Coco," which featured the holiday. "Sugar skulls are more popular in 2019 than in any other time," Rios says, noting that the techniques for making them are still relatively unknown in the U.S.
The Day of the Dead holiday, which begins Nov. 1 and continues through Nov. 2, is a time to remember loved ones who have died by decorating altars (called ofrendas) with their pictures, favorite foods and drinks, as well as with marigolds and elaborately decorated calaveras. The offerings are believed to encourage visits from the departed, which bring good luck to the living. On Nov. 2, families visit cemeteries to spend time cleaning and decorating their loved ones' graves, using items from the ofrendas.
"The origin of the sugar skulls can be attributed to Italian monks of the 1500s who entered the Mexico region in an attempt to convert native Americans (Aztecs) to Roman Catholic practices," Rios explains. "These old monks brought and taught the native populations how to create ornaments and figures using melted sugar like the practice that had existed in rural areas of Italy in earlier times."
Sugar candy skulls adorn a tray for a Day of the Dead celebration.
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The Aztecs then employed those techniques to create art to reflect their own culture. "The Native Americans traditionally had used the human skull icon as a symbol of power and rebirth," he says. "Centuries passed and the Mexican people continued the practice."
Rios provided HowStuffWorks with a common formula for a DIY sugar skull. Don't be too hard on yourself if the first batch is less than stellar, as Rios explains that the process can be very tricky, even difficult at times.
Sugar Skull Recipe
Pure cane sugar
Plastic or clay skull mold (these can be purchased easily online)
Mix 1 cup (225 grams) of sugar, 1 teaspoon (5 milliliters) of meringue powder, and 1 teaspoon of water by hand in a bowl. Squeeze the sugar paste in your hand. Once it keeps its shape, it's ready to mold. (Repeat to achieve desired quantity.)
Press the paste into the face of the skull mold and scrape off any excess. Unmold the skull onto a piece of cardboard or wax paper. Repeat with the back of the skull mold.
Let the skull halves dry at least 24 hours, or until hard.
Decorate with royal icing.
1 pound (500 grams) of confectioner's sugar
1/4 cup (50 grams) of meringue powder
1/3 cup (80 milliliters) of water
Combine all ingredients in a large bowl and mix slowly with an electric mixer until it forms stiff peaks; the icing should be pure white.
Decorating Your Sugar Skulls
First you need to apply a thin layer of white icing to the flat sides the skull halves to "glue" them together. Let the skulls sit for about an hour to dry. Then you can separate the white frosting mixture into several small bowls and create tons of different colors.
Piping the frosting is the fun part. You can decorate the skulls using a piping bag fitted with decorating tips to create all kinds of unique looks. If you don't have a piping bag, you can make your own by just snipping the corner off a resealable zip-top bag.
Although you certainly can mimic traditional decorative patterns like dots and swirls, don't feel artistically confined, as Rios says artists typically decorate the skulls however they feel inspired. Some artists even choose to employ other materials, like tin foil and colored paper, to truly customize the look. The only hard rule is to let the icing dry for at least an hour before setting the skulls out to adorn an ofrenda.
You can find more instructions for sugar skulls at this Hungry Happenings and decorating help at the video below.
Now That's Cool
Even Mattel is getting in on the Day of the Dead fun. The toy giant announced in September 2019 that a Barbie Dia De Muertos Doll was added to their signature collection of dolls inspired by popular culture. Demand was so high that the doll sold out just one day after release, despite some criticism that the product is little more than cultural appropriation in action.


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2022 Maria Moors Cabot Prize Winners Announced
Honoring Outstanding Reporting in Latin America and the Caribbean
Investigative and Innovative Journalists Honored
Columbia Journalism School announced the 2022 winners of the Maria Moors Cabot Prizes for outstanding reporting on the Americas. The 2022 Cabot Prize winners are Daniel Alarcón, Radio Ambulante, United States; Laura Castellanos, independent journalist and co-founder of Reporteras en Guardia, Mexico; Ioan Grillo, independent journalist, United Kingdom and Mexico; and Daniel Matamala, CHV Noticias, Chile.
In addition, the Cabot Jury selected a 2022 Special Citation recipient that honors efforts to promote journalist safety: Javier Garza Ramos, independent journalist, Mexico.
The Cabot Prizes honor journalists and news organizations for career excellence and coverage of the Western Hemisphere that furthers inter-American understanding. Godfrey Lowell Cabot of Boston founded the Maria Moors Cabot Prizes as a memorial to his wife in 1938. They are the oldest international journalism awards.
"The 2022 Cabot honorees have devoted their lives to covering complex and enormously consequential stories," said Columbia President Lee C. Bollinger. "They, like so many journalists in the Americas, continue to face growing threats of violence, censorship, and harassment for doing their jobs. On behalf of the entire University, I offer my sincere congratulations and my thanks for their tireless and invaluable work."
"This year, the jury is spotlighting the importance of investigative journalists and innovative storytellers in the Americas," said Cabot Board Chair Rosental Alves. "These four winners and the citation recipient all have talent and courage. They inspire us with their accomplishments."
Each winner will receive a gold medal and a $5,000 honorarium. The 2022 Cabot Prize winners and the Special Citation recipient will be celebrated at Columbia on Tuesday, October 11.
2022 Maria Moors Cabot Prizes Winners:
Daniel Alarcón, Radio Ambulante, United States
Daniel Alarcón is a journalist, radio producer and novelist who has spent his career telling the stories of the Americas in English and Spanish, in print and audio, in fiction and nonfiction. Born in Lima, Peru, and raised in Birmingham, Alabama, Alarcón began his career writing fiction. His 2007 novel Lost City Radio was a finalist for the PEN-Faulkner Prize. As a print journalist, Alarcón now covers the region for The New Yorker, publishing deeply-reported pieces about political corruption in Peru, social unrest in Chile, or the aftermath of the world's most virulent outbreak of Covid-19 in Ecuador. He is an assistant professor at Columbia Journalism School.
In 2011, together with his wife, Carolina Guerrero, Alarcón founded the groundbreaking narrative journalism podcast Radio Ambulante. In just over a decade, Radio Ambulante has revolutionized the audio journalism landscape in Latin America, publishing more than three hundred episodes from more than twenty countries, telling stories of love and family, migration and money, youth culture and politics. In 2016, Radio Ambulante joined NPR, and remains its only Spanish-language podcast. In 2021, Alarcón's work earned him a MacArthur Foundation "Genius Grant." For all of these innovations in storytelling, and the fostering of a broad community of listeners we are proud to award Daniel Alarcón with a Maria Moors Cabot Prize.
Laura Castellanos, independent journalist and co-founder of Reporteras en Guardia, Mexico
Over the course of her 30-year-long career, Laura Castellanos has become one of Mexico's leading independent reporters, producing consistently excellent work that demonstrates her commitment to the truth and her talent for in-depth reporting. A tireless journalist, feminist and author of six books, Castellanos is widely respected for her revelatory investigations that have uncovered uncomfortable truths, including stories about the extrajudicial killings by security forces in Apatzingán in 2015 and elsewhere. She does this challenging work as a freelancer for Mexican and US publications, documenting the underrepresented, and holding leaders accountable at her own risk.
Over her career, Castellanos has developed a new journalistic narrative that addresses issues of structural violence, keeping issues of gender, class and ethnicity in the forefront. She is the co-founder of Reporteras en Guardia, a collective of hundreds of female reporters from around the country who build the digital memorial mataranadie.com with the profiles of journalists who are victims of murder and disappearance in Mexico, considered the most dangerous country in the world to practice their profession.
The Maria Moors Cabot Jury honors Laura Castellanos as an example of a courageous reporter who continues to do her extraordinary job in the face of adversity and violence.
Ioan Grillo, independent journalist, United Kingdom and Mexico
In 2000, when Ioan Grillo moved from England to Mexico, he dreamed of working as a foreign correspondent in Latin America covering guerrilla warfare and other conflicts that have so often affected the region. He ended up covering another kind of conflict; the so-called "War on Drugs" or "Drug War," which has caused hundreds of thousands of deaths, including the assassination of dozens of journalists in recent years.
As a staff writer or freelance contributor to several prestigious American and European news outlets, Grillo has published more than 1,000 stories from Mexico and other Latin American countries over the last two decades. He also moved beyond day-to-day coverage, taking on in-depth investigative reporting from the frontlines and longform narratives, including three books and over ten documentaries and docuseries.
In 2021, Grillo published his third book, Blood Gun Money: How America Arms Gangs and Cartels, after a four-year-long investigation. He traveled to the United States to track, as he said in a New York Times article, "this so-called iron river of guns, in an effort to understand why the United States and Mexico have so badly failed to stop it." For his courage and tenacity, the Maria Moors Cabot Jury is proud to honor Ioan Grillo with a Maria Moors Cabot gold medal.
Daniel Matamala, CHV Noticias, Chile
Daniel Matamala is a remarkable innovator in journalism who has managed to juggle platforms, including print, broadcast and digital, while also maintaining the highest quality of investigative journalism.
Through the prism of economics, Matamala takes on business and political elites from Chile to Venezuela to the U.S.-Mexico border. But he also shows a compassionate reportorial eye for those at the bottom of the economic ladder who suffer most at the hands of the powerful.
Matamala has primarily worked for television networks in his native Chile as reporter, interviewer and host, and in important publications such as La Tercera in Chile and Letras Libres in Mexico.
In half a dozen books, in Spanish and in English, Matamala has focused on the way behind-the-scenes money manipulates politics, war, and even sports. It is rare for a reporter to be able to translate such an impressive command of economics into meaningful stories that go to the roots and the heart of injustice. His reporting has had a major impact on Inter-American understanding. For his journalistic rigor and innovative approach to reporting, the Maria Moors Cabot Jury is proud to honor Daniel Matamala with a Maria Moors Cabot Prize.
2022 Maria Moors Cabot Special Citation:
Javier Garza Ramos, independent journalist, Mexico
For more than 25 years, Javier Garza Ramos has been a journalist committed to serve and inform his community under the most extreme circumstances, while also dedicating himself to journalist safety in Mexico and elsewhere in the world.
Having experienced first-hand violent attacks in Mexico as editorial director of El Siglo de Torreón, Garza Ramos established safety protocols that reporters and editors started to follow when covering violence or being at risk. Those protocols were soon replicated in other newsrooms in Mexico, Guatemala, Honduras, Costa Rica, Colombia, Ecuador, Chile, and the United States.
After he left El Siglo, he continued to be an advocate for freedom of the press and the protection of reporters in Mexico and beyond. Garza Ramos started new journalistic projects and brought focus to the importance of local news.
In these difficult times when independent journalism is under attack in Mexico and many other countries in the Americas, the Cabot Board honors Javier Garza Ramos with a 2022 Maria Moors Cabot Special Citation as an enduring example of intrepid reporting, and commitment to his colleagues in the face of adversity.
Members of the Cabot Prize Board in 2022: Jury Chair Rosental Alves, Knight Chair in International Journalism, University of Texas, Austin; Hugo Alconada Mon, investigative journalist, La Nación (Argentina); Juan Enríquez Cabot, chairman and CEO of Biotechonomy, LLC; Carlos Fernando Chamorro, founder and editor, Confidencial (Nicaragua); Gustavo Gorriti, journalist and founder of IDL Reporteros, a non-profit, investigative journalism website in Peru; Marjorie Miller, administrator, Pulitzer Prizes, Columbia University; Julia Preston, contributing writer at The Marshall Project, previously covered immigration at The New York Times; Giannina Segnini, director of the Master of Science Data Journalism Program at the Journalism School at Columbia; Elena Cabral, assistant dean, academic programs and communications at the Journalism School at Columbia; Tracy Wilkinson, reporter covering foreign affairs out of the Los Angeles Times' Washington bureau; Abi Wright, executive director of Professional Prizes at the Journalism School at Columbia.


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Sentinel funding, kindergarten eligibility and OE prohibition bills pass
Three very different education related issues reached the House floor on Monday (2/10).
House Bill 1152, which provides financial assistance for school sentinel training, passed the House Education committee on 10-5 vote. ASBSD is monitoring the bill.
HB 1152 would provide a $1,500 reimbursement – paid by the S.D. Department of Education – to school districts who have an employee complete the Sentinel program training up to a total annual amount of $45,000 being able to be distributed.
Rep. Dayle Hammock, the bill's prime sponsor, said its "money that is available and on hand" through DOE that would be used to fund the reimbursements.
Secretary of Education Ben Jones testified in opposition to the bill, noting the proposed dollars are earmarked as Title IV funds and using it for the reimbursement "might get us in trouble" or "run afoul of proper use of the Title IV funds."
Committee members also passed House Bill 1157, which provides for kindergarten enrollment options, on an 8-7 vote.
The bill would allow parents of children who turn 5-years-old before December 31 of that current school year to complete a "developmental and readiness screening" to determine if they demonstrate "superior academic talents or abilities and social and emotional readiness."
Secretary of Education Jones testified in opposition of HB 1157, which notes the Department of Education would have to approve the new assessment used by schools, saying they don't currently "deal with" kindergarten screenings and upon reading the bill "did not know how" they would measure social and emotional readiness.
"The screeners, the waivers, the process then becomes something that would be difficult to manage," Sec. Jones told committee members.
HB 1157's prime sponsor, Rep. Tony Randloph, said the proposal is "just simply an evaluation for students" whose parents "believe their child is ready to move on to kindergarten."
"It not rocket science. It's not creating a whole new program," Rep. Randolph testified.
ASBSD is monitoring the bill.
Finally, House Education members voted 11-4 to pass House Bill 1173, which prohibits a school board from denying an application for open enrollment from certain students. ASBSD opposes the bill.
Rep. Jon Hansen said the bill would "simply provide assurance to those children with autism" that they could not be denied open enrollment to district if they meet three new criteria being introduced. Those criteria include:
In the preceding school year, was a resident student and enrolled in the school district;
In the preceding school year, was determined to have a level four disability or a level five disability with at least one disability being a level four disability; and
Does not require an assignment to an out of district special education residential or tuition day program
SASD Executive Director Rob Monson said the bill "is a bit overstepping local policies" as district may not be able to meet the needs of the student, but wouldn't be able to deny the application.
Rep. Thomas Brunner said the bill "puts smaller school districts in a predicament" due to the funding constraints that could develop.
Each bill heads to the House floor next for review and debate.
For updates on these bills and others during the 2020 legislative session, check the ASBSD Blog and Bill Tracker page.
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The Business Department offers a wide variety of courses to satisfy the interests and needs of the business-oriented student and to serve as an introduction to the field of business studies for all students. The curriculum is designed to give students insight into the American market economy, and it stresses their role as economic decision makers.
The department offers a concentration of courses which provide a sound foundation for students wishing to pursue business majors in college, and it also provides some useful skills to students planning to enter the world of work immediately after high school graduation.


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Ein Quasar ist der aktive Kern einer Galaxie, der im sichtbaren Bereich des Lichts nahezu punktförmig erscheint (wie ein Stern) und sehr große Energiemengen in anderen Wellenlängenbereichen ausstrahlt. Der Name Quasar wurde vom englischen  abgeleitet, was als "stern(en)artige …" oder auch "stern(en)ähnliche Radioquelle" übersetzt werden kann.

Die Strahlungsemission eines Quasars stammt von einer rotierenden Scheibe leuchtender Materie, der Akkretionsscheibe, die ein supermassereiches Schwarzes Loch umgibt.

Entdeckung und Namensgebung
Historisch bezeichnete der Begriff kosmische Radioquellen, die in den 1950er Jahren nicht als Radiogalaxien identifiziert werden konnten, sondern in optischen Beobachtungen blau und "sternförmig" (also nicht flächig) erschienen. 1963 stellte Maarten Schmidt durch Spektralanalyse fest, dass die Radioquelle 3C 273 kein naher Stern ist, sondern mit einer Rotverschiebung von 0,158 im Bereich ferner Galaxien liegt, also nicht wirklich ein Stern, sondern nur quasi sternartig ist. Spätere Beobachtungen zeigten, dass die hellen sternartigen Quasare doch in die Kerne von Galaxien eingebettet sind, die aber wegen der großen Entfernung schwach erscheinen. Durch die starke Rotverschiebung aufgrund der Expansion des Universums wurden Quasare als sehr weit entfernte Objekte erkannt. Diese Folgerung konnte seit der Entdeckung von Gravitationslinsen unabhängig bestätigt werden. Quasare wurden inzwischen bis zu einer Rotverschiebung von 7,1 entdeckt.

Mit der im Jahr 2010 gemachten Entdeckung, dass der 1,6 Mrd. Lichtjahre entfernte Quasar SDSS J0013+1523 als Gravitationslinse für eine 5,9 Mrd. Lichtjahre dahinterliegende Galaxie wirkt, ergibt sich eine direkte Möglichkeit zur Massenbestimmung eines Quasars.

Die Bezeichnung QSO (quasi-stellar object) schließt nicht nur die klassischen radiolauten Quasare ein, sondern auch radioleise Objekte mit schwacher Radioemission, aber sonst ähnlichen Eigenschaften. Häufig wird aber der Begriff Quasar etwas ungenau für beide Klassen benutzt.

Physikalische Eigenschaften
Quasare erscheinen trotz ihrer großen Entfernung relativ hell und gehören somit zu den leuchtkräftigsten Objekten im Universum. Nur sehr kurzzeitig hell aufleuchtende Phänomene (Supernova, Gammastrahlenblitz) sind möglicherweise energiereicher. Quasare sind über weite Bereiche der elektromagnetischen Strahlung hell und haben charakteristische Spektren mit sehr breiten Emissionslinien, die in rascher Bewegung befindliches Gas anzeigen. Die leuchtende Materie kreist mit hoher Geschwindigkeit um den galaktischen Kern, dabei erfährt der Teil der Materie, der sich vom Beobachter wegbewegt, eine Rotverschiebung und der Teil, der sich auf den Beobachter zubewegt, eine Blauverschiebung. Insgesamt verbreitern sich dadurch die Spektrallinien. Photometrisch lassen sich daher Quasare von einem Stern durch die sehr breiten Spektrallinien unterscheiden.

Quasare gehören wie die schwächeren Seyfertgalaxien zur Klasse der aktiven Galaxien. Die Trennung anhand der Leuchtkraft ist rein historisch bedingt. Nach heutiger Annahme befindet sich im Zentrum aller Galaxien mit einem Bulge ein sehr massereiches Schwarzes Loch, das mehrere Millionen bis Milliarden Sonnenmassen umfassen kann. Aktive Galaxien unterscheiden sich von anderen Galaxien dadurch, dass dieses Schwarze Loch mit der Zeit an Masse zunimmt, da Materie aus der umgebenden Galaxie (interstellares Gas oder zerrissene Sterne) durch die Gravitation des Schwarzen Loches angezogen wird. Dieser Vorgang des Ansammelns von Materie wird in der Astronomie Akkretion genannt. Aufgrund der Drehimpulserhaltung bei der einfallenden Materie kann diese nicht direkt in das Schwarze Loch fallen, sodass sich um dieses herum eine Akkretionsscheibe bildet. Durch Reibung heizt sich diese Scheibe auf, wobei gleichzeitig Teile der Materie Drehimpuls verlieren und so in das Schwarze Loch fallen können. Die Emission der aufgeheizten Akkretionsscheibe ist das, was man als typische Strahlung des Quasars beobachtet. Sie kann eine Leuchtkraft ähnlich der von vielen Milliarden Sternen erreichen und somit mehr Licht abstrahlen als die gesamte umgebende Wirtsgalaxie. Die leuchtkräftigsten Quasare erreichen bis über 1014-fache Sonnenleuchtkraft.

Die Beobachtung des Quasars Q0957+561 legt nach David Shiga nahe, dass dieser kein Schwarzes Loch im Zentrum enthält. Er wird durch die Forscher als ein Magnetospheric eternally collapsing object (kurz MECO) bezeichnet.

Sofern die Akkretionsscheibe über ein starkes Magnetfeld verfügt, wird ein kleiner Anteil des Materiestromes in zwei Teile gerissen und in Bahnen entlang der Feldlinien des Magnetfeldes gezwungen. Anschließend werden beide Ströme senkrecht zur Ebene der Akkretionsscheibe (einer auf jeder Seite) mit relativistischer Geschwindigkeit in die umgebende Galaxie und den weiteren Weltraum abgestoßen. Diese Jets können im Radiowellenlängenbereich beobachtet werden.

Nutzung als Referenzsystem
Quasare sind sehr hell, sodass sie auf große Entfernungen sichtbar sind. Zugleich sind sie sehr weit entfernt, sodass ihre Bewegung am Himmel vernachlässigbar klein und faktisch nicht mehr messbar ist. Diese Eigenschaft wird genutzt, um aus den Quasaren ein Referenzsystem aufzubauen. Der International Celestial Reference Frame (ICRF) ist ein Katalog von Quasaren und anderen Objekten, deren Positionen in einem aufwendigen Verfahren mit Radioteleskopen über viele Jahre mittels VLBI auf ca. 30 µas (Mikrobogensekunden) genau vermessen wurde. Dieser Katalog lässt sich als Bezugssystem für astronomische Kataloge und für die Geodäsie einsetzen. Der ICRF3 enthält 4.536 extragalaktische Radioquellen.
Im Rahmen der Veröffentlichung der Gaia-Mission wurden mehrere Versionen des Gaia Celestial Reference Frame veröffentlicht. Dieser Referenzrahmen wurde benutzt, um die Objekte der Gaiakataloge auszurichten. GCRF3 enthält 1.614.173 Quasare, die im optischen Bereich erfasst wurden. Der Katalog enthält damit wesentlich mehr Referenzpunkte.

Vereinheitlichtes Modell zur Klassifikation
Yue Shen und Luis C. Ho fanden ein Modell zur vereinheitlichten Beschreibung vielfältiger Quasar-Erscheinungsformen. Quasare strahlen unterschiedlich viel Strahlung ab, die in ganz verschiedenartigen Spektrallinien auftritt. Auch bei nahezu massegleichen Quasaren findet man im Spektrum völlig verschiedene Emissionslinien. Als vereinheitlichende Parameter schlugen Shen und Ho vor, zu untersuchen, wie viel und wie schnell Materie in das Schwarze Loch fällt sowie von welcher Blickrichtung man den Quasar beobachtet und seine Emissionslinien erhält. Bedeutsam ist dabei die Orientierung der Rotationsachse des Schwarzen Lochs und damit die Lage der Akkretionsscheibe relativ zur Blickrichtung von der Erde. Dank der 1926 von Arthur Stanley Eddington beschriebenen Eddington-Grenze und der Eddington-Akkretionsrate, des Verhältnisses der Menge einfallender Materie zur abgestrahlten Energie des Quasars, lässt sich bei bekannter Entfernung die Masse des Materie verschlingenden Objekts abschätzen und die Masse des Quasars ermitteln.

Blazar

Den Typus des optically violent variable quasar / OVV quasar, der Quasare mit besonders raschen und starken Helligkeitsvariationen, rechnet man zusammen mit den BL-Lac-Objekten (sehr hellen, sternähnlich erscheinenden Objekten, die aus einem sehr massereichen Schwarzen Loch bestehen, das durch die zum Absturz gebrachte Materie polarisierte Strahlung mit starker Helligkeitsvariation emittiert) zur Gruppe der sogenannten Blazare. Bei ihnen geht man von einem Winkel zwischen Beobachtungsrichtung und Jetachse von höchstens wenigen Grad aus. Durch relativistische Effekte können bei diesen Objekten die fast mit Lichtgeschwindigkeit auf uns zulaufenden Jets auch in den höchstenergetischen Bereichen des Spektrums "gesehen" werden. Durch das extrem schnelle Abströmen der Materiejets kommt es im Kernbereich mancher Quasare zu einem Unterdruck, relativistische Inversion genannt. Die unregelmäßige Akkretion neuer Materie verstärkt die Variabilität. Mit den Experimenten EGRET (GeV-Bereich) und COMPTEL (MeV-Bereich) auf dem Compton Gamma Ray Observatory wurden zehn Objekte gefunden, die in beiden Bereichen des Spektrums leuchten. Eine ähnliche Verknüpfung wie zwischen Quasaren und Blazaren wird zwischen Quasaren und Radiogalaxien vermutet, bei denen die Jetachse fast senkrecht zur Beobachtungsachse liegt. Diese Beziehungen sind Beispiele "vereinheitlichter" Modelle, in denen verschiedene Arten aktiver Galaxienkerne durch unterschiedliche Beobachtungsrichtungen auf gleichartige Objekte erklärt werden.

Besondere Entdeckungen
 1998 wurde der besonders lichtstarke Quasar APM 08279+5255 entdeckt. Er erzeugt atypische Dreifachbilder, enthält eines der größten Schwarzen Löcher und wird von einer sehr großen Menge Wasser umkreist.
 2013 entdeckten Astronomen den Quasar SDSS J010013.02+280225.8 (verkürzt SDSS J0100+2802) aus dem Katalog des Sloan Digital Sky Survey (SDSS). Er ist etwa 12,8 Milliarden Lichtjahre von der Erde entfernt (Lichtweg) und enthält ein extrem massereiches Schwarzes Loch von 12,9 Milliarden Sonnenmassen aus einer Zeit, als das Universum weniger als 900 Millionen Jahre alt war. Diese Entdeckungen ermöglichen Einblicke in das Wachstum von Schwarzen Löchern und Galaxien im jungen Universum.
 2021 entdeckte das Team um Feige Wang von der University of Arizona den bisher fernsten und ältesten Quasar J0313-1806. Er ist 13,11 Milliarden Lichtjahre von der Erde entfernt und besteht aus einem Schwarzen Loch mit einer Masse von 1,6 Milliarden Sonnenmassen. Das Alter von nur ~670 Millionen Jahre nach dem Urknall wurde mithilfe der kosmologischen Rotverschiebung ermittelt, deren Wert z=7,642 beträgt.

Briefmarken
Mit dem Erstausgabetag 1. Juli 2019 gab die Deutsche Post AG in der Serie Astrophysik ein Postwertzeichen im Nennwert von 110 Eurocent mit der Bezeichnung Schwarzes Loch / Quasar heraus. Der Entwurf stammt von der Grafikerin Andrea Voß-Acker aus Wuppertal.

Siehe auch
 Astronomische Objekte

Literatur
 Joseph S. Miller: Astrophysics of active galaxies and quasi-stellar objects. University Science Books, Mill Valley CAL 1985, ISBN 0-935702-21-0.
 Volker Beckmann, Chris R. Shrader: Active Galactic Nuclei (= Physics textbook). Wiley-VCH, Weinheim 2012, ISBN 978-3-527-41078-1.
 J. Chris Blades: QSO absorption lines – probing the universe. Cambridge University Press, Cambridge 1988, ISBN 0-521-34561-8.
 Geoffrey Burbidge, Margaret Burbidge: Quasi-stellar objects. Freeman, San Francisco 1967.

Weblinks

 Robert Antonucci: Kein Verständnis für Quasare. In: Spektrum.de. 13. März 2013. Deutsche Übersetzung, Originaltitel: Quasars still defy explanation. In: Nature 495. 2013, S. 165–167.

 Rainer Kayser: Quasare: Wohin verschwinden die Gaswolken?. In: Welt der Physik. 5. Oktober 2012.
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Q: Determining an ActiveX control's version in Silverlight or Javascript I am looking for a way to determine
a) whether or not a user has a specific ActiveX control installed, and
b) what the version of that control is in either Javascript or Silverlight.
I have used the following javascript code to determine the existence of the control:
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But I see no way to access any version properties (or any properties at all) from that activex object.
I need to know what version the user has in order to determine if they need to be redirected to install a new version?
Any thought on the same are appreciated.

A: As far as I know, there's no way to get the version information unless it's exposed as a property on the object's interface.
Having said that, you can solve this problem by including a version specifier after the #version= in the OBJECT tag's CODEBASE attribute. The object tag will prompt the user to upgrade the control if the version test isn't met.
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Q: Ports closed when checked with canyouseeme.org I am having trouble understanding how ports work.
What I tried to do:
I wanted to check if a particular port was open on my laptop. The port that i chose to check was the port used by bittorrent client for incoming connections. Let's say the port used by my bittorrent was 51346. I went to canyouseeme.org to check if that port was open. It showed an error.
Here is when the confusion started.
My bittorrent client is using the port without any issues. It was receiving data which means it must have been listening on that port. So, no firewall issues here. But why does cannyouseeme.org show me an error. I did check with other open port checker tools online. All show me the same error.
So, where am i going wrong? Why is it that I am not able to check if the port was open?
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This is not the first time I am messing around with ports. I first tried to setup a public web server on my laptop with little luck. I had faced the same problem. I was running the server on port 80. But to the outside world, that port was closed. My idea was to access the web server with my public ip address. I tried it on a different port, didn't work. I setup port forwarding, still couldn't access the web server. Disabled windows firewall, didn't work. Initially I thought somehow my ISP is blocking all the ports which sounds ridiculous. I eventually gave up on trying to setup a public web server. Then I had to change my ISP and again gave the public web server idea a shot. Again failed. I still have no idea where I cam going wrong.
My current knowledge on how it all works: Any computer can access any other computer on the internet using the IP address. DNS only comes into the picture to translate the host name into an IP address. So, technically I should be able to access a web server setup on my laptop using my public IP address. But wasn't able to.
If you read till the end, thank you. Please correct me if my understanding of networks is flawed anywhere.
Edit: I am using Windows 10. But tried it with Windows 8.1 as well.

A: You have confirmed that you are behind Carrier Grade NAT.
This is confirmed by the fact that you have a class-A private address as your routers WAN address. But when checked by canyouseeme.org you see a public address. (The address that is doing NAT/Masquerading)
Contact the ISP to see if you can obtain a public IP number. They are the only ones that can help you in this situation. Another option would be looking for another carrier.
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Wait A Minute … They Took A Taxi From Bremerton to Bainbridge Island?
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Authors Joshilyn Jackson, Jane Smiley, Tatjana Soli, event organizer Robbie Wright, and authors Josie Brown and Eileen Goudge
Last week's "Between The Pages" event on Bainbridge Island wasn't perfect, as you'll see below … but it was a success. (Let me check that: Once things got to Bainbridge, things were perfect.) But an enthusiastic crowd of about 75, paying at least $50 a ticket, came out to support the Kitsap Regional Library system and listen to a powerhouse lineup of female authors — Jane Smiley, Josie Brown, Eileen Goudge, Joshilyn Jackson and Tatjana Soli — read from their latest books.
Here's a six-minute video of the evening's highlights, prepared by event organizers Robbie Wright and Liberty Bay Books owner Suzanne Droppert.
And when I asked Josie Brown to reflect on the evening, here's what she had to say:
It was a great adventure, for sure. We had plenty of time to get to the ferry. Too much, apparently, because we got onto the wrong one: the Bremerton one as opposed to the Bainbridge — and didn't realize it, until we almost docked and my husband, Martin, timidly asked me (because he thought I'd faint): "Hon, um, wasn't this ferry ride supposed to be a half-hour, tops?"
A mad rush by taxi (we had a colorful driver — Anthony, originally from Buffalo, and the topic with him jumped from his tenure in the armed services to his job as a masseuse, to hemp clothing) and we were there, only fifteen minutes late. Jane was laughing because she'd made it over earlier that morning to visit a pal — and she was the one we thought would get lost or be late, as she's always the one texting, "I have to be where? When?"
It was a wonderful crowd! Friendly, inquisitive, and obviously avid readers. What I love, too is that there were quite a few teachers and librarians there as well.
Eileen calls us "The Sisterhood of the Traveling Books." Most of us met face-to-face for the first time just the night before, but you'd think we'd known each other for quite some time, the way everyone got along. Joshilyn is a consummate performer: you can tell she was an actress in her previous profession. Tatjana gives an eloquent read. Her book is serious, but she is lighthearted and fun. She and her husband, Gaylord, dance the tango!
The way back — this time the RIGHT ferry — was too short. It was fun just to sit together and recapped the fun. I hope everyone in the audience had as much fun as we had.
September 20, 2010 UncategorizedBainbridge Island, Between The Pages, books, Bremerton, Eileen Goudge, Jane Smiley, Jim Thomsen, Joshilyn Jackson, Josie Brown, Kitsap Regional Library, Liberty Bay Books, reading, Tatjana Soli, writing
The Literary Agent Who Became a Book Publisher
If you want to know how quickly and surprisingly the business of publishing books is changing, look no further than the third floor of Sharlene Martin's house on north Bainbridge Island.
There, the offices of the Martin Literary Management are a nearly nonstop buzz of activity. But it's not buzzing just with the business-as-usual of the literary agency, which represents mostly inspirational memoirs, celebrity biographies, true crime and other commercial nonfiction — three of which were New York Times bestsellers in the past year.
It's buzzing because Martin and her crew are getting ready to publish their first book.
Wait a minute. A literary agent publishing the work she represents? Is this how the publishing industry is supposed to work?
Not normally, no. But what's normal these days in book publishing, which is undergoing a seismic shift in how books are developed and distributed?
"Not much," Martin conceded with a laugh.
A case in point is the book that's generating the buzz. Cirque Du Salahi: Be Careful Who You Trust is the story of Tareq and Michaele Salahi, who Martin represents along with the author, investigative journalist Diane Dimond.
The Salahis are the high-society Washington D.C. couple who made headlines back in November 2009 when they got past the Secret Service into a White House state dinner. The so-called "White House party-crashers" stirred up a lot of controversy and curiosity — more so the latter of late since Michaele Salahi joined the lineup of the reality TV show, The Real Housewives Of D.C.
It's that latter fact that drove Martin to make the unusual choice to publish the Salahi story on her own, in cooperation with Amazon.com, because she wanted the book to come out in time to capitalize on the latest rise in profile for the couple. In particular, she wanted a product ready to buy before the TV series ended Oct. 7.
"It's a decision I consciously made. I did not shop this to traditional New York publishers," said Martin, a Connecticut native who relocated to Bainbridge a few years ago with her partner, author Anthony Flacco. "There was no way they could accommodate the window of sales opportunity for this book — it would have been obsolete by the time they could have gotten it ready."
(Generally speaking, it takes about two years from the time a book is sold to a publisher for it to appear on bookshelves.)
So what was Martin's alternative? In her view, to publish it through the CreateSpace program offered by Seattle online book giant Amazon. That took care of preparing and distributing print and electronic versions of the book. Everything else fell to Martin and her crew.
"All the decisions a publisher had to make, I made," she said.
And then some.
First, she had to bring a writer on board, and a natural choice was Dimond, her longtime client. Then came editing, legal vetting, cover and interior designing, promotional strategizing and a zillion other chores big and small. Almost everything a big New York publishing house would do was handled in the lovely home overlooking the island's Sand Spit. (Flacco, for example, was dragooned into duty as the project's content editor.)
Another unusual quirk: Everybody involved is taking whatever financial rewards may result on the back end of the book's release, in lieu of the advance-money arrangements commonly made with traditional book deals.
"We're calling it a sweat-equity book," Martin said.
The Kindle as well as trade paperback version of Cirque Du Salahi became available Sept. 15. A promotional blitz, largely centered on the East Coast where interest in the Salahis is strongest, will follow. In lieu of a traditional book tour with on-site signings in bookstores, Martin and Co. are arranging for "Virtual Book Chats" in which, at scheduled times, people can log on for a live chat with Dimond and the Salahis and participate in live question-and-answer sessions.
Martin, ever the promoter, says that the book reveals information heretofore unknown about the Salahis, gleaned through Dimond's exhaustive fact-checking, interviews and research. She calls many of media stories about the couple "urban myth," and the book's jacket copy echoes that thought:
This journalistic autopsy reveals how one event can capture a ravenous media's attention, become the fodder for bogus political drama, and with razor-sharp and misplaced attention, ruin the reputation of a politically connected couple who did little more than attend a White House function for which they believed they had an invitation.
Later, Martin, a frequent writing-workshop instructor, will try to use her self-publishing experiment as a teaching moment. "We want to set up a program at colleges around the country for journalism students, about how they can do this kind of project themselves," she said.
It's a talk that Martin has walked for herself, having taken her first foray into author-dom last November with the release of Publish Your Nonfiction Book, co-written with Flacco and published by Writer's Digest Books as a how-to guide for preparing would-be authors for publishing success.
Working on an unforgiving deadline for their publisher made Martin feel "like every day, I was taking my SATs," she said. "I have a whole new respect for how hard authors work."
It should be noted that Martin's foray into self-publishing hasn't burned any of her many bridges with the traditional book-publishing establishment. As usual, she has several projects in play — most recently, she's been working on a memoir by Hillary Williams, daughter of country music legend Hank Williams Jr. — and many are being published through big New York houses.
But that doesn't mean that Cirque Du Salahi is a one-shot deal.
"We'll apply this paradigm in the future," Martin said, "where it's appropriate."
My guess is that she won't be the only one.
Said Martin: "We're been playing a new game with old rules. And that has to change, or a lot of people are going to go out of business."
September 19, 2010 UncategorizedAmazon, Anthony Flacco, Bainbridge Island, books, Cirque Du Salahi, CreateSpace, Diane Dimond, Jim Thomsen, Martin Literary Management, Michaele Salahi, publishing, self-publishing, Sharlene Martin, Tareq Salahi, virtual book chats, writing
Reading Kitsap on Facebook
Are you on Facebook? Of course you are. The entire world is on Facebook.
So is Reading Kitsap. I've created a Facebook page for this blog. If you're on Facebook as much as I am, then you'll like how it gives you a much easier way to keep up to speed on new blog posts. Also, I like to survey people there on various book-related topics, and post links to other items I think you might find interesting. Plus, there's the whole connect-with-other-people-in-your-community-who-share-your-interests thing.
And there's the interactive component. I've decided to be pretty lenient about letting anyone who wants to share a link, a news tidbit or some media about the Kitsap literary scene — or the literary scene in general — do just that. If you're a writer, book-club leader, or whatever, I'm pretty open to letting you promote your work on the Reading Kitsap wall as long as you're not crass about it.
So … go to your Facebook account, type "Reading Kitsap" in the search field, click "Like" once you get there, and join in the conversations. There's 53 of already there, as of this writing, all of whom like, generally, the same things you do.
Thanks for reading Reading Kitsap. And thanks for reading Kitsap. And thanks for reading.
September 17, 2010 Uncategorizedbooks, Facebook, Jim Thomsen, publishing, reading, Reading Kitsap, writing
Romance Writers Honor Debbie Macomber on Saturday
Debbie Macomber will be the featured speaker when the Peninsula Chapter of the Romance Writers of America meet at 10 a.m. Saturday at the Sylvan Way Branch of the Kitsap Regional Library in East Bremerton.
Macomber, who helped found the chapter in 1986, will do a Q&A with attendees, and she'll also be celebrated by her home chapter for her receipt of the national organization's Nora Roberts Lifetime Achievement Award. (She formally received the prestigious prize at RWA's annual conference in late July, following in the footsteps of romance-writing legend Linda Lael Miller, a former Kitsap resident, who received the same award in 2007.) The award is given "in recognition of significant contributions to the romance genre."
The meeting is open to anyone interested.
The Peninsula RWA chapter, with 70 members, covers the Kitsap and Olympic peninsulas, as well as the Tacoma area. "We support all writers in all genres, not just romance," said Jennifer Conner, chapter president. "We bring in speakers, editors, agents and other authors to help our members hone their craft and become stronger writers."
And Conner, a 1979 South Kitsap High graduate, is proof that it works. Her first published romance novel, Kilt By Love, will be released Sept. 27. (It was her seventh manuscript.) Congratulations, Jennifer.
Here's the summary from Conner's blog:
When Sasha Nolan loses her job as an events planner, she decides to take her dream vacation to Scotland. Her plan is to find out what Scotsmen wear under their kilts, but instead, she's stuck on a tour bus of senior citizens. When she meets Allister MacTavish, a modern day laird, all that changes. There's one simple rule for her vacation, kilt, conquer and leave. Can Sasha follow her rule when Allister asks for her help in creating a plan to rescue MacTavish Castle from financial ruin? Suddenly Sasha finds that she's tempted to abandon her old life, help Allister, and indulge in every sexual fantasy she's ever had. Because now, she's found out what Scotsmen wear under their kilts…nothing at all.
September 16, 2010 Uncategorizedbooks, Debbie Macomber, Jennifer Conner, Jim Thomsen, Kitsap Regional Library, Peninsula Chapter of the Romance Writers Of America, publishing, RWA, writing
Rick Bass Started Out by Writing Short Stories on His Lunch Breaks
Way behind on this stuff, but trying to catch up a little at a time over the next few days.
I've talked plenty about the Between The Pages event Thursday night on Bainbridge Island, but there's another literary heavy hitter in town that evening as well: Rick Bass, a Mississippi-bred author who now lives in Montana, will be reading at 7:30 p.m. at Eagle Harbor Book Co. from his first novel after nearly a decade of nonfiction writing, Nashville Chrome, a 1959 tale of Southern music, family, rivalries and secrets. Publisher's Weekly loved it: "Like the sound Chet Atkins pulls from the Browns in the studio, the narrative has a pitch-perfect chorus of longing and regret, with an undertone that connects and heals."
(Here's another review.)
I wish I could be there; Bass sounds entirely too interesting. From his Wikipedia page: "He started writing short stories on his lunch breaks while working as a petroleum geologist in Jackson, Mississippi." So let that be a little sunburst of inspiration to everyone who thinks they're too busy with their everyday lives to write a book. Because you're not.
September 15, 2010 UncategorizedBainbridge Island, books, Eagle Harbor Book Co., Jim Thomsen, Nashville Chrome, publishing, Rick Bass, writing
Literary Heavy Hitters Go to Bat for Kitsap Libraries
Authors of literature are usually valued in society as philosophers, sages and teachers. Oh, and quality drinking companions (in my experience, anyway).
To that list, add superheroes.
It's in the latter mode that five highly regarded fiction writers from all over the United States are coming Thursday to Bainbridge Island for a public reading and reception. Their mission: To raise money for the cash-strapped Kitsap Regional Library system.
The $50-a-ticket "Between The Pages" event, at the Bainbridge Performing Arts center, features one marquee name: Jane Smiley, the Pulitzer Prize-winning author of A Thousand Acres, a modern-day retelling of Shakespeare's King Lear which was later made into a movie starring Jason Robards, Jessica Lange and Michelle Pfeiffer.
Josie Brown
Joining Smiley are four other female authors with strong national reputations: Josie Brown, Eileen Goudge, Joshilyn Jackson and Tatjana Soli.
Eileen Goudge
For 90 minutes, they'll read from their latest novels (more on those below), interview each other and possibly take some questions from the audience, Wright said. They'll stay for another 40 minutes after to chat and sign copies of their books.
"My karmic way of giving back is to come up with ideas in which the sales of my books can help good causes," said Brown, a Bay Area author who helped spearhead the event. (She even arranged for copies of her newest novel, Secret Lives Of Husbands And Wives, to be included in the ticket price.)
Brown is friends with Robbie Wright, a corporate events planner who lives on Bainbridge. When Wright told her last spring about the library system's woes — budget cuts, past levy failures and the theft of children's books from the Port Orchard branch — Brown came up with the fundraiser idea.
They quickly enlisted Peter Raffa, director of the Kitsap Regional Library Foundation, and the three drew up a wish list of names. One glittery name at the top of their list — show-business novelist Jackie Collins — initially committed to the Between The Pages event.
Joshilyn Jackson
But, Brown said, Collins had to drop out when when the date for the London premiere of a movie based on one of her books shifted from summer to fall. Also having to drop out was novelist Lisa Rinna, who saw the release of her latest novel shifted to October.
They got Smiley, their other top name, to come up from her Northern California home, however. Goudge, a New York author with a second home in the Puget Sound area, came on board next, followed by Jackson, a Georgia resident, and Soli, who lives in Southern California.
Tatjana Soli
All write what could be labeled literary, issue-driven women's fiction.
"They are heavy hitters, all of whom have have books that resonate with library patrons all over the country," Brown said. "And there are no more avid readers than those in the Seattle metro area. That's a known statistic in the book industry."
And, she added: "Any excuse to get out into the incomparable Puget Sound area is a writer's joy. Which is why so many great ones live in your neck of the woods, right?"
Sad disclosure: As things stand now, I won't be able to attend the event, as I must punch in for my regular Thursday swing shift at the paragraph factory in Bremerton. However, if you're going and bringing a camera, would you mind sharing some of your shots with me so I can share with everyone? E-mail me at thomsen1965@gmail.com. And please share some of the funny anecdotes and other highlights of the evening. And cake, if there's any.
A little about each author and their latest books:
• Jane Smiley, who has published 13 novels, three nonfiction books and a short-story collection over a 30-year career, came out earlier this year with her latest, Private Life, which follows one Midwestern woman's life in marriage from the 1880s to World War II. Said Booklist: "Smiley casts a gimlet eye on the institution of marriage even as she offers a fascinating glimpse of a distant era."
• Josie Brown is a journalist who specializes in celebrity interviews and relationship articles. Her previous novels include True Hollywood Lies and Impossibly Tongue-Tied; her latest release, just out in June, is Secret Lives Of Husbands And Wives, which examines the dramas of two vastly different Silicon Valley couples. Wrote Booklist: "These women inside their fishbowl are fun to peer in on despite being caricaturish, and the momentum of Brown's writing and plot keeps the pages turning."
• Eileen Goudge broke into book publishing by contributing to the crazily successful Sweet Valley High series for young teen girls in the early '80s. She published her first adult novel in 1986, and her latest, released last October, is Once In A Blue Moon, a tale of two tempestuous sisters and their secrets. Said Publisher's Weekly: "A touching story with wide appeal, Goudge's novel is a sharp example of dysfunctional family fiction."
• Joshilyn Jackson, a Florida native and former teacher, broke into book publishing with a splash, with 2005's gods in Alabama. Her fourth book, released in June, is drawing her biggest notices: Backseat Saints, a Southern-fried tale of an abused woman who runs from the husband who will never let her go. Said Booklist: "Jackson peels back Rose's hard edges and resignation to reveal a smart, earnest, brave, and surprisingly hopeful young woman who yearns to make a better life for herself."
• Tatjana Soli, born in Austria, wrote and published short stories for years before breaking out this spring with her debut novel, The Lotus Eaters, an exhaustively researched story of a female wartime photographer in Southeast Asia at the close of the Vietnam War. Wrote Kirkus Reviews: "Graphic but never gratuitous, the gripping, haunting narrative explores the complexity of violence, foreignness, even betrayal. Moving and memorable."
Between The Pages: A fundraising event for the Kitsap Regional Library Foundation
Who: Authors Jane Smiley, Josie Brown, Eileen Goudge, Joshilyn Jackson and Tatjana Soli
When: Thursday, 7:30 p.m.
Where: Bainbridge Performing Arts Center, 200 Madison Ave. N., Bainbridge Island
Tickets: $50 (includes copy of Brown's novel, Secret Lives Of Husbands and Wives), with discount available for groups of eight or more; and $150 for "VIP" access, which includes a catered pre-event reception with the authors and copies of each of their latest novels. Purchase at Liberty Bay Books, 18881 D Front St., Poulsbo.
More Info: For ticket info, Peter Raffa, (360) 475-9039; for event info, Robbie Wright, (206) 390-1989
September 13, 2010 UncategorizedBackseat Saints, Bainbridge Island, Between The Pages, books, Eileen Goudge, Jane Smiley, Jim Thomsen, Joshilyn Jackson, Josie Brown, Kitsap Regional Library, Liberty Bay Books, Once In A Blue Moon, Private Life, publishing, reading, Secret Lives Of Husbands And Wives, Tatjana Soli, The Lotus Eaters, writing
Carol Cassella On Her New Novel, "Healer"
If Carol Cassella had her way, you would not be able to buy a copy today of her new novel, Healer.
Not today, and maybe not any time soon.
"I really had to struggle to discover the heart of this story," Cassella told me over a recent lunch at the Treehouse on Bainbridge Island. "I started out with such a clear idea of where the plot should go, but the characters I was developing and the emotional impact I was going for kept taking me in a different direction.
"Writing it was a very difficult two years. Just before my deadline, I wanted to rewrite it as a whole different story. But then I had to turn it in to my publisher."
That being said, Cassella's editor was happy with what she turned in.
"And sometimes the editor sees that way before the author does," she said.
And that being said, Cassella had good reasons for her second-novel jitters.
Healer, much like Oxygen before it, started as a medical mystery — almost a genre exercise, she said. Cassella, an anesthesiologist at Virginia Mason Medical Center in Seattle, started it when she found herself intrigued by the shadowy world of big money and biotech research. But while Oxygen dwelled in a world she intimately knew — her main character was an anesthesiologist, after all, and the story was split between Seattle and her native Texas — Healer dragged Cassella far out of her self-confessed comfort zone.
For one, the story is set in a fictional Eastern Washington town (basically, a stand-in for one of the more touristy villages in the Methow Valley). For another, Cassella may be a physician, but she said that going into the writing of Healer, the biotech world was as big a mystery to her as it probably is to you or me. Three, the narrator is a doctor who gave up medicine fifteen years before, and because she lacks board certifications, works in a small clinic that handles migrant laborers on a sliding scale. Cassella, by contrast, still works (albeit part-time), and today — release day — is just another day in a white lab coat for her.
More about the story: Claire Boehning, at 43, sees her upscale Seattle world turn upside-down when her biotech-researcher husband, Addison, loses all his venture and personal capital to a gamble on an anti-cancer drug that flunks its early trials. The couple, who have a 14-year-old daughter, are broke. They sell their tony home on Lake Washington and retreat to their ramshackle second home in the tiny town of Hallam. Faced with a looming inability to pay even the most baseline of bills, Claire hauls her medical license out of mothballs. But all she finds is a job of last resort, at a clinic run by an aging, ailing and overworked old doctor. Meanwhile, Addison is desperately traveling the country, meeting with venture capitalists, trying to revive interest in a drug he's convinced was unfairly derailed. Suspense looms over some big questions: Was the drug flawed, or were the trials flawed? Will big money trump big science? Will some key characters do the easy thing … or the right thing?
As readers of Oxygen know, Cassella doesn't tilt toward happily-ever-after endings. Nor does she fatalistically throw up her hands in the face of what seems like an impenetrable ethical and moral quagmire. What usually happens in her work, just as in real life, is a tense and deliberate detangling of some serious gray areas. And so, in a sense, the mystery that Cassella said she started out to write remains intact after all.
"I may have started out one way, but I never wanted to write just a black-and-white story," Cassella said. "I find that the gray zone is a far more interesting place."
Finding her gray zone came through years of craft development, much of it through Bainbridge's Field's End and critique partners in the author community around Kitsap County. As difficult as Healer was to finish, the making of Oxygen, Cassella makes clear, was much longer and harder. She started as one of probably a zillion people in middle age who wanted to write, but had no idea what … or how.
"If you get to midlife and you're not going to buy a Ferrari or argue the bigger questions, you've got to do something," she said with a smile. "It became obvious that I had to write because I wasn't going to stop beating myself up for not writing."
That said, Cassella was generally happy in her career and in her family life, as a wife and mother of two sets of twins, ages 14 and 15. And her motivation for writing at the time was to finish a book so she could say that she'd finished a book … and then put it on a shelf. "I wanted to write, but everything else got in the way. Like folding laundry," she said. "I learned that I couldn't wait for time to write. I had to make time to write."
But, with the encouragement of author friends, she spent three years writing the book, and used Oxygen to shop for an agent, and after that, a publisher. There were rejections along the way, but the book found its home, and continues to be a big success over two years after its release. It's had about 10 foreign translations, and just recently made a big splash in Canada as Wal-Mart's "Read Of The Month" up there.
The book's success meant that Cassella, soft-spoken in person, had to develop a public persona for signing and touring. "It's not in my natural grain," she admitted.
But, like thousands of other authors who have likely said the same, she's found her way. And Kitsapers can see for themselves when Cassella appears 3 p.m. Sunday at Eagle Harbor Book Company to read from Healer and sign copies. (She's also appearing at 7 p.m. Thursday at Elliott Bay Books in Seattle.) After that, she hits the road out of state for nearly three weeks before making some more stops at bookstores up and down Puget Sound. (Click here for her schedule.)
And then it's back to work on book No. 3, already in progress.
"My next book will be a medical mystery, about a woman who's a doctor," she said. But then she hastens to add: "It'll have different voices, a different feel and a different theme."
Just like Healer does. Oxygen it isn't. And while I'm no critic, I'm confident in saying that it, like the book itself, is a good thing.
Even if Cassella isn't quite able to admit that yet.
September 7, 2010 UncategorizedBainbridge Island, books, Carol Cassella, Healer, Jim Thomsen, Oxygen, publishing, writing
A Twisted Image: Judging Books By Their Covers
Gregg Olsen, the Olalla author of fiction thrillers and true-crime books, was kind enough to send me the cover (above) for the paperback release next spring of his latest nonfiction work, A Twisted Faith. It is, to say the least, a pretty startling departure from the hardcover version that came out this spring (below). (Bainbridge Islanders, at least, will note that the church in the cover is most definitely not the church at the center of Olsen's tale.)
In fact, I'd go so far as to say that the hardcover says: "This is an ambitious work of literary nonfiction that stretches beyond the genre." And that the paperback cover says: "Downmarket true-crime book-of-the-month fare." (I'm not badmouthing Olsen here, by the way; like most authors, he's not involved in the cover-design process. It's my understanding that very few authors have that veto power.)
One can only speculate about what changed in the thought process at the New York offices of St. Martin's Press between the selecting of the respective covers.
In fact, one can only speculate why publishers change the design from hardcovers to paperbacks at all. Seems like a needless expense, doesn't it?
What happened with Gregg Olsen's book also happened, to a less extreme but somewhat similar extent, with the late Bainbridge Island author Jack Olsen and his literary crime masterpiece, Salt Of The Earth, in 1996 and 1997.
Compare the hardcover (above) with the paperback cover (below).
Now, while I wouldn't call this paperback cover "ugly," I do think the term "downmarket" applies here as well. Note the hallmarks of the mass-market true-crime book here: The ripped photographs, the blood-red type and the much bolder title type. (And I'd bet a serious amount of money that Jack and his publisher fought like hell over whether the background color would be black or white … and that Jack won.)
And the change in quotes is quite telling, too. The hardcover features a lovely quote from fellow Bainbridge Island author David Guterson: "A literary achievement of the highest order." For the paperback, the publisher switched to a quote from Salt Of The Earth's review in The New York Times: "Pulls you along irresistibly." Note the change in appeal from the head to the gut.
Speaking of Mr. Guterson, as his former students at Bainbridge High School called him, let's take a look at the contrast between one of his hardcovers and the paperback edition. Here's the hardcover of his 1998 second novel, East Of The Mountains ….
… and the paperback cover.
If you're like me, you're thinking: "They're both beautiful covers … but why did the change need to be made?" And maybe: "I wonder how much in royalties David Guterson lost because someone decided they needed to shell out for a new cover design for the paperback?"
Well, that's why the geniuses all live and work in New York, and we're just idiot readers in Kitsap who ought to keep our mouths shut and just buy books unquestioningly, right?
And lest I complain too much, let's not forget that things could always be worse. Gregg, even the good-humored good sport, shared with me a blog post he wrote a while back on the worst book covers in true crime. And here's one he missed ….
September 3, 2010 UncategorizedA Twisted Faith, Bainbridge Island, books, David Guterson, East Of The Mountains, Gregg Olsen, Jack Olsen, Jim Thomsen, publishing, Salt Of The Earth, true crime, writing
Jonathan Franzen, "Freedom" and Big Flippin' Deal Book Syndrome
"Freedom is big enough and thoughtful enough to engage and irritate an enormous number of readers." — Ron Charles, The Washington Post
Freedom, the new novel by Jonathan Franzen, arrived in bookstores today.
This book has been accompanied by an unusual level of fanfare and backlash. The New York Times gave it not one but two reviews that all but hailed it as the most important American literary novel to come along since … well … The Corrections, by Franzen. Much importance as well was attached to the fact that last week, Franzen was the first living novelist to grace the cover of Time magazine in quite some time.
With such big hype, however, comes big backlash. There was much histrionic chatter over booksellers supposedly breaking today's release-date embargo when one gave a copy to President Obama to read during his recent vacation. Novelists Jodi Picoult and Jennifer Weiner stirred the pot when they claimed that The New York Times, in gushing twice over Freedom, is biased toward white male authors and against a) women authors; and b) writers of commercial fiction. And The Washington Post, as if to stand apart from The Times, gave Freedom a mixed review with many pointed criticisms. And, of course, many people haven't forgiven Franzen for "disrespecting" Oprah in 2002 when he cringed over her Oprah Book Club endorsement. So bombastic is the blowback that it's inspired a new term, "Franzenfreude," and has made Franzen "the author we love to hate."
So, with all that buildup, let me throw some questions at you to discuss:
1. Did you pre-order Freedom, or buy it today?
2. Do you plan to buy Freedom at any point?
3. To what extent do reviews and publicity, good or bad, influence you to buy a book?
4. What's your opinion of Franzen and his work?
5. In today's fractured, scattered, multi-media world, can there still be such a thing as an Important American Novel that gets everybody across all age, class, ethnic and gender stratas talking about it and its themes?
6. Did all this chatter fly right past you … and you find that you couldn't care less about Franzen and his book?
The floor is yours.
August 31, 2010 Uncategorizedbooks, Freedom, Jennifer Weiner, Jim Thomsen, Jodi Picoult, Jonathan Franzen, Oprah, publishing, The Huffington Post, The New York Times, writing
Good Stuff That's Coming Up
A look through Kitsap's September literary calendar:
• Friday, Sept. 3, 9 a.m. through 4 p.m.: Stillwaters Environmental Education Center, 26059 Barber Cut Off Road in Kingston, begins its annual fundraising book sale. At least 15,000 new and used books, covering all genres and subjects, will be sold each Friday through Sunday, through Oct. 3. During the sale's last weekend, books will be sold by the grocery bag ($5 on Friday, $3 on Saturday and free on Sunday). All proceeds go to support environmental education. For more information, contact Naomi Maasberg at (360) 297-1226 or at naomi@stillwatersenvironmental center.org.
• Sunday, Sept. 12, at 3 p.m.: Eagle Harbor Book Co. on Bainbridge Island hosts Carol Cassella, the Bainbridge author whose second novel, Healer, will be in bookstores Sept. 7. Those wanting a signed copy can order it in advance through the bookstore. (Full disclosure: I was lucky enough to score an advance copy, am about 150 pages in, and can say it so far is every bit the equal of Oxygen … and probably a lot more than that. I'm working on an interview with Carol for this blog ahead of this reading; stay tuned for details.)
• Tuesday, Sept. 14, at 7 p.m.: Liberty Bay Books in Poulsbo hosts Erica Bauermeister, the Seattle author of the novel, The School Of Essential Ingredients. (Of the book, Publisher's Weekly says: ""In this remarkable debut, Bauermeister creates a captivating world where the pleasures and particulars of sophisticated food come to mean much more than simple epicurean indulgence…Delivering memorable story lines and characters while seducing the senses, Bauermeister's tale of food and hope is sure to satisfy.") Bauermeister is a founding member of Seattle7Writers, the literary-and-literacy promotion collective, and will participate in The Novel: Live! fundraising event in October.
• Thursday, Sept. 16, 7 p.m.: The Kitsap Regional Library Foundation hosts Between The Pages, an evening with five authors — Eileen Goudge, Jane Smiley, Joshilyn Jackson, Josie Brown and Tatjana Soli — at the Bainbridge Performing Arts Center. Tickets are $50 for the event, a fundraiser for the foundation, and includes a copy of Brown's novel, Secret Lives Of Husbands And Wives. VIP tickets sell for $150; that price gets you an invite to a catered pre-event reception with the authors; the latest books bu all five authors and an opportunity to have them signed, among other good stuff. Click on the above link for ticket and other info; tickets can also be purchased through Eagle Harbor Book Co. and Liberty Bay Books. (If, like me, you're wondering how Kitsap lined up so many literary rock stars for one evening, rest assured that I'm looking into the story behind this event and hope to have a blog soon on that subject. I'm dying to go to this myself, but that damned work thing appears to be getting in the way. Hint, hint, boss.)
• Tuesday, Sept. 21, at 7 p.m.: Field's End hosts Bainbridge resident Tom Tyner, aka The Latte Guy, who will speak on "The Ins And Outs Of Writing A Weekly Column." A land-conservation lawyer, Tyner has written his humorous observations on coffee, parenting and island life on and off for The Bainbridge Island Review since 1993. His earlier columns were collected in a book called Skeleton From Our Closet.
• Tuesday, Sept. 23, 7 p.m. (and continuing for the next four Tuesday evenings): Field's End hosts novelist and University of Washington English professor Shawn Wong, who will offer a workshop on "Beginning Fiction." (From the website: "Nearly everyone says or overhears someone say, "I have a great idea for a novel." How do fiction writers get from idea to written pages? How do you give yourself practical writing assignments to meet your goal? What tricks can you play on yourself to move your writing ability from one level to another? How can you be an objective editor of your writing? There is no tried-and-true path to writing fiction, but Shawn Wong's students for the past 26 years at UW have gone on to write and publish short stories and novels and win writing awards. What he tells them will be compressed into four sessions. In other words, let's skip the apprenticeship and get straight to the writing.") Wong is the author of the novels Homebase and American Knees, both literary novels stemming from his Chinese-American experience. The latter book was adapted into Americanese, an independent movie being release this year. Cost for the four-week workshop is $160. For registration forms and other information on the classes, which take place at the Bainbridge Public Library's meeting room, go to Field's End online.
Know of any September signings, readings or other literary events in Kitsap County you'd like to publicize here? Drop me a line at thomsen1965@gmail.com.
August 30, 2010 UncategorizedAmerican Knees, books, Carol Cassella, Eagle Harbor Book Company, Eileen Goudge, Erica Bauermeister, fiction, Field's End, Healer, Jane Smiley, Jim Thomsen, Joshilyn Jackson, Josie Brown, Kitsap Regional Library, Liberty Bay Books, publishing, Seattle7Writers, Shawn Wong, Stillwaters Environmental Education Center, Tatjana Soli, The School Of Essential Ingredients, Tom Tyner, writing
Reading Kitsap is the one-stop home for news and analysis concerning Kitsap's book-writing, book-selling and book-publishing communities. Check in daily for interviews, pictures, calendar items, discussions and digressions. Blog-keeper Jim Thomsen is the Kitsap Sun's night and weekend news editor, as well as a Kitsap County native and an aspiring author, and can be reached on Facebook or at thomsen1965@gmail.com.
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