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When What We Are Looking For Is Not On A Resume
STATUS: Calling it a day.
What's playing on the iPod right now? HEARTBREAK WARFARE by John Mayer
This past week we hired a new assistant. I cannot tell you how excited Sara and I were for this person to start. At the very least, the last 2 months without an assistant aptly demonstrated how much we need one!
During the process, I was talking about it with a friend who is an HR manager. She was absolutely appalled to learn that we planned to interview about 14 candidates (from the over 50 applications we received). After all, we obviously must not have specified the job requirements accurately enough. In her mind, we should only be interviewing about 5 candidates total.
On one hand, she's probably right. But on the other, the one main criterion we were looking for cannot really be specified on a resume. Lots of our candidates had terrific qualifications. What we were looking for, however, was a demonstrated passion for reading—and not just for one type or genre of fiction. That's not really going to show up on a resume. It's only going to be apparent when we ask one specific question.
In our interviews, that one question was this: Tell me about the last three novels you read. Why did you choose those books? Did you enjoy them? Why or why not?
For candidates interested in working at a literary agency, you'd assume this would be a slam dunk kind of question to answer. A "no brainer" if you will.
Surprisingly, a lot of candidates struggled to answer this question.
We were not expecting that. We, of course, had other questions about how detail-oriented was the candidate and how they handled processes etc. but it was really the above question that was the most important to us. So keep that in mind if you ever decide to pursue this type of job path.
Luckily, in the end, we had several terrific final candidates and it was rather sad that we only had the resources to hire one person.
Heartbreak Warfare – John Maye…
Mel Odom said: March 2, 2010 at 5:44 am
Sadly, there's a frightening number of editors AND young writers that don't read much, or don't read beyond the scope of their interest these days.
Shelley Watters said: March 2, 2010 at 5:45 am
That's a great question for an interviewee for a literary agent's assistant position!
I would think that any person applying for a position at a literary agency would expect a question like that!
Kristi said: March 2, 2010 at 5:58 am
Congrats on your new hire! When I worked in management, I considered the credentials of potential applicants but hired based on intangible feelings I got during the interviews. Although my job involved managing a unit of incarcerated adolescent girls, my best hire ever was a former bank teller — go figure!
Sarah Allen said: March 2, 2010 at 7:12 am
Hmmm, very interesting and thought-provoking. Now I'm trying to answer that question 🙂 It's a good thing to know and understand about yourself, because in order to write you have to read, and knowing yourself through your reading will help you know yourself through your writing. Thanks for this!
my creative writing blog)
wondering04 said: March 2, 2010 at 12:41 pm
I cannot imagine an agent who doesn't read a variety of materials. I am not an agent, but am usually in the midst of at least three books simultaneously. Right now, mostly nonfiction, but other times I do read fiction.
Kristin the reason I came over here was from your Nelson Literary Agency newsletter. I am so sorry for your loss, you are right, there is no time that is good. I am glad you got to spend time helping out, and I pray a peace that passes all understanding for you.
veela-valoom said: March 2, 2010 at 12:46 pm
It's good that you saved that till the interview. If you would have done any kind of "include this with your resume" people would have thought about it and said the books to make them look good. I know what the past 3 books I read were but also realize they exist in 2 genres and wouldn't get me a job like that.
1. The Other Wind by Ursula K. Le Guin
2. Paper Towns by John Green
3. An Acceptable Time by Madeline L'Engle
Yep YA & fantasy. I'm trying to branch out some unsuccessfully at the moment.
Samantha said: March 2, 2010 at 2:04 pm
What a coincidence! I finally work up the courage to ask you about internships and here you are talking about hiring an assistant. (In retrospect, the two may not at all be related.)
Anyway, my question: Is it possible to intern at a literary agency without actually being at the location?
I had found one small publishing press that considered remote interns. But, I would love to apply for an internship at a literary agency because that's where I want to work at after college.
I've been searching through sites (like bookjobs.com), and I've seen some great places I can apply for. However, as much as I'd love to get the hands-on feel and immerse myself in the literary world, I may not be able to re-locate for an internship due to personal reasons.
But, to prepare myself for all options, I just wanted to know about the possibility and practicality of telecommuting to an internship for a literary agency.
John M. Baron said: March 2, 2010 at 2:27 pm
Ahhh… the good ol' HR mindset: a resume is the complete and sufficient truth. Bosh.
Congratulations to you and Sara as well as to your new assistant.
Lehcarjt said: March 2, 2010 at 2:37 pm
Ha! After reading this post I asked myself about the last three books I've read. I think it would have been a VERY long interview if I'd been your interviewee. ~Grin.
(I'm happily employed in a far away state and not trying to 'put myself out there' by saying this.)
Glad you found someone though. I look forward to hearing all about them.
Anonymous said: March 2, 2010 at 2:53 pm
Great post. Because when you are a reader by nature you are sort of appalled when you find out other writers aren't. In my opinion you can't be one without the other.
Any time I get a request for a full or get a chance to go to a writer's conference or something "fun" in the business, I get a slew of accquaintences who "decide" that they're going to write a novel, too, when they get the "time" (like a few spare hours is all it takes). They have notepads filled with titles and ideas they want to explore. But when I ask them what book they're reading now or what the last book they read was, they can't answer.
To write you have to read, why should it be any different to work in publishing?
That's an interesting question. The thing is, I think a lot of go through phases. I'll read nothing but MG novels for a couple months, and then read adult novels for a couple months, and then maybe non-fiction for awhile. Currently, I'm in a YA phase. So, asking what the last three books I read wouldn't give someone an idea of the overall breadth of my reading. Anyway, it is an interesting question, and to answer it, the last three books I read:
Stargirl, by Jerry Spinelli
Don't Judge a Girl by her Cover, by Ally Carter
13 Reasons Why, by Jay Asher.
Mike Delosreyes said: March 2, 2010 at 3:58 pm
I like to think I read more than the average person, but if you were to ask me the last three novels I read, without hesitation I could name 2 and then I'd struggle with the 3rd. I could easily drop a short story, but that seems like a lazy answer; I can say I've been reading particular chapters from various textbooks. I could name the books I've started but stopped in the past couple of weeks, but when somebody asks me what books I've "read", for me this implies "finished reading."
Good lord I still can't name you the 3rd nove…Blindsight! I reread Blindsight, by Peter Watts. Blindsight, that's it.
whew. Man, it's really hot in here.
The Story Road said: March 2, 2010 at 4:28 pm
Love John Mayer's music. Now all he needs to do is stick to music and practice discretion.
GK said: March 2, 2010 at 4:43 pm
When I saw the job advert for an internship at the agency I now work at, one of the things they asked to be included in the cover letter was a list of the last 10 books the applicant had read. And thank god/goddess/nuggan for that. While a fairly normal person in real life, in interviews I become this bundle of nerves and I shut up like a clam. Going into this interview, though, I automatically had a way to talk about that I loved to talk about what I most love to talk about: books. After I was hired, I was told they ask for the list basically so they could make sure they didn't interview anyone who hadn't read a book that had been published in the last 10 years. But the list helped in other ways; a number of the books were ones the agents read or were reading, and one was one of the agency's authors (I'd loved his work for years and still fangirl over the fact that I work at the agency which represents him). For me, I think, the list made all the difference between getting the internship and not. This was completely fantastic for me, and since the agency went on to hire me as an assistant, I don't think it was a bad choice for them either.
So essentially, yay that you asked that question and put such import behind it! None of the other many (many) publishing jobs I'd interviewed for asked that question, and I can't fathom why. It seems key, to me.
On another note, I can't thank you enough for all your blogging about the business of agenting. I can't tell you the number of times my boss has brought up an aspect of the job that should be utterly new and perplexing to me, but which I was totally familiar with thanks to you, Kristin. You certainly do a great service to writers, but you also help those of us who want to follow your lead. It's just one of the many ways your great kindness is such an inspiration.
Anita said: March 2, 2010 at 4:43 pm
I have the opposite problem of some of your interviewees…I cannot stop talking about the books I've read!
Jeff Baird said: March 2, 2010 at 4:58 pm
I agree with your effort to interview personally more people. I have been hiring and firing for 20 years and there is NOTHING like a face to face. Some people actually just look at the resume and simply decide if they like the look. After all–if the resume isn't flowery enough–how good could that person be? In my opnion the face to face gets you a lot more information to make the best long term decision which I think is a match!!!! Congrads on the effort to really check them out!
Tawna Fenske said: March 2, 2010 at 5:11 pm
I would love to her some of the best answers you received in response to the question!
And were there any memorably BAD answers?
Agree with Mike. I'd struggle to answer this question even though I can name the last two; they were the two volumes of Edward Rutherfurd's Dublin Saga.
I thought they read like a rough draft.
The third– oh darn. The third… at this point you'd see me struggling, even though I read widely and constantly. Oh, it was one of Joan Aiken's Jane Austen novels. Can't remember the title, but it had the same problem: poor editing.
Not a very impressive answer from a person who reads at least 150 books a year, eh? I think you must've hired someone who is a way faster thinker than average.
kellion said: March 2, 2010 at 5:50 pm
I'm with the HR professional. In publishing, you're used to weeding through hundreds and thousands of proposals to get to one new client, so your perspective is skewed.
For job interviews, this wide net isn't necessary. It's a waste of your time, and the time of the people you've interviewed, who many have used up good will and time off at their current employer, or racked up needless costs for child care. I say needless because the process could have been narrowed down to five candidates with a phone interview.
Sue said: March 2, 2010 at 6:10 pm
Last three books I've read and why I should be ashamed:
1. Breaking Dawn by Stephenie Meyer (yes I am a sheep, drawn in by popular culture! Baaa!)
2. Death on the Nile by Agatha Christie (formulaic moustache twirling does it for me I guess.)
3. Late Nights on Air by Elizabeth Hay (part of the Giller Prize Project- reason I grabbed it, but has tons of merit with or without any prize).
karen wester newton said: March 2, 2010 at 8:33 pm
When my son was a baby, I went looking for a home day care provider with him still in his baby carrier. References, experience, whatever aside, I never ever considered hiring anyone who did not ask to hold him.
I suspect a few of those people who couldn't answer your "last three novels read" question were probably suffering from brain freeze.
Brought back memories of my own job search years ago when I was looking for a copywriter position. I still remember drawing a blank when the creative director asked, "What recent ad campaigns do you like and why?" Believe me, after that botched interview, I had a ready answer for the next person who asked that question.
Buffra said: March 2, 2010 at 10:27 pm
Made me want to think about it….
I've read Hotel on the Corner of Bitter and Sweet by Jamie Ford, When You Reach Me (YA — forget the author!), and The Comeback Kiss by Lani Diane Rich.
I've also got a stack of "in progress" books by the bed that includes The Forgotten Garden, So Brave, Young, and Handsome, and The Turn of the Screw.
That doesn't count nonfiction, as you specified novels.
Eridani said: March 2, 2010 at 10:31 pm
@kellion – For a job with no subjectivity, I think that's a true statement. If you're doing assembly-line work or something that requires a set of strict procedural stuff, that's fine. The resume tells the story.
For a job like an assistant of any kind, a resume means almost nothing. It's a guideline at best. I think the most important thing in an assistant is that you click with the boss. Are you on the same page? Do you have similar tastes? Can you anticipate your boss's likes and dislikes enough to know whether something is worth sending on – and enough to take care of the little stuff so she never has to see it? Those are things you will never learn from a resume.
@Sue – Hold your head up high! I, too, read the Twilight series but mostly because I needed to see what all the fuss was about. (Confession: I still have no idea what the fuss was about…)
Sue said: March 2, 2010 at 11:08 pm
I've asked the same question when interviewing English teachers. It shocked me how many had no answer.
Last three: The Book Thief by Markus Zusak, Push by Sapphire, and To Dance with the Devil by Lorraine Heath.
Allison Williams said: March 3, 2010 at 12:47 am
There's also a difference between hiring an early-career position (like assistant or intern) and hiring a mid-career or established pro. I'm about to interview 16 interns for 2 positions. I already know which ones I'm most likely to hire – but I'm doing in-persons with the ones in town and phoners with the out-of-states. Why "waste" their time? Because learning to interview well is part of their learning and growing experience. And I'm always open to a surprise, too.
Kimberly Kincaid said: March 3, 2010 at 2:19 am
When I was fresh out of college (more years ago than I'd like to admit), I interviewed for a job completely unrelated to the writing and publishing industry. The interviewer asked me what the last book I read was, and whether or not I liked it. I was stunned (and thrilled).
When he asked me if I had any questions for him, I asked him what the last book *he* had read was and whether or not he liked it. Totally unrelated to the position, as it was, but it was really fun to turn the tables.
I didn't end up working there (it was a mutual no-fit), but that always stuck with me.
And I'm swooning over the John Mayer song a little bit. That's my favorite from that album!
Lydia Kang said: March 3, 2010 at 4:18 am
Last three: Nobody's Princess, A Northern Light, and A Great and Terrible Beauty. I like the strong female MCs!
Jimmy Ng said: March 3, 2010 at 4:27 am
I totally agree with you about the resume not revealing everything. I've conducted a lot of interviews. The first thing I feel is if I connect with this person before saying a word.
Because it sounds like you really connected with your new hire. And that person's ability to answer your questions must have been the cherry on top.
So I can understand why you would have so many candidates. Not so different from having to go through so many queries.
Awesome stuff.
Kilian said: March 3, 2010 at 4:30 am
@eridani – read Caitlin Flanagan's essay in The Atlantic Monthly Dec 2008 issue called What Girls Want. It is a thorough analysis of exactly why these books appeal to adolescent girls. Why they appeal to adult women is still a mystery. When Smart Bitches, Trashy Books ran a contest to rename Twilight, the winner was something along the lines of The 95-year-old Vampire Stalker and HIs Teenage Virgin Doormat Lab Partner.
Here's a link to the Atlantic article:
http://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2008/12/what-girls-want/7161/
or go here:
http://tinyurl.com/ykembxp
Kathleen said: March 4, 2010 at 2:01 am
I would LOVE to be asked about the recent books I've read at a job interview!! talk about a dream come true.
Laura said: March 5, 2010 at 7:33 am
Can't say I'm surprised that a passion for reading didn't come across in all the application. I meet people all the time who want to be writers who don't read. I think Hollywood (or sheer fantasy–which is the same thing) gets people to envision a lifestyle of expense-account lunches and weekends in the Hamptons when they say they want a career in publishing, rather than a lifestyle of, oh, reading or writing books.
I'd probably have struggled with this question, haha. I am definitely a huge reader, but my reading habits tend to be very chaotic. I can be reading anywhere up to twenty books at a time. This is how a typical reading session might go: I'll read a chapter of one book, and then I'll read a paragraph of a second book, and then I'll read a few pages of a third book, and then… you get the idea. If someone were to ask me what the last three books [that I read] were, I'd be stymied – which books to mention?


Why is the U.S. Department of Energy doing Lyme research?
If brucella, Why not borrelia?
``Gubler gave the "Summary and Future Direction ofSerologic Diagnosis of Lyme Disease (pages 59 to 61)" at the end of the proceedings.
Later he stated that we could ``wait until the perfect test has been developed before implementing theprogram. However, we feel this approach is not in the interest of public health.
A second approach is to move ahead and implement national standardized testing with the two test approach proposed at this conference. If we move now to put the process in place, as new and better tests are developed and evaluated, they can be intetegrated into the system without delay.
Is the "public interest" the reason to push forward with standards that aren't demonstrably valid yet?
Secondly, that as new methods are developed, "they can be integrated into the system without delay". Seven years from 1994 isn't a delay?
Finally, "geographic variation has been documented among strains of Bb" yet "we will be able to understand each other when we talk about serologically positive Lyme disease, regardless of where we are in the country". Are the band criteria set in stone at this conference so valid in all states?
``All of this sounds to me like the double-speak I heard by the California DHS people at the last LDAC meeting. When all of the dust has settled on these issues a decade from now and the expose finally occurs, it will be interesting to go back and examine the psychology of the way they snuck the untruths by everyone.
The psyops people study how to tell believable lies, how to work the psychology of the crowd, how to create factions, split groups, produce confusion, induce compliance, etc -- so that you don't have to PHYSICALLY force people to do something. You do it by manipulating the group psychology surrounding a particular strategic interest.
Yes, perhaps my theory of DOD involvement will be proven wrong, but it has seemed to me that what we are seeing is true propaganda in the intelligence sense of that word. Like instead of running an operation in Central America they are running one here -- on us.
It all seems so coordinated and so sophisticated, like it has been mapped out by some very clever, smart powerful people at the other end who may do this professionally. The bogus literature that looks like the real thing, bogus scientific meetings (the "Dearborn conference"), bogus disciplinary hearings, etc. Really good propaganda mixes the truth with fiction -- they blend in with each other.
We know there are many brilliant people who work within the huge cavernous agencies of the DOD. In the new dawn of the biowarriors, who's to say there isn't a group of people who do nothing but work on writing medical and scientific propaganda to be inserted into the published literature as diversions to foreign scientists monitoring our medical and scientific literature on subjects apropos biowarfare?
All you would have to do is to take the volumes on biostatistics and study design that detail what NOT to do to produce a good study, and then purposefully DO them.
So, instead of doing a PROSPECTIVE study looking at the question of diagnosing Lyme disease, you do a RETROSPECTIVE study etc (e.g., Steere's "overdiagnosis" paper).
All of us who know about this disease can pick out the papers that we think are garbage. How did they manage to get published?
Well, politics, but I also have to wonder if they chose the questionable study designs DELIBERATELY. I'm not so old as not to remember my statistics professor in medical school showing how to massage data and to create bad studies.
The point was to AVOID this, but if the motivations were different --- one could deliberately include these techniques to obscure or fudge scientific results.
The issue that then arises is that it's like an accountant keeping two sets of books. You'd have a set of studies that would reflect the true knowledge about the disease that is held by a group and then another set that is bogus.
This hypothetical [situation] is also reminiscent of the story about the advanced technology related to borrelia that was shown to the LDA at Aberdeen Proving Grounds. It appeared that the DOD had sequestered technology re: borrelia from the civilian sector. It would appear that they are deliberately sequestering away knowledge about this disease that would be helpful to the civilian sector.
And, if it got into the civilian sector, it would in no time spread to every foreign country through the Internet. I recall seeing Dr. Joe Burrascano's treatment manual, for example, posted on a Lyme website in Tomsk, Siberia.
Any intelligent person, no matter what language they speak, can eventually tell truth from fiction -- can tell that Burrascano's manual is IT -- not the nonsense from the CDC/Steere. It must really rankle them to see Burrascano's manual passed around in a place like Tomsk, Siberia.
Lately I have been thinking it would be fun to write a tongue-in-cheek volume on "How to Write Propaganda for the Medical and Scientific Literature." Maybe it's not so tongue-in-cheek, though.
While we are on the subject of the Dearborn conference, let me remind everyone that the Dearborn Conference was, of course, put on by the Michigan Department of Public Health and that the Michigan Department of Public Health was the manufacturer of the anthrax vaccine for the DOD.
Michigan State University, also in Lansing Michigan has had a cozy relationship with the DOD and reportedly had large defense contracts during the Viet Nam war. There was an outcry when faculty members at Michigan State discovered the extent of DOD funding to the university and some of the ethical problems with the work.
None of us can forget, either, that the Michigan Dept of Public Health was the first state health department that orchestrated disciplinary action against a doctor treating Lyme disease.
While on the subject of the new biowarriors and the "biodefense" buildup ... we should remember the efforts that have gone in the past related to the recruitment by the DOD of the "best and brightest" scientists.
Consider what went on to research and construct the atom bomb. Is it possible that the DOD has recruited "the top" vector-borne disease people to work on their projects?
Why is a U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) lab doing such extensive research on an organism that is treated with 21 days of oral antibiotics?
If someone understands this, is knowledgeable about how these DOE labs operate, and sees that this does not have the sinister biowarrior cast to it that I perceive, please share!
Go to http://www.bnl.gov -- then search "borrelia"
To determine the structure of OspC, the researchers used a technique at Brookhaven's National Synchrotron Light Source (NSLS) known as multiple wavelength anomalous diffraction. First, researchers grew crystals of the protein that could withstand the intense x-rays at the NSLS. To make large quantities of OspC, the team used the T7 gene-expression system, which was developed at Brookhaven.
by: Scott, Donald W., M.Sc.
``Donald Scott is a retired high school teacher and university professor who is currently president of the Common Cause Medical Research Foundation and adjunct professor of the Institute of Molecular Medicine.
He has extensively researched neurosystemic degenerative diseases over the past five years and has authored many documents on the relationship between degenerative diseases and a pathogenic mycoplasma called Mycoplasma fermentans.
His research is based upon solid government evidence. Donald Scott is a veteran of WWII and was awarded the North Atlantic Star, the Burma Star with Clasp, the 1939-1945 Volunteer Service Medal and the Victory Medal.
There are 200 species of mycoplasmas. Most are innocuous and do no harm; only four or five are pathogenic.
The Mycoplasma fermentans (incognitus strain) probably comes from the nucleus of the brucellosis bacteria. This disease agent is not a bacteria, and not a virus; it is a mutated form of the brucellosis bacteria, mutated with a visna virus, from which the mycoplasma, is extracted.
Dr. Maurice Hilleman, chief virologist for the pharmaceutical company of Merck, Sharp and Dohme, stated that this disease agent is now carried by everybody in North America and possibly most people throughout the world.
Between 1942 and the present time, biological warfare research has resulted in a more deadly and infectious form of the mycoplasma.
They extracted this mycoplasma from the brucellosis bacteria, weaponized it and actually reduced the disease to a crystalline form.
According to Dr. Shyh-Ching Lo, one of America's top, top researchers, this disease agent, the mycoplasma, causes among other things, AIDS, chronic fatigue syndrome, multiple sclerosis, Wegener's disease, Parkinson's disease, Crohn's colitis, Type I diabetes, and collagen-vascular diseases such as rheumatoid arthritis and Alzheimer's.
The mycoplasma enters into the individual cells of the body depending upon your genetic predisposition. You may develop neurological diseases if the pathogen destroys certain cells in your brain, or you may develop Crohn's colitis if the pathogen invades and destroys cells in the lower bowel.
Once it gets into the cell, it can lie there doing nothing sometimes for 10, 20 or 30 years, but if a trauma occurs like an accident, or a vaccination that doesn't take, the mycoplasma can become triggered.
My conclusions are entirely based upon official documents: 80% are United States or Canadian official government documents, and 20% are articles from peer-reviewed journals, such as the Journal of the American Medical Association, The New England Journal of Medicine, and The Canadian Medical Association Journal.
The journal articles and government documents complement each other. We also have a document from Dr. Shyh-Ching Lo which names the mycoplasma as a cause of cancer. Dr. Charles Engel who is with the National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, Maryland, stated at an NIH meeting on February 7, 2000, "I am now of the view that the probable cause of Chronic Fatigue Syndrome and fibromyalgia is the mycoplasma".
Many doctors don't know about this mycoplasma because it was developed by the U.S. military in biological warfare experimentation, and it was not made public.
This pathogenic mycoplasma disease agent was patented by the United States military by Dr. Shyh-Ching Lo, who was the top researcher for the military biological warfare research facility. I have the documented patent from the U.S. patent office.
Researchers in the United States, Canada and Britain were doing biowarfare research with the brucellosis bacteria as well as with a number of other disease agents.
From its inception, the biowarfare program was characterized by continuing in-depth review and participation by the most eminent scientists, medical consultants, industrial experts and government officials, and it was top secret.
The U.S. Public Health Service also closely followed the progress of biological warfare research and development from the very start of the program, and the Centers for Disease Control (CDC), and the National Institutes of Health (NIH) in the United States were working with the military in weaponizing these diseases.
These are diseases which have existed for thousands of years, but they have been weaponized which means they were made more contagious and more effective. And they are spreading.
A program developed by the CIA and NIH to develop a deadly lethal pathogen for which humanity had no natural immunity (AIDS) was disguised as a war on cancer and was part of MKNAOMI (ref. Special Virus Cancer Program: Progress Report 8, prepared by National Cancer Institute, Viral Oncology, Etiology Area, July, 1971 and submitted to NIH Annual Report in May, 1971 and updated July, 1971).
Many members of the Senate and House of Represent-atives do not know what has been going on. For example, the US Senate Committee on Government Reform had searched the archives in Washington and other places for the document titled The Special Virus Cancer Program: Progress Report No.8 mentioned above and couldn't find it. Somehow they heard I had it, called me and asked me to mail it to them.
Imagine. A retired school teacher being called by the United States Senate and asked for one of their secret documents! The United States Senate through their government reform committee is trying to stop this type of government research.
In a genuine U.S. Senate Study unclassified on February 24, 1977, the title page of this government record reports that George Merck, of the pharmaceutical company, Merck, Sharp and Dohme (which now makes cures for diseases they at one time created), in 1946, reported to the Secretary of War in the United States that his researchers had produced in isolation for the first time, a crystalline bacterial toxin extracted from brucellosis bacteria.
The bacterial toxin could be removed in crystalline form and delivered by other vectors (in nature they are delivered within the bacteria). But the factor that is working in the brucellosis is the mycoplasma.
Brucellosis is a disease agent that doesn't kill people; it disables them. But they found that if they had mycoplasma at a certain strength, actually ten to the tenth power [10^10], it would develop into AIDS, and the person would die from it within a reasonable period of time because it could bypass our natural human defenses.
If it was 10^8, the person would manifest with chronic fatigue syndrome or fibromyalgia. If it was 10^7, they would present as wasting; they wouldn't die, and they wouldn't be disabled, but they would not be that interested in life, they would waste away (ref. Dr. Donald MacArthur of the Pentagon appearing before a Congressional Committee, June 9, 1969, Department of Defense Appropriations, p.114, 129).
Most of us have never heard of brucellosis because it largely disappeared when they began pasteurizing milk, which was the carrier.
One salt shaker of this pure disease in a crystalline form could sicken the entire population of Canada. It is absolutely deadly, not in terms of killing the body, but in terms of disabling the body.
The advantage of this crystalline disease agent is that it does not show up in blood and tissue tests because the bacteria has disappeared and only the pure disease agent remains. So the doctor thinks that it's all in your head.
About three years ago in Rochester, New York, a gentleman gave me a document and told me, "I was in the U.S. Army, and I was trained in bacteriological warfare. We were handling a bomb filled with brucellosis, only it wasn't brucellosis; it was a brucellosis toxin in crystalline form. We were spraying it on the Chinese and North Koreans."
He showed me his certificate listing his training in chemical, biological, and radiological warfare. Then he showed me 16 pages of documents given to him by the U.S. military when he was discharged from the service.
It linked brucellosis with multiple sclerosis and stated: "Veterans with multiple sclerosis, a kind of creeping paralysis developing to a degree of 10% or more disability within two years after separation from active service may be presumed to be service-connected for disability compensation.
Compensation is payable to eligible veterans whose disabilities are due to service." In other words, "If you become ill with multiple sclerosis, it is because you were handling this brucellosis and we will give you a pension. Don't go raising any fuss about it."
The government of the United States, in this official document revealed evidence of the cause of multiple sclerosis, but they didn't make it known to the public, or to your doctor.
In a 1958 report, Drs. Kyger and Haden suggest "the possibility that multiple sclerosis might be a central nervous system manifestation of chronic brucellosis."
Testing approximately 113 MS patients, they found that almost 95% also tested positive for brucellosis. We have a document from a medical journal which concludes that one out of 500 people who had brucellosis would develop what they called neurobrucellosis, in other words, brucellosis in the brain which settles in the lateral ventricles where the disease multiple sclerosis is basically located.
A report from the New England Journal of Medicine, 1948, Vol.236, p.741 called "Acute Brucellosis Among Laboratory Workers" shows us how actively dangerous this agent is.
The laboratory workers were from Camp Detrick, Frederick, Maryland where they were developing biological weapons. Even though these laboratory workers had been vaccinated, wore rubberized suits and masks, and worked through holes in the compartment, many of them came down with this awful disease because it is so absolutely and terrifyingly infectious.
The article was written by Lt. Calderone Howell, Marine Corps, Captain Edward Miller, Marine Corps, Lt. Emily Kelly, United States Naval Reserve and Captain Henry Bookman. They were all military personnel engaged in making the disease agent brucellosis into a more effective biological weapon.
The government knew that crystalline brucellosis would cause disease in humans. Now they needed to determine how it spread, and the best way to disperse it. They tested dispersal methods for Brucella suis and Brucella melitensis at Dugway Proving Ground, Utah, June and September 1952.
Probably, 100% of us now are infected with Brucella suis and Brucella melitensis. (ref. p.135, table 4 of Special Virus Cancer Program: Progress Report 8).
Another government document recommended the genesis of open air vulnerability tests, and covert research and development programs to be conducted by the army and supported by the Central Intelligence Agency.
At that time, the government of Canada was asked by the government of the United States to cooperate in testing weaponized brucellosis, and Canada cooperated fully with the government of the United States.
They wanted to determine (i) if mosquitoes will carry the disease and (ii) if the air will carry it. A government report stated that "open air testing of infectious biological agents is considered essential to an ultimate understanding of biological warfare potentialities because of the many unknown factors affecting the degradation of micro- organisms in the atmosphere".
A report from The New England Journal of Medicine, August 22, 1957, p.362 reveals that one of the first outbreaks of chronic fatigue syndrome was in Punta Gorda, Florida, back in 1957.
It was a strange coincidence that a week before these people came down with chronic fatigue syndrome, there was a huge influx of mosquitoes. The National Institutes of Health claimed that the mosquitoes came from a forest fire 30 miles away. When the forest fire broke out, the mosquitoes all said, "Well, let's go over to Punta Gorda - there will be a bunch of people over there, we can have a picnic, and then we will go home."
The truth is that those mosquitoes were infected in Canada by Dr. J.B. Reed at Queen's University. They were bred in Belleville, Ontario, and taken down and released in Punta Gorda. Within a week, the first five cases ever of chronic fatigue syndrome were reported to the local clinic in Punta Gorda, and it continued until finally 450 people were ill with the disease.
The government of Canada established the Dominion Parasite Laboratory in Belleville, Ontario, and raised 100 million mosquitoes a month which were shipped to Queen's University and certain other facilities to be infected with this disease agent.
The mosquitoes were then let loose in certain communities in the middle of the night so they could determine how many people would become ill with chronic fatigue syndrome, or fibromyalgia, which was the first disease to show.
One of the communities they tested it on was the St. Lawrence Seaway valley all the way from Kingston to Cornwall in 1984. They let out absolutely hundreds of millions of infected mosquitoes. Over 700 people in the next four or five weeks developed myalgic encephalomyelitis, or chronic fatigue syndrome.
At the infamous Japanese Camp 731 in Manchuria, [Japanese biowarriors] contaminated prisoners of war with certain disease agents.
They also established a research camp in New Guinea in 1942, and experimented upon the Fore Indian tribe, and inoculated them with a minced-up version of the brains of diseased sheep containing the visna virus which causes mad cow disease (Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease which is known to you as mad cow disease, but which was known to the Fore Indian tribe as kuru).
About five or six years later, after the Japanese had been driven out, the poor people of the Fore tribe developed what they called kuru which was their word for wasting, and they began to shake, lose their appetites, and die.
The autopsies revealed that their brains had literally turned to mush. They had contracted mad cow disease from the Japanese experiments.
When World War II ended, the Japanese General Doctor who was in charge of biological warfare experimentations in Japan, Dr. Ishii Shiro, was captured. They gave him the choice of a job with the United States army or execution as a war criminal.
Not surprisingly, Dr. Ishii Shiro chose to work with the United States military to demonstrate how they had created mad cow disease in the Fore Indian tribe.
In 1957, when the disease was beginning to blossom in full among these Fore Indian people, Dr. Carleton Gajdusek of the National Institutes of Health of the U.S. headed down to New Guinea to to determine how the minced-up brains of the visna-infected sheep affected these people.
He spent a couple of years in New Guinea studying the Fore tribe, wrote an extensive report on it, and won the Nobel Prize for "discovering" kuru disease (also known as mad cow or Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease) in the Fore Indian tribe in New Guinea.
In 1953, the Americans developed a carcinogenic chemical which they wanted to test, but they didn't want to test it in the United States so they flew over Russia, accidentally wandered off course, and sprayed this stuff. Many people started getting cancer. And the U.S. had some jokes about this.
One American researcher, Dr. Maurice Hilleman of Merck, Sharp and Dohme, joked, "We are going to win the next Olympics because all the Russians are going to turn up with 40-pound tumours." They thought it was a big joke.
Next they said, "How about testing it in Canada?" In 1953, the U.S. asked the government of Canada if they could test this carcinogenic chemical over the city of Winnipeg. It was a big city with 500,000 people, miles from anywhere.
They sprayed the chemical in a 1,000% attenuated form, which they said would be so watered down that nobody would get very sick. However, if people came to clinics with a sniffle, a sore throat, or ringing in their ears, the researchers would be able to determine what percentage would have developed cancer if it had been full strength.
When we located evidence that the Americans had tested this carcinogenic chemical over the city of Winnipeg in 1953, and informed the government that we had this evidence, they denied it.
However, finally, on May 15, 1997, a story out of the Canadian Press in Washington, D.C. by Robert Russo, published in the Toronto Star, stated that the Pentagon of the United States admitted that in 1953 they had obtained permission from the government of Canada to fly over the city of Winnipeg and spray this crap out, and it sifted down on kids going to school, housewives hanging out their laundry, and people going to work.
US Army planes and trucks released the chemical 36 times between July and August 1953. The chemical used was zinc cadmium sulfide, a carcinogen. They got their statistics, which indicated that if it had been full strength, approximately a third of the population of Winnipeg would have developed cancers over the next five years.
The Pentagon called a press conference to admit what they had done. One professor, Dr. Hugh Fudenberg, MD, who was nominated twice for the Nobel Prize wrote a magazine article which stated that the Pentagon has come clean on this because two researchers up in Sudbury, Ontario, Don Scott and his son Bill Scott had been revealing this to the public.
The US Army actually conducted a whole series of simulated germ warfare tests in Winnipeg. The Pentagon lied about the tests to the mayor, saying that they were testing a chemical fog over the city, which would protect Winnipeg in the event of a nuclear attack.
A report commissioned by the US Congress, chaired by Dr. Rogene Henderson, lists 32 American towns and cities used as test sites as well.
The AIDS pathogen was created out of a brucellosis bacteria mutated with a visna virus; then the toxin was removed as a DNA particle called a mycoplasma.
They used the same mycoplasma to develop disabling diseases like MS, Crohn's colitis, etc.
In a United States congressional document of a meeting held June 9, 1969, the Pentagon delivered a report to Congress about biological weapons (described on page 129 of the document). The Pentagon stated, "We are continuing to develop disabling weapons."
In laboratories throughout the United States and a certain number in Canada, including the University of Alberta, the U.S. government provided the leadership for the development of the AIDS virus for the purpose of population control.
After they had it perfected, they sent medical teams from the Centers for Disease Control to Africa and other mid-eastern countries where they thought the population was becoming too large.
They gave them all a free vaccination for smallpox. Five years after receiving this smallpox vaccination, 60% of them were suffering from AIDS.
They tried to blame it on a monkey, which is nonsense. There was a report in the newspapers a while back about a professor at the University of Arkansas who claimed that while studying the tissues of a dead chimpanzee, she found the HIV virus.
The chimpanzee that she had tested was born in the United States 23 years earlier. It had lived its entire life in a U.S. military laboratory where it was used as an experimental animal for the development of these diseases.
Chronic fatigue syndrome is more accurately called myalgic encephalomyelitis, not chronic fatigue syndrome. That nomenclature was given by the National Institutes of Health in the United States because they wanted to downgrade and belittle the disease.
An MRI of the brain of a teenage girl who had chronic fatigue syndrome displayed a great many scars or punctate lesions in the left frontal lobe area where portions of the brain had literally dissolved and had been replaced by scar tissue.
This caused cognitive impairment, memory impairment, etc. And what was the cause of the scars? The mycoplasma. So there is very concrete physical evidence of these tragic diseases even though doctors continue to say they don't know where it comes from or what they can do about it .
Many people with chronic fatigue syndrome, myalgic encephalo-myelitis and fibromyalgia who apply to the Canada Pension Plan will be turned down because they cannot prove that they are ill.
Over the past year I have conducted several appeals to Canada Pension and Workers Compensation on behalf of people who have been turned down. I provided documented evidence of these illnesses, and they were all granted their pensions on the basis of the evidence that I provided.
In March of last year, for example, I appealed to the Workers' Compensation on behalf of a lady with fibromyalgia who had been denied her pension back in 1993. The vice-chairman of the board came up to Sudbury to hear the appeal, and I showed him a number of documents which proved that this lady was physically ill with fibromyalgia.
It was a disease which caused physical damage, and the disease agent was a mycoplasma. The guy listened for three hours and then he said to me, "Mr. Scott, how is it I have never heard of any of this before? I said, "We brought a top authority in this area into Sudbury to speak on this subject and not a single solitary doctor came to that presentation."
Information is not generally available about this agent, because first of all, the mycoplasma is such an infinitely small disease agent.
A hundred years ago certain medical theoreticians conceived that there must be something smaller than the bacteria and the virus, which are the most common living forms of disease agents. This pathogenic organism is so infinitely small that normal blood and tissue tests will not reveal the source of the disease.
Your doctor may diagnose you with Alzheimer's and he will say, "Golly, we don't know where Alzheimer's comes from. All we know is that your brain begins to deteriorate, cells rupture, the myelin sheath around the nerves dissolves, and so on."
Or if you have chronic fatigue syndrome, the doctor will not be able to find any cause for your illness with ordinary blood and tissue tests. This mycoplasma couldn't be detected until about 30 years ago when they developed the polymerase chain reaction test in which they examine a sample of your blood, remove damaged particles, and subject that damaged particle to a polymerase chain reaction.
This causes the DNA in the particle to break down. Then they place it in a nutrient which causes the DNA to grow back into its original form. If they get enough of it they can recognize what it is, and determine whether brucellosis or another kind of agent is behind that particular mycoplasma.
If anybody in your family has myalgic encephalomyelitis, fibromyalgia, multiple sclerosis, or Alzheimer's, you can send a blood test to Dr. Les Simpson in New Zealand.
If you are ill with these diseases, your red blood cells will not be normal donut-shaped blood cells capable of being compressed and squeezed through the capillaries, but will swell up like cherry-filled donuts, which cannot be compressed.
The blood cells become enlarged and distended because the only way the mycoplasma can exist is by uptaking preformed sterols from the host cell. One of the best sources of preformed sterols is cholesterol, and cholesterol is what gives your blood cells flexibility.
If the cholesterol is taken out by the mycoplasma, the red blood cell swells up, doesn't go through and the person begins to feel all the aches and pains, and all the damage it causes to the brain, the heart, the stomach, the feet and the whole body because blood and oxygen is cut off. And that is why people with fibromyalgia and chronic fatigue syndrome have such a terrible time.
When the blood is cut off from the brain, punctate lesions appear, because those parts of the brain die. It will get into portions of the heart muscle, especially the left ventricle, and those cells will die.
Certain people have cells in the lateral ventricles of the brain that have a genetic predisposition to admit the mycoplasma, and it causes the lateral ventricles to deteriorate and die and this leads to multiple sclerosis which will progress until they are totally disabled and frequently die prematurely.
It will get into the lower bowel and parts of the lower bowel will die and cause colitis. All of these diseases are caused by the degenerating properties of the mycoplasma.
About two months ago a gentleman in Sudbury phoned me and told me he had fibromyalgia. He applied for Canada Pension and was turned down because his doctor said it was all in his head and there was no external evidence.
You can also ask your doctor for a blood volume test. Every human being requires a certain amount of blood per pound of body weight, and it has been observed that people with fibromyalgia, chronic fatigue syndrome, multiple sclerosis and others do not have the normal blood volume their body needs to function properly. Doctors aren't normally aware of this.
This test measures the amount of blood in the human body by taking out five cc, putting a tracer in it, and then putting it back in the body. One hour later take out five cc again and look for the tracer. The thicker the blood and the lower the blood volume, the more tracer you will find.
The analysis of one of my clients stated: "This patient was referred for red cell mass study. The red cell volume is 16.9 ml per kg of body weight. The normal range is 25 to 35 ml. per kg." This guy has 36% less blood in his body than the body needs to function". And the doctor hadn't even known the test existed.
If you lost 36% of your blood in an accident, do you think your doctor would tell you that you are all right, just take up line dancing and you will get over it? They would rush you to the nearest hospital and start infusing you with blood transfusions.
These tragic people with these awful diseases are functioning with anywhere from 7 to 50% less blood than their bodies need to function.
The body undoes the damage itself. The scarring in the brain of people with chronic fatigue and fibromyalgia will be repaired. There is cellular repair going on all the time. But the mycoplasma has moved on to the next cell.
Professor Garth Nicholson, Ph.D., of the Institute for Molecular Medicine is one of the top experts on mycoplasma. He has been given an $8 million grant to study 450 Gulf War veterans, because Gulf War illness is caused by the mycoplasma.
Dr. Les Simpson has done most of the research in detecting the disease by the polymerase chain reaction blood test. You may contact Dr. Nicholson at 15162 Triton Lane, Huntington Beach, Ca, 92649-1401, tel 714-903- 2900.
In summary, there is a disease agent that is called a mycoplasma. All of these neurodegenerative systemic diseases are caused by a particle of a bacterial DNA, a mycoplasma, that enters into the cells of living organisms and takes the cells apart, sterol by sterol, leaving scar tissue, and causing all the range of symptoms that you see in people with these diseases.
The military and the National Institutes of Health and the government are all dedicated to keeping this mycoplasma as covert as they possibly can.
For more information and references, please refer to "The Brucellosis Triangle" and "The Extremely Unfortunate Skull Valley Incident" by Don Scott and William Scott, both available at Consumer Health Organization.
Other recommended reading is "Osler's Web" by Hillary Johnson and "Emerging Viruses: Aids and Ebola" by Leonard Horowitz. Don Scott also produces "The Journal of Degenerative Diseases."
You may contact Donald Scott at: 190 Mountain St., Ste. 405, Sudbury, Ontario, Canada P3B 4G2. 705-670-0180.


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St John Rigby College is a Catholic sixth form college in the Orrell district of Wigan. It received funding to improve facilities but both site-based construction and new modular building could not provide the additional capacity needed for the available budget.
Portakabin (Refurbished) was appointed to build the new teaching block, and the use of refurbished building modules allowed the college to benefit from a larger building and more classrooms for the available budget.
The two-storey scheme, which provides 11 classrooms for social sciences and two IT suites, was craned into position in just three days during school holidays, minimising any disruption to the college. The modular solution reduced the programme time to just 30 weeks, enabling the tight deadline for its funding requirements to be met.
The building features brise soleil sun shading, a canopy over the main entrance, timber cladding, and a contrasting white finish for a crisp and contemporary appearance.
The college's facilities include high specification science laboratories and art studios, and one of the largest synthetic playing surfaces in the country.
Portakabin (Refurbished) has extensive experience in providing high quality accommodation to primary and secondary schools, further education and sixth form colleges, and universities. It offers a wide range of modular building solutions, from interim classrooms for short-term use to fully refurbished teaching blocks and extensions to existing schemes.
The Portakabin (Refurbished) approach will reduce build programmes by up to 70 per cent compared to site-based construction, allowing schools and colleges to meet urgent place planning issues and deadlines for funding.
In order to meet individual project requirements and budgets, the buildings can be supplied decorated or fully refurbished with new windows, wall linings, partitions, mechanical and electrical services, doors, flooring, and cladding.
Fewer ground works are required than for site-based construction – further reducing cost, disruption and programme times.


Western Valley Regional Service Commission offers Planning and Building Inspection Service to the Village of Centreville. If you have any questions regarding the Centreville Municipal Plan, Zoning By-Law or other land use issues contact the Planning Department at 276-3610.
Building permits for within the Village of Centreville are issued by WVRSC and all building inspections are preformed by a certified New Brunswick Building Code Official. If you have any questions regarding the building permit process or the requirements of the National Building code call the Building Inspections Department at 276-3610.


Chemistry among musicians can be an elusive thing. The pop music annals are littered with stories of musicians finding that certain, inexplicable "spark" in a collaboration that they can never find again. Seattle soul-pop band Jordani & The Sun Kings seems to have found its spark almost immediately, as evidenced by its debut album "Live at Pacific Studios," which documents the band's second-ever show. Of course, it helps that the quartet's members all have experience as studio musicians, while singer-songwriter Jordani Sarreal has worked as a producer and musician in Tacoma, Washington. But there's no denying the powerful performances on "Live …," anchored by Sarreal's sultry delivery and old-school songwriting sensibilities. The band plays The Old Stone on Saturday with local singer-songwriter Michelle Van Handel set to open.
Jordani & The Sun Kings, with Michelle Van Handel: 8 p.m. Saturday, doors open at 7:30 p.m.; $12 plus fees in advance, $20 at the door; The Old Stone, 157 NW Franklin Ave., Bend; oldstonebend.com or 541-322-7273.


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package com.hellomyboy;

import java.util.Observable;
import java.util.concurrent.CountDownLatch;

import org.apache.log4j.Logger;

/**
 * 文件读取完毕后通知观察者
 *
 * @author hellomyboy (ht0411@qq.com)
 * @date 2016/3/24
 *
 */
public class ReadFinishInformer extends Observable implements Runnable {
    private static Logger log = Logger.getLogger(ReadFinishInformer.class);
    private CountDownLatch cdLatch ;    //生产者个数

    public ReadFinishInformer(int producterSum) {
        cdLatch = new CountDownLatch(producterSum);
        log.info("informer num:" + cdLatch.getCount());
    }

    public void finishOne() {
        cdLatch.countDown();
        log.info("informer left num:" + cdLatch.getCount());
    }

    @Override
    public void run() {
        try {
            cdLatch.await();
        } catch (InterruptedException e) {
            e.printStackTrace();
        }

        log.info("开始发布通知...");
        this.setChanged();
        this.notifyObservers();

        try {
            Thread.sleep(2000);
        } catch (InterruptedException e) {
            e.printStackTrace();
        }
        log.info("informer finish...");
    }

}

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Q: Javascript Reduce assign and return with implicit return I want to remove the keys from my object where the value is equal to null.
I made use of the filter function on Object.entries combined with a reducer.
I managed to create this snippet, but it has a breach: If any key contains a falsey value, the reducer will return the wrong value:
const obj = {
  boolKey: true,
  intKey: 1,
  nullKey: null,
  falseyKey: 0,
  stringKey: 'string',
};

const result = Object.entries(obj)
  .filter(([, value]) => value !== null)
  .reduce((accumulator, [key, value]) => (accumulator[key] = value) && accumulator, {});

console.log(result); // 0

But with this object the result is as expected:
const obj = {
  boolKey: true,
  intKey: 1,
  nullKey: null,
  stringKey: 'string',
};

const result = Object.entries(obj)
  .filter(([, value]) => value !== null)
  .reduce((accumulator, [key, value]) => (accumulator[key] = value) && accumulator, {});

console.log(result);

// { boolKey: true, intKey: 1, stringKey: 'string' }

I know there are other ways to achieve this, but I'd like to know how to make use of the implicit return in the reducer safely.

A: Your callback function is not returning an object as the accumulator each time it is called. You only return an object when the value you assign is truthy and the current accumulator is an object. For example, when value is 0,  value  is falsy, so the accumilator[key] = value will return 0. Since the LHS of the && operator is falsy, it will short-circuit, resulting in the falsy value of 0 being returned. One way you could fix this is by using the comma-operator:

const obj = { boolKey: true, intKey: 1, nullKey: null, falseyKey: 0, stringKey: 'string', };

const result = Object.entries(obj)
  .filter(([, value]) => value !== null)
  .reduce((accumulator, [key, value]) => (accumulator[key] = value, accumulator), {});

console.log(result);

Or by reducing to an object by using the spread syntax:

const obj = { boolKey: true, intKey: 1, nullKey: null, falseyKey: 0, stringKey: 'string', };

const result = Object.entries(obj)
  .filter(([, value]) => value !== null)
  .reduce((acc, [key, value]) => ({...acc, [key]: value}), {});

console.log(result);

A: You could use Object.assign()

const obj = {
  boolKey: true,
  intKey: 1,
  nullKey: null,
  stringKey: 'string',
};

const result = Object.entries(obj)
  .filter(([, value]) => value !== null)
  .reduce((acc, [key, value]) => Object.assign(acc, { [key]: value }), {});

console.log(result);

OR
the comma operator to assign a value and return the accumulator
.reduce((accumulator, [key, value]) => (accumulator[key] = value,  accumulator), {})

OR
You could also use Object.fromEntries() to create an object from the filtered entries
Object.fromEntries(
  Object.entries(obj).filter(([, value]) => value !== null)
)


There are a number of good places to eat in Wasaga Beach but you have to know where to go.
Just this past summer I was searching for something a little different and cam across an ad for a Caribbean place between Wasaga and Stayner called Angie's Place. They serve jerk chicken, rotis and various curries. I had their goat curry in roti, my husband had their jerk chicken in roti and we also tried their fried plantain. All were absolutely delicious and both the chicken and goat dishes had a lot of meat and were large portions for the price. Angie's Place address is 5968 27/28 Side Rd in Stayner. 27/28 Side Rd runs perpendicular between Sunnidale and Hwy 26th. Their phone number is 705-428-0591 and although they have a small sitting area they are take out only.
Another great place is Barcelos which is a small family owned Portuguese place on the corner of Mosley and Sunnidale behind the Mac's convenient store. Their hours are a little unpredictable but they serve great breakfasts and all around good food although their prices for lunch and dinner are a little on the high end. If there is any kind of sporting event on tv their small patio is the place to be!
If you're just in the mood for pizza then there are many places to choose from. A new addition in town is Pizza Depot (see http://www.pizzadepot.ca/menu.html) they are on 45th Street right across for the Great Canadian Super Store grocery store. They deliver for free on orders of $10 and more in the beach. I've had many of their pizzas and they are very good and their prices can't be beat. They also offer 1 free dipping sauce with each order and those are very similar to Pizza Pizza's dipping sauces. There is also a Pizza Pizza in town at Beach 1 on Mosley. I'm sure you're all familiar with their menu but you can find that at http://pizzapizza.com/ . You can also try Toppers Pizza on Mosley near the Tim Horton's plaza (http://www.toppers.ca/). Their pizzas are good too but their prices are comparable to Pizza Hut. Speaking of Pizza Hut the closest one is in Stayner at 203 Main St and their website is http://www.pizzahut.ca/ .
A good place for Sunday brunch is the "Family Restaurant" on Mosley in the small strip mall between Sunnidale Rd and the Tim Horton's plaza. Brunch is served 9am-2pm (I'm pretty sure) the price is about $12 per person but they serve a lot of food. They have all the usual bacon, eggs, pancakes and fruit but also serve hand carved ham and roast beef and pasta. Their lunch a dinner menu are fairly good (sandwiches, soup, meat and potatoes…etc) and their prices and reasonable.
As far as ice cream goes an interesting place is Mr. Norm's Nephew on Mosley around beach 3. They offer custom flavours of soft serve ice cream and frozen yogurt. What they do is start with vanilla and blend in your favourite fruit, candy and other flavours. I tried their mocha coffee which they blended instant coffee and Nestle Quick powder into the frozen yogurt. The flavour was great but there were tiny crunchy grains from the sugar in the Quick powder. I would go back to try another flavour! Of course being a beach the town has many ice cream shops including a Dairy Queen.
A great fish and chip place is just outside of Stayner on HWY 26 just west of Sunnidale Rd. I want to say it's called Blue Mountain or Georgian Fish and Chips. They close fairly early but have nice portions of yummy battered fish and chips.
If you have any other suggestions of good places to eat in Wasaga Beach please let me know and I will try them out and then maybe add them to this list.


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						Autoload

						Config

						Db

						Mysql

						Event

						Http

						Mvc

						Page

						Store

Classes

Layout

	<form id="search">
		<input type="hidden" name="cx" value="">
		<input type="hidden" name="ie" value="UTF-8">
		<input type="text" name="q" class="text" placeholder="Search">
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Class Layout

		Namespace: Simpletools\Page

			Located at Simpletools/Page/Layout.php

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		#
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			 public

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I came across the 'Tiger Mom' Amy Chua in a previous WSJ article earlier this year when I was still working in Melbourne. It seems as if the article nearly caused a collective heart attack across most of the Western parenting world. As soon as I saw a copy in a bookstore, I grabbed it and read it cover to cover in a few hours (it's an easy read).
In a nutshell, Amy explains to her readers how Chinese mothers bring up their children, the traditional strict Chinese way – and how this in turn makes them develop into high performers better than the loving, individualism-nurturing Western method.
I believe any mother with school-going children (including pre-school going children like mine) would be interested to debate on this topic. Is the Tiger Mom method the best at producing the best adults? For sure, it results in children with significant classical music abilities (I still don't really understand why the Chinese emphasize classical music – surely other areas can also distill excellence?) and straight As without fail (Amy is careful, though, not to bring up her girls into the robotic student types who "kill themselves as soon as they get an A-" – Umm, that's very considerate, Amy).
On the other hand, we are indeed seeing the beginning of the decline of Western civilization. You only have to read handful of the recent tweets on Twitter to understand this. American teenagers of this generation seem to have an innate inability to spell (confusing 'you're' and 'your', for example) and lack basic discipline (get this: a t-shirt at JC Penney that reads 'I'm too pretty for homework'.. ??!!).
I ponder over my own childhood and upbringing, which I consider to be in line with the middle-class Malay two-earner families in urban cities of Malaysia. Roughly categorizing it would put it in between the Chinese and Western model. My parents constantly put high expectations on grades and an all-rounded performance (co-curriculum, social skills, etc) but were pretty laid-back about how we went about achieving them. Just like most people, my mother was undoubtedly the biggest influence, advising us from which clubs to join, how to dress and walk (she still corrects our posture to this day) to the type of degree to read at university.
Alhamdulillah, all of us turned out well, although far from perfect and after we have acquired more than a few bumps on the road. All of us are working, all married, some with kids and are held up as decent people (only we know how much of this is true :P). However we definitely are not musical prodigies, lawyers/doctors (Amy seems to think only those types of professions would do for her family), and were not even straight-A types in school. Would we be counted as "the losers", as she constantly warned her children not to be? And what about people who don't fit the traditional success definition – hardworking, decent people who are firefighters, cops, fishermen or even normal executives? Are they losers, too? I think not.
I also detect some things missing from her way of life (as she depicted in her book). There was no mention of any spirituality – perhaps as she hinted, she was not much of a believer in God. She did not talk about any domestic help, other than hiring a nurse for her mother in law when she was dying of leukemia. Was she somehow a superwoman who managed to lecture, give talks, teach her students, fly home to pick up her kids to and fro music lessons, and yet magically produce a clean home, laundry and food on the table?
In my opinion, there are both rights and wrongs in both the Chinese and Western model. Amy dismissed the kids who killed themselves over grade 'failures' – yet we all know this happens constantly in China as well as overseas Chinese (as well as other races, but I'm betting it's a lower probability). The western world has more hugs and love to offer their kids relatively, but do indeed produce distracted kids in an increasingly Snooki-fied world.
With my lack of experience and wisdom at this moment, I still believe that the Malay/Muslim upbringing is good and sound as it provides a spiritual base for kids to develop into good, God-fearing adults. Yet the challenge is also to harness the other points of Islam such as excellence, cleanliness and discipline. That much, we Muslims still have to work on.
Very interesting post, and I agree with many of the points you have raised.
Just to add, though, I think environmental factors do play their part as well. It isn't possible to completely isolate children from the outside world, and this will inevitably have an influence on them when parents are not around. And of course, environmental factors differ greatly depending on where in the world you are. The influences that children face in China, for example, are very different to those faced by children in the west.
Hi Maria, thanks for your comment. I agree completely. In the digital age it is becoming more difficult to control the external factor.. I particularly get worried when reading about how the Internet has made everything more accessible for child rapists, human traffickers, peer pressure and so on. Sigh.. We mothers worry constantly.


Here's a report from our charter on 9/5/10 - Hauled the camper to VA Beach for the holiday weekend and couldn't haul my boat too so we booked a full-day offshore charter out of VA Beach on Sunday with CAPT Jake on the Matador. It was a family affair with my father, wife, and 3 grown children. Daughters are 20 and 22 with neither weighing over 120 lbs and wife is just a little bigger so we asked for Mahi and CAPT Jake and his mate Josh more than delivered. We ran straight to the Norfolk canyon at first light on Sunday to keep an eye out for storm debris, didn't see any. A 70+ mile ride in minimum 4' seas with a 25 kt blow was sporty but not unbearable, Matador is a solid machine. We trolled around crab pots until we found the Mahi and then switched to bailing gear. With 3 - 4 hooked up until we lost the school, rods and fish were flying around the cockpit. Josh did a great job of switching from trolling to casting gear, unhooking fish, baiting hooks, cutting chunks, rigging hoo, and keeping the ice flowing. No matter how loud CAPT Jake yelled at Josh or how many fish were swinging his direction, he kept his cool and things ran smooth in the cockpit. Never got into any gaffer sized Mahi but after 57 bailers, a 35 lb Cuda, a White Marlin that spit the hook with a leap just 10' from the boat, and a little too much dramamine, we were all napping hard in the ice-cold AC by 3pm. Everyone had a great time and the freezer is now full of vacuum packed Mahi fillets. 25 year old son kept the Cuda, the meat was as white as the Mahi and he's going to see how it tastes. Just passing along a postive review, offshore charters aren't cheap and it's good to find a guy that can customize the trip so everyone is in on the action. ---- Thanks for the report! We hope to see you again soon!


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using Microsoft.WindowsAzure.Commands.Sync.Upload;
using Microsoft.WindowsAzure.Commands.Tools.Vhd.Model;
using Microsoft.WindowsAzure.Storage;
using Microsoft.WindowsAzure.Storage.Auth;
using Microsoft.WindowsAzure.Storage.Blob;
using Microsoft.WindowsAzure.Storage.RetryPolicies;
using System;
using System.Collections.Generic;
using System.IO;
using System.Linq;

namespace Microsoft.WindowsAzure.Commands.Sync.Download
{
    public class BlobHandle
    {
        const int MegaByte = 1024 * 1024;

        private readonly BlobUri blobUri;
        private readonly string storageAccountKey;
        private readonly CloudBlobContainer container;
        private readonly BlobRequestOptions blobRequestOptions;
        private readonly CloudPageBlob pageBlob;

        public BlobHandle(BlobUri blobUri, string storageAccountKey)
        {
            this.blobUri = blobUri;
            this.storageAccountKey = storageAccountKey;
            var blobClient = new CloudBlobClient(new Uri(this.blobUri.BaseUri), new StorageCredentials(this.blobUri.StorageAccountName, this.storageAccountKey));
            this.container = blobClient.GetContainerReference(this.blobUri.BlobContainerName);
            this.container.FetchAttributesAsync().ConfigureAwait(false).GetAwaiter().GetResult();
            this.pageBlob = this.container.GetPageBlobReference(blobUri.BlobName);
            this.blobRequestOptions = new BlobRequestOptions
            {
                ServerTimeout = TimeSpan.FromMinutes(5),
                RetryPolicy = new LinearRetry(TimeSpan.FromMinutes(1), 3)
            };
            this.pageBlob.FetchAttributesAsync(new AccessCondition(), blobRequestOptions, operationContext: null).ConfigureAwait(false).GetAwaiter().GetResult();
        }

        public CloudPageBlob Blob { get { return this.pageBlob; } }

        public IEnumerable<IndexRange> GetEmptyRanges()
        {
            var blobRange = new List<IndexRange> { IndexRange.FromLength(0, this.Length) };
            return IndexRange.SubstractRanges(blobRange, GetPageRanges());
        }

        public IEnumerable<IndexRange> GetUploadableRanges()
        {
            IEnumerable<IndexRange> ranges = GetPageRanges();
            ranges = Enumerable.ToList<IndexRange>(IndexRangeHelper.ChunkRangesBySize(ranges, 2 * MegaByte));
            return ranges;
        }

        private IEnumerable<IndexRange> GetPageRanges()
        {
            pageBlob.FetchAttributesAsync(new AccessCondition(), blobRequestOptions, operationContext: null)
                    .ConfigureAwait(false).GetAwaiter().GetResult();
            IEnumerable<PageRange> pageRanges = pageBlob.GetPageRangesAsync(null, null, new AccessCondition(), blobRequestOptions, operationContext: null)
                    .ConfigureAwait(false).GetAwaiter().GetResult();
            pageRanges = pageRanges.OrderBy(range => range.StartOffset);
            return pageRanges.Select(pr => new IndexRange(pr.StartOffset, pr.EndOffset));
        }

        public Stream OpenStream()
        {
            return this.container.GetPageBlobReference(blobUri.BlobName).OpenReadAsync(new AccessCondition(), blobRequestOptions, operationContext: null)
                    .ConfigureAwait(false).GetAwaiter().GetResult();
        }

        public long Length
        {
            get { return pageBlob.Properties.Length; }
        }
    }
}


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summary EL 2011/08
Poisonous mushrooms and related intoxications III. Amanitin intoxication
Kuulo Kalamees warns against our most poisonous species of fungi: Amanita phalloides or the Death Cap, Amanita virosa or commonly known as the European destroying angel, and Galerina marginata. The author teaches to differentiate between those extremely poisonous fungi and some good edible mushrooms, which look dangerously alike.
A little noted fungus: Lentaria byssiseda
Erast Parmasto tells about a rare fungus that grows on oak trees. For some reason the species has not received much attention. This strange-looking fungus forms shoots and bifurcates.
The modern digital archives of biodiversity
Ivar Puura gives an overview of the current state and perspectives of the digital archives of Estonian biodiversity. Data bases like that are designed to meet multiple purposes: for one, to serve scientific aims; secondly, educational and informative purposes and thirdly, aims supporting juridical decisions. The project to launch Estonian Biodiversity Data Base was launched in 2006. This one gives the most complete list of Estonian species, thus creating a basis for developing other scientific digital archives. There are also data bases like EELIS – the Estonian Nature Information System, Nature Observations Database, public portal called e-Biodiversity and a few others.
Estonian Nature enquires
Kaarel Roht assures that there are no plans to start hunting crows or hawks in order to regulate their number.
Urmas Roht looks into the future of Pokuland.
The green network of a settlement: for whom and how much?
Kadi Tuul discusses over the necessity of green areas in towns: the green belts help to improve people's health, but also create important habitats for biodiversity. The author starts with the history of green belts. In Estonia, most large towns have a green belt designed mostly in 1950ies. In 1970ies, the idea of green network started to grow in Europe, with the aim to join all natural and seminatural areas with nature conservation purposes into one. The new and complete guide for creating green networks as part of county thematic plan was completed in 2003 in Estonia. However, little attention has been paid to green areas in towns, also known as nearby recreation areas. The article shares some international experience in planning those areas and looks also in Estonian practice.
INEPO is a meeting place for youth interested in environment
Reet Kurg introduces the international environmental project Olympiad held annually in Istanbul. It is a contest of scientific and innovative high level, with 2 participants from a country.
Are tea packets degradable?
Kristiina Kurg made a study to find out the decomposition qualities of tea packages and found that they cannot be composted very easily. She earned a bronze medal for her study at the INEPO – international scientific Olympiad.
Red Helleborine: beautiful, but for how long?
Toomas Hirse shares the results of last year's inventory of orchid habitats, which, however, are not very promising. It was quite clear that many habitats have been lost. In Estonia, the Red Helleborine grows mostly in alvar forests; therefore most habitats are located on West-Estonian islands and the Pandivere Upland. About 64% of the territory of habitats is under nature protection.
Tiny tuberous fungi of the genus Collybia
Tõnu Ploompuu found a strange species of fungi. In addition to the Collybia fungi, the tiny Dendrocollybia racemosa has a similar lifestyle, living on decayed and mummified Agaricales.
Interview: The Kumari award was awarded to an ordinary man
Toomas Kukk has interviewed Jaan Riis, the prize winner of the Kumari award.
Old trees in parks: the guardians of biodiversity
Vello Keppart gives directions about how people and old trees can support each other. Old trees are among the most important habitats for small-sized biodiversity in settled areas. Arborists taking care of parks should be able to recognize habitats of protected species. The author gives a list of recommendations for protecting and tending such old trees, as well as some general recommendations for maintaining the species richness of parks and green areas.
Õunaku – the future of the islets of South-Eastern Hiiumaa
Tapio Vares takes the reader to the island of Hiiumaa, where one can admire an ancient islet in the middle of land. The "islet" rises to about 14 m above the sea level, forming quite a unique range. It has a peculiar tree cover dominated by oaks and hazel trees, but also soft-leaved elms. The southern part of the range is characterized by South-European type of shrubbery. The article is illustrated with author's own drawings.
Bird of the Year: a day and night with Barn Swallow
Eet Tuule shares his experiences of observing the bird of the year: how does our national bird spend its day? The author goes back in time to the year of 1960, when he spent a whole day and night keeping a close watch of two families of barn swallows. It appeared that most of the time the adults had to feed the offspring. The daily routine of two families was quite similar. Today the observed farm is long gone.
The large stones of the Pärispea Peninsula
Elle Linkrus comments on the article about large stones of Lahemaa issued in May: some of the stones had been mislocated. She turns special attention to four stones, adding some important information about each and corrects the actual location of one of the stones.