Weeks ago I read an article with this title, and ever since I have kept that Safari window open on my phone. It's a daily reminder beaming with hope when the voice in my head tells me I'm stuck.
I've discovered the more impatient I am, the more God slows things down.
Here's another tab to keep open: Tension doesn't mean something is wrong.
I remember how my children behaved when they were on the cusp of developmental milestones – cutting teeth, wanting to crawl, wanting to walk, wanting to talk, longing to communicate their budding opinions and preferences. Just before each change, they would suddenly become so unhappy. Impatient. Difficult. RESTLESS. At times even in pain because of their body's growth.
Eventually I realized their unusual behavior was a sign that change was coming. Not that something was wrong, but that something was happening. Sweet six-month-old Cas grunted cries of frustration when one day, upon seeing a toy across the room, he had the brilliant idea to crawl over and get it. His grunts ballooned to wails when his body didn't quite know how to make that a reality. Two-year-old feisty Jake screamed in protest when forced to sit still, unable to articulate in words: "Mom, I need to get all this energy out! Let's go play outside!" And lovely Molly Claire had finally quit sucking her fingers until kindergarten became a reality, and the impending transition called for comfort.
I think we never outgrow the desire to transition quickly. And since life is one long string of change after change, in a way, we are all still toddlers. We are all still learning to walk and run, and we get downright mad or sad when we end up stuck in the middle of the floor or face-planting on the sidewalk. Especially when it seems like the rest of the world is filled with professional marathon runners.
For one, I'm learning to slow down, because God is never in a hurry. And if He is slowing things down, I'd do well to follow along instead of resist the process. God's timing always wins, He doesn't waste time, and He doesn't usually take shortcuts. If a little one must learn to walk before she can run, then I must be retooled to enter a new season. And my Good Father means to supply me well for what He knows is up ahead. I'm grateful for this, and I want to take it all in – even the hard parts.
I am also learning to consider the tension, anxiety, restlessness and difficulty and reframe them inside the boundaries of His Goodness. Because maybe… it's actually God. Maybe what I see as pain is actually my requests being made known to Him – the teeth are about to break through the gums! Maybe all these feelings of confusion and weakness are because I'm learning to walk in a whole new place and I just don't quite have my footing yet. Maybe He's teaching me a whole new language and I'm struggling to find the words.
What is it they say about struggle and the butterfly?
Transition is real, yes it is.
What is God moving us into?
What's the dimension we're coming out of?
What's the dimension we're entering?
I would add, What have I been asking God for? What if that is what's happening right now?
Reframing current frustration within the context of our lives and the Goodness of God is so very important. His perspective is best and truest and most hopeful – like a parent's hand or a blankie to hold onto – and a very present help in trouble.
Take heart, all you toddlers – He never leaves us stuck! Your breakthrough is coming!


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Jones-ing for Partner
Changes at Firm Are More Than Cosmetic
By Anna Palmer
Posted March 27, 2009 at 5:17pm
When Jonathon Jones joined Johnson, Madigan, Peck, Boland & Stewart in 2007, the former chief of staff to Sen. Tom Carper (D-Del.) had little idea that two years later he would become a name partner at the firm.
But that's exactly what's happened.
With the retirement of the firm's co-founder David Johnson in June and Republican Michael Boland exiting at the end of December to start his own venture, Dome Advisors, the firm is rebranding itself with Jones as a central player.
Peck, Madigan, Jones & Stewart will officially became the firm's name today.
While Jones' ownership stake is still being worked out, the name change is more than just cosmetic.
It reflects a transition in the firm's leadership and lobbying team, which have undergone major changes over the past couple of years, according to firm Chairman Jeffrey Peck and Peter Madigan, the president and chief operating officer.
"Pat [Griffin] and David built a fantastic brand with high integrity,— said Peck, former general counsel and majority staff director to the Senate Judiciary Committee under then-Sen. Joseph Biden (D-Del.). "Peter and I have stepped into that role, and we've been growing it well, and now we have the next generation coming on board.—
Besides increasing its revenues in 2008 to $10.5 million from about $9.5 million in 2007, according to Senate lobbying disclosure records, the firm has significantly beefed up its Democratic and Republican benches.
New staff who came aboard within the past 18 months include former Senate Republican Conference aide Andrew Cantor, Bush administration legislative affairs aide Justin McCarthy, and John Michael Gonzalez, who joined after more than six years in the House, most recently with Rep. Melissa Bean (D-Ill.).
Other recent additions include Alix Burns, formerly with TechNet; Sean Richardson, former chief of staff to Sen. Amy Klobuchar (D-Minn.); former Clinton administration official Sheila Murphy; and Tanya Lombard, formerly with Altria Corporate Services Inc.
The lobby shop, which was originally named Griffin, Johnson & Associates, was the brainchild of Griffin, a former aide to Sen. Robert Byrd (D-W.Va.), and Johnson, a former adviser to Maine Democratic Sens. Edmund Muskie and George Mitchell.
The duo became friends when they regularly trekked to the Hall of States in 1981 to do campaign work for their bosses because staffers couldn't make campaign calls on federal property then, according to Griffin.
Griffin went downtown to Burson Marsteller in 1985 to start the public relations giant's government affairs operation, while Johnson went over to what is now the Pharmaceutical Research and Manufacturers of America.
In 1987, the pair formed Griffin, Johnson & Associates.
"We rented a room for $500 in an abandoned law firm downtown with two telephones,— Griffin said of their modest start. "We were just sitting there waiting for the phone to ring.—
Soon Griffin, Johnson & Associates became known for representing blue-chip clients such as the American Insurance Association. The firm also expanded, bringing in Mike Kitzmiller, a senior aide to Rep. John Dingell (D-Mich.); Jack Dover, who later left the firm to help run Sen. Sherrod Brown's (D-Ohio) campaign for Senate; and Joe Stewart, a longtime Senate aide who served as Secretary of the Senate under Byrd.
After Republicans took control of Congress in 1994, the firm was still primarily known as a Senate Democratic firm, according to Madigan. In fact, Griffin served as former President Bill Clinton's Capitol Hill lobbyist from late 1993 to early 1996.
That changed in the early 2000s, when the firm added Republicans Madigan, Boland and Janet Mullins Grissom.
Helping to beef up the firm's GOP ties were Madigan, a deputy assistant secretary for legislative affairs at the Treasury Department in the George H.W. Bush administration; Boland, a former aide to Sen. Trent Lott (R-Miss.); and Grissom, another former aide to Bush and a senior lobbyist in Ford Motor Co.'s Washington, D.C., office.
During the same time, Peck came over after running accounting firm Arthur Andersen's government affairs operation.
While many K Street lobby shops welcomed the mega-buyouts of the late 1990s and early 2000s, the firm remained staunchly independent under Griffin and Johnson's direction.
"I'm afraid in large measure I'm responsible for that,— Griffin said. "Money was important, but we also wanted a quality of life in terms of people that you can count on.—
Yet Griffin wasn't opposed to bringing his fellow lobbyists into the ownership fold.
In 2003, Griffin and Johnson did an in-house sale of shares to Peck, Madigan and Democratic operatives Harold Ickes and Janice Enright, forming the holding company Tiber Creek.
The holding company counts not only Peck Madigan but also Ickes & Enright Group Inc. and the tech-focused Bay Bridge Strategies Inc. brands as part of its balance sheet.
It also underwent another name change in 2004, when Griffin headed back to the Senate to work for then-Minority Leader Tom Daschle (D-S.D.).
Now, Peck and Madigan said they are planning for the firm's continued success.
Despite losing the Electronic Payment Coalition as a client earlier this year, the firm says it is weathering the current economic downturn quite well.
"We've had huge growth the last three years in terms of clients, revenue and additions,— Peck said.
The firm also recently signed on the ONE Campaign, the Biotechnology Industry Organization and Deutsche Bank as clients, according to recent Senate filings.
"The future of the firm is all about maintaining the culture,— Jones said. "What they've been doing the last 20 years has worked well, and if we maintain what we're doing, the reality is there is going to be opportunity to grow.—
Correction: March 30, 2009
The article incorrectly reported that Joe Stewart had been Senate Parliamentarian. Stewart was Secretary of the Senate.

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Ben & Jerry's co-founders Jerry Greenfield (left) and Ben Cohen serve ice cream following a press conference announcing a new flavor in Washington, D.C., Sept. 3, 2019. (Photo/JTA-Win McNamee-Getty Images)
Illegal stand on BDS; Freeze out Ben & Jerry's; Critical race theory is futile; etc.
By J. Readers | July 22, 2021
Teachers' BDS stand is illegal
Reading your recent report on the vote of the San Francisco teachers ("After S.F. teachers' union vote on Israel, others follow suit around the country," June 28) and earlier stories, and the referenced resolution itself, compels me to comment on the legal aspects of the union's vote.
First, unlike the recent vote of the San Francisco State University student government, which voted a narrow BDS endorsement of a recent U.N. report focused on specific alleged misdeeds of named Israeli and other companies in the West Bank occupied territories, the union's resolution broadly expresses support for the international BDS movement.
As an independent labor union, its members and leadership are free to take any political or foreign policy position they want.
But the San Francisco Unified School District as a public entity is barred from any BDS compliance by California AB 2844 (Sec. 2010 of the California Public Contract Code) signed by Gov. Brown in September 2016.
Whether the district can continue to "do business" with the union if it refuses to repudiate its open-ended endorsement of the much-criticized, broadest, anti-Israel BDS is a significant legal question that the union should have asked its able legal team's opinion on before passing that controversial recent resolution.
Jerome M. Garchik, Attorney
Freeze out Ben & Jerry's
Ben & Jerry's decision is just the beginning of the concerted effort by BDS activists to have U.S. companies boycott Israel ("Ben & Jerry's ice cream announces boycott of West Bank settlements," online only, July 19).
The appropriate response measures would be for Israel itself to ban B&J and label Unilever products as part of an Israel boycott (hit them where it hurts).
Take B&J to court in states that have banned Israel boycotts. If they have to fight this in court, it will be a painful, costly exercise and a public-relations disaster.
A worker at the Ben & Jerry's ice cream factory in Israel. (Photo/RNS-AP-Tsafrir Abayov)
Since B&J is owned by a public company, the shareholders and pension funds may also weigh in, since this is a corporate policy matter.
We also have a role to play. B&J may have been usurped by a radical board, but Unilever has international concerns. Perhaps our California Legislative Jewish Caucus can determine what actions may be suitable. Also, if you are a pension-fund manager, investor and consumer of Unilever products, your voices can be better heard in coordination.
Jeff Saperstein
Critical race theory is futile
When teaching about World War II, would Henry Abramson, writer of the opinion piece "Banning critical race theory will gut the teaching of Jewish history" (July 14), want a young American student whose family came here from Japan to feel discomfort or anguish when contemplating the devastating torture by the Japanese of American prisoners of war during WWII — or the Rape of Nanking, whose brutality was surely as awful as that suffered by Ukrainians who experienced the Holodomor?
The history of WWII British soldier Eddie Lomax and Japanese soldier-translator Takashi Nagase deserves contemplation. Subjected to long-term atrocities in which Nagase participated, Lomax took a chance when a note arrived for Mrs. Lomax from Nagase. The note said, "I have suffered tremendous guilt all these years. I have often prayed I would meet your husband again and be able to seek forgiveness for what I assisted in." Eventually, the two men met for three days. Both had tears in their eyes when they parted.
"I've learned that hate is a useless battle," Lomax said, "and it has to end sometime."
A closing thought for Mr. Abramson: "[T]he sad truth is that the conquest and capture of Africans and their sale to Europeans was one of the main sources of foreign exchange for several African kingdoms for a very long time." That's from Henry Louis Gates Jr., formerly a Harvard professor, who wrote "It's time to end the slavery blame-game."
Human nature is deeply flawed.
Given that unchangeable reality, maybe it's time to step into a future in which e pluribus unum guides us. It is on that basis that our republic will rise or fall. No country can survive if its children don't believe it to be worthy of respect, which ours always will be, as long as its citizens focus on the content of their character.
We can teach Jewish history exceptionally well without resorting to something as divisive and unforgiving as critical race theory. All that is required are knowledgeable teachers committed to providing youngsters with a sensitive approach to history. We need teachers who can inspire, as they teach how Jews overcame enduring hatred and provided far more than their share of goodness and light to the world.
As Mrs. Lomax gently suggested, "Maybe it's time to step out of the darkness."
Julia Lutch
Put 'violence' tag on Hamas
Hearing about "Israel-Palestinan violence" on "progressive" radio during the time of the recent Hamas attack was infuriating.
Now I'm dismayed to read about when "violence erupted between Israel and Gaza" in an article in a Jewish newspaper, by J. staff. ("After S.F. teachers' union vote on Israel, others follow suit around the country," June 28).
Israel's Iron Dome missile defense system (left) intercepts rockets fired by Hamas toward southern Israel from the Gaza Strip, May 14, 2021. (Photo/JTA-Anas Baba-AFP via Getty Images)
As you well know, what happened was not a violence between two parties, but a vicious Hamas attack on civilian population, and it should always be referred to as such.
Talking about "Israel-Palestinan violence" is equivalent to describing World War II as "Allied powers–German violence."
Anastasia Glikshtern
My balanced view on Israel
One problem I have with BDS (the boycott, divestment and sanctions movement against Israel) is that some businesses and their managers who are critical of Israel's policies will be hurt by the boycott.
Antisemitism on the left, which I am part of, is largely based on ignorance. Little is mentioned about Israel being the Cuba of the left until the mid '60s. No one mentions the left-wing opposition in Israel, which desperately, in my opinion, needs the support of the worldwide left.
And there is ignorance, for the most part, of how Jews were the victims of antisemitism in the early 20th century.
At the same time, the Jewish establishment has not been kind to Jewish left-wingers as Noam Chomsky or Bernie Sanders. And there are too many neoconservatives who are Jewish.
Israel, like any nation-state, has its strengths and weaknesses.
While it is a homeland for Jews, it also has its flaws and we should not view it as a paradise in the same fashion that American communists viewed the Soviet Union.
We have been besieged by hatred for centuries and finally are in a stronger position, partly due to the existence of Israel.
But strength must be tempered with sensitivity and the right acts. This would include the end of occupation and the miserable treatment of the Palestinians.
I do not condone the attacks by Hamas. By the same token, the eviction of Palestinians from their homes, which was one of the grievances in the May conflict, is wrong.
The left and the Jewish community need a balanced perspective on the Middle East and Israel itself.
In 1991 in London, the Egyptian proprietor of the hotel where I was staying stated that if Israel and the Arab states cooperated with each other, the whole region could be productively developed economically. Hopefully, at my age of 82, this may happen in my lifetime.
Herbert J. Weiner
Unite against antisemitism
The murders and violent attacks on Jews, and on our Jewish institutions, have more than doubled in the U.S. in the last few years, and in response to the Hamas-initiated war on Israel.
This is according to the Anti-Defamation League statistics, which are by no means complete due to the fact that many states do not keep track of hate crimes.
The July 11 Washington, D.C. stop antisemitism rally organizers, including the American Jewish Committee, wanted to show us that major Jewish organizations are working against the Jew hate.
Despite the horrific rise in antisemitism, several organizations (such as J Street and Americans for Peace Now) chose not to attend the rally.
Shlomo Noginsky, a rabbi who was stabbed in Boston, speaks to a rally against antisemitism at the U.S. Capitol in Washington, D.C., July 11, 2021. (Photo/JTA-Ron Kampeas)
Instead of us Jews coming together to fight this destructive hate perpetrated by the right, the left and radical Muslims, J Street chose to stay away and complain that the organizers did not do enough to point out the hate coming from the right.
Somehow, prior to the rally, J Street and Americans for Peace Now did not think that they could add the voice that they perceived would be missing. Instead they chose not to express their concern — if they even have any — for the rise in antisemitism.
Jew hate is indiscriminate: You can be a Jew on the left, on right or in the middle, and still be attacked by those who hate Jews. This was clearly shown when, during the Hamas war on Israel, Palestinian supporters indiscriminately attacked Jews having dinner in a restaurant in L.A.
Our Jewish history has shown us that when Jews are divided, and when we do not have allies, we suffer in very dramatic ways. Although Jews have actively supported other minority groups in their efforts to overcome systemic racism, none of their organizations showed up to support us at this rally.
We just observed Tisha B'Av, when the Temple was destroyed by the Romans in part due to hatred among Jews.
At this time, when Jew hate has become normalized in all forms of the media, and in the language of several organizations on the right and on the left, it is imperative that Jews come together rather than stand divided against antisemitism.
Dorothea Dorenz
J. Readers
J. welcomes letters and comments from our readers. To submit a letter, email it to [email protected].
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An NYC think tank has a surprisingly simple solution for fixing Penn Station
Clayton Guse
Penn Station has hit a tipping point.
The transit hub has been thrust into the center of public conversation in New York after a pair of derailments in March and April caused hellish delays. Earlier this month, crews took the better part of a day to fix a sewage leak near the entrance to a pair of Long Island Rail Road tracks. The track work required to fix key issues at the station are expected to cause weeks of service disruption this summer. All the while, public and private officials are without an overall plan to bring Penn, which serves upwards of 600,000 commuters every day, into the 21st century.
But one New York think tank has put together a grandiose vision that could go a long way in solving the problems currently associated with Penn Station. Over the last year or so, ReThink Studio, a local group that takes critical looks at some of the largest urban planning issues facing the city, has been pushing a plan aptly dubbed "ReThink NYC."
The plan questions why commuter rail lines in the New York metropolitan area are built around the concept of ushering passengers in and out of Manhattan, and whether or not Penn Station really needs to be the city's key transit hub. A major part of the plan is to take NJ Transit, Long Island Rail Road and Metro-North, and combine them into what ReThink is calling a "Regional Unified Network," or RUN.
Currently, morning rush hour NJ Transit trains heading to Penn Station either continue to a rail yard in Sunnyside, Queens to wait until evening rush hour, or provide service back to New Jersey. In both cases, they interfere with other inbound trains. Just the same, Long Island Rail Road trains heading into the station every morning either head to the West Side Rail Yards or change direction and provide outbound service, which often blocks other inbound trains. Throw Amtrak into the mix, and you have a mishmash of competing trains and a logistical nightmare.
ReThink posits that if Penn Station were thought of as more of a through station than a terminal—and if NJ Transit, LIRR and Metro-North became a single, unified service—then these problems would be fixed. In this vision, westbound LIRR trains could continue through to New Jersey on the northern half of Penn Station's tracks, and eastbound NJ Transit trains could continue through to Long Island on its southern half.
In order to achieve this vision, a few major projects would need to be completed. First, the MTA would need to invest in new transit hubs outside of Manhattan, which would be constructed at the Sunnyside rail yard, Port Morris in the Bronx and Seacaucus in New Jersey. These stations would provide more transfer points between lines, connecting every suburban transit line in the area through five key hubs (add on Grand Central Terminal and Penn to the three previously mentioned).
Beyond that, the MTA would need to get serious about the Gateway Project, which would add two new train tunnels beneath the Hudson River between New York and New Jersey. These would allow for a higher capacity of trains running through Penn Station and beyond. The Gateway Project currently calls for the construction of "Penn Station South," which would provide more tracks for the increased train traffic and would require the demolition of an occupied block of midtown Manhattan. By allowing trains to pass through Penn instead of terminating there, ReThink argues that the southern expansion of the station would be unnecessary.
ReThink NYC paints the broad strokes of what could be an exciting solution to Penn Station's issues. The best part? It's surprisingly simple. But with a complicated network of interests and several politicians who could be more inclined to invest in a quick-fix solution to the problems, the plan could very well never see the light of day.
Penn Station became the nightmare that it is today because of short-sighted thinking by politicians and developers alike—ReThink's plan pushes for a shift in that paradigm.
Check out a breakdown of ReThink's plan in the videos below.


As a young, unpublished author, struggling with my sentences, I used to fantasize about how, when the book was published, I'd answer the deeply-interested questions of a certain chat show host.
Now I'm older and wiser, I smile at the memory of this but I still understand it. Writing is hard, and so when writers dream, this is what we dream of: not of writing so much as of having written.
Of being "A Writer", capital W.
Of getting the respect and attention we'd like to deserve. Chat shows, large followings, double-page spreads in national publications, thousands of readers exposed to our wit and wisdom.
Harmless stuff, as fantasy goes, but our over-active imaginations – a necessary trait for our job – makes us susceptible to flattery and over-optimistic assessments of the prospects of our work by author marketing services, especially in the slightly crazy post-natal phase, just after we've birthed a book.
The problems arising from marketing-service flattery and author susceptibility to it are creating a great deal of conversation within ALLi at the moment. The problem is much more widespread than we thought.
As most of you know, our association offers a Partner Membership, whereby we vet services of value to indie authors.
These service providers range across the seven stages of the publishing process: editorial, design, production, distribution, marketing, promotion and rights sales (and also those who provide assisted-publishing packages, combining some or all of these).
We evaluate each service that applies for membership against our Code of Standards, and the information from the evaluation process feeds into the reports and ratings here in this self-publishing advice center, and our guidebook, How To Choose A Self-Publishing Service.
The category that is most challenging for us, always, is book marketing, including PR (media interviews, reviews and features).
A quick word here about the difference between marketing and promotion.
Book marketing is letting people know your book exists, book promotion is specific sales-driven activity.
This post is about the more nebulous marketing and PR side of things.
When authors have just published, having finished first the writing, then the production of a book — each a long creative journey in itself which has drawn on various skill sets — they are understandably weary, and possibly overwhelmed.
They hand away marketing and promotion to a service — but without understanding what's realistic for their book, they wind up disappointed and out of pocket. This can happen even if the service hasn't made false promises, but many lamentably do, even for books that quite clearly aren't going to attract media attention.
Of course working with a reputable marketing or PR agency can garner sales, for the right book, at the right time but it is equally true that some books will never win the sort of media attention that makes a difference to sales, no matter how much money is spent.
And it is also true that a double-page feature spread in a newspaper or a broadcasting appearance – while gratifying at many levels, not least to our egotistical dreamer – may not yield any ebook sales at all, especially for fiction.
I have personally experienced this, and seen it many times with other authors.
Such traditional PR works best for print books distributed through bookstores, but digital marketing is what works best for ebooks distributed online, the mainstay for most self-publishers.
Another issue is that so many services offer marketing add-ons that do little to shift the needle on sales.
Yes, it is challenging for us to get outside our writing heads, and get real about where our books fall in the publishing/purchasing ecosystem; to engage with what our readers want and work out how to best to attract them.
But at ALLi, we believe these are core skills for successful self-publishing.
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Thanks very much! As I have been marketing my book, I kept thinking it must be easier if I had a service or an agent. I will soldier on. Your article makes sense!
That's good advice, Orna, and I'd extend it to advising authors not to shell out for an expensive course on how to market, etc., until they've tried it themselves for several months. You'll get way more out of any advice if it relates to something you already know. I think authors are trying to spare themselves the trial and error involved in learning something that's alien to you, but it's the trial and error that are of the most value in finding out who you are as a writer and who your audience are.
And you do get better. I hated the idea of marketing & promos until I started making targeted efforts and analysing the results. Now I'm enjoying myself, particularly since I can measure the effect in increased book sales. I have targets, I have spreadsheets. I know where I can find advice once I'm at the point where I really need it and can benefit the most from it. The money I spend in the future will be worth spending, unlike my earlier mistakes!
This is timely advice Orna.
We have, many times, been asked to do press releases, but from contacts with journalists I have discovered that many automatically send press releases to spam, unless they provide something genuinely newsworthy.
A new book, unless accompanied by tens of thousands of sales already generated, is not newsworthy, unless it is written by a celebrity.
The market for many genres, literary fiction, science fiction, fantasy, children's, young adult and poetry is awash with great titles and limited options for promotion.
Setting expectations and training are the key issues.
If an author can accept that sales will be limited, that these genres are mainly for book shops or genre specific marketing services then disappointment will be reduced.
1. To educate authors about marketing and to inform them that even traditional publishers produce mostly books that do not sell, and that their businesses are kept afloat by the one in three hundred published books that become best sellers. Publisher fail far more often than they succeed. It's why the publish thousands of titles a year. Authors are fodder for their funnels.
2. The development of genre specific marketing services to serve segments of the market in a professional manner.
We address the information and training issue, and provide a free 25 point book marketing checklist on the post linked below. Putting a book on the market without addressing these 25 points, and considering all of the issues above, is an act of wishful thinking.
Hi Orna: Thanks again for bringing an unfortunate, but very real situation regarding publishing a writer's 1st wonderful, and brilliant paper or e-book. I have been an Indie author since 1996. My small business book was written on a Brother word-processor, on paper. (I still have the WP, and it works with floppies.) The best advice that I would give to new authors in this age of e-books for all sorts of devices, is RESEARCH, AND LEARN! Smarten up. For less than a $100.00 you can get your e-book a cover design, formatted, and published for distribution on a large number of sites: Amazon, Smashwords, Draft2Digital, and too many to list. It's your Business, or it's a Hobby. There are a large number of firms that are delighted to have the opportunity to help you design a cover, set up a nice text-templet design, format, and publish your paper, or e-book. Marketing and Promotion is at least as much, or more difficult than the fun of writing. Learning the Publishing and Distribution business is Vital to being a successful Indie Author. You must learn to wear these four basic hats: Author, Editor, Publisher, and Marketer, in order to properly evaluate offers from the firms that will offer their services to you. Subscribe to the several weekly and daily Newsletters of the Publishing Industry. Attend annual book conventions, Join indie Author (ALLI) groups and organizations. Read, Study and Learn. You are not alone. It's a learning curve that we are following. You need roller-skates to keep up with the changes. Plan… if you don't plan, you're planning to fail.
Great to meet you at the Byte The Book do the other week. As a journalist I managed great publicity with the launch of my book, appearing in regional papers where the book was set, on local radio and in magazines near and far, one even going out in Abu Dhabi!
If I was to give a couple of tips it would be to research exactly which areas would have the most interest in your book – I chose London and Cardiff, which are two of the settings, and Bristol, because that is my home town. I also appeared on BBC Radio Wales and I released the book, a thriller combining gangsters and rugby, to coincide with the rugby World Cup in Wales.
The biggest disappointment for me was that the major bookstores wouldn't stock my book. I contacted both Foyles (who had recently opened a big shop in Bristol) and Waterstones (who have bases in Cardiff and Swansea) and although I jumped through hoops for the latter, getting an agreement with Gardners etc, I had zero luck getting into their stores.
As a well known blogger with the Bristol Evening Post I thought that, at least, might count with Foyles and included links to articles about the book which had been published online. The whole thing left me very disillusioned. I think sales suffered because of it, too. People might hear the radio interview and then seeing the book on a shelf nudges their memory. They might even go looking for it without luck. It's OK being on Amazon but people have to log on to their computer virtually straight away after reading or listening to the interview. If they are distracted the potential sale is lost.
a. Do your research on the organisation (newspaper, radio or TV station), the person who it would be best to contact, and try to go to them first with a phone call, then follow up with an email. An email on its own will just end up in the trash with thousands of others the news editor gets every day. Emphasise why local people will be interested. Find your 'hook'.
b. Write your 'own' story. Find the 'angle' that will be most appealing for the audience of the organisation you are contacting. If say in Cardiff you could write "Being trapped as a hostage in a Cardiff bank was the inspiration for xxxx xxxx to write his first novel" (that would be a pretty awesome book to be fair). Say why you are best qualified to write the story, a bit about yourself etc etc.
Do it yourself and use every contact you have, as I did. At the end of it all, though, getting in stores is key, I believe.
Thank you so much for the information you shared with us aspiring authors.
Thanks Raymond… keep dreaming! And doing, of course!
As is invariably the case, your post today sheds light on a serious issue–and I appreciate your distinction between marketing and promotion. I hadn't realized that before.
Conventional wisdom tells us that potential readers need to be exposed to a book seven or more times before they buy. As you rightly say, the key ingredient is knowing who a book's likely readership is, and then identifying where that readership goes to learn about books. For indie books (correct me if I'm wrong), bookstore shelf space or reviews in traditional sources is all but non-existent–exceptions like Fifty Shades aside.
So, the indie author must do a lot of digging, especially in terms of successful books that are similar to the ones the indie writer is publishing. Learning about those authors can lead to information about their readers, and where they might be found online, etc.
Absolutely Barry! Similar books are fired by online algorithms for a reason! 🙂 BTW, thanks are due to you. This post arose out of a previous communication of yours, that we have since followed up on. And this led to a re-evaluation of a number of services, an investigation that is currently ongoing. Will keep you posted!
Thank you, Orna. To be sure, I know what you're talking about.
I think the challenge here is that if you do nothing – nothing will certainly follow – and frankly – we Indie authors can't really afford to sit on our books and wait for them to be discovered. Like any business – and selling your book is certainly a business – you have to spend money to make money – and as we know – not every effort will garner return. It doesn't happen in business – it won't happen with your book. I think we need to be sure – as you suggest – to vet those we are relying on to help us market and promote our books. And also – understand – that you the writer – are not in it for "the day:" but for the long haul. Successful Indie books don't happen overnight. Time – patience – and diligence win the day.
Good advice, Brad. We are lucky also, these days, in social media where we can connect with potential readers and test our ideas before taking the plunge. Remarkably few marketing services know how to market books (book promotion is better served by the likes of BookBub etc.) It is, as you say, a slow build and consistent exposure wins through. Thanks for reading and commenting, nice to "meet" you here.
I think many independent authors are in the same boat.
The difficulty with this is that PR firms want your books well in advance of publication, preferably 6 months in advance because that's the lead time for precious magazine slots.
Thanks Jane. I guess I should have said that there is plenty of time to do 1,2 and 3 while you're writing the book. 🙂 And those lead times in magazines are based on the trade publishing / book shop shelf space made available around a publication date — which all authors are agreed are punishing and unrealistic. Luckily, for indies, it's different. Nothing to stop us promoting a book whenever we want. And a book is new to a reader the day they meet it, which can be years after first pub date. Indies do best when they pull away from the traditional models, on our observation.
I would add that authors should look at the kinds of books the PR company markets and ask for details on their audiences/subscribers, etc. Many PR services will say they reach audiences for all genres, which may be the case only up to a point. Look at their websites, blogs, Facebook page to get a feel for what genre they're really strongest in marketing. You can read comments and posts to see which kinds of books get the biggest response. Example – a service that seems to mostly have an audience that responds to romance or inspirational self-help books. Your sci-fi horror adventure probably isn't a fit, and won't get the same response as those genres. Not saying the service may be willfully trying to mislead you, but they're not going to turn down money! They may be honestly trying to reach different audiences, but they overestimate what they can do for other genres.


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Feeling Small in the Presence of Might: A Visual Essay on the Massive Beauty of Patagonia
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Sara Pretelli
MOST people who know of the South American region, Patagonia, think of its wide-open spaces — jagged mountains, massive glaciers, seemingly endless expanses of fjords and open land. It can seem to be "way out there." And it is — split between Argentina and Chile in the southernmost parts of South America. It has become a dream destination for many travelers.
Housing at EcoCamp is located at the foot of the Torres, in Torres Del Paine National Park. The Eco Camp is the first geodesic dome hotel in the world and the first fully sustainable eco-friendly structure in South America. There are 33 domes to accommodate guests. Yoga sessions are held every afternoon in one of the domes; the community domes contain a bar and a restaurant, where a good breakfast is served in the morning and where lunch boxes are prepared for outdoor excursions. In the EcoCamp there are neither telephones nor Wi-fi signals. I personally enjoyed the refreshing break from the outside world; it forced me to really focus on where I was and the landscape around me.
To wake up in the morning and look out at the Torres del Paine is a rare and wonderful experience. The Torres del Paine (Torre Sur, Torre Central, Torre Norte) are granite monoliths eroded by glacial ice. In the native Tehuelche (Aonikenk) language, paine, pronounced PIE-nay, means "blue."
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Lagun Azul (Blue Lagoon) is the starting point for the long hike to the base of the towers and a grazing area for guanacos - a type of llama. There is a short steep hike to a mirador with a beautiful view. Lucky travelers might see a South American grey fox, a puma, or wild horses. Cascadia Expediciones - the company running the tour I'm on - offers a Patagonian Safari, the first of its kind.
We walk in the Patagonian steppes, look for guanacos, and navigate through the snowy summits of the surrounding mountains. The wind whips around us constantly. Everything feels so big, and we feel so small.
The Paine Cascade on the Paine River, located between Blue Lagoon and Amarga Lagoon. A short walk offers a stunning view of this waterfall and the sound of its roar.
The towering view of three Torres from EcoCamp almost crowns the entire trip. The Paine Massif has magnificent peaks around the park's heartland.
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The beautiful Pehoe Lake is located in Torres del Paine National Park. The lake is fed mainly by Paine River through the Nordenskjöld Lake. The presence of minerals in the water turns its color into a startling azure.
Trekking to see the famous Grey Glacier, we walked for fifteen minutes in a frozen wind, that nearly blew us over. Just another reminder that we are tiny visitors in a huge powerful land. The Grey Glacier is one of many glaciers in the Southern Patagonian Ice Field, and worth the efforts to reach: it's enormous.
The Grey Glacier is a blue giant once measuring 270 square kilometers. To visit it, you take a boat on Gray Lake to within a few meters from the foot of the glacier. While visitors might be overwhelmed by the size of Grey Glacier, it and other glaciers around the world are melting. There are essentially at least two good reasons to visit Torres del Paine: to take in the astonishing natural beauty and to be inspired to act to end global warming and protect this irreplaceable landscape before it is gone.
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As winter falls upon us (some of us that is…us native-Californians are yet to see the leaves change colors and the air become crisp) we begin to dust off our winter boots, shoes and heels. In doing so this year, I have come to realize a few things about boots- it's the one shoe in your closet you DO NOT need to spend a month's paycheck on… a good looking boot, is a good looking boot- it all depends on how you wear it!! I am certainly not going to claim that "labels aren't important", they are- to a certain extent. Last season, my brown and black high heeled boots came from the best-kept secret in fashion- TARGET!!! Isaac Mizrahi made these fabulous boots for 3 seasons and has since stopped designing for the mega retailer. The faux-suede boots look like a million bucks- and when paired with a great pair of jeans, perfect accessories and a designer handbag, you'll have everyone guessing!! Since living in California doesn't require boots everyday, these high-heeled bargains are perfect for the not-so-cold West Coast Winter. Don't get me wrong, there are definitely boots worth spending money on- if you're going to drop $500 on boots, make sure they LOOK as expensive as they are!! I have a pair of brown Tory Burch flat boots that were under $500 but look over $1000! I cannot tell you how many compliments i get on them!! I decided to spend my money on flat boots because i am more conformable wearing flats on a daily bases. Don't buy shoes under the assumption that you're going to "try and start wearing heels more" because trust me, if you don't like wearing heels all the time, you're not going to start because you spent a life's savings on a pair of high heeled boots. With that said, my first boot purchase this winter was a pair of black suede Sam Edelman fringe boots. They are flat, comfortable, perfect for work and going out AND I have not taken them off since I got them ON SALE at Macy's a few weeks ago. I had my eye on them since September but wanted to wait until they came out in black (the other colors available weren't worth the $200 ). When i went to get the black, i found that they were ON SALE and that my Macy's coupon took another 20% (note: in these strained economic times, don't be embarrassed to ask if/when items are going on sale and if there is a special promotion/coupon available) So, in summary, my best advice for the upcoming winter season, and really in fashion in general is "pick your battles." Spend your money on items that you are going to wear A LOT, that look expensive (even if they're not) and, ideally, fill a void in your wardrobe. Until next time….


Although Strayhorn said he wrote lyrics for it, the recorded first lyrics were composed by, or for, the Delta Rhythm Boys. The lyrics used by the Ellington band were added by Joya Sherrill, who was 20 at the time (1944). She made up the words at her home in Detroit, while the song played on the radio. Her father, a noted Detroit Black activist, set up a meeting with Ellington. Owing to Joya's remarkable poise and singing ability and her unique take on the song, Ellington hired her as a vocalist and adopted her lyrics.
However, other sources credit Otha "Lee" Gaines of the Delta Rhythm Boys wrote the lyrics, and they were the first group to record them. I'm inclined to go with that. Here's the video of the Delta Rhythm Boys singing it. That's Mr. Gaines singing lead, and from the comments I believe that Dorothy Dandridge, wearing a polka-dot dress, is the woman standing on the left inside the train door at :50.
Now, here is the frustrating part: I've been all over the Internet looking for the full list of lyrics that they use in the video, including MetroLyrics, LyricsFreak, SongLyrics.com, AZLyrics, Genius, AllTheLyrics, SongFacts, and LyricsMode, and couldn't find them. I even spent over an hour trying to transcribe them myself, and finally gave up. Here are the only lyrics I've been able to find.
Anyway, it's a great song, and the video is nothing short of amazing. Listen and enjoy!
That's Song Lyric Sunday for November 4, 2018.
Neil Sedaka got his big break after taking the A train into Manhattan.
Everyone thinks the music videos were invented with MTV, but as you can see they've been around a lot longer. I've heard the song a thousand times as an instrumental, but the version with lyrics is a lot of fun.
It was the signature tune for The Duke Ellington Orchestra, so I'm a bit surprised you've never heard it. Of course, they usually did it as an instrumental, so that might explain it.
How much fun! What a treat!
There are lots of versions of it, but that's the one I like best.
Great song. Had me thinking about taking a train.
Love it! I used to take the train from Portland to Seattle all the time. When I worked downtown Portland, I would take light rail from home to work.
Chicago has a fantastic public transit system, and I spent lots of time on trains and buses going to and from work in my time there.
One thing that's so fun about SLS is learning the convoluted history of some of the songs! This is a great pick!
A Monday morning wowsa! Great pick, John!
What a great old song! New to me, too. It is strange that none of those usual lyrics places had them printed out.
I was surprised, too, but then a lot of the lyrics places are better with more contemporary songs. "Take the A Train" is usually played as an instrumental, too, so maybe they weren't aware of any more lyrics. Whatever. Like I said, I tried.


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album artwork by Christopher Corr
Jonathan Fire*Eater, the highly influential but often overlooked '90s New York Rock Revival band who included three future members of The Walkmen, have been finally getting their due since musicians like Karen O raved about their influence in Meet Me In The Bathroom and Third Man Records reissued their material. Sadly, frontman Stewart Lupton isn't around for all the re-appraisal, as he passed away in 2018. And in Stewart's Memory, his former Jonathan Fire*Eater bandmate (and Walkmen member) Walter Martin is now releasing a new solo album.
The album is called The World At Night, and it's dedicated to Stewart. Speaking about the album and lead single "The World at Night (for Stew)," Walter told Billboard, "'The World at Night' takes place inside a collage that my friend Stewart made. Stew died last year and his collage hangs above my desk where I write everyday. I'm not really a religious person but I do believe in ghosts and in magic and in plenty of beautiful stuff that I can't see. Writing this album -- and especially this song -- was an effort to get closer to that stuff. And to Stew."
The album was produced by The National/Craig Finn collaborator Josh Kaufman, and the new single is more of a delicate, melancholic song than you might expect from Walter's solo material. Its gorgeous arrangements are fleshed out by strings, horns, and piano, and Walter gives a wearied, poetic performance that almost sounds a little like Leonard Cohen. Listen below.
The album comes out January 31 via Ile Flottante Music, and Walter will play a hometown show the next day at Brooklyn's Sultan Room (2/1). Ticket info coming soon. It's Walter's only upcoming show at the moment.
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Maren Morris is stripping down for Playboy.
The country singer released two steamy snaps from her upcoming shoot with the magazine.
"Strip it down. something with @playboy is coming next week," the "Girls" singer captioned the sexy photos.
In the two photos shared by the 29-year-old star, Morris poses topless in a cowboy hat and red pants.
In the first photo she also forgoes shoes, but in the second she dons cow-printed boots and is holding an unidentified item.
Maren first revealed she'd be teaming up with Playboy in April where she assured fans the shoot would remain PG-13.
The singer, who is married to fellow country artist Ryan Hurd, is not one to shy away from showing skin. At last week's CMT Music Awards, Morris looked like a golden goddess in her 1970s-inspired mini dress.
She rocked the carpet in an embellished getup that featured two big cut-outs on her sides that showed off her toned stomach.
Fox News caught up with Morris' husband earlier this year and he opened up about married life. The singers tied the knot last year.
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"It's been awesome," Hurd told us. "We got to know each other as songwriters then became friends and creative partners, and then it turned into something else."
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Does anyone still play this?
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Angel of Darkness (2003)
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Underworld (2008)
Rise of the Tomb Raider (2015)
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codeveronica
Does anyone still play this? Mar 9, 2013 20:50:19 GMT
Post by codeveronica on Mar 9, 2013 20:50:19 GMT
I recently started and 2nd play through of it but quickly got bored so started playing co-op with a friend and just didn't have the concentration to care about it. I really enjoyed my first play through but I think i'm done with it now.
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Lori Croft
Post by Lori Croft on Mar 9, 2013 20:59:09 GMT
Yeah I remember your first play through!
Quite vividly in fact as it was at my house on my PlayStation, for how long was it... 6-7 hours?!?!?
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AJ.R
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Post by AJ.R on Mar 9, 2013 21:12:03 GMT
Played it for a little bit about 2 weeks ago when steam gave it to me free. But to be honest I already overplayed it on the consoles so I got bored quick. Still have yet to experience the Multiplayer version..its still dead >.<
Mar 9, 2013 20:59:09 GMT Lori Croft said:
Yeah, Me and Jay were playing for so long your sofa almost absorbed me.
cynicalhippie
Does anyone still play this? Mar 10, 2013 0:00:12 GMT
Post by cynicalhippie on Mar 10, 2013 0:00:12 GMT
I played the local co-op with my father. It was pretty damn cool but I love this game. Haven't experienced co-op online though.
dotgamehero
Post by dotgamehero on Mar 12, 2013 0:05:11 GMT
I havn't picked it up in a long time! I never experienced multiplayer though.
Post by Lori Croft on Mar 12, 2013 8:34:14 GMT
I think it's a better experience with multiplayer! You should give it a go!
Does anyone still play this? Mar 12, 2013 14:51:12 GMT
Post by AJ.R on Mar 12, 2013 14:51:12 GMT
The hard part is trying to find someone online for it, I've had it for almost 3 weeks now on steam and still have yet to play multiplayer, only played it once on ps3 >.<
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Post by Rident on Mar 13, 2013 9:41:49 GMT
Will have to check when I get home if I have this on Steam. I know I have it on Xbox 360 and think also on PS3 though never tried the multiplayer only solo.
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Post by codeveronica on Mar 22, 2013 11:55:56 GMT
I always get the urge to give it a play but by the time I've turned the ps3 on some other game as caught my attention.
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Post by Vinegaress on Mar 27, 2013 4:27:24 GMT
I used to play it a lot, but I can't really anymore because of the lag and drop of frame-rate makes it impossible now. It's actually really depressing because my fiancee and I used to play the hell out of it. (We even got all the trophies for it!) But a couple months later, it started lagging really bad and the frame-rate dropped and was making our systems flip the hell out (even making them freeze countless times). Wish a couple of patches would be done to remedy this.
I'm actually wondering if Lara Croft: Reflections is going to be another kind of GoL. I know a lot of people loved the hell out of GoL, and similar type game would probably sit well with past and new players alike.
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sineadcroft
Does anyone still play this? Aug 29, 2013 13:39:36 GMT
Post by sineadcroft on Aug 29, 2013 13:39:36 GMT
I still play it from time to time. I think that it is such a well made arcade game and I loved how the gameplay worked. It's just a bummer that no one plays it online. There are no games in the lobby at any time. I play local co-op quite a bit, but my sisters who I play it with get bored of me wanting to play it with them all of time
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Does anyone still play this? Sept 7, 2013 5:37:01 GMT
Post by herbienut1337 on Sept 7, 2013 5:37:01 GMT
I still play it from time to time when I get the chance. I play solo and local co-op, but have never had the chance to play online co-op. I would if I could, but no one seems to be online anymore. Maybe they shut the servers down?
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Post by sineadcroft on Sept 8, 2013 2:31:00 GMT
I don't think the servers are shut down, it's just that no one plays it unfortunately . When I downloaded it on the day it came out, there were no games whatsoever. It just shocks me that more people would rather play TR 2013's multiplayer over LC: &GOL. I get that TR 2013's multilayer is more accessible on disc than on XBLA or PSN but clearly GOL is the more polished one and is far more enjoyable IMO.
Does anyone still play this? Jan 22, 2014 17:23:46 GMT
Post by herbienut1337 on Jan 22, 2014 17:23:46 GMT
I was online a few days ago. I was able to find people ot play with! I think it's because it became free to download and play with the "games for gold" progeam Xbox has. It's only avlaiable for free in january only, though. Otherwise, you got ot pay full price for it.
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Post by AJ.R on Jan 29, 2014 15:24:31 GMT
I actually recently found out most people only play private matches due to hackers, cannot really blame them.


The UK-based brand Next reached its core customers, women in their 30s or 40s seeking accessible fashion, with product range, price, service and reliable and quick delivery. Next operates around 500 stores in the UK and Ireland and is present with over 170 franchises in 35 countries. It also maintains online and catalog businesses. The brand exemplifies how high-end fashion informs High Street. Brand value rose 39 percent.
Along with its basic H&M brand, H&M promoted its & Other Stories and COS (Collection of Style) brands, which provided a three-tiered offering. With the added brands H&M widens its appeal while retaining its base of younger consumers as their tastes and income levels evolve. In August 2013, H&M launched ecommerce in the US, where it operates approximately 300 stores, its second largest market after Germany. Zara, rose 15 percent in brand value based on the success of its fast-fashion formula, with around 1,900 stores in 87 countries.
Topshop and J. Crew, competitive brands that don't appear in the BrandZ™ ranking, demonstrated clever ways to make brands accessible. Topshop streamed its London Fashion Week catwalk fashion show and, through a partnership with Google, made it interactive. J. Crew preceded its debut in the UK with a pop-up store in London.
People can be cynical and disappointed by brands. Today, with ecommerce and social media, brands need to work harder to gain shopper loyalty. But if brands can deliver consistently good experiences across channels, while offering elements of surprise and delight, people will remain interested and loyalty will be strong.
At fashion shows it used to be the elite who were in the front row. Now brands are inviting a much wider audience to watch these events live and online. Many may not be able to afford the brand yet, but they can begin to emotionally invest in it. The brand is saying, you're invited to this show and please aspire to be part of this world. You'll see that it's as wonderful as we profess it to be. Consumers feel that they're in the know.


Lila has always called this place home. This place where the sun beats down hard and there's nothing to do but drink and then drink some more. But she has dreams of a better life, and she can almost remember what they were. Jake tumbled into town with a couple of bags and fell deep for the pretty girl with all the dreams.
Neither one of them remembers how long ago that was. But as they sit at their tiny kitchen table in their tiny mobile home, the events of last night on a dark road in the middle of the night force them to face this existence they have for too long called a life.
Caitlin is about to have a baby. So is Jos, but he only found out about it this morning. Almost nine months after a one night stand, these two strangers come together in a birthing centre to try to become a family.


Wise politicians realize that the people, also known as taxpayers, are always concerned about how their money is spent by government. The cost of a policy, program or item can be large or small, but every penny – or nickel, in this era – must be used responsibly and prudently.
This brings us to the purchase of an item where we can honestly say it was money well spent, for a change.
Library and Archives Canada (LAC) recently bought a book for $6,000 that was once part of Nazi leader Adolf Hitler's personal library. Entitled Statistik, Presse und Organisationen des Judentums in den Vereinigten Staaten und Kanada (Statistics, Press, and Organizations of Jewry in the United States and Canada), it was written by researcher Heinz Kloss and contains census information about Jewish communities in Canada and the U.S.
At first blush, it may seem a bit unusual that taxpayer dollars were used to purchase a book owned by the evil, hateful Führer instead of by a private buyer.
But an explanation from LAC curator Michael Kent helps make the decision understandable.
The book also brings the Second World War closer to home.
German U-boats reached the St. Lawrence River and fought Royal Canadian Navy warships in the 1940s as part of the Battle of the Atlantic. The U-517 and U-165 German submarines, in particular, fought American and Canadian warships in this theatre.
Twenty-three Canadian merchant vessels and four Royal Canadian Navy ships were sunk, including the Donald Stewart, owned by Montreal's Canada Steamship Lines. (Former Liberal prime minister Paul Martin would purchase Canada Steamship Lines many decades later.) Canada continued to fight valiantly, and the U-889 and U-190 would surrender to Canadian ships in May 1945.
The European theatre is what most people associate with the Second World War. This is completely understandable, since most of the great battles, books, films and radio/TV broadcasts have been focused there.
But the Nazis were obviously thinking about the future of the Third Reich and that's why they fought in the Battle of the St. Lawrence.
Hitler's 137-page book is, therefore, an additional cog in the wheel.
Unknown to historians before it was purchased from an unnamed American collector, it's an important piece of world history.
It helps provide further ammunition against the relatively small number of Holocaust deniers.
It also proves the Nazis were in the planning stages of what we've assumed for decades: to study and, in time, annihilate the Canadian and American Jewish populations.
Had another private collector bought this book, Canada and the rest of the world would likely have never found out about it. The LAC's purchase ensures that people will be able to read and learn from it for years to come.
This all happened because a small amount of Canadian taxpayer money was actually used for something good. Will wonders never cease?


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"""
Manipulating strings for output.

"""
import math
import re
import sys
import textwrap

from . import term, tools
from .exceptions import SeeError
from .features import PY3

REGEX_TYPE = type(re.compile('.'))

MAX_INDENT = 4

class SeeResult(object):
    """
    The output of the :func:`see` function.

    Acts like a tuple of strings, so you can iterate over the output::

        >>> first = see()[0]

        >>> for string in see([]):
        ...     print(string)

    """
    def __init__(self, tokens):
        self._tokens = tuple(tokens)

    def __repr__(self):
        col_width = column_width(self)
        padded = [justify_token(tok, col_width) for tok in self]

        ps1 = getattr(sys, 'ps1', None)
        if ps1:
            get_len = tools.display_len if PY3 else len
            indent = ' ' * min(get_len(ps1), MAX_INDENT)
        else:
            indent = ' ' * MAX_INDENT

        return textwrap.fill(''.join(padded), term.line_width(),
                             initial_indent=indent,
                             subsequent_indent=indent)

    def __eq__(self, other):
        return tuple(self) == tuple(other)

    def __iter__(self):
        return iter(self._tokens)

    def __len__(self):
        return len(self._tokens)

    def __getitem__(self, index):
        return self._tokens[index]

    def filter(self, pattern):
        """
        Filter the results using a pattern.

        This accepts a shell-style wildcard pattern (as used by the fnmatch_
        module)::

            >>> see([]).filter('*op*')
                .copy()    .pop()

        It also accepts a regular expression. This may be a compiled regular
        expression (from the re_ module) or a string that starts with a ``/``
        (forward slash) character::

            >>> see([]).filter('/[aeiou]{2}/')
                .clear()    .count()

        .. _fnmatch: https://docs.python.org/3/library/fnmatch.html
        .. _re: https://docs.python.org/3/library/re.html
        """
        if isinstance(pattern, REGEX_TYPE):
            func = tools.filter_regex
        elif pattern.startswith('/'):
            pattern = re.compile(pattern.strip('/'))
            func = tools.filter_regex
        else:
            func = tools.filter_wildcard

        return SeeResult(func(self, pattern))

    def filter_ignoring_case(self, pattern):
        """
        Like ``filter`` but case-insensitive.

        Expects a regular expression string without the surrounding ``/``
        characters.

            >>> see().filter('^my', ignore_case=True)
                MyClass()

        """
        return self.filter(re.compile(pattern, re.I))

    def exclude(self, pattern):
        """
        The opposite of ``filter``: excludes items from the result that match
        a given pattern.

        Expects a regular expression string without the surrounding ``/``
        characters.
        """
        # See https://stackoverflow.com/a/957581
        return self.filter(re.compile('^((?!{0}).)*$'.format(pattern)))

def column_width(tokens):
    """
    Return a suitable column width to display one or more strings.
    """
    get_len = tools.display_len if PY3 else len
    lens = sorted(map(get_len, tokens or [])) or [0]
    width = lens[-1]

    # adjust for disproportionately long strings
    if width >= 18:
        most = lens[int(len(lens) * 0.9)]
        if most < width + 6:
            return most

    return width

def justify_token(tok, col_width):
    """
    Justify a string to fill one or more columns.
    """
    get_len = tools.display_len if PY3 else len
    tok_len = get_len(tok)
    diff_len = tok_len - len(tok) if PY3 else 0

    cols = (int(math.ceil(float(tok_len) / col_width))
            if col_width < tok_len + 4 else 1)

    if cols > 1:
        return tok.ljust((col_width * cols) + (4 * cols) - diff_len)
    else:
        return tok.ljust(col_width + 4 - diff_len)

def display_name(name, obj, local):
    """
    Get the display name of an object.

    Keyword arguments (all required):

    * ``name`` -- the name of the object as a string.
    * ``obj`` -- the object itself.
    * ``local`` -- a boolean value indicating whether the object is in local
      scope or owned by an object.

    """
    prefix = '' if local else '.'

    if isinstance(obj, SeeError):
        suffix = '?'
    elif hasattr(obj, '__call__'):
        suffix = '()'
    else:
        suffix = ''

    return ''.join((prefix, name, suffix))


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Alefa, the application launch helper. Control the launch and execution of other programs.
"alefa" means "run", "go", "launch" or "execute" in malagasy language.
"alefa" is a command line utility that allows to control the launch and execution of other programs.
It is often useful to write (more or less) simple scripts to rerun some commands until they "succeed", or to launch other commands indefinitely. There are numerous common use cases.
Such things should be easily automated so that we can do other tasks without being distracted and without having to restart such frustrating commands ourselves by hand: without creating scripts!
"alefa" fixes that. I decided to create it a day that I was tired of creating, modifying and adapting such scripts to make yet simple and routine tasks.
"alefa" returns command or application's last ExitCode, so you could do something depending of the result.
alefa does not have any download files registered with Launchpad.


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D E L H I A N D N E I G H B O U R H O O D
AAP govt waives power bills partly
New Delhi, February 12
The AAP government today announced that consumers who did not pay their electricity bills as part of the party's power agitation will have to shell out only half of their total dues, a decision which will cost Rs 6 crore to the exchequer.
MBBS students' strike to affect OPDs
In the wake of the Union health ministry's recent move to increase the duration of MBBS course from 5 ½ to 7 ½ years applicable, close to 3,000 students and junior and senior residents of eight medical colleges and hospital declared an indefinite strike here today.
Students raise slogans against the Medical Council of India at Nirman Bhawan in New Delhi on Wednesday. Tribune Photo: Mukesh Aggarwal
DASS cadre employees protest outside CM office
Register FIRs in DJB fraud cases: Govt
Acid attack on woman in East Delhi
No need of construction approval on small plots: MCDs
Shape up or ship out, CM warns BSES discoms
Tania murder: 300 NE students detained, clamouring for justice
Tribunal relief to BSES discoms
AAP fooling people with bill: Cong
Suspend licence if BSES resorts to power cuts: Govt tells DERC
February4, 2014
We'll do our best to check bias against Africans: CM
Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal today urged the diplomats from African countries to come out with their feelings and suggestions on some unsavoury incidents happened recently, which require his immediate attention.
Session plan for Jan Lokpal Bill at stadium stays: CM
The Delhi Cabinet meeting today reiterated its decision to hold a special session of Delhi Assembly for the passage of Jan Lokpal Bill at a stadium or ground, saying that democracy should not be confined to four walls.
NDMC Budget presented
People residing in the New Delhi Municipal Council (NDMC) area will now get a 6 per cent yearly interest on the security deposit submitted by them while applying for an electricity connection.
Two more caught for attacking Manipuri youth
Two more accused, including a juvenile, were apprehended today for allegedly attacking a 22-year-old Manipuri youth near Saket in South Delhi on early Tuesday morning.
Girl jumps off school building, critical
After being scolded and punished by her teacher, a 16-year-old girl allegedly attempted to commit suicide by jumping from the third floor of her school building at Jamia Nagar in Southeast Delhi this morning.
Move to benefit around 24,000 consumers
A decision to this effect was taken by a meeting of the Delhi Cabinet presided over by Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal. The penalty on the outstanding dues has also been waived.
"The Delhi government today decided to give a 50 per cent subsidy to those who did not pay their bills from October 2012 to April 2013 (the duration of the agitation) and chose not to pay till December," said Education Minister Manish Sisodia.
Officials said the decision will benefit around 24,000 consumers. Just after its formation, the AAP had launched a 'Bijli Satyagraha' against 'inflated' power bills in the national Capital. As part of the campaign, Kejriwal had urged people not to pay their power bills.
Although around 10 lakh people had signed AAP's petition against power distribution companies during the agitation, only 24,000-odd consumers actually stopped paying their bills.
Keeping a pre-poll promise, Kejriwal had announced a 50 per cent subsidy on electricity consumption of up to 400 units in Delhi after coming into power.
Later, the AAP government also ordered the Comptroller and Auditor General to audit the finances of the three private power distribution companies serving Delhi.
A total of 2,508 electricity meters were disconnected by the authorities for non-payment of inflated and wrong bills. The government has decided to provide relief to these people also.
Besides, the government has decided to consider the closure of theft cases registered against some consumers during the previous government's regime.
This means the OPDs and health services of many hospitals, including the AIIMS, and Safdarjung Hospital, would suffer with residents boycotting work.
President of Resident Doctors' Association of Lady Hardinge Medical College Dr Monika Puri said, "Students were protesting peacefully, but were lathicharged and so residents too joined them."
He said this in a reception hosted for the ambassadors and high commissioners of African countries in the city. The reception was attended by the top diplomats from 30 countries and top bureaucrats of the Delhi government.
The ambassador of Nigeria, Ndubuisi Vitus Amaku, who is the Deputy Dean of the African Diplomatic Core, urged the Chief Minister to give a public assurance that there would be no discrimination against the citizens from the African countries.
Kejriwal assured the diplomats that the government would take steps to end all kinds of discrimination.
Welcoming the ambassadors and high commissioners, Kejriwal said, "The government is committed to showcasing the national Capital as a unique city where law-abiding people from different parts of the country and the world live together peacefully."
He referred to the multi-dimensional nature of the relations between India and countries of the African continent.
"India and Africa share the mutual desire to expand economic cooperation between them. Delhi is home to citizens from across the world and we are keen to meet the diplomats and discuss all the issues they wanted to raise," the Chief Minister said.
Speaking on the occasion, the ambassador of Zimbabwe, Jonathan Wutawunashe, who is also Dean of the African Diplomatic Core, described Delhi as his own city.
Ambassador Wutawunashe wanted the procedures on the Value Added Tax (VAT) to be simplified in the Capital, to which the Chief Minister replied that the process has already been started.
Education Minister Manish Sisodia, Chief Secretary SK Srivastava, Principal Secretary to the CM, Rajendra Kumar, Home Secretary Archana Arora, PWD Secretary Arun Baroka and Finance Secretary MM Kutty were present on the occasion.
Turning down Lieutenant Governor Najeeb Jung's request to reconsider the decision, Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal said that the government would go ahead with its plan to hold the exercise at a public venue.
"The matter was raised once again in the cabinet as the LG had requested the government to reconsider its decision. After discussion, it was decided that the government would go ahead with its earlier decision and once again urged the LG to assist it in holding the session in an open space," Education and PWD Minister Manish Sisodia after the cabinet meeting.
Earlier, Jung had asked the Chief Minister to review the decision as the Delhi police had expressed reservation over it, citing possible law and order situation.
Rejecting the Delhi police's plea, Sisodia said, "It is the same police which have provided security to much bigger events related to sports or religious festivals in Delhi. But surprisingly, it has expressed its inability to provide security at an event which would last for a few hours only," he added.
The above announcement was made today by NDMC chairperson Jalaj Srivastava during the presentation of the 2014-15 budget.
The benefit is only meant for domestic electricity consumers and will be implemented from April.
An allocation of Rs 1,018.79 crore has been made in the budget for electricity works such as construction of new 33kV sub-stations, incentivising use of solar energy, etc.
The NDMC is planning to set up 11kV sub-stations at American Embassy School at Chanakyapuri and on Africa Avenue Crossroad No. 2.
Meanwhile, the NDMC has announced that its project for the "uninterrupted, 24/7 supply of water" has been approved "in principle" by the Centre with the final nod expected soon.
A provision of Rs 121.34 crore has been made in the budget for water supply, including for the replacement of old water mains and pump sets and procurement of tankers.
The NDMC has earmarked Rs 141.44 crore for the education sector in the budget. Among others, it has proposed to set up a training institute for primary teachers.
An outlay of Rs 181.24 crore has been prepared for upgrading various municipal markets with a plan being mooted for the redevelopment of Khan Market, Gole Market, Sarojini Nagar Market and INA Dilli Haat.
The police had arrested four juveniles on the day of the incident and recovered the mobile phone and wallet of the victim, Khupsiangen.
The five juveniles, who stay at Saidulajab, were presented before a juvenile justice board and sent to a juvenile home for boys. The adult accused, Deva, who is from Punjab has been sent to Tihar Jail.
The police said that the accused are allegedly drug addicts.
The victim's condition is stable following an emergency abdominal surgery on Tuesday. However, he is still under observation in the ICU.
The girl is said to be in a critical condition. She is a Class IX student of the Sarvodaya Kanya Vidyalaya.
Sources said the teacher had caught her reading a letter inside the classroom. She allegedly scolded her in front of the entire class and took her to the principal's office. The principal also allegedly scolded the girl.
They directed her to call her parents. They also threatened to expel her from the school. After the class was over, the girl rushed to the third floor of the building and jumped from there.
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Update from a comrade on the recent revelation that UCB students and faculty are facing criminal charges for the protests of November 9. Not surprisingly, the police officers who beat these students and faculty with batons and arrested those they could pull to the ground by their hair are not facing charges or repercussions of any kind.
-- Any protester on campus is at risk of prosecution, regardless of her level of involvement in an event and/or arrest.
-- The UCPD, ostensibly designed to protect and serve campus values, of which free speech must be one, will routinely invoke mutual aid, invite riot cops onto our campus, and then hand over evidence to public bodies with no commitment to campus values whatsoever.
-- Chancellor Birgeneau's declaration of amnesty under the Student Code of Conduct is rendered at once moot and cosmetic because it does not apply to those who were not arrested but face public charges and because it doesn't protect any protester from those charges.
-- Processes like the Police Review Board must be seen in a new light as strategic sites of data collection, since those who have testified there may have their testimony and that of others used against them.
At the very least, it seems to me we should put pressure on Birgeneau to take a public stand on the issue of these charges. Ideally he'd publicly request of O'Malley that the charges be dropped, but at the very least the administration should not be allowed to separate itself from this development merely because it is technically beyond a UCB purview.
To that end, several concerned people (undergrads, grads, and faculty) met informally last night to discuss possible responses. In addition to identifying the need for a swift editorial campaign (I believe the first arraignments, including Celeste's, are scheduled for 3/16), we decided on a picket of California Hall starting Monday at noon. It's not being called for by any particular group, nor should it have to be; it's a spontaneous response to this latest outrage by those in the community who are at risk (namely, all of us) and who stand in solidarity with those charged. I urge you all to come on Monday at 12pm so that our numbers are meaningful and our voices loud enough to reach those inside.
"Processes like the Police Review Board must be seen in a new light as strategic sites of data collection, since those who have testified there may have their testimony and that of others used against them."
But of course that is the case. Anything you have said - in any context and at any place/time - if recorded and preserved or if merely overheard by a police officer, may be used against you, provided that the statement was made voluntarily and w/o coercion.
This is why you should NEVER TALK TO THE POLICE. You always have the right to refuse to have substantive discussion with law enforcement. If you choose to talk to, or w/in earshot of, the police, you would be wise to have an attorney present and to audio or video record the interaction.
"Here's an entertaining lecture by law professor (and former defense attorney) James Duane on why he will never talk to the police — or perhaps more accurately, why defense attorneys hope that their clients have not done so."


If you are thinking of moving to Thornholme or just want to know a what the area is like, the statistics on this page should give you a good introduction. They cover a range of socio-economic factors so you can compare Thornholme to figures for East Riding of Yorkshire and nationally. These statistics can tell you if Thornholme is an economically deprived area and how hard it might be to get a job.
These figures on the claiming of benefits in Thornholme come from the Department for Work & Pensions and are dated . They can often be a good indicator of the prosperity of the town and possible indicator of how hard it would be to get employment in the area. The rate of claiming any benefit (which includes in work benefits) is more than 10% lower in Thornholme than the national average, suggesting higher salaries than the average in the area.
Thornholme has a higher rate of home ownership, either outright or via a mortgage than the national average, which suggests that Thornholme is a relatively affluent area.
The respondents of the 2011 Census were asked to rate their health. These are the results for Thornholme. The percentage of residents in Thornholme rating their health as 'very good' is less than the national average.
These statistics are for the highest level education obtained by the residents of Thornholme and are from the UK Census of 2011.
The population of Thornholme as a whole, is older than the national average. The population of Thornholme is also older than the average, making Thornholme a older persons location.
These figures for Country of Birth for the residents of Thornholme are from the UK Census of 2011. Since Thornholme has a higher level of residents born in the UK than the national average and a lower rate of residents either born in other EU countries or outside the EU, it does not have a significant immigrant population.
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