It was, for a moment, almost surprising to hear Michelle Obama's chosen topic for her recent address to Silicon Valley executives at Apple's WWDC conference: Gender equality in the tech industry?
We currently live in a world in which a shining example of an empowered and successful woman like Michelle Obama is in the news for her opinions on the tech industry, you can easily rattle off your top 5 female athletes, and when you look around your office you see male and female coworkers working together.On a good day, this can make it feel like the future of gender equality is here, or at least imminent. Women are everywhere, and are amazing, and if we just keep going like this it's all going to work itself out, right?Unfortunately the facts don't really support such a rosy view. From personal testimonies to public lawsuits like Uber's recent sexual harassment case, the tech industry is becoming increasingly viewed as a hostile environment for women.
Last year only 26% of professional computing jobs were held by women.
But it's important to note that for G7 countries, only 22% of senior roles are occupied by women, and 39% of companies have zero women in senior roles, across industries.
But there may be more to lose than their reputation, for companies maintaining a passive stance on gender equality.
Clearly you want the best qualified people on your board of directors and in your C-suite and don't want gender to play a role. But if, when you take a moment to reflect, you realize there are no women among them…chances are gender has already subconsciously played a role. The fact that these groups tend to be all men is not an accident.
Women are frequently overlooked not due to a lack of qualified candidates but because of subconscious favoritism, and open positions getting filled based on who-you-know. Who do the existing male board members know? Other men.
Despite these difficulties, there are many benefits in having a more gender equal board or C-suite. A study found an increase in corporate leadership from 0% to 30% female to be associated with a 15% increase in profitability for a typical company.
Another study found women in leadership to correlate with increased innovative intensity, logical thinking, coordination, planning and problem solving. If you are among the 39% of companies lacking female input at the highest level, adding a qualified female leader into the mix could stimulate similar beneficial results.
Despite the fact that women as a demographic have been attaining college degrees at a higher rate than men for the last 20 years, the ratio of leadership positions held by women has not been substantially affected. The lack of senior level female leadership makes it all the more important to incentivize the women currently in leadership to mentor up and coming female prospects.
One strategy for pairing mentors and mentees within your company can be allowing the mentees to write learning outcome goals (e.g. improve work life balance, learn a new skill, branch into a different role) and allowing mentors to select mentees based on their goals.
Female mentorships should be all about giving women the confidence to put themselves forward, share connections, and foster the personal growth necessary to become leaders. Don't believe me? Check out these inspiring testimonials.
In the discussion of equality it's important to recognize the different constraints family responsibilities placed on women and their career paths. According to a poll of unemployed adults between the ages of 25 and 54, 61% of women said that family responsibilities were keeping them from working, opposed to just 37% for men.
To deal with this problem, 6 big tech companies are trying out "Returnships" to make the transition back into the workforce easier, by offering 18 month training and accelerated learning paths to offer caregivers out of the workforce for the last two years a fast track to get back up to speed.
Offering work from home options can also increase inclusivity for women. A poll of homemakers found that nearly 75% would consider returning to the workforce if a job allowed for flexible hours or let them work from home. Many companies are beginning to embrace the work from home model, with one report finding an increase from 19% in 2013 to 24% in 2015 of people working remotely for some or all of their work responsibilities.
Another option is to adopt maternity leave policies that don't punish women for starting a family. The United states has been holding out as one of the last 4 countries in the world to fail to guarantee women the right to paid maternity leave, but that doesn't mean your company has to follow suit, and you would be among good company.
Amazon and American Express both offer 5 months paid leave, and Netflix offers unlimited paid leave for a year following the birth or adoption of a child for both parents.
By adopting policies that allow women to find better work life balance, and avoid forcing them to choose between one or the other you can increase your overall female employee retention.
As research continues to quantifiably show the increased profitability and added benefits to companies who value women's voices and opinions, the demand for female experts is going to increase.
As the recent public outcry at the announcement of the Northern Powerhouse conferences gender biased lineup demonstrated (98 male presenters vs 13 female) people are beginning to take notice and demanding more female participation.
Seeing an opportunity, one of the 13 female presenters at the Northern Powerhouse conference launched a media and public speaker training program for women.
Some other companies getting female speakers prepped to grab the mic? BBC launched its "Expert Women" training course in 2014 and the BBC Academy, BBC News, Women in Film, and Television UK, came together to promote a free media familiarization day for women, to further develop female talents in television, radio and presenting.
Offering training opportunities for your qualified women to speak at conferences could be a strategic and profitable move for forward thinking companies to take advantage of the increasing demand.
As with everything in the business and tech world, time is of the essence. Businesses who are able to take advantage of the new opportunities and potential profitability by making room for women, will be the companies that benefit the most.
There aren't any excuses when the right thing to do is also the most profitable. It's time for the tech industry to make room for women.
Published by Estefania Leon, VP of Client Relations at ZEQR, a global knowledge sharing marketplace that connects like-minded people who seek to impart knowledge and those who are eager to become better informed.


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The University of Minnesota has received a $4.3 million Water Sustainability and Climate grant over five years from the National Science Foundation to lead a study on the interactions between climate, water and land-use systems in the Minnesota River Basin.
The University of Minnesota-Twin Cities is the lead institution for this grant that involves researchers from institutions across the country such as the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Johns Hopkins University, Utah State University, University of Washington, Iowa State University, and the University of Minnesota-Duluth.
The researchers will develop a framework for identifying and predicting processes, locations and times that are most susceptible to accelerated change. This framework is envisioned to guide decision and policy making toward a healthy and resilient environment.
The research team chose the Minnesota River Basin as a location for the research because it encompasses an extremely broad spectrum of natural and human-induced rates of change and sensitivity to land-use practices.
"This grant brings together some of the top scientists and engineers from across the country to study one of the most important issues of our time—water sustainability under climate and human stressors," said Efi Foufoula-Georgiou, a civil engineering professor in the University of Minnesota's College of Science and Engineering and lead researcher on the grant.
Minnesota Conservation Officers Kipp Duncan and Jen Muller pulled into a parking lot in Two Harbors recently and couldn't believe what they saw — a shopping cart covered with zebra mussels resting in the back of a pickup truck.
The man driving the truck, Bruce A. Hinsverk, 51, of Wahpeton, N.D., told the officers he was on vacation and saw the shopping cart next to two Dumpsters on the Duluth waterfront. He planned to drive up the North Shore to Grand Marais before returning to North Dakota with the shopping cart.
Hinsverk apparently thought it would be cool to have the cart on display at his hair salon, Muller said. What Muller said Hinsverk didn't know is that it's against Minnesota law to transport or possess even one zebra mussel or other invasive species, let alone thousands of them.
Hinsverk was cited for unlawfully possessing or transporting a prohibited invasive species and given instructions on how to appeal the charge or pay the $500 fine.
Mark A. Davis, chair of the biology department at Macalester College will be the guest speaker for an Oct. 10 Sip of Science happy hour.
Davis, who has questioned the value of trying to prevent the spread of invasive species, is the author of a book, Invasion Biology and he wrote and was co-author of the influential essay "Don't Judge Species on their Origins," published in Nature in 2011. He has appeared on National Public Radio's Science Friday.
A Sip of Science is a science happy hour sponsored by the National Center for Earth-surface Dynamics at the University of Minnesota. It is a chance to hear about new and exciting research over beer. Come talk with the experts about their efforts to address some of the Earth's most pressing problems.
The event will be at 5:30 p.m. at the Aster Café, 125 SE Main Street – St. Anthony Main – in Minneapolis.
pass through waste treatment plants and into rivers. View a 13-minute TEDxUMN talk by Deborah Swackhamer, co-director of the University of Minnesota's Water Resources Center.
The package of amendments to federal law that became known as the Clean Water Act was enacted by Congress over President Richard Nixon's veto on Oct. 18, 1972. Read a Minnesota Pollution Control essay looking at the law and improvements in Minnesota waters over the 40 years since its enactment.
Minnesota has just added to its official list of polluted lakes and rivers.
The Minnesota Pollution Control Agency sent to the Environmental Protection Agency a draft list of 3,642 polluted – the official terminology is "impaired" – lakes, wetlands and sections of rivers and streams. Of those, 511 are new to the list since two years ago. Thirteen water bodies came off the list, some because they were cleaned up, most for technical reasons.
Read the MPCA news release on the listings. Read a Star Tribune article focusing on some good news: Significant improvement that took Powderhorn Lake in Minneapolis off the list this year. Learn more about the list and seek the water bodies designated as polluted..


Hello void friends, and welcome to part three of my week bulk review! Today we are reviewing three graphic novels. I made these joint reviews because they are shorter but I still enjoyed them immensely. They are Giant Days Volumes 1 and 2 and The Odyssey. Let's get started.
Giant Days Volumes 1 and 2 by John Allison were my first experience with graphic novels in a few years and were a really nice re-introduction. The books follow a group of three new friends as they navigate college, studying, romantic relationships and personal relationships.
I personally found these books to be very fun! They were short reads and I found them to be very honest and relatable when it comes to the college experience. I also found them to be freaking hilarious! There were moments in Volume 2 were I found myself legit lol-ing in pubic space, it was such a fun experience. 10/10 would read again, will continue reading the series!
Next, I read The Odyssey by Gareth Hinds. It is essentially the epic poem by Homer in graphic novel form. This was not something that I knew that I wanted until I stumbled upon it at my library yesterday morning. One of my favorite subjects is Greek mythos, so I obviously had to grab and read.
The book follows Homers poem with really amazing graphics and translations. I found this to be a really cool version of the Odyssey. If this were your only point of reference for the epic, you'd obviously miss some of the finer details but I think you'd get a great big gist of the big details. The graphics are beautiful. The pacing and organization is beautiful. And I just think the concept was really neat. 3/5 stars for me.
That's it for this one! Happy reading, void. UP NEXT: Missing you, Metropolis by Gary Jackson.


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1. What are you most looking forward to at Wigtown this year?
I love travelling and have never been to Wigtown.so I'm really looking forward to seeing it. I usually go for a walk in the middle of the night, to avoid the sun, so it will be the first thing I do.
2. Your story is a fascinating, wonderfully written account of what was a terrible mistake. Did you find 'LifeBlood' difficult to write as it was drawing on real experience and emotion, or did this actually help with your writing?
I found the first half of LifeBlood easy to write, because of course memories of our son and daughter's childhoods are precious to me. The second half was really difficult and I should thank Jenny Brown for her commitment here - she made me write it four times! In the end we took advice from the wise Sara Maitland, who saw that I was ignoring the political story in the narrative as I had deliberately ignored it in real life. Sara's advice was absolutely right, but writing about all that did pull me down. I've included the scene where our children noticed my distress and sorted me out!
3. If you could see anybody's else life story turned into literature, who would it be and why? (this doesn't have to be somebody well-known).
I think everyone's life story is worth telling and when people say they have a book in them, they do. The problem is getting it out and down on paper!
4. If you could change one detail about a book somebody else has written, what would it be and why? (this can be anything at all, from a character to a plot or setting, to just a general reason why you would like to see a change in their writing).
Well, my favourite film is My House In Umbria, with Maggie Smith, Timothy Spall and Ronnie Barker. The screenplay was adapted from a novel by William Trevor and when I read it I thought the narration was brilliant: light and funny, but every line charged with meaning and character. Then I discovered Trevor's desperately sad ending, which was a bit of a shock, given the very happy one rewritten by My House In Umbria's screenwriter. So I would like someone to make films of all Trevor's brilliant sad endings, telling the screenwriter to swap them for happy ones, so we can read his novels for genius before cheering ourselves up with the films!
5. If you could step inside the mind of one author for just a day, who would it be and why?
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How many times do I have to go through my entire health history with another doctor? I attended my annual appointment with my OB-GYN and came to find out that the person I saw the last time… has left. I was re-assigned to another person in the clinic and I could tell I was starting to boil up with frustration; I have been through this before. When I set up the appointment, I also called my General Practitioner (GP) and my Endocrinologist to have them send over my latest labs and exam notes.
When I checked in, I asked if they had all my up-to-date records… they didn't. I could see where this visit was going and I started praying. "God, help me be patient, loving, tolerant and kind. " No need to take my frustrations of past experiences out on someone who I didn't even know.
In walks Nancy*. Chipper, comical… lovely. We small chat and then jump into the reason for my visit. She had some of the notes from my last visit, but wanted me to loop her in… so I took a deep breath and began to regurgitate all that I have learned about myself. Feeling as though I'm the expert on my own body… with no answers.
As we talked, I felt a calm come over me though. It's not her fault she doesn't know about me and maybe she will have a different perspective on my situation. I shared about my recent re-trial of progesterone and she offered the same thoughts as the other doctor—a lot of "maybes" and "let's try's". She completed the exam and scheduled me for an Ultra Sound in a few weeks to see a few things (no, not a baby) and we concluded.
I know that I could be acting on the mixture of recommendations of herbals, acupuncture, pink drinks, stopping all exercise, gaining weight, medications, infertility specialists… many I have tried. I just know for me, it will be the process of checking each thing off the list (again) will refining what will work with me and my body. I can't help believe that God is in control of all of this. I know God provides science for us to progress and I will continue to pray. As of now, I feel confident in his leading me to trust him and keep talking about my journey. Using my story to help others, sharing all the things I don't know. There is a purpose in all of this. I have a purpose in this journey.
What I do know is that God is working. I know that my story is not uncommon and I am not alone in the path to a baby. I do ask a lot of questions I will never know the answers to. How is it that people who don't want to get pregnant, DO and those who do want to get pregnant, DON'T? It's baffling to me. If God is all-mighty, all-powerful and all-knowing, how would this disconnect happen?
Why would there be children across the world that needs families. Some of these situations are hard to stomach- like the orphans whose parents died; others are orphans because their parents didn't want them. How tragic. This life, this human being… with a heart… a brain… a soul… a future. Thankfully there are people who have the desire to adopt. I do believe God redeems and provides and I will continue to put my faith and trust in Him— God who knows all, "there is no creature hidden from His sight, but all things are open and laid bare to the eyes of Him." Hebrews 4:13.
He knows. He sees. I trust. I believe.
Thanks for your thoughts and example. As I read and as I think of your situation, Psalm 139, particularly the first 18 verses, comes to mind. It doesn't answer your specific physical needs but does address some of your heart questions and need for perspective, something we all require.
Thanks so much Tom. I would agree. I love Psalm 139 as it reminds me that the way I am, the way my body and mind works is all crafted by God. There are no mistakes! Praise God for his incredible artwork in each of us.


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The Court's attack on the "ever-normal granary"
I've been celebrating like many of you over the marriage equality and Obamacare decisions last Thursday and Friday. But my own celebrations are tempered by the realization that these two cases don't symbolize any shift on the Court. Kennedy's libertarian philosophy has paid dividends in the gay rights controversy for years. But the decision last November to hear the case challenging whether federal health exchanges could provide subsidies to those without the money to buy a health plan unassisted, turned into a trap.[1] The scale of damage that would have been done by blocking the subsidies made it impossible even for opponents of the program to shut it down. Nothing in the decision suggests that Kennedy had a change of heart about having wanted to declare it unconstitutional, and nothing suggests that Roberts had a change of heart about narrowing the commerce power, even though he had approved the individual mandate in the statute as a tax. Twenty years ago, Thomas wrote he would consider going back to the Court's very restrictive definition of federal powers before 1937 when President Franklin Roosevelt's appointments changed the Court's philosophy. Apparently Scalia and Alito are on Board with him.
That brings me to raisins.
Horne v. Department of Agriculture,[2] looks like the Supreme Court is maneuvering to get us back to the era when it throttled government economic policy. Horne held unconstitutional a program to keep the supply of raisins on an even keel.
Roosevelt's New Deal Administration had the dream of an "ever normal granary" for farmers. Their prices were spiking in both directions, making farming very difficult especially for family farmers whose resources to endure periods of low prices were limited. The statute was passed in 1937 to create the "ever-normal granary," in order to deal with the effects of the great depression, stabilize prices, preserve supplies against shortages from drought or other natural causes and to protect farmers against "disastrous lows" from bumper crops.[3]
The result was a program to store portions of crops in government facilities when supply exceeded demand and release them in periods when yields were too low. It was a program designed by farmers for farmers.
The Horne decision used the takings clause to overrule part of that nearly eighty year old statute which had been designed to help pull the country out of the great depression of the '30s.
If one simply reads the words of this Roberts Court decision, it looks easy to get around. Government could use a regulation or a tax. And there are other ways to make this decision seem appropriate and unthreatening.
But I don't believe it. This case has been part of a decade long set of challenges looking for a way to take down federal agricultural marketing policies. The attorney for the Hornes was a well-known conservative activist, professor and former judge. I doubt he handled this case just because he sympathized with the Hornes.
Similarly, when the Rehnquist Court decided United States v. Lopez in 1995 on federalism grounds all the constitutional scholars said it was insignificant, a shot across the bow but portending nothing. Within a few years it was clear they were wrong. The Court started declaring civil rights statutes unconstitutional as violations of principles of federalism that are nowhere in the language of the Constitution.
This case is not a one off. The Court has been developing takings doctrine so that it can be used to block federal regulation of the economy and the environment. The conservative faction on the Roberts Court is trying to develop legal tools to return the U.S. to a period in which we are a congerie of 50 small states instead of a single proud country. And if that happens, family farmers especially may be sorry to be free of federal regulation.
[1] Linda Greenhouse, The Supreme Court's Reality Check, NY Times blogs, June 25, 2015, http://www.nytimes.com/2015/06/26/opinion/the-roberts-courts-reality-check.html?rref=collection%2Fcolumn%2Flinda-greenhouse
[2] Horne v. Dep't of Agric., 2015 U.S. LEXIS 4064 (2015).
[3] Mordecai Ezekiel, Farm Aid-Fourth Stage, The Nation, February 26, 1938, Vol. 146, No. 9, p. 236-238, available at http://newdeal.feri.org/nation/na38146p236.htm.
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Hallelujah! What a relief.
Copy editing finally done for Unfit for Democracy: The Roberts Court and the Breakdown of American Politics. It's scheduled for publication in January by NYU Press – still a few months off but it feels like a big milestone.
Jeanette's award
I haven't been putting personal notes in my blog, but I had the pleasure, on the 9th, of attending a Red Cross Volunteer Recognition event where my wife, Jeanette, was presented with the J. Spencer Standish Community Service Award in Recognition of Outstanding Service, an award which is not presented annually, for her work as a trainer in safety services over a wide area of the state. Our daughter came in from Cincinnati for it and our son wrote from London. It was a very special evening and I was and am a very proud spouse.
Texas License Plates
What really matters about the decision about Texas license plates?[1] The conversation is all about the plates. That's a part of what lawsuits do. They get us talking about the specific example, the thing that the plaintiff wanted to do.
Yet surely the plates themselves are no big deal. The Sons of Confederate Veterans could have advertised their treasonous admiration for the Confederacy on a bumper sticker and other signs. Their rebellion has hardly been scotched because they can't get it on their plates.
One larger issue is the justification, the reasoning of the decision. Breyer says they can't put it on their plates because the plates aren't theirs at all. They are the plates of the great state of Texas. And Texas won't put its confederate past on its license plates.
That actually is troubling. We decide lots of issues of free speech by deciding whether the speech belongs to government. That troubles me because it doesn't ask what the free marketplace of ideas needs. Not that the decision about the plates should have been any different but the explanation is different, and in law, explanations matter. They tell you about many cases.
Free speech doctrine is driven by the needs of the system of free speech. But the distinction between our speech and government speech is all about property. I get very suspicious when the boundaries of freedom are decided by rules and discussions unrelated to free speech, and instead about what belongs to the government.
If the clinic belongs to the government it can tell the doctor what to say.[2] If the legal aid society belongs to the government, can government tell the lawyers what to say?[3] Justice Stevens tweaked Justice Souter in the middle of the argument about legal aid lawyers over Souter's position in the decision about doctors and whether they could say anything about abortion. And if the government likes the speech of one group more than another, can government decide to make it their speech and subsidize it while penalizing the other? Well actually the Court said yes even though it also says government has the obligation to treat everyone equally.[4] So that comes out as just as equally as the government wants. That's some equality. But that's how government, courts and law can speak out of two sides of their mouths.
So the Court claims a big blow for free speech – a blow so hard it's no more than a joke. Why is it worth anyone's while to bring a case like that to the Supreme Court? That's very expensive, especially the time it takes of a team of attorneys to put the papers together and prepare for the argument. It costs a lot more than the paltry sum for the vanity plates or even the $8000 for a new plate design. People sometimes bring suits like that for the impact it will have on the law if they win. And people sometimes bring suits like that for the publicity. Now everyone knows the Texas secessionists are fighting mad. The goal isn't the plates. It's the PR. You win by losing as much, maybe more, than by winning.
But now there's another brick in the insidious doctrine about how government owns the opportunities for private speech. How about corralling demonstrators in pens where they can't be seen during a political party's convention? After all, the streets are public.[5] And how about throwing citizens into the same pasture with giant corporations to see if they can be heard?[6] After all, if corporations are people, then they have minds, mouths and rights. That's what happens when important decisions are based on irrelevancies.
[1] Walker v. Tex. Div., Sons of Confederate Veterans, 2015 U.S. LEXIS 4063 (U.S. June 18, 2015).
[2] Rust v. Sullivan, 500 U.S. 173 (1991).
[3] Legal Servs. Corp. v. Velazquez, 531 U.S. 533 (2001).
[4] Regan v. Taxation with Representation, 461 U.S. 540 (1983).
[5] Cf. United States v. Kokinda, 497 U.S. 720 (U.S. 1990).
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Iranian-American Diplomacy
My wife and I are back from a reunion of Returned Peace Corps Volunteers (RPCVs) who had served in Iran, and a conference with some of this country's experts about Iran.
Our first plenary speaker, Bill Beeman of the University of Minnesota, is a very well-known scholar about Iran. He described the complexity of their system of manners and the ease with which foreigners misunderstand Iran. I asked about Iran experts in the State Department. Beeman explained that Secretary Kissinger attacked what he called clientitis, where experts sympathize with the country they study and resist what political leaders want to do. Following Kissinger, the foreign service routinely rotates diplomats to prevent too much specialization. That has advantages and disadvantages; dialogue between experts deeply steeped in a culture and generalists with other concerns is important.
Beeman added that many in Washington claim expertise about Iran, connected with think tanks with axes to grind. Scholars independent of ideological organizations can afford to see reality without coloring it with what they want to happen. Certainly independent scholars need to be heard.
I am convinced that Beeman's message about the complexity of Iranian culture and the ease of misunderstanding it is accurate. All former Peace Corps Volunteers, and others who have immersed themselves in a foreign culture, can attest to the ways that cultural signals are easily misunderstood in both directions. In diplomacy that can spell disaster.
Our headline speaker was former Ambassador John Limbert, the last U.S. ambassador to Iran and a hostage for 444 days. Limbert now teaches at the U.S. Naval Academy.
I brought Beaman's comments to Ambassador Limbert. He responded that the State Department has some knowledgeable people and a seasoned negotiator like Secretary Kerry can pick up a great deal by listening closely. I teach interviewing and I know the importance of active listening that seeks to understand without substituting one's own assumptions. But I couldn't shake concern that decades of detachment from Iran will handicap negotiators on both sides. It's too easy to see each other as hostile and assume the worst, or to miss what is really important to them and misunderstand what they are actually offering. That's especially difficult because so many people claim to know what Iran intends.
As an example of the complexity of our and Iran's interests, Ambassador Limbert described the U.S. expectation after the Revolution that Iran would be hostile toward the Soviet Union. The Russians had treated Iran as part of its empire for a long time and there were good reasons for Iranian hostility. But Iran did its best to maintain friendly relations and trade with the USSR. Had they suddenly become pro-Soviet? Or were they defending themselves by trying to avoid incurring Soviet wrath. Limbert's point was that we have to learn to see their actions through their eyes, not our own, to understand and respect their own Iranian nationalism just as they must respect ours.
We have many overlapping interests. But Iran also cares about the mistreatment of Shi'a populations in the Middle East. Iran sees that as defensive and about justice, not about conquest or aggression. It is easy for Iranians to see the US as supporting a ring of Sunni dynasties around Iran.
That doesn't create any clear picture of what should happen. Limbert's point is that diplomacy is both necessary and difficult. Seeing it simply as us against them misses the complexities and the opportunities. In other words, give diplomacy a chance.
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I have been an admirer of Senator Elizabeth Warren for many years, ever since she spoke here at Albany Law School some time back in the 90s. But I respected her decision not to enter the primaries to contest the nomination of Hillary Clinton. Obviously I never had to decide whether I would choose to vote for Warren or Clinton, but I came to the conclusion long ago that the candidates I liked best had no real chance of winning. So I have tried to keep my picks within the realm of the people I thought could win.
But Bernie Sanders is forcing me to rethink what to do. Simply put, the Democrats have lost much of the constituency for real, liberal, politics, politics for Americans with average incomes, politics for people who are being given the shaft by business as usual. Those folk have been part of the constituency of the Democratic Party for years. But many of them have been staying home and not voting. Or deserting.
The Occupy movement showed that there is still some life in that constituency. And it showed that American politics and Democratic Party politics can be rejuvenated. Except that it collapsed – not for lack of support but because it was never organized for the long haul.
Bernie gives hope to those of us who care about giving people real opportunity and a fair shake. He gives us a symbol we can rally around. Putting it in the political process is very different from opening a tent on Wall Street. Bernie is trolling for votes. His success will measure the possibility of returning to an America that is fair to all.
Years ago a congressman by the name of William Fitz Ryan represented a liberal district in Manhattan. His brother served on the Board of Directors of the program I worked for and commented that for Congressman Ryan, pushing Congress from the left, created opportunities for his fellow legislators to shift the battleground.
I think Bernie is in that tradition. If he can arouse the mass of us who care about each other's fate, and arouse the many whose lives are crushed by the disinterest and hostility of those who have power and money, then Bernie can shift American politics from the rut it's been rattling around in for several decades.
In that way, Bernie is more than a candidate. He represents a cause. He can be the beginning of a movement and an organization. The crucial thing we have to do is to take advantage of his candidacy, win, lose or draw, and build on it toward a stronger, fairer politics, and a stronger America, whose future is not limited to what may be good for a few big donors but is premised on the ways that investing in our country and its people can make a stronger, wealthier, more successful America for all of us.
Go Bernie. And may the rest of us come along, to push the campaign cart, organize for a long push, and celebrate a greater America.
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Democracy's Future in America
The Court has now decided that states can stop judges but only judges from personally asking for campaign contributions. It left all the rest of its protections of economic privilege in place.[1] Corporations can use treasury funds to flood the airwaves with political ads. Donors can hide their contributions behind a variety of specialized corporate entities. The one-tenth of one percent of the wealthiest Americans can dominate American politics directly and through their domination of corporate treasuries.
As I explained last week, inequality in the United States is making democracy increasingly unsustainable. When the wealthy and powerful take control of the whole shebang – political money, jobs, the media – the mass of the public is left with few resources to control their government, while the wealthy and powerful have enormous resources at their disposal to control the people.
In addition, democracy is fairly explicitly under attack. Conservatives attack the voting rights of any who might vote against them. Corporations use arbitration clauses in consumer contracts and international treaties to sidestep democratic decisions and make it easier for them to tear down environmental, labor and any other regulation that the people want but the corporations dislike. Their argument against regulation of markets is a euphemism for rules that favor whatever they want to do. But their point is that democracy has no right to interfere. And they hide their contempt for democracy behind Reagan's claim that government, democratic government, is the problem.
Both these direct attacks and the distortions of wealth on the political process create a real threat that this government of, by and for the people could perish from the earth, undermined by control over speech, press and politics and squeezed out by untouchable markets and the exclusion of democratic decision-making from anything corporations care about.
Only the Tea Party seems prepared to rebel and their exclusionary politics adds to the problem. The gun rights folk will, if anything, protect the current distribution of wealth, enforcing their prejudices. Liberals – race liberals, economic liberals, big money liberals – are hardly united.
Under domination from powerful corporate interests, we could hope at best for the crumbs off their tables. Welcome to the many so-called democracies in Central and South America, Asia and Africa, where hirelings and sycophants help control the public for the benefit of their wealthy patrons.
We could try to pull the Supreme Court off the ramparts of privilege and regain control over the use of money in politics. We could fight back by supporting independent radio stations like WAMC. Or we could hope for the best 'til Brutus assassinates Caesar – though that could lead to the consolidation of tyranny as it did for the Romans and is now doing in the Middle East.
Can we rally to save the planet and save democracy before we have lost them both? As we used to say in Brooklyn, before the Dodgers finally won the Series, "ya gotta b'lieve."
Next week, the primaries.
[1] Williams-Yulee v. Fla. Bar, 2015 U.S. LEXIS 2983 (U.S. Apr. 29, 2015).
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The Greek police have arrested eight migrants on suspicion of murdering a Pakistani migrant who had been trying to leave the country illegally.
According to the Associated Press, police said on Friday that the eight were suspected of involvement in the July 23 stabbing death of a 29-year-old Pakistani man who had been with three compatriots heading toward Greece's northern border with Macedonia.
The four men were allegedly robbed near the border, with the 29-year-old being stabbed in the process. His body was discovered the following day near a railway track.
Six of the eight suspects are said to be of Afghan origin, while the other two are Pakistanis.
In February this year, 11 Pakistanis were found dead after a boat carrying migrants capsized off the Libyan coast.


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I Kiss Your Hands Many Times
Marianne Szegedy-Maszak
I Kiss Your Hands Many Times A magnificent wartime love story about the forces that brought the author s parents together and those that nearly drove them apart Marianne Szegedy Masz k s parents Hanna and Alad r met and fell in
Title: I Kiss Your Hands Many Times
Author: Marianne Szegedy-Maszak
A magnificent wartime love story about the forces that brought the author s parents together and those that nearly drove them apart Marianne Szegedy Masz k s parents, Hanna and Alad r, met and fell in love in Budapest in 1940 He was a rising star in the foreign ministry a vocal anti Fascist who was in talks with the Allies when he was arrested and sent to Dachau She wasA magnificent wartime love story about the forces that brought the author s parents together and those that nearly drove them apart Marianne Szegedy Masz k s parents, Hanna and Alad r, met and fell in love in Budapest in 1940 He was a rising star in the foreign ministry a vocal anti Fascist who was in talks with the Allies when he was arrested and sent to Dachau She was the granddaughter of Manfred Weiss, the industrialist patriarch of an aristocratic Jewish family that owned factories, were patrons of intellectuals and artists, and entertained dignitaries at their baronial estates Though many in the family had converted to Catholicism decades earlier, when the Germans invaded Hungary in March 1944, they were forced into hiding In a secret and controversial deal brokered with Heinrich Himmler, the family turned over their vast holdings in exchange for their safe passage to Portugal Alad r survived Dachau, a fragile and anxious version of himself After nearly two years without contact, he located Hanna and wrote her a letter that warned that he was not the man she d last seen, but he was still in love with her After months of waiting for visas and transit, she finally arrived in a devastated Budapest in December 1945, where at last they were wed Framed by a cache of letters written between 1940 and 1947, Szegedy Masz k s family memoir tells the story, at once intimate and epic, of the complicated relationship Hungary had with its Jewish population the moments of glorious humanism that stood apart from its history of anti Semitism and with the rest of the world She resurrects in riveting detail a lost world of splendor and carefully limns the moral struggles that history exacted from a country and its individuals Praise for I Kiss Your Hands Many Times I Kiss Your Hand Many Times is the sweeping story of Marianne Szegedy Masz k s family in pre and post World War II Europe, capturing the many ways the struggles of that period shaped her family for years to come But most of all it is a beautiful love story, charting her parents devotion in one of history s darkest hours Arianna Huffington, president and editor in chief, the Huffington Post Media Group In this panoramic and gripping narrative of a vanished world of great wealth and power, Marianne Szegedy Masz k restores an important missing chapter of European, Hungarian, and Holocaust history Kati Marton, author of Paris A Love Story and Enemies of the People My Family s Journey to America
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I Kiss Your Hands Many Times by Marianne Szegedy-Maszák is an exceptionally well-written and beautiful memoir that will easily draw the reader deep into the complex and at times extraordinarily difficult lives of not only her parents; Hanna and Aladár, but Szegedy-Maszák's family as well as a history lesson woven into this exceptional book. I Kiss Your Hands Many Times is a book to savor and I found myself rereading passages due to the beauty of the writing. My only regret was not having so [...]
I really, really wanted to like this book. The concept is so intriguing: a prominent Hungarian family before, during and after WWII as well as their emigration to the United States. I sat down to read expecting an exciting tale of romance and adventure. But, I discovered soon into the first or second chapter that this memoir read much more like a history book. There was such a large amount of information thrown at the reader: dates, names, locations and events, that I felt like I needed to have [...]
One of the problems so many family history memoirs suffer from is a lack of framing and contextualization. Children or grandchildren find a cache of letters, through them together with some photo inserts, and -- POOF! -- a book."I Kiss Your Hands Many Times," thankfully, does not suffer from this problem. The author does an outstanding job of crafting an actual story out of the primary source materials. The tale she weaves is captivating and feels fresh compared to the countless other child-of-s [...]
I won this book on the GoodReads Giveaway.I loved loved loved this story. It is both historic and personal. This tale tells of the terrible suffering and miraculous redemption of the human spirit. Our will to live, the ever present survival instinct, may lead one to act in ways never imagined. Marianne Szegedy-Maszak writes a descriptive detailed narrative that tells of personal experiences in wartime, and how the will to live and the ties of family and responsibility continue to give purpose in [...]
Mandolin says:
This exquisitely beautiful book introduces the reader to the tumultuous period of Hungary's occupation by Hitler and illustrates its devastating effects on one family and on the love story that was complicated by its uncertainty and upheaval. With passages that read as if they were lifted from a romance novel ("your presence is the reason the world looks so lovely") and others from a gory horror story, the story's poignant dichotomy underscores the all-important truth that love conquers all - ha [...]
Szegedy-Maszák writes about how her parents met and married amongst the turmoil of the Second World War. Her parents grew up in Budapest. Hanna was born into a wealthy Jewish industrial family. Aladár came from a middle class Catholic family, worked for Hungary's foreign ministry and was 13 years older than Hanna. This was in 1940. At this time the "the Jewish problem" was growing in many parts of Europe, including Hungary, making it difficult for a Catholic man and Jewish woman to be romantic [...]
I would really give this 4.5 stars as it is close to a classic book on the subject. Marianne Szegedy-Maszak grew up in a family compound in the United States with a fascinating history that she didn't truly understand until after her parents death. This book follows her parents lives in Hungary in the years leading up to and including World War II. Her mother was born into an extremely weatlhy Jewish family while her father rose to prominence in the Hungarian Foreign Affairs Office. Both familie [...]
Mady says:
I have been curious to learn more about Hungary, its people and history since I lived in Budapest.This is an account of the writer's family history, how they managed to escape persecution as "jews" in Hungary during 2nd World War, how they suffered and what turned them into the human beings that she met. It was quite extraordinaire that she managed to describe her parents not as she knew them, but as she found them to be in the earlier times of their relationship through their letters and testim [...]
I Kiss Your Hands Many Times: Hearts, Souls, and Wars in Hungary by Marianne Szegedy-Maszák is a well-written, engrossing story of the intertwining history of Hungary and her parents' ancestors. Szegedy-Maszák frames the book as the romance of two people, her parents, and the exciting and traumatic events they lived through. The author (a first generation American of Hungarian immigrants) grew up in a house on Patterson Street in Washington D.C. surrounded by Hungarian relatives and reminder [...]
From pre-war to German Occupation, to the Russian invasion, to communism, Marianne Szegedy-Maszak tells how her family was buffeted by the forces of history in 20th century Hungary.The stage is set with reminiscences of the family home in Washington, DC where letters and clippings were found upon the death of her mother. These flesh out the family story she knew as a child far away from the trauma of her parents' early lives. Her mother's family was one on the wealthiest industrial families in H [...]
This was a cut above other Holocaust memoirs. It concerned Hungary and an extended Hungarian family, an unusual setting and subject. I liked the beautiful love story between the author's parents, more amazing since it was true.After her mother died, her father having predeceased her mother, Marianne discovered a cache of letters from her father to her mother written over a period of years. A friend who knew Hungarian translated them for her. Though Marianne did not have the letters her mother wr [...]
Patty Mccormick says:
What makes this book so remarkable is that it is a work of non-fiction. It is a true story. In Hungary thirty-two Jews obtain release to neutral countries, after striking a bargain with the Nazi party.In the late spring of 1944 thirty-two family members of a wealthy Jewish family gain freedom from persecution and escape to Portugal and Switzerland. After weeks of negotiations, Ferenc Chorin of the Manfred Weiss Company and Csepel Industries buys his family's way out of Hungary by turning the f [...]
I visited Budapest a couple of weeks ago and my guide in the Dohany Synagogue mentioned this book as a very interesting reading. It was a portrait of Hungary during WWII seen by the point of view of a wealthy Jewish family. I was determined to buy a book about Hungarian history, so, when I saw this book in the bookstore, I decided to buy it. "I kiss your hands many times" is the story of the Marianne Szegedy-Maszak 's family, since the end of XIX century until the present day. Through old [...]
Shari Larsen says:
This is the story of the author's parents, Hanna and Aladar, who met and fell in love in Budapest in 1940. He was a rising star in the foreign ministry, he was anti-Facist and anti-Nazi, and was in talks with the Allies when he was arrested and sent to Daschau. She was the granddaughter of Manfred Weiss, an industrialist who owned one of the largest factories in Hungary and patriarch of an aristocratic Jewish family. Though they converted to Catholicism decades before, in the eyes of the law the [...]
Charlotte Carroll says:
This was the third historically accurate novel I've read about Central Europeans in the run-up to WWII (others were Hare with Amber Eyes and Invisible Bridge). Each was heartbreaking in the trust that Jews involved placed in their fatherland, the cruelty of humans to other humans, and the resourcefulness necessary to survive such chaos. I Kiss your Hands Many Times was perhaps less elegantly written compared to Hare with Amber Eyes, but the suspense and historical detail was very absorbing.
I enjoyed this book. Fascinating story tracing two families. Learned a lot about the history of Jews and the coming of the Germans to Hungary in WWII. Especially meaningful in light of upcoming trip to Budapest.
Donna Davis says:
I Kiss Your Hands Many Times: Hearts, Souls, and Wars in HungaryPoignant and painful; beautiful and wrenching…Szegedy-Maszak takes us through a time and place in a way nobody else could. If you are a serious historian, please consider this a must-read.When I applied to receive this story as a giveaway, I did so as an historian, conscious of a blind spot in my own education. I knew too little of Hungary and its past, apart from that it had become a part of the Soviet block at some point, and t [...]
Jenny Waterman says:
This book is a historical chronicle of the Szegedy- Maszak and related families as events surrounding World War 2 extend to Hungary. I was absolutely captivated by this true story as related by the author upon discovering her parents love letters after their deaths and having them translated. Her mother was a Jewish daughter of a wealthy factory owner, her father a political advisor and leader of Hungary. The author relates candidly that growing up solidly middle class after her parents exile to [...]
Alicja Chojnacka-bailly says:
Gripping account of the fate of two Hungarian families during WW2 and in the years leading up to Hungary falling behind the Iron Curtain. The book is very well researched and a great read both for history affectionados and those who fancy a riveting story.
I read this book after reading The Seamstress by Sara Tuvel Bernstein, a first-person account of a working class woman's hideous ordeal as a Jew in Romania and Hungary leading up to and during the Holocaust. I selected this book because I wanted to learn more about why, in The Seamstress, the author distinguished between Romania and Hungary in terms of how Jews were treated. Whereas she described Romanian's longstanding and virulent anti-Semitism, she portrayed Hungary as a place where Jews were [...]
This is a straightforward memoir told within its historical context – WWII Hungary. The author reveals her unique family history of Jewish and Christian descent - how they contributed to the economic and political building of Hungary, survived persecution of their Jewish family members, and tried to save Hungary from German and then Russian political domination. It is quite a history.The beginning chapters are a bit tedious. Names, family connections, and political figures fill the pages. The [...]
I did like this book and the idea behind it of why it was written. But, I must honestly say, that I felt like I was back in school getting a history lesson of the events that took place. I understand why the author would want to share certain things, but much of the events that took place, seems like it took away from the story line of the book-of her parents meeting, courting then eventually marrying. I also understand that she was and should be proud that her parents and several relatives surv [...]
Zsófi says:
It was a refreshing experience to read a book about Hungary and Hungarianness during the 20th century from the point of view of a Hungarian born in the United States, the daughter and the granddaughter of prestigious Hungarians. It is hard to find any other family that had so much influence on the Hungarian economy and politics at the turn of the century that this family had. This book is interesting because it comes from an "outsider's position" (meaning that there is a great difference between [...]
Dan Durning says:
This a terriffic book. It is the author's personal and family history (she is the daughter of the main subjects, plus a great-granddaughter of one of Hungary's most successful industrialists), plus a history of the difficult times when Hungary was in the German orbit, then occupied by Germany as it resisted some of the worse aspects of Nazi demands. The book tells the story of a talented diplomat, her father, who ended up in Dachau and her mother, who was part of a family that traded its fortune [...]
Waven says:
First-Reads review: This is a solid, well-researched, and interesting book. It probes an area of World War II that is often overlooked, follows a seemingly star-crossed couple, and deals directly with a most interesting situation where a large family with Jewish roots buys its freedom from Nazi-occupied Hungary. But the book covers more than that, beginning with a comfortable pre-war Hungary of 1940 and following notable people and events through the nation's slide into Soviet-sponsored Communis [...]
A very enjoyable and touching blend of family histories (mostly the Weiss and Kornfeld families (from the author's maternal side of the house) as well as her father's activities (and his family to a lesser degree) combined with the history of Hungary just prior to, during and immediately after World War II. The book is a good history of central Europe but the intertwining of the changing family circumstances and fortunes into that period of time gave that history an added impact and poignanc [...]
I Kiss Your Hand ManyTimes is a beautifully written memoir of the author's family during pre- and post-war World War II. It is the story of Hanna and Aladar, the author's parents, their wealth and loss of it, Aladar's rise and fall in Hungarian politics, their separation when Aladar was sent to Dachau and his surviival, their religions-Catholic and Jew. It is also the story of what happened in Hungary during WWII between the Nazi's and Soviet's and the Hungarian people.Marianne Szegedy-Maszak ha [...]
The book's back cover talks of a love affair between the author's parents but what I felt after reading the book was the strength of family, survival and the love the author's father had for his country. I Kiss Your Hand Many Times is the story of Aladar and Hanna Szegedy-Maszak's life leading up to World War II and following the war. The novel is a poignant look at Hungary during such a dark time in history history and what people did to survive. For me the affair between Aladar and Hanna was s [...]
Chava says:
I received this for review in the context of Jewish books, and the family had converted, so there wasn't much Jewish in the book. Of course, this did not stop the Nazis from basically stealing the family's business and personal holdings. This was also supposed to be the great love story between the author's parents. While their devotion to each other survived many challenges including a long separation during World War II and the death of a child, it was quite tame compared to today's "too much [...]
Harper Sutherland says:
A very interesting memoir that gives great insight into the author's parents' lives in wartime (World War II) Hungary. Szegedy-Maszak's father, Aladar, was a prominent diplomat who spoke out against Nazism and communism (and thus defected to the United States). Her mother came from a prominent Jewish/Gentile through intermarriage and conversion industrialist family. Even if Szegedy-Maszak might be a little too generous in her claims (e.g that despite Hungary's anti-Semitic laws, the Magyar peopl [...]
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Nagle einen Pudding an die Wand
A Princesa Virgem
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Q: Maven build download artefacts connection slow/reset when running inside a Docker Container on Azure We have a docker image that runs a git clone command for a particular repository and then runs maven build . When running this image locally, it works fine. When running this image in an AWS VM, it works fine.
The problem we have is that when we run this image inside ACI (Azure Container Instances) or on an Azure VM - the download artefacts step inside the maven build has some connection issues - the jar downloads slow down very very much (sometimes) - and even timeout (sometimes).
We parameterize the repository that is built with this image - and the timeout issue only occurs on a few projects. As far as we can tell those projects do not have anything special.
For a particular configuration of the vm and the mvn commands we actually run - the connection issue occurs at the same set of artefacts.
If we change the mvn commands - the place where the connection issue occurs changes.

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*Initially we had a single mvn clean package command executed after the git clone - that was generating an issue on a particular set of jars.
We then added mvn dependency:resolve-plugins, mvn compile dependency:resolve and finally mvn clean package.
We did this because we thought that some tests that were running initially might have caused the connection issues - and so we moved the artefact download step first. This did not solve the issue - just changed the place where the jar downloads freeze.

*Changed the mvn thread count configuration and also the VM core and memory sizes - but this did not help.

*We set a TCP Keepalive flag on the VM - as to avoid a possible Azure NAT/Load Balancer timeout that was killing our connections.
This was a solution suggested by Azure support and we also found it here:
Maven build gets connection reset when downloading artifacts
We configured it based on the azure guide:
https://github.com/wbuchwalter/azure-content/blob/master/includes/guidance-tcp-session-timeout-include.md
> sysctl net.ipv4.tcp_keepalive_time net.ipv4.tcp_keepalive_intvl net.ipv4.tcp_keepalive_probes
net.ipv4.tcp_keepalive_time = 60
net.ipv4.tcp_keepalive_intvl = 10
net.ipv4.tcp_keepalive_probes = 20

This is a sample of the mvn log:
14:10:48,505 [BasicRepositoryConnector-repo.maven.apache.org-27-0] [INFO] Downloading from central: https://repo.maven.apache.org/maven2/regexp/regexp/1.3/regexp-1.3.jar
14:10:48,506 [BasicRepositoryConnector-repo.maven.apache.org-27-2] [INFO] Downloading from central: https://repo.maven.apache.org/maven2/org/apache/maven/scm/maven-scm-provider-cvs-commons/1.7/maven-scm-provider-cvs-commons-1.7.jar
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We have examples of executions that run just fine - and examples of executions that timeout (1 hour) - and examples of executions that take close to 1h.
Solutions:

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*We have options to pre-cache some of the jars in the initial docker image - and thus not need maven to handle them. But the docker image that handles this build needs to do run for any git repo (Java + Maven) and we cannot know what dependecies those projects have.

*Similar to the other point, have options to create an external volume that is shared between running containers and to cache the jars there.

*We have options to restart the maven build once it fails - because part of the dependencies would have already been downloaded and it will not get stuck at the same place.
We reached out to Azure support and they recommended the TCP Keep-alive configuration - but that did not solve our problem.
We want to understand the root cause of the issue - is it a docker config ? is it a maven bug ? is it an azure specific issue ?
The connection issue occurs roughly 9/10 executions - i have no ideea why it works - and no ideea why it doesn't work :)
The solutions I mentioned before are just work-arounds - they do not fix it - just ignore it.
Found the problem
The issue is that Maven reuses the same HTTP Connections for the download of the pom/jar files.
https://maven.apache.org/guides/mini/guide-http-settings.html#Maven_3.0.4
Thus - our scenario is along the following lines:
Project
-- module 1 - download some pom/jars - keep connection active
-- module 2 - runs some plugins / tests - lasts more that 5 minutes
-- module 3 - tries to download some pom/jars
Azure - the NAT configuration: https://github.com/wbuchwalter/azure-content/blob/master/includes/guidance-tcp-session-timeout-include.md kills any idle connections after 4 minutes.
So during the execution of module 2 - all of the connections initially opened and used by module 1 get closed - and module 3 does not know it.
Our solution - given the NAT 4 minute timeout cannot be configured - is to use tcp keep-alive or to force Maven to use a different connection pool implementation or to use an eviction manager to would "nicely" close out these idle connections before NAT can close them "forcefully".

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Thirteen years ago, Jack Fox tried to exit the criminal organisation he worked for. Leaving proved impossible. He was framed and imprisoned. Now, on the day of his release, Jack finds himself drawn back to Moonlight Alley to face his past.
Wicked Game is a fast paced pulp thriller, and was written before I developed the more humorous style you'll find in the short stories on this site. Through writing the book, I learnt a lot about how to develop characters, and it's made me feel worthy of preaching to anyone who will listen about the value of maintaining positivity and completing your first book, even finding a publisher proves incredibly difficult.
You can buy Wicked Game in paperback or as a PDF download at Lulu. It's also available in Kindle format at Amazon. Links to the relevant pages on Amazon are at the top of this page.
There are a few reviews of Wicked Game on Lulu, but I've pasted one that isn't published anywhere else below. Admittedly, it's written by a friend of mine called Luke, but if you read it, I think you'll see it's genuine and written from the heart. Previously, Luke had proof read the first chapter for me (which later became the prologue). I received this via email after he'd read the completed book.
Okay, first of all, I went into it knowing I would love the first chapter but thinking that at some point it would kind of disintegrate and I would be searching for nice things to say about it. I say this not because I doubted you but only because usually things that friends have sent me (unpublished, however) have gone that way, like one friend of mine who always has cool premises and then atrocious dialog and no idea how to write an ending that isn't exactly the ending you expected on page one. Et cetera.
That, my friend, is not AT ALL what happened with Wicked Game.
I am 100% serious when I say that I finished the last page about half an hour ago and still feel amped. I read this thing in record time and found myself wanting to get back to it when I was away from it, and now I want it to have been longer. I am fantastically bummed that you are a new author so I can't just order your next book first thing in the morning and be reading it by Wednesday.
I literally have nothing bad to say. At some point, I forgot you were the author. I mean that as a compliment. It was just a great read, that I would gladly have read if the name on the front were Joe Shmoe, the end.
Except that's not the end, because there's a lot of things I want to say specifically. First of all, Jack: I don't know how you made a rageaholic thug into a completely sympathetic figure with innate goodness, but you did. Then: Joshua. Normally I hate kids in books. Jurassic Park, I was hoping the kids would get eaten, please dinos, eat them kids! Alas those kids lived. Harding: Harding is your best character, I think. You have a real ruthless style with the hard-boiled cop chapters -- I was jealous.
There is a real kitchen-sink quality to this book. I admit in the early moments I was not sure it was all going to pull together, but o man. You throw all these balls up in the air and catch every one, and there is so much cool stuff -- like, you think you are being thrown into some kind of "Saw" puzzle, and then alongside that is the whole subculture of these fascinating assassins, and then the cop on their trail, and I really like the way Seth Hag only comes into focus gradually, so he goes from being shady mob boss to being Simon Cowell to being basically a Bond villain but way more serious than any of the actual Bond villains.
Then you have Craven's office and Griplett -- Jebus, I could SEE that hot iron session and I cringed, and I love the idea that Griplett's not "exactly" a prisoner -- and by then you are in Shadow Government territory, but between Griplett and later Agent Jack you have gone Stephen King's secret agency The Shop one better! And somehow it even feels completely in tune with our actual current events. You have walked a lot of fine lines really sharply and it's tense and FUN.
I got to the epilogue, too, and couldn't get through it fast enough, but sad also because then no more book -- and as it ended I thought, OH MY GOD: THIS IS AN ORIGINAL STORY!!!!
You better tell me right now if you're done with Jack and Harding so I am not looking forward for nothing.
Thank you, Luke, that's the best review I've ever received. Unfortunately, my head is now so swollen that it has formed its own centre of gravity and is in the process of attracting its first moon.
of your book mirrors that of a handful of other books on Amazon. I personally believe story titles should be as original as possible, with the purpose of grabbing as much attention as possible. Same titled books [arguably] tend to subliminally distract potential buyers. On Amazon, I found myself inadvertently reading reviews for other books called Wicked Game before reaching yours down the list..! Perhaps an alternative title, could have been 'Sinister Games'? Best regards, F.V.
Hi Jo. No, I hadn't heard of that one before. It does sound similar to Wicked Game.
Thanks for letting me know. I might get a copy and see how similar it is!
Did you check out the other book?
I read the 'look inside' bit on Amazon. It seems quite different to Wicked Game – first person, diary extracts, different style/tone etc.
I think it's just a similar idea.
Some of the Amazon reviews compare it to the Saw movies, which again is a similar concept.
Have you read the whole of The Bunker Diaries?
No – I just came across it when I was looking for something else! I thought it was a bit near the mark for a kids book.
Yes, from what I've read, it does seem a bit full on for kids book. Saw and Wicked Game certainly weren't aimed at children!
Congratulations on your novel. I too was born in the 70's and love to write, well poetry mostly and recently in the last 6 years short stories. I have a story I have poured my heart into. I just would love some advice in how to tweak it into making it perfect and how to get people to read it! Any help, or direction is much appreciated!
I have a short story critique service which might be of interest to you.
Or, you can take a look at this resource, which gives details on platforms that allow you to join writing communities that give free critiques.
I hope that's helpful and wish you the best of luck with your short stories.
Thank you so super much! Will check it out!


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At the Berlin Film Festival this year it was confirmed that Keanu Reeves and Christina Hendricks will join the already fantastic cast assembled for Nicolas Refn's "The Neon Demon," currently being shopped at the festival.
This will be the follow-up to Refn's previous film, "Only God Forgives," which starred Ryan Gosling, Kristin Scott Thomas and Vithaya Pansringarm. Joining Reeves and Hendricks on-screen will be the film's protagonist, Elle Fanning, and co-stars Abbey Lee, Jena Malone and Bella Heathcote.
Lene Borglum will be producing the project with Refn (the two are partners under their company Space Rocket). Reeves' latest film 'Knock Knock' just premiered at the Sundance Film Festival in January. Reeves starred in the horror-thriller alongside Lorenza Izzo and Ana de Armas. As for Hendricks she has the TV-Movie 'Roadies' gearing up for production and has completed her work on 'Dark Places,' a mystery-thriller directed by Gilles Paquet-Brenner and based on the Gillian Flynn novel of the same name. Gilles Paquet-Brenner wrote the screenplay for that film.
Jena Malone has wrapped up her work as Johanna Mason on "The Hunger Games: Mockingjay – Part 2," she has been rumored to be featured in the upcoming blockbuster "Batman v Superman: Dawn of Justice" as the Joker's right-hand squeeze Harley Quinn, though Warner Bros. has not commented on her involvement at this time. The role is expected to be a plot-device to introduce both Malone and Jared Leto (the Joker) for the upcoming spin off film 'Suicide Squad'. That film has a release date of August 5, 2016.
Elle Fanning may be the busiest actor on the ticket, with nine projects in the works over the next two-years. Those include "Trumbo," "Three Generations," "Ballerina," "Io," "How to Talk to Girls at Parties," "A Storm in the Stars," "All the Bright Places, "Live by Night" and "Neon Demon".


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KCL Rowing Club look forward
By Owen Vanstone-Hallam on July 5, 2013
By Owen Vanstone-Hallam:
KCL's rowers have been celebrating a successful year on the water and looking forward to another year of racing.
The women's squad claimed victories at Quintin Head, UH Head and Women's Eights Head of the River. At Women's Head the first eight dug deep to claim a win in the Novice Academic category, setting a new course record in the process. The crew was delighted by the result, with captain Sarah-Beth Amos praising the girls' preparation and commitment; "Every girl in the boat learned to row at King's, so it shows what can be achieved", she said. Meanwhile the second VIII showed great potential in coming 199th out of over 300 crews from across the country.
The men's winter season was no less dramatic, though sadly their campaign was hampered by the weather the tidal Thames threw at them. Both crews battled against stormy conditions at Hammersmith Head in March, with the second eight coming out slightly worse off. Unfortunately a fortnight later the Head of the River was cancelled owing to even worse conditions. Although they were disappointed, the boys knew their training would put them in good stead for the upcoming regattas.
BUCS Regatta saw 6 KCL crews enter over the May bank holiday weekend. All of the crews posted good results, with the women's first eight placing 16th and the men's four placing 10th in their events. The beginner crews showed how well the club's new rowers have developed, as the women's beginner four came 10th and the women's and men's eights placed 15th and 22nd respectively against tough competition.
The club looks to continue to represent the King's at the highest level. We are looking forward to welcoming new freshers in September. If you are interested in rowing for King's, please visit our website theboatclub.org.uk for further details or look out for us at the fresher's fair!
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New Band Of The Week: The Pearl Harts
Introducing the groove-laden sounds of London rockers The Pearl Harts
Roll up, roll up, for this week we're introducing the glorious, groove-laden sounds of London-based two-piece The Pearl Harts. Raised on a steady diet of riff-heavy classic rock'n'roll and 80s funk, the duo capitalise on that heritage while dragging it firmly into the 21st century.
We catch up with the duo to learn all about the band, their sound and their debut album Glitter And Spit.
"Kirsty's on lead vocals and guitar, and is originally from Stonehenge. Sara's on drums, samples and backing vocals, and is originally from Scarborough. We're now based in South East London."
Kirsty: "We first met when a band I was playing in was looking for a drummer. Sara fit the bill perfectly – she gave a badass loudness to it. It turned out that band wasn't in it for the long haul, but we both remained solid and wanted to keep playing together."
Sara: "We met on the road in other bands. We bonded during some pretty intense touring one summer, and then ran away together to make some heavier sounds."
"A lot of 70s influences originally – Black Sabbath and Led Zeppelin for the riffs and bombastic drum sound. We're also a big fan 70s and 80s funk, anything with a good groove or swagger. We wanted to modernise these old sounds, which is why we brought in samples and loops, to mix things up a bit but also create something fun, something we could both have a voice in. Vocally, we like strong female rock vocals – PJ Harvey, Brody Dalle, Kathleen Hanna."
Kirsty: "Riff-driven drums."
Sara: "Loud, obnoxious, uncompromising."
Kirsty: "We're not afraid to be ourselves. It feels likes we're in a time where it's so important to be 'liked' or popular, but actually we're coming from something organic and real. If you don't like it, fuck off."
Sara: "Fearlessness and the drive to make people feel something. Our live shows have an almost punk delivery and urgency to them. A lot of modern music feels quite polished, but we're not afraid of things going wrong. I think people thrive on that feeling. Watching and listening to a band is supposed to be an escape – there's supposed to be a wildness there that people can't get in their everyday lives."
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What's the story behind the new album Glitter And Spit – how did you approach writing and how did it come together?
Kirsty: "Some of these songs have been a while in the making… it's been a journey but also it's quite pure – a bit of rebellion and runaway. We've been friends for a long time, so writing material seems quite honest. We know each other so well that sometimes the songs are our fantasy of a different life together."
What's your favourite story/anecdote from recording the album?
Kirsty: "It was all fun! We would stay over at our producer Tobin's house and sleep together on the sofa bed while talking each other to sleep while also being totally wiped from the days recording."
Sara: "I can't actually put in to words what I want to say about the story of recording this album! It has been a proper rock'n'roll journey from start to finish. A lot of stops and starts – maybe one day we can write a book about it."
What, in your opinion, is the stand out track on the album?
Kirsty: "Mine personally is Livings Done, I feel like I want to imagine myself jumping up and down on my bed feeling liberated and angry to that song."
Sara: "It has to be a toss up between the more epic tracks on the album, Hurt and Lost In Time. I guess we're known for being very heavy and in your face, while these tracks sway to a more reflective sound. Who knows where our sound and ideas can take us in the future?"
What do you hope people will take away from the album and your music in general?
Kirsty: "I'd like to think people will see that we've created an invigorating, fun, personal record. That's what I liked when I grew up – something that related to people."
Sara: "We want to make people feel something, whether that be anger, desperation, love, defiance, empowerment. Hopefully our music speaks to people. Life can be disenchanting, but if you can step out of that at gig and lose yourself, then that's our ultimate aim! We're looking forward to getting our music out to smaller towns, like where we grew up, and find that magic in musical excitement that we knew growing up."
The Pearl Harts' debut album, Glitter And Spit, will be released 23 February
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Nahordnung und Fernordnung beschreiben Ordnungsaspekte der Anordnung der Atome oder Moleküle in Flüssigkeiten und Festkörpern. Solche Betrachtungen sind in der physikalischen Chemie und der Kristallographie bzw. der Festkörperphysik besonders relevant. Während sich die Nahordnung auf die räumliche Anordnung des nächsten, vielleicht noch übernächsten Teilchens des Stoffes bezieht, ist für eine Fernordnung eine sich wiederholende Anordnung der Teilchen über zahlreiche Wiederholungen hinweg erforderlich.

Nahordnung
Nahordnung ist eine nur in der Nähe eines Bezugsteilchens regelmäßige Gruppierung der Teilchen. Mit der Entfernung kann die Ordnung jedoch abnehmen, das gilt beispielsweise für ein Molekül in einer Flüssigkeit oder ein Atom in einem amorphen Festkörper. Zur Beschreibung der Ordnung werden hauptsächlich die Bindungslängen und -winkel zu den nächsten Nachbarn verwendet.

Den Idealfall einer reinen Nahordnung finden wir in Flüssigkeiten, bei der die Teilchenabstände (Atom- oder Molekülabstände) konstant sind und die Bindungswinkel stark schwanken. Zum übernächsten Nachbarn gibt es nahezu keine Korrelation der Bindungswinkel mehr.

In der Natur tritt das gesamte Spektrum von Materialien zwischen reiner Nahordnung und Fernordnung auf.

Fernordnung
Als Fernordnung bezeichnet man die regelmäßige und periodische Anordnung ("bis in die Ferne") von Molekülen oder Atomen in einem kristallinen Festkörper, insbesondere in intermetallischen Phasen.

Festkörper ohne Fernordnung, wie Glas und unterkühlte Schmelze, bezeichnet man als amorphe Festkörper. Sie verfügen nur über eine Nahordnung, ebenso wie Flüssigkeiten.

Der Aufbau realer Kristalle weicht an vielen Stellen von einer idealen Fernordnung ab. Reale Kristalle – auch Kristallite genannt – enthalten also eine Vielzahl von Kristallfehlern, ohne dabei den Charakter der Fernordnung zu verlieren.

Siehe auch Überstruktur.

Ordnungszustände in Festkörpern

Beschreibung durch Korrelationsfunktion
Nahordnung und Fernordnung lassen sich wie folgt beschreiben durch den Typ der Korrelationsfunktion  (Zusammenhang der betrachteten Ordnungsparameter  mit den Teilchenabständen ):

mit der Korrelationslänge .

Einzelnachweise

Physikalische Chemie
Kristallographie

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