We know much about how to scale Scrum to the level of a program in terms of teams configuration, flow of requirements and basic practices necessary to keep agile enterprise afloat. In the meantime there is one important dimension that overlaps with almost every concern of agile delivery – group knowledge management. Without accumulating relevant experience and turning it into knowledge shared by program we are talking about a bunch of people that try to work iteratively and incrementally at best, but aren't really agile. Without proper knowledge management there is no learning organization.
We will think of agile program as a set of Scrum teams that are aligned around same objectives and keep synchronized having same cadence and frequently integrating their software with each other. Good way to think about such a program is as of Agile Release Train (concept introduced by Dean Leffingwell; see Agile Software Requirements book, Ch. 15, 16); also see posts about Agile Release Train and Scaled Agile Delivery Model on Dean's blog. On the other hand, we will talk about knowledge creation and transformation based on the SECI model introduced by Ikujiro Nonaka and Noboru Konno in their article "The Concept of 'Ba': Building a Foundation for Knowledge Creation" published in California Management Review, vol. 40, #3, 1998".
Nonaka and Konno distinguish two different kinds of knowledge: tacit and explicit. Basically their so called SECI model (Socialization, Externalization, Combination and Internalization) is one loop of a spiral process of knowledge creation that transforms it from tacit to explicit and back undergoing integration process to combine experience and ideas relevant to the organization.
First stage, Socialization is the stage where tacit knowledge is being shared between individuals. The way it happens is natural and very efficient, not expressed with words or documented diagrams and formulas but transmits valuable information as a result of being together, observing each others actions, collaborating, interacting at emotional level.
Figure 1. Tacit knowledge transmits between individuals as part of cultural scenario ("Skoop Team" back in 2007).
This tacit knowledge can only be shared by individuals if they are open enough to make other people's behaviors, actions, and values part of their own. Let me give an example in software development: two team mates, David and Sergey, create a new screen within a huge portal for which their larger group developed their own metadata-based framework 2 years back "to be able to define a new screen in only few lines of XML code". Sergey noticed many times, when discussing new user stories with David or just working in pairs that David does a couple of nice hacks when he needs to introduce complex filtering for tables and that he hardcodes a screen every time (working it around the XML engine) when more than two controls on the page interact with each other in a complex scenario. He learned how to do that himself. As well as David subliminally learned simple rule from Sergey: once you designed a new screen in XML, test it against more than one data sets, otherwise it almost surely crashes on some combination of data. This is tacit knowledge, circulating between two individuals as a result of their interactions and openness to observe and accept other approaches and work scenarios.
Figure 2. SECI stages from article by Nonaka and Konno.
Second stage – Externalization, when tacit knowledge is being translated into precise form understood by others. This means expressing it with words, diagrams, models etc. As Nonaka and Konno pointed out, "This may require deductive/inductive reasoning or creative inference…". In our case the good example could be a conversation during agile retrospection (or its "meet-after") where Sergey would tell the entire team that "there's a difficulty each time we want to add a new screen with many dependencies between page controls, so estimate them as just creating a custom java class, not a simple XML metadata file".
Third phase, Combination, assumes capturing knowledge created by teams, integrating it and making decisions based on this integrated knowledge. In figure 2 we assume that in our case "g" (or group) is individual Scrum team and "o" (organization) is program. In our example we have Scrum of Scrums meeting where Jon, Scrum Master of Red team to which David and Sergey belong, escalates this issue of "hacking" the portal engine in about ¼ number of cases. Supported by Green Team's SM, this problem gets escalated to the level of Product Manager to approve for architecture epic to enhance the engine in this and next releases.
Internalization, the last step in the process, is backwards translation of integrated explicit knowledge into tacit knowledge that anybody can use if they find it applicable. ...For the time being all teams should use "hacks" and David will have a brief "how-to" presentation to key developers and all interested people throughout the program on how to do it most efficiently as well as how to properly estimate new stories, that involve such screens. Eventually in the next PSI this story will have its natural continuation when someone from the architecture community of practice or some lead developer will present the next step in portal engine enhancement, so they could start using it to designing new complex screens.
Documented or not. If we carefully look thru our examples, there is no single word about documenting the newly created knowledge. It is big mistake to confuse explicit knowledge with documented knowledge. Obviously, program should approach documenting (or not documenting) it from Lean perspective, trying to optimize the information flow and neither lose information en route when overly relying on face-to-face communication, nor create piles of useless docs that nobody ever reads and thus it never internalizes. But one thing is obvious for sure, that documented knowledge can only be part of explicit knowledge, created by program as part of this natural knowledge lifecycle.
Communities of Practice. CoPs are actually those circuits that efficiently conduct and transform knowledge thru the SECI stages. Moreover, it provides that second dimension that in conjunction with SoS allows to triangulate the relevant knowledge and rapidly disseminate it across the program. In our example "System Architecture and Design CoP" would help to spot the problem maybe earlier than the SoS and, most importantly, approach SoS and then eventually Product Manager already having the idea of how that architecture epic would look like and how big it is, and so on. Usually we can talk about strong correlation between big and relevant areas of knowledge on one hand and CoPs on the other. If automated acceptance tests are never ready by the end of release, half of the program still don't really understand how to effectively write and run them, POs do not care about acceptance criteria, regression defects re-occur endlessly, and nobody has straight idea of what should be happening to avoid unpredictable output of sprinting, then quite possibly it is time to establish an "Automated Testing CoP".
Rituals vs. Random Episodes. Knowledge is being created continuously, that's the fact. Although there is natural tendency for tacit knowledge to be created and shared between individuals constantly within regular episodes of coding or testing or discussing a story with Product Owner, while Externalization and Combination often happen during meetings and pre-planned discussions. We mentioned two examples already: retrospection meeting can be effectively used for Externalization, SoS and regular CoP meetings are good for Combination stages. Another set of examples could be specification-, design-, configuration- and other types of workshops.
Enterprise Practices. Let's go thru immediate examples. "Intentional Architecture" was just illustrated above, when "Enhancing Portal Engine to Support Complex Screens" epic made its way from bottom to top and then top-to-bottom. "Managing Distributed Development" is extremely important to ensure effective SECI stages. For example, having individual agile team distributed across the ocean horrifically slows down creation and sharing of tacit knowledge. On the higher level, distributed program that doesn't manage to establish effective SoS, fails at Combination stage. The foundation for "Organizational Change" will remain flawed unless the knowledge that drives the change is being created organically from tacit knowledge up to the level of abstraction where the decisions will be made based on explicit knowledge and then again used by individuals in the form of tacit knowledge to actually convey any changes.
Rhythm. If we consider agile team practices that scale to the program level, most of them basically build their own "platform" for rapid feedback as a result of a short cycle which is key Lean theme for knowledge management. For instance, "Continuous integration" implies that short cycles of relevant tacit knowledge will be frequently shared between Scrum team members and across teams. "Mastering Agile Iteration" provides a way to do frequent Externalization. "Short Release Cycle" supports Combination and Internalization of knowledge. Finally, the "Define-Build-Test" paradigm makes feedback possible at all as there is a way to Externalize tacit knowledge that corresponds to tangible user value – the end goal of development process.
Figure 3. Knowledge creation and distribution stages in agile program.
What do you think about Knowledge flow based on the principles of logistics.
i.e. the provision of knowledge and skill at a time and place it is most required and most profitable.
Well, good perspective too. It doesn't make it obvious to me though "how" this model is going to work. So if you have a strong idea about the mechanism itself - me and my readers would appreciate if you share.
Now if we think about it for a second, SECI model is an "instance" of JIT approach in knowledge management: tacit-to-explicit transformation of knowledge (as well as the reverse cycle) only happen if individuals and teams decide so and because of fairly frequent nature of these transformations, knowledge is being created/transformed "if and when" needed.
Great article. Very interesting to read. Thanks for sharing.
Excellent post and very useful for everyone .


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Q: How to measure test coverage of LESS/CSS? We have a LESS codebase with code like
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and (JavaScript/mocha) tests that assert that the "mappings" in this codebase are correct, e.g. that @button-background is mapped to @brand-color, like
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describe('button-background', function() {
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});

Now we would like to measure the actual coverage of our tests, i.e. the percentage of LESS lines/statements covered by our unit tests.
Has this already been done? Is there a coverage tool for LESS (like nyc/istanbul for JavaScript)? The question could be broadened to CSS instead of LESS (or SCSS or any precompiler), as the problem seems to be really similar.

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PENTECOSTALISM AT 100
Africa's Azusa Street
East Africa has experienced Pentecost continually for nearly 80 years.
Timothy C. Morgan| March 28, 2006
Alleluia! Moms, dads, brothers, sisters, family members, relatives: This is the year of salvation!" proclaimed pastor Elmer Komant to 750 Rwandans at Christian Life Assembly, a new Pentecostal church in Kigali, Rwanda.
Moments earlier, a Kigali businessman (a lapsed Catholic) had told the congregation that he'd been born again three days before. Referring to his nominal Christian past, he said, "Christians are God's army. I'd been in the secret service for a long time, but now I'm a soldier." In response, the congregation shouted, cheered, danced, and wept.
Pastor Komant told the crowd, sweltering under the church's large, blue-and-white tent on a hot Sunday morning in mid-January, "This is the result of fasting and prayer and seeking the face of the Lord. Things are happening, Church! Things are going to explode in the kingdom of God as we seek first his righteousness."
Revival in East Africa is a familiar story that shows few signs of slowing down, despite entering its eighth decade. About 85 million Pentecostal and charismatic Christians can be found in Africa today. A hundred years ago, there were only a handful. African Pentecostals and charismatics are growing at about 4.5 percent annually, nearly double the continent's overall rate of population growth. Globally, there are more than 580 million charismatic and Pentecostal Christians.
Pentecostal revival began in East Africa during the 1930s at a tiny Anglican mission station in Gahini, southeast Rwanda. Gahini's missionary physician, Joe Church, and a Ugandan Anglican, Simeoni Nsibambi, were despondent about the lifelessness of African churches, the ruthlessness of colonialism, society's pervasive corruption, and the moral failure of Christian leaders. They felt moved to work for renewal.
For two days in late 1929, Church and Nsibambi studied together and prayed on Uganda's Namirembe Hill. They continued praying, and, months later, a charismatic revival broke out at Gahini's boarding school for girls. At the time, no one realized that the revival's reach and impact would become legendary. "Its effects have been more lasting than almost any other revival in history," reported Orthodox scholar Michael Harper, "so that today there is hardly a single Protestant leader in East Africa who has not been touched by it in some way."
Komant, who is associated with the Canadian Assemblies of God mission board, has lived the East Africa revival for 35 years, serving in Zambia, Kenya, and Rwanda, all of which are Christian-majority nations. Speaking with Christianity Today, he said that the emphasis on a personal relationship with Jesus Christ has been key to attracting culturally Christian Rwandans. At the time of the 1994 genocide, the nation was 90 percent Christianized. "You can't understand how genocide could have gone on after that revival in the 1930s—[but] it was only an inch deep and a mile wide," Komant said. Many Christian leaders were complicit in the slaughter of Tutsi and moderate Hutu.
In 1999, Kigali Pentecostals invited Komant and his wife to plant Christian Life Assembly, in part to meet the needs of refugees returning to help rebuild after the genocide. More than 1 million refugees have returned to Rwanda since 1994.
Many pastors hope for a fresh renewal of the East Africa revival. Komant says "dead religion" is still a huge problem. To strengthen his church, Komant makes extensive use of outside resources, including cell-church methods and instruction from Rick Warren's The Purpose-Driven Life.
Komant says revival in East Africa has grown more mature over time. For example, he endorses charismatic gifts in worship, but within limits. "Fruit is more important than gifts. You have to be very careful. Tongues and interpretation can be misused or abused. In witness to the world, it's the fruit in your life—the character change—that's actually going to minister to people."
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"Foundations" – A Q&A with Michael Scott, Environment Program Officer
"Foundations" is an occasional series of informal question-and-answer sessions with employees and others affiliated with The William and Flora Hewlett Foundation to give them an opportunity to explain their work.
Michael Scott is an officer with the Foundation's Environment Program, which makes grants to slow global climate change, to conserve the ecological integrity of the North American West, to ensure that energy is clean and affordable, and to address environmental problems that disproportionately affect disadvantaged communities in the San Francisco Bay Area. Scott leads the Foundation's grantmaking in the western United States and Canada, with a particular focus on land and water conservation issues. From that vantage, Scott is ideally positioned to see broad changes in attitudes towards environmental issues.
In this Q&A, he discusses the emergence of an unexpectedly broad coalition of supporters of conservation in the state of Montana as evidence of a move away from polarization on environmental issues. One recent example of that coalition's breadth is support of proposed federal legislation to protect nearly 700,000 acres of land in the western part of that state. The legislation, now pending in the U.S. Senate, has earned the support of Montana sportsmen's groups, timber mill owners, and other business leaders, as well as conservation organizations.
Before joining the Foundation, Scott was executive director of the Greater Yellowstone Coalition in Bozeman, Montana, a nonprofit organization that works to preserve the ecosystem of the Greater Yellowstone region. Scott has a bachelor's degree in political science from the University of California, Santa Barbara, and a master's degree in public policy from Claremont Graduate School.
Is a broad coalition like this something new in the conservation movement? What's allowed it to form?
I do think it's something new. Twenty years ago, the timber industry, the ranching community, and the conservation community weren't interested in talking about how to achieve mutual goals. The timber industry was interested in what it knew how to do – clear-cut harvest. Ranching was interested in what it knew how to do – graze on public land, divert water, make a living. And the conservation community was interested in what it knew how to do – designate wilderness. And each of them saw these activities as mutually exclusive.
That polarization lasted a long time. But each community has finally begun to learn that there is value in the others. The timber industry has learned that there are other ways to log that can achieve a number of goals they share with conservationists, like increasing diversity of species and bringing forests back to something like their natural state, which increases resistance to fire. The ranching industry has had similar realizations, and the conservationists see that these shared interests can help them reach their goals.
It's taken some pretty brave souls to sit down and say, "Do you want to talk?" Some of the discussions started very privately and very carefully. And they've resulted, over time, in some innovative agreements, like the Montana one now under consideration in the Senate. In a way, it's just been human nature. Each side has said, "If you're going to acknowledge our values, we're going to acknowledge yours." People aren't one-dimensional. They have multiple needs, and those needs have to be reflected in discussions.
How much of the change has come from simple fatigue with polarization and gridlock (something we've also seen in the electorate in the most recent presidential election), and how much from a deliberate shift in strategy on each side?
It's partly both. When you're blocked from achieving your goals, you need to ask yourself, "What can I do to change that will achieve them?" There's some of that. But it's also recognition by each constituency that the concerns and issues raised by the others have merit. It's a maturation on all sides that's led people to be willing to sit down and discuss where interests overlap.
How broadly based is this conciliatory attitude?
I don't want to say that everyone in the conservation, timber, and ranching communities is embracing a new way of looking at the future. But there is a vanguard of people in each group who are sitting down and talking. And as with any new venture, you can get castigated from all sides. It's probably the wave of the future. And it's the way many of the intransigent issues that face us in the West – how to reconcile wildlands protection with timber harvesting and with ranching, and a host of other things – will begin to get solved. The challenges we face in the future, particularly when you consider those related to global warming, really demand that we find a new way for people to work together. Without it, the West will begin to unravel.
Is this a national precedent?
It may be the largest coalition of this type. The Idaho Conservation League, which is not one of our grantees, has struck a similar tone among a number of different interests concerned with wilderness issues in central Idaho. But this legislation in Montana may be the largest effort of this type on forestland to date.
It's interesting: some argue that these changes are starting to put the U.S. Forest Service out of step with the constituencies it serves. It's going to have to start evolving, too, because the solutions it needs to seek are becoming more complex. And the challenges are different. It's not, "Do we clear cut here?" It's, "What mix of policies will allow us to restore this area to its natural state?"
Do you think Montana's example will be repeated elsewhere in the country?
I think it has broad applicability. Solutions that protect the 58 million acres of remaining roadless lands in the National Forests in the West, or the roughly 12.8 million acres of wilderness study areas, and deal with species, water, and forest health issues, those solutions aren't going to come as directives from Washington. The broad policy work – the "Let's do something about this" action – may come from there. But local people have to be willing to roll up their sleeves, set aside their ideological differences, and sit down and say, "We'll compromise here." You can't do that with everything, but if you're not willing to sit down with your neighbor and talk about what's possible, then there is no beginning.
In some states, this kind of process is easier than in others, depending on the history and economics of a given region.
So it's becoming less about ideology and more about the lives people lead in their communities?
Yes. As conservationists have reached out to talk to the hunting, fishing, and ranching communities, they've found, perhaps not surprisingly, that people share similar hopes and aspirations for the places they live. Everyone wants a clean and healthy environment, everyone wants a safe place to live and for children to thrive, and there are ways we can get there. Everyone wants to be able to go on family hikes in the mountains, go fishing, or watch wildlife. That realization is starting to bear fruit.
What does this more conciliatory attitude suggest about how the conservation movement might change in the next ten years?
We're close to a broad-based new way of doing business regarding public lands in the West. Will that happen without obstacles or setbacks? No – some local solutions proposed for specific issues will create roadblocks for the entire system, and those will have to be addressed. And oil and gas issues will continue to be a challenge. But I'm much more hopeful than I was during the last twenty years, which were more about impasse than progress. Thanks to these new attitudes, that's changing. In several negotiations about land preservation around the country, participants weren't approaching the issues as Democrats or Republicans but in the way conservationists did late in the nineteenth century.
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Read "Foundations": A Q&A with Michael Scott (February 2011)


My husband asked me to write a blog about underwear, and since he's still recovering from an injury, I thought I'd oblige.
If there is anything that a crisis can teach a person, it's gratitude for simple things.
The outer apparatus, more correctly named, the External Fixater holding my husband's foot together was about a total of one foot wide.
He couldn't stretch any type of underwear around it. Of course, jeans or pants were out of the question. His attire for the last eight weeks have consisted of basketball shorts and t-shirts (thank you to Mom for supplying his daily wear).
As of Friday, the Fixater was removed. Yay!
Who knew that someone could be ecstatic to wear underwear … so much so that he asked me to share his joy.
Keep in mind, he is still not able t0 put any weight on either foot yet, but the restrictions have brought up gratitude for things we normally wouldn't even notice.
So good to hear that he is improving, Lori. But, what does this have to do with grocery shopping?
If there is any of the little things in life that I despise doing, it's grocery shopping. In fact, I'm not much of a shopper at all. The only time you'll find me enjoying it, is by the costume jewelry rack at an inexpensive department store (JC Penney comes to mind). Aside from that, I do not shop.
My husband did the grocery shopping for our household, but with his non-weight bearing predicament, this chore has fallen to me.
I have a new appreciation for my happy, underwear-wearing husband who took care of this tedious task for both of us.
I love this! I'm so glad to hear that your hubby is improving, albeit still slowly. And it makes me smile to think how happy he is to be wearing underwear again. Just goes to show that we sometimes don't stop to think how good we have it, until those typical comforts are taken away from us.
Thank you for being happy about the improvement with us, Terri. I'm hoping to write an even better update soon. Have a great weekend.
Amazing how you are still able to practice gratitude throughout this situation. Huzzah for underwear! It's strange, the things we take for granted until we lose them. Hope the healing continues at top speed!
Glad to hear that things are going better. Can you order your groceries online? Years ago, I used to order them online and all I had to do was go in and pay for them. I think I even had them delivered once. Actually, it seemed like more trouble than it was worth, but I did it a few times.
Hey Patty! A couple of weeks ago, I said to Gary that they ought to have where you can order groceries online and just go pay for them and pick them up. I didn't know they actually had that anywhere. Unfortunately, I'm sure they don't have that here, but I'd definitely do it if they did. Thanks for stopping in. Good to see you.
Oh, and btw, I see you're headed out west. Looks nice. If ever head in our direction, we'd love to meet you. By then, Gary will be walking.
Oh, this is cute. Who would have known that underwear could be a thing for which one would express so much gratitude? I am glad you pointed toward this post. I saw it the other day but somehow lost it in the busyness of hiking and biting flies and such. Wishing the best for your husband's recovery, Lori. Such a challenging time for both of you.
It's great to see that you're both maintaining your senses of humor through all of these trials. It really is the simplest things in life that give us the longest-lasting joys. One hurdle passed with the underwear. Now—on to two socks!
Yay, for socks. You said the magic words, JM. He finally got two socks on today. Socks and underwear, a luxury. 🙂 Thanks so much for your kind words. I'm glad you can see our sense of humor come across in my post.
Haven't figured out how to grocery shop online yet, but that's something to look into. Thanks for your support, Miss Andrea.
It's those things we don't even think about that we miss when they're not available to us… I'm not sure about the U.S. but in Australia going without underwear is called "going commando", and no grocery shopping is called "going hungry"… or "going broke" if resorting to take away meals.
Hehe, yes, underwear has been resumed. Yep, all those things you said are terms in Australia, are terms here too. No more commando for hubby. His fruit is back in the loom. Hehe. In case you didn't know, Fruit Of The Loom is an underwear brand name. Thanks, EllaDee.
Yep, things we don't even think about and take for granted because they seem to come automatic. Now, we're grateful. Thanks for stopping by to read, Kourtney. Have a great trip.
Great lessons to be learned by all of us.It's the ordinary tasks that we take most for granted, but help shape a good deal of our lives.
Great point, Joy. Those ordinary tasks add up and do shape a good portion of our lives. Thanks so much for adding this note. Blessings to you.
Having gone through this with relatives more than once I have learned that when someone reaches a point in their life that they stop wearing underwear that this becomes kind of a permanent thing at times. The goal gets really murky at this point, hoping that you don't freak out the neighbors or that the folks in the mall can see the real humor in life.
I don't think this guy is ready to stop wearing underwear at this point. He's too thrilled to have them back on. Heh. Thanks for reading about my poor hubby and his old underwear woes, Charlie.
I think they appreciated no hand-me-down underwear. Ha. Yep, socks are next. He's wearing one sock on the left. The right might be able to fit one, but it's still a bit swollen. Love ya, too Mom.
You can never take the little things for granted! By the way, how did he manage to get any sleep with that thing in his foot? So glad he is recovering nicely.
Sleeping wasn't easy. As you can imagine, he is sleeping better since Thursday when he got it off. Thanks for your support, Cheryl.
Yah for underwear and getting better to wear same!
Thanks, Linda. Slowly but surely we're moving ahead.
Now that's progress! Thanks for sharing the great news, Lori! Seriously, I'm happy to hear the Fixater was removed..
Thanks for your supportive words, Miss Jill.
Heh, yeah, and I didn't expect to be grateful for underwear, but here we are. I'm sure we'll find even more things to be grateful for as we move forward. Thanks, Andy.
We sure take a lot for granted, don't we? You've just gone through a hard wake-up call. Who would have thought wearing underwear was such a big deal (until we tried going without it)? Who would have thought the grocery shopping was such a chore (until we have to do it). [I'm with you on the grocery shopping.] Good to hear that your husband is improving.
As he moves forward, I'm sure we'll find more and more reasons to be grateful. Thanks for you support, Anneli.


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How to Repair a Skylight Leak
Skylight Condensation
How a Skylight Is Built
Fixing Skylight Leaks
Expert advice on how to repair a skylight, including help with leaks and condensation problems.
Because skylights interrupt and penetrate the surface of a roof, they are particularly prone to leaking. Rainwater flows down the roof, collects at the top of the skylight, builds up, and eventually finds a place around the edges where it can come dribbling inside.
Various Types of Roof and Skylight Flashing
Skylights are typically manufactured with their own integral metal flashing—a flat metal flange that extends from the body of the skylight and tucks underneath the roof shingles.
In some cases, a skylight is set up on a curb that is flashed with continuous flashing along the base, step flashing up the sides, and saddle flashing across the top, similar to the way a chimney is flashed. This is described in greater detail below.
Before you crawl into the attic to find the source of the leak, consider the possibility of condensation.
If you have a roof leak that appears to be at the skylight, the first thing to do is rule out condensation as the source. A skylight in a humid room, such as a bathroom, can drip moisture—it appears to be a leak, but it isn't. When the warm, moist room air reaches the cold glazing of the skylight, it condenses, and drips down. The way to solve this is to reduce the humidity in the room. For more about this, improve the ventilation or check into a dehumidifier.
A skylight is like a window in the roof, but its frame is designed and flashed to withstand the rigors of rainfall that a roof receives. As shown at right, a skylight's flashing works in concert with the roofing material to usher away rain and snow.
Integral flashing is built onto the perimeter of some skylights.
Though some frames are solid wood or aluminum, most new skylights are made of a combination of metal, vinyl, and wood. The exterior frames tend to be aluminum cladding with a durable finish—the part you see inside is often made of solid wood, plywood, or white vinyl. Newer skylights are virtually leak-free thanks to rugged construction and easy-to-install, integral flashing. They're also equipped with channels that carry away condensation.
The cross-section view of a glass skylight shows key parts and how the flashing provides continuous drainage down the roof.
Cross-section View of Glass Skylight
A skylight's shaft (see below) governs how light is delivered to the room below. If all four sides are flared, light spreads over a wide area. A shaft with perpendicular sides focuses the light straight below. If the shaft is flared on only one or two sides, it sprays more light in the flared direction.
Main Types of Skylight Shafts
If your skylight leaks, chances are good that the problem is the seal between the flashing and the roof. Identifying where the leak is originating is the first step. For more about troubleshooting a roof leak, please see How to Find & Fix a Roof Leak.
To fix a leaking skylight:
1 Lift up the shingles next to the skylight one at a time and brush out any dirt and debris.
2 Using a caulking gun loaded with a tube of roofing cement, force the mastic up under the shingle where the metal flashing meets the roofing felt (the thick black paper under the roofing material). Then press down on the roofing shingles to seal them tight.
3 Seal any obvious holes, open seams or joints in the flashing, too. For this, you can use the same roofing cement. Do NOT seal weep holes in the skylight frame that are designed to carry away water.
4 Also check the seal where the skylight's glass meets the frame. If you see any signs of leaking, seal this with clear silicone caulk.
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The Universal Studios Hollywood version of Harry Potter's magical kingdom opening April 7 will be less than a third the size of its Orlando counterpart, but Pottermania will prevail, earning the park riches beyond ticket admissions.
According to the Los Angeles Times, industry experts predict a surge in food and merchandise sales, pointing to the success of the 2010 opening of Harry Potter land at Universal's Islands of Adventure in Orlando, Fla. While its attendance shot up 20 percent, revenue jumped 41 percent for the year thanks to visitors stocking up on magic wands, Gryffindor robes, chocolate frogs and other Potter-themed souvenirs.
"If the company's Harry Potter debut in Orlando is any indication, the Hollywood opening of the Wizarding World attraction should be massive," said Nick Petrillo, an analyst for Santa Monica-based research group IBISWorld.
Much is at stake for the theme park's parent company, Comcast Corp., which invested an estimated $500 million to build the Wizarding World of Harry Potter on the site of the Gibson Amphitheatre.
The attraction is the latest in a $1.6-billion, 25-year makeover of the park and adjacent studio facilities.


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Voices from the Field – H.A.S. Foundation, Inc.
Young people learn teamwork, leadership, and many other social and life skills through participation in team sports. Kids get exercise, and sports provide an outlet for energy. Studies have suggested sports involvement helps keep children safe and out of trouble. But, most of all, they have fun, build confidence, and develop lasting friendships. As a mom, I can't imagine a child not having the same opportunities as my own kids have had on the field and on the court.
In March 2015, I set up H.A.S. Foundation as a way of "Helping Athletes Score." My three children, for whom the foundation gets its initials, have played multiple team sports in our East Cobb community. They have been very fortunate to have had invaluable experiences and made many good friends. But, I know that there are young athletes who can't say that. As long as a child is enrolled in school, is living or playing in Cobb County, and meets eligibility criteria, I want to help. The foundation's goal is to provide a funding source so that those kids who want to play aren't held back by circumstances beyond their control.
We are always looking to raise funds to support our mission, so feel free to let me know if you have an idea or wish to make a donation. My board of directors and I are available to speak with a sports organization we can partner with or other organizations who would like to learn more.
President & Founder of H.A.S. Foundation, Inc.
"I have coached 70 teams across six sports in the last 15 years here in East Cobb. I have been an officer, board member, commissioner, or administrator in basketball, baseball, lacrosse, soccer, track, and cross country. EVERY season there are young athletes that can't sign up because their parents can't afford to pay for their participation. Usually the leagues have little or NO budget to help these kids out.


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Eight Simple Rules for Dating a Dragon
A Novel of the Embraced
Kerrelyn Sparks
"Deeply satisfying, delightfully swoon-inducing."—Publishers Weekly on Kerrelyn Sparks's Love at Stake series
TRUTH—OR DARE?
Gwennore is an Elf able to track down the cause of a certain illness and heal it—a valuable asset to her people. But when she is thrust into the realm of the dragons, she discovers a haunted place of power, passion, and magic—one that is plagued by an ancient curse. When she meets the smoldering General Silas Dravenko, Gwen knows she's entered a whole new world of trouble. She's been raised never to trust a dragon. So why does making a deal with the devil feel so good?
Silas has no way of saving the royal family he's served for years. But when a beautiful, innocent elf comes bursting into his world, Silas is awakened to desire in a way he's never felt before. But how can he trust a sworn enemy. . .and how can he live without her, in Eight Simple Rules for Dating a Dragon by New York Times bestselling author Kerrelyn Sparks.
Praise For Eight Simple Rules for Dating a Dragon: A Novel of the Embraced…
"A glittering light in fantasy romance." - Booklist
"The Embraced series will not let you down!" - RT Book Reviews
"A deeply satisfying, delightfully swoon-inducing close...full of vulnerability and tenderness." — Publishers Weekly (starred review) on Crouching Tiger, Forbidden Vampire
"Mixing paranormal romance with humor, Sparks clearly has a style all her own, one that readers love." — USA Today's Happily Ever After blog
"Sparks skillfully infuses her writing with a deliciously sharp wit." — Booklist
St. Martin's Paperbacks, 9781250108258, 448pp.
Kerrelyn Sparks apparently has issues with reality. After writing more than a dozen books about vampires, she has now completely gone off the deep end and wound up on another planet. But how thrilling that she can share this magical new world with her readers! Although she is best known (so far) for the Love at Stake series, which has hit as high as number 5 on the New York Times list and 22 on the USA Today list, she hopes her readers will love The Embraced as much as they did her merry band of vamps and shifters. To learn more about her paranormal, historical, and new out-of- this-world fantasy romances, please visit Kerrelyn on Facebook, Twitter, or her website.


What is physical child abuse?
What is emotional child abuse?
Bullying is unwanted, aggressive behavior that involves a real or perceived power imbalance. The behavior is repeated, or has the potential to be repeated, over time. Bullying includes actions such as making threats, spreading rumors, attacking someone physically or verbally, and excluding someone from a group on purpose.
Sending you horrible emails or messages on Facebook and other social networking websites.
The behavior re-occurs often, leaving the victim scared of another attack soon again.
This includes threatening, or actually doing the action of hitting, kicking, pushing, or any other physical harm. Others include stealing, hiding or destroying your belongings. Sometimes, you are forced to do things you don't want to do.
This includes calling you names, teasing, people giggling, insulting and laughing at you each time they see you.
This also includes people refusing to talk, share or allow you to join in with activities. Others include spreading lies (or even truths about something you may have done).
This includes people using the internet, email, online games or any other kind of digital technology to threaten, tease, upset or humiliate someone else.
agreeing with someone who posts something hurtful.
Bullying happens everywhere, and all the time. Many adults see it as part of growing up. Sometimes you can try to be tougher and stand against it. Sometimes, you need to tell an adult to help.


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Six youths charged after incident that caused lockdown at high school
Six youths who were arrested after a lockdown at a Milton, Ont., high school have now been charged with robbery and a weapons offence.
The six, who cannot be identified because they are underage, were taken into custody Thursday after an incident at Bishop Reding Catholic Secondary School.


BACKGROUND AND PURPOSE: The early diagnosis of LMNA-associated muscular dystrophy is important for preventing sudden arrest related to cardiac conduction block. However, diagnosing early-onset Emery-Dreifuss muscular dystrophy (EDMD) with later involvement of contracture and limb-girdle muscular dystrophy type 1B is often delayed due to heterogeneous clinical presentations. We aimed to determine the clinical features that contribute to a delayed diagnosis. METHODS: We reviewed four patients who were recently diagnosed with LMNA-associated muscular dystrophy by targeted exome sequencing and who were initially diagnosed with nonspecific or other types of muscular dystrophy. RESULTS: Certain clinical features such as delayed contracture involvement and calf hypertrophy were found to contribute to a delayed diagnosis. Muscle biopsies were not informative for the diagnosis in these patients. CONCLUSIONS: Genetic testing of single or multiple genes is useful for confirming a diagnosis of LMNA-associated muscular dystrophy. Even EDMD patients could experience the later involvement of contracture, so clinicians should consider early genetic testing for patients with undiagnosed muscular dystrophy or laminopathy.


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Jefferson Winter
THE QUIET MAN BY JAMES CAROL (JEFFERSON WINTER #4)
Synopsis: In Vancouver, the wife of a millionaire is dead following an explosion in her own home.
Everyone thinks her husband is responsible, but former FBI profiler Jefferson Winter isn't so sure. The method is too perfect; the lack of mistakes, uncanny. He's seen a series of carefully orchestrated murders – once a year, on exactly the same day, a woman dies in a situation just like this one.
That date is fast approaching and Winter knows another victim has been selected. Can he identify the quiet man before he strikes again?
Kat's Review: Having recently read Prey (Book 3 in this series) I was raring to go with the newest book by James Carol. Jefferson Winter is a memorable character, an ex-FBI guy with a shock of white hair who appears to live off of coffee and cigarettes. Seeing as Jeffersons own father was a Serial Killer, he has an unusual insight and has never really laid his hat anywhere. His work takes him all over the world and the latest case takes him to Vancouver in Canada.
This latest case is certainly unusual and it appears that the killer strikes just once a year on a specific date. His method of killing is by bomb and when PI Laura Anderton asks for his help he is only to happy to oblige. Anderton is a great character and seeing as she is an ex-copper it gives her an edge as well as experience. She and Winters make a great team and the cameraderie between them is obvious from the outset. Anderton was hired by the husband of the first victim and the two of therm together make a formidable team but don't prove to be terribly popular!
Jefferson is one of those characters that has personal experience, years of actual experience as well as some twisted and warped logic at times. However, it seems to be what gets the job done. I particularly relished some of the scenes between Jefferson and a particularly irritating reporter. Although Jefferson is good at his job and such an interesting character to read he also has a darker side which makes for compulsive reading. As much as I enjoyed Prey the last book, this one feels more like the original book and was a real page turner. I thoroughly enjoyed it and cannot wait to read book 5!
James CarolJefferson Winter, RATED 4/5
PREY BY JAMES CAROL (JEFFERSON WINTER #3)
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Synopsis: Six years ago a young married couple were found brutally stabbed to death in their home in Upstate New York. Local police arrested a suspect who later committed suicide. But what if the police got it wrong?
Ex-FBI profiler Jefferson Winter is drawn into a deadly cat-and-mouse game with a mysterious female psychopath as she sets him a challenge: find out what really happened six years ago.
The clock is ticking and, as Winter is about to find out, the endgame is everything.
Kat's Review: I was blown away by the first book in this series Broken Dolls and moved straight onto book 2. Book 2 (entitled Watch Me) was also a great read however didn't have quite the same pull the first book did. After finishing book 3 I felt the same. It was a great read, but it didn't blow me away. Knowing that book 4 is soon to be released was as good as any a reason to get caught up right in time for it. Jefferson Winter is a brilliant character, he smokes too much, he has a shock of white hair, an IQ that is crazy and to top it all off he works for himself. He used to be an FBI profiler however now he works freelance and it means he doesn't have quite the same rules to follow as others. What makes this character even more special is that his Father was a Serial Killer. Yep, you read that right! It always gives Jefferson an edge and it feels like he is fighting his own battle to prove he is not like his Father.
The opening chapters of the book throw you quite literally in to the deep end as a killer manages to murder a cook in front of Jefferson, all before he ate his breakfast! What gave this book an interesting edge was that the killer was female. As openings go, it certainly started with a bang. Knowing that he has to find this woman Jefferson enlists the help of Mendoza, an NYPD Homicide Detective. Mendoza is a closed book but I like the fact that she is inclined to disbelieve Jefferson first, it certainly makes for an interesting dynamic.
Their search takes them to a cold case with the murder of a young married couple in Upstate New York. The story picks up pace and as clues are uncovered the story unravels little by little. Jefferson and Mendoza fight until they unravel all of the threads that hold this story together and layer by layer is revealed, usually with a graphic scene or two thrown in! I am a huge fan of James Carol and really love Jefferson Winter, I am just waiting for that wow factor again. Even without that extra wow, his books are enjoyable and I will definitely continue to follow this series.
WATCH ME BY JAMES CAROL (JEFFERSON WINTER #2)
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Synopsis: Ex-FBI profiler Jefferson Winter has taken a new case in sunny Louisiana, where the only thing more intense than the heat is a killer on the loose in the small town of Eagle Creek. But in a town where secrets are rife and history has a way of repeating itself, can Winter solve the case before someone else dies?
My Review: I read the first Jefferson Winter Book (Broken Dolls) and absolutely LOVED It. I was looking forward to once again meeting the white haired, Whisky loving profiler Jefferson Winter. Jefferson has a unique angle from his job as his father was once a serial killer. This makes Jefferson a somewhat more complex character than most. However, when it comes down to it, he seems reasonably sound considering his circumstances. He does however have a habit of drinking too much coffee, smoking too many cigarettes and partaking in great whiskey (in other words a very readable and likeable bloke).
He is essentially freelance so when the latest case comes to his attention he jumps on a place bound for Louisiana. He's met by man-mountain named Taylor who just clicked with Winter from the second they meet. Jefferson has his work cut out trying to figure out the latest case and the murder he has witnessed on screen seems to be only the beginning.
The actual story itself was told well and there was enough threads and intrigue to keep me very interested. However, although the story didn't have quite the same pull that the first book did, the characters definitely held my attention. For some reason Jefferson, Taylor and Hannah (the owner of the place Jefferson is staying) just worked. The dynamic between them was good and I really hope this book isn't the last we see of them!
I think this outing was definitely a page turner, however didn't quite live up to the first book. Having said that I think this series has huge potential and most definitely has me hooked already. I can't wait to see where Winter goes next and will really look forward to reading the next book.
BROKEN DOLLS BY JAMES CAROL (JEFFERSON WINTER #1)
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Synopsis: Ex-FBI star profiler Jefferson Winter is no ordinary investigator. An eccentric genius and self-described geek with a passion for Mozart, he is haunted by the legacy of his notorious serial killer father . . . and not likely to admit this may be why he has such a phenomenal insight into the psychology that drives the criminals he hunts.
The former G-man is now a sought after freelance consultant, jetting around the globe helping local law enforcement agencies with their toughest cases. When Detective Inspector Mark Hatcher calls from Scotland Yard about a particularly disturbing case, Winter leaves his native California for the chilly streets of London to help track down a sadistic serial kidnapper.
Four victims, all young women, all tortured and then lobotomised. None of them able to tell the police the name of their attacker. None of them able to live normal lives again. Just broken dolls, played with then discarded.
When another young woman goes missing, Winter has to race against the clock to identify the attacker and find the latest victim before it's too late.


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I prefer to don't use Microblaze so write state machine for icap as below:
library IEEE;
use IEEE.STD_LOGIC_1164.ALL;
use IEEE.STD_LOGIC_arith.ALL;
use IEEE.STD_LOGIC_unsigned.ALL;

library UNISIM;
use UNISIM.VComponents.all;
Library UNIMACRO;
use UNIMACRO.vcomponents.all;

entity Main is
    port(
            Clk: in std_logic;
            Output: out std_logic_vector(2 downto 0)
            );
end Main;

architecture Behavioral of Main is
    signal Q: std_logic_vector(47 downto 0);
    signal Load, Clk1hz, Clk1 : std_logic;
    signal Local : std_logic_vector(1 downto 0);
    component ROM  ------------------------------ ROM Component Decleration
    port (
            Clka: in std_logic;
            Addra: in std_logic_vector(11 downto 0);
            Douta: out std_logic_vector(31 downto 0));
    end component;  -------------------------------------------------------End
    signal ROM_Address, ROM_Address_Init : std_logic_vector(11 downto 0);  -------- ROM and ICAP Signals Decleration
    signal ROM_Data : std_logic_vector(31 downto 0);
    signal ICAP_Din, ICAP_Dout : std_logic_vector(31 downto 0);
    signal ICAP_CE, ICAP_Clk, ICAP_Clk1, En, ROM_Clk, ROM_Clk1, ICAP_WR : std_logic; --------------------------------------End
begin

    Clk1Hz <= Clk1;
    process(clk)
    begin
        if (rising_edge(Clk)) then
            if (Q=x"000005F5E100") then
                Load <= '1';
                Clk1 <= not Clk1;
            else
                Load <= '0';
            end if;
        end if;
    end process;
    Output(0) <= not(En);
    Output(2 downto 1) <= not(Local);
    ----------------------------------------------------
    ----------------------------------------------------
    U_UpDown: entity work.Counter
    port map(
            Clk => Clk1Hz, En => '1', Output => Local
            );
    ----------------------------------------------------
    ----------------------------------------------------
    U1 : COUNTER_LOAD_MACRO
   generic map (
      COUNT_BY => X"000000000001", -- Count by value
      DEVICE => "VIRTEX5",         -- Target Device: "VIRTEX5", "VIRTEX6", "SPARTAN6"
      WIDTH_DATA => 48)            -- Counter output bus width, 1-48
   port map (
      Q => Q,                 -- Counter output, width determined by WIDTH_DATA generic
      CLK => CLK,             -- 1-bit clock input
      CE => '1',               -- 1-bit clock enable input
      DIRECTION => '1', -- 1-bit up/down count direction input, high is count up
      LOAD => LOAD,           -- 1-bit active high load input
      LOAD_DATA => x"000000000000", -- Counter load data, width determined by WIDTH_DATA generic
      RST => '0'              -- 1-bit active high synchronous reset
   );

    --------------------------------------------
    --------------------------------------------
    process(Clk1Hz)  -------------------------------------------- ROM and ICAP Modules and Related Codes
    variable Count : integer range 0 to 6:=0;
    begin
        if (rising_edge(Clk1Hz)) then
            Count := Count + 1;
            if (Count = 2) then
                En <= '1';
                ROM_Address_Init <= conv_std_logic_vector(0,12);
            else
                En <= '0';
            end if;
        end if;
    end process;
    --------------------------------------------
    --------------------------------------------
    U_ROM: ROM
    port map (Clka => ROM_Clk1, Addra => ROM_Address, Douta => ROM_Data);
    BUFG_inst : BUFG
   port map (
      O => ROM_Clk1,     -- Clock buffer output
      I => ROM_Clk      -- Clock buffer input
   );
    BUFG_inst1 : BUFG
   port map (
      O => ICAP_Clk1,     -- Clock buffer output
      I => ICAP_Clk      -- Clock buffer input
   );

    ICAP_VIRTEX5_inst : ICAP_VIRTEX5
   generic map (
      ICAP_WIDTH => "X32") -- "X8", "X16" or "X32"
   port map (
      BUSY => open,   -- Busy output
      O => ICAP_Dout,         -- 32-bit data output
      CE => ICAP_CE,       -- Clock enable input
      CLK => ICAP_Clk1,     -- Clock input
      I => ICAP_Din,         -- 32-bit data input
      WRITE => ICAP_WR  -- Write input
   );
--  ICAP_Din(31 downto 8) <= x"000000";  -------------------------------End
    U_ICAP_SM: block  -------------------------------------
        type State_Type is (State0, State00, State1, State2, State3, State4, State5, State6);
        signal Pr_State, Nx_State : State_Type;
    begin
        Process(En,Clk)
        begin
            if (En = '0') then
                Pr_State <= State0;
            elsif (rising_edge(Clk)) then
                Pr_State <= Nx_State;
            end if;
        end process;
        process(Pr_State)
        begin
            case Pr_State is --*****
            when State0 =>
                Nx_State <= State00;
                ROM_Address <= x"000";
                ICAP_WR <= '1';
                ROM_Clk <= '0';
                ICAP_Clk <= '0';
                ICAP_CE <= '1';
            when State00 =>
                Nx_State <= State1;
                ICAP_WR <= '0';
            when State1 =>
                Nx_State <= State2;
                ICAP_CE <= '0';
                ROM_Clk <= '1';
            when State2 =>
                Nx_State <= State3;
                ICAP_Din <= ROM_Data;
                ROM_Clk <= '0';
            when State3 =>
                Nx_State <= State4;
                ICAP_Clk <= '1';
            when State4 =>
                Nx_State <= State5;
                ICAP_Clk <= '0';
            when State5 =>
                if (ROM_Address = conv_std_logic_vector(3134,12)) then
                    Nx_State <= State6;
                    ICAP_CE <= '1';
                    ROM_Address <= X"000";
                else
                    Nx_State <= State1;
                    ROM_Address <= (ROM_Address + 1);
                end if;
            when State6 =>
                ICAP_WR <= '1';
            end case;
        end process;
    end Block U_ICAP_SM;  -----------------------------------
end Behavioral;

I saved the bit stream (.coe file) of one of the counter (for example up-counter) in ROM. By default circuit is down counting, but when I exchange bit stream by icap (load .coe file of up-counter from ROM) nothing happens and circuit is counting down. (***** in the code)
how can I fix it?


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Choosing the right foods to give you the nutrition you need from easily-digestible sources is a crucial consideration when you're exercising over several hours, but it's particularly important for desert and canyon hiking because you're more likely to experience temperature extremes in these areas. Your body expends a lot of extra energy keeping you cool when it's hot and warm when it's cool, so for your body to keep itself at a normal temperature when hiking, you're typically going to need more food than you think. It's always better to have too much food than not enough, and as long as you're choosing high energy foods you should be able to pack plenty without having to carry a huge amount of excess weight. While your normal every-day diet might be packed with vegetables and other healthy foods, these aren't foods you want to include too much of when hiking: most vegetables—especially those that can be eaten raw—are far too low in calories and carbohydrates to serve as adequate sources of energy, particularly so considering the vast amounts you'd need to pack and carry. Small amounts of vegetables are great, but they shouldn't form the bulk of the hiking diet.
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In general, plain water is the best choice for hydration throughout the day, although there are reasons to choose water with additives of one kind or another. For example, since canyon and desert hiking is typically dry as well as hot work, you're losing a lot of water through sweat and evaporation, and you're also losing a lot of salts as well. Electrolyte-replacement drinks are a good bet for replacing both salts and water, and can be drunk at half-strength to make sure you're not overloading on salts. If you prefer to drink your water plain, bear in mind that you'll need to replenish salts with the foods you eat, so be sure to choose salty snacks for eating while hiking.
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2nd October, 2013 November 5, 2019
4 Stars, Anna Jarzab, Fantasy, Forbidden Love, Parallel Universes, Politics, Rebellion, Romance, Royalty, Science Fiction, Tandem, Young Adult
Series: Many-Worlds Trilogy #1
Published by: Delacorte Books for Young Readers on October 8, 2013
Genre: Fantasy, Romance, Science Fiction
Source: BookExpo America
Buy on Amazon • Book Details
Rating: ★★★★
Everything repeats.
You. Your best friend. Every person you know.
Many worlds. Many lives—infinite possibilities.
Welcome to the multiverse.
Sixteen-year-old Sasha Lawson has only ever known one small, ordinary life. When she was young, she loved her grandfather's stories of parallel worlds inhabited by girls who looked like her but led totally different lives. Sasha never believed such worlds were real—until now, when she finds herself thrust into one against her will.
To prevent imminent war, Sasha must slip into the life of an alternate version of herself, a princess who has vanished on the eve of her arranged marriage. If Sasha succeeds in fooling everyone, she will be returned home; if she fails, she'll be trapped in another girl's life forever. As time runs out, Sasha finds herself torn between two worlds, two lives, and two young men vying for her love—one who knows her secret, and one who thinks she's someone she's not.
The first book in the Many-Worlds Trilogy, Tandem is a riveting saga of love and betrayal set in parallel universes in which nothing—and no one—is what it seems.
Tandem is a fun and original new take on parallel universes! I think this book really proves how you can take a similar idea and twist it into something totally different. I got hooked on the idea of parallel universes after reading Parallel by Lauren Miller. But despite both books being about parallel universes, they are both completely different. Actually, now that I think about it, if anything, the parallel universe concept in Tandem is similar to The Golden Compass by Philip Pullman.
Tandem is far from lacking in the swoony boys department! I adored the romance in this book. There is a bit of a love triangle, but it's honestly not really a love triangle because although there are two boys in the picture, Sasha only has her eyes on one of them. I loved both guys though. Thomas is… well, he's kind of perfect. He's a high ranking security guy, which means he's pretty grown up and badass (despite being a teenager). But he's also a really, genuinely amazing guy. He promises to never lie to Sasha, and he doesn't! Throughout the entire book! And considering that he's a high up military guy in another universe, that kind of says a lot. Thomas is sweet, hot, romantic, and all around just deeeliiiicious!
Then we have Callum. Callum is super different from Thomas, but he's also a nice guy. He's a prince in the parallel world, but he's so down to earth. He acts just like a regular, nice, high school guy. But that's why I felt so bad for Callum. Sasha has to enter a parallel universe and pretend to be her parallel self (princess Juliana), because the real Juliana was kidnapped. But Callum thinks that Sasha is really Juliana, the woman he's been arranged to marry. So he's trying to really get to know her and ease into some kind of intimate life, since they'll be married… but Sasha has no intention of staying in this parallel universe forever. And I just felt so, so bad for Callum who was a nice guy trying to make the most of an arranged marriage, but little did he know that he wasn't even talking to the real princess Juliana this whole time! I just wanted to hug him.
I think the world building is definitely where Tandem was lacking. Some parts of the world building were done pretty well, like going over the idea of parallel universes and the science behind them—that was all fine. But the actual parallel universe that we spend most of the book in wasn't built up very well. There's clearly a ton of political unrest. There are two main kingdoms, which are divided up in the United States. But then there's also a rebellion group trying to dismantle both kingdoms and form like a democracy. But we get very little history about all of this and overall I didn't have a very good grasp of the world's history, why their politics was so messed up, etc. And since the politics were a huge part of the book, that was a bit of a bummer.
I sort of have a love/hate relationship with Sasha. She was okay at the very beginning, but as soon as she went into the parallel universe, she annoyed me. She cried a lot and she ignored common sense. I mean, I get that she was kidnapped and that's scary, but they laid out pretty clear terms and instructions for her and said they'd take her back if she followed them. They also said, "Hide your face because you're really recognizable here and it would be a really bad thing if people saw you." So she immediately ran out into the open, deliberately showed her face, and then people tried to kill her because of it. Yeah, nice job Sasha. But towards the end of the book, Sasha felt a lot more independent and sure of herself. She wasn't that teary, crying girl anymore. She actually took charge, uncovered secrets, and became a much stronger character.
Overall, Tandem is definitely worth reading. It's an interesting book with a sweet romance, and it leaves off in a phenomenal place. The end of the book really picked up and hooked me in!
I'm waiting and waiting for a new and original and fresh dystopian read! While I see that world-building drooped at certain points, and the politics were messed up? Well, hmmm…
I like realistic, believable guys, and at least it seems that the romance in this one will be a WIN!
I've not read this one, but I've seen all the buzz about it! It'll be releasing soon, so perhaps I'll get to pick this one up!
Great review Ashley, I'm glad you enjoyed this one! 😀
OMG I want now!! This sounds awesome. So original.
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Jessie Marie @ Jessie Marie Reads says:
Wicked cool cover. I just finished reading Unraveling which was awesome. I'm definitely craving more parallel universe reads after that. I'm interested in this not love triangle, love triangle thing. I'm just really intrigued, overall, I suppose.
Although… you said it was similar-ish to Golden Compass and I… didn't love that. Maybe I didn't like it because I binge-read the whole series but that's neither here nor there.
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Well I think it's just similar to the Golden Compass in the very overall idea of parallel universes and how they're implemented. In terms of writing style, characters, and religion, I think they're totally different!
So I guess it depends on why you didn't like TGC specifically!
Jessi @ Auntie Spinelli Reads says:
Yay, I'm so glad you liked it! I love parallel universe stories and I've been really looking forward to this one. I'm a little worried about the world building and about Sasha annoying me, but I definitely want to try it!
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I really like the parallel universe idea. I am adding this to my list not. Wonderful review.
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Amber @ The Mile Long Bookshelf says:
What a good review! I've only just discovered your blog but it's already become one of my favourites. This book sounds very different and the front cover looks stunning. Think I may have to check this one out, thanks Ashley! 🙂
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Thank you so much! 😀 I hope you like it!
This book sounds so interesting and I really want to read it… badly! I need to get my hands on it soon!
Great review! 🙂
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Kristen@My Friends Are Fiction says:
I have been avoiding this review since Tandem is up next on my TBR pile. I kept seeing it listed on Bloglovin and finally succumbed to clicking to see what you scored it at least. So happy to see 4 stars! I didn't read further but feel optimistic I'll enjoy it too. 🙂
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Missie says:
Sounds really good!
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