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Steve MacLean is stepping down from his position as president of the Canadian Space Agency to work for Research In Motion. The news of MacLean's departure from the CSA was announced today at an agency-wide meeting. While MacLean's exit comes fresh off the heels of approval for the $706 million?RADARSAT Constellation mission, he is leaving as the agency faces budget cuts.
For now, the great unknowns are who will be the new president of the CSA and what Steve MacLean will do at RIM. With one of the first Canadian astronauts (and second Canadian to walk in space) on RIM's team, we're expecting something big. In other words, a BlackBerry that shoots into space would be cool.
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JERUSALEM (Reuters) - Long-strained ties between Benjamin Netanyahu and Barack Obama sprang to the fore of Israel's election campaign on Wednesday after the U.S. president was quoted as criticizing the prime minister's character.
Less than a week before a January 22 ballot that opinion polls predict the right-wing Netanyahu will win easily, Israeli media highlighted a U.S. commentator's column on Obama and questioned whether the Democratic president was trying to sway the vote.
Netanyahu's office declined comment on Tuesday's unsourced column by Bloomberg's Jeffrey Goldberg, which described Obama as frustrated at West Bank settlement building that has deepened Israel's diplomatic impasse with the Palestinians.
"If Reuters can confirm that the story is true, I'll talk about it," said Netanyahu spokesman Mark Regev.
The White House has not commented on the column's content.
"Obama said privately and repeatedly, 'Israel doesn't know what its own best interests are'," Goldberg wrote.
The president "seems to view the prime minister as a political coward, an essentially unchallenged leader who nevertheless is unwilling to lead or spend political capital to advance the cause of compromise", added Goldberg.
Some Israeli commentators saw the column as payback for Netanyahu's perceived back-room lobbying on behalf of Republican Mitt Romney in his failed run against Obama in November's U.S. election. Netanyahu has denied any such meddling.
Though it was front-page news, the Bloomberg column looked unlikely to dent Netanyahu's electoral lead, with his Likud-Beiteinu list expected to take around 34 of parliament's 120 seats and form the next coalition government.
A centrist challenger, former Foreign Minister and peace negotiator Tzipi Livni, has made Israel's international isolation under Netanyahu the focus of her campaign. She has lagged in polls with a projected 6 to 8 parliamentary seats.
"Attempts to speak to the Israeli voter through the American press are total non-starters," said Amotz Asa-El, a fellow with the Hartman Institute, a liberal think-tank in Jerusalem.
Most Israelis, Asa-El argued, were disenchanted by abortive peacemaking, worried by regional upheaval and preoccupied with domestic affairs. Foreign criticism of Netanyahu, he said, could shore him up against rivals further to the right.
"These (far-rightists) have never heard of Bloomberg, let alone of Jeffrey Goldberg. If anything, this (criticism) is likely to make them vote for Netanyahu," Asa-El said. "There is no traffic of undecided voters between the rightist bloc and the center-left bloc, only within the blocs."
Several Israeli officials questioned whether the quotes attributed to Obama reflected the view of his administration, which, like the Netanyahu government, has played up the strength of bilateral ties on issues ranging from the Palestinians to the Syrian insurgency and Iran's disputed nuclear programme.
Vice Premier Silvan Shalom, of the Likud, told Israel's Army Radio: "I don't know if these things were said, because he (Obama) did not say them in his own voice."
Shalom appeared to acknowledged tensions between Netanyahu and Obama. But he praised the U.S. president's tack on Iran - Israel's main regional worry - and said bilateral ties trumped personal "baggage".
"I have seen many countries where the relationship between the leaders was good but there were no common interests and thus no cooperation. By contrast, in other places where there were interests but, perhaps, the relationships were less good, the interests were ultimately what took precedent," Shalom said. (Writing by Dan Williams; Editing by Alistair Lyon)
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Jan. 15, 2013 ? A research team at the Georgia Tech Research Institute (GTRI) is developing an airborne testing capability for sensors, communications devices and other airborne payloads. This aerial test bed, called the GTRI Airborne Unmanned Sensor System (GAUSS), is based on an unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) made by Griffon Aerospace and modified by GTRI.
"Developing new sensor technologies that can be effectively employed from the air is a priority today given the rapidly increasing use of unmanned aircraft," said Michael Brinkmann, a GTRI principal research engineer who is leading the work. "Given suitable technology, small UAVs can perform complex, low-altitude missions effectively and at lower cost. The GAUSS system gives GTRI and its customers the ability to develop and test new airborne payloads in a rapid, cost effective way."
The current project includes development, installation and testing of a sensor suite relevant to many of GTRI's customers. This suite consists of a camera package, a signals intelligence package for detecting and locating ground-based emitters, and a multi-channel ground-mapping radar.
The radar is being designed using phased-array antenna technology that enables electronic scanning. This approach is more flexible and agile than traditional mechanically steered antennas.
The combined sensor package is lightweight enough to be carried by the GAUSS UAV, which is a variant of the Griffon Outlaw ER aircraft and has a 13.6-foot wingspan and a payload capacity of approximately 40 pounds.
The aircraft navigates using a high precision global positioning system (GPS) combined with an inertial navigation system. These help guide the UAV, which can be programmed for autonomous flight or piloted manually from the ground. The airborne mission package also includes multi-terabyte onboard data recording and a stabilized gimbal that isolates the camera from aircraft movement.
Heavier sensor designs have several disadvantages, observed Mike Heiges, a principal research engineer who leads the GTRI team that is responsible for flying and maintaining the UAV platform. Larger sensors require larger unmanned aircraft to carry them, and those aircraft use bigger engines and must fly higher to avoid detection.
"Rather than have your design spiral upwards until you're using very large and expensive aircraft, smaller sensors allow the use of smaller aircraft," Heiges said. "A smaller UAV saves money and is logistically easier to support. But most important, it can gather information closer to the tactical level on the ground, where it's arguably most valuable."
The GTRI team has developed a modular design that allows the GAUSS platform to be reconfigured for a number of sensor types. Among the possibilities for evaluation are devices that utilize light detection and ranging (LIDAR) technology and chemical-biological sensing technology.
"The overall concept for the GAUSS program is that the airplane itself will be simply a conveyance, and we can mount on it whatever sensor/communication package is required," said Brinkmann.
The radar package that GTRI is currently installing and testing is complex, he explained. In addition to phased-array scanning capability, the radar operates in the X-band, is capable of five acquisition modes and can be programmed to transmit arbitrary waveforms.
"This radar is a very flexible system that will be able to do ground mapping, as well as detecting and tracking objects moving around on the ground," Brinkmann said. "These multiple sensing capabilities offer many possibilities for defense operations, along with search-and-rescue and disaster-recovery operations."
Possible applications include using the signals intelligence package to locate people buried in rubble by searching for cell phone signals, he said. In another scenario, a group of self-guided UAVs could be used to create an ad hoc cell phone network. That application could be potentially valuable in a post-disaster scenario where existing cell phone towers have been disabled, as happened after Hurricane Katrina, the Haiti earthquake and other events.
"The GAUSS platform is extremely helpful for proof-of-principle development and testing new concepts for airborne sensors," Brinkmann said. "It gives GTRI a convenient and flexible base from which to pursue significant research in a variety of disciplines."
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As much as it's important to have every component of a PC stuck together in a laptop, that same monolithic strategy is a major liability for server clusters: if one part breaks or grows obsolete, it can drag down everything else. Facebook and its Open Compute Project partners have just unveiled plans to loosen things up at the datacenter. A prototype, Atom-based rackmount server from Quanta Computer uses 100Gbps silicon photonics from Intel to connect parts at full speed, anywhere on the rack. Facebook has also garnered support for a new system-on-chip connection standard, rather affectionately named Group Hug, that would let owners swap in new mini systems from any vendor through PCI Express cards. The combined effect doesn't just simplify repairs and upgrades -- it lets companies build the exact servers they need without having to scrap other crucial elements in the process. There's no definite timeframe for when we'll see modular servers put to work, but the hope is that a cluster's foundations will stay relevant for years instead of months.
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The National Academy of Engineering (NAE) will honor IIT alumnus and Life Trustee Martin Cooper with the Charles Stark Draper Prize, which annually recognizes engineers whose accomplishments have significantly benefited society. Considered the Nobel Prize of engineering, the prize includes a $500,000 award.? Fellow mobile phone pioneers Joel Engel, Richard Frenkiel, Thomas Haug and Yoshihisa Okumura will also be awarded the Draper Prize at a February 19 ceremony in Washington.
The idea for cellular phones grew out of exploration that began in the 1940s at AT&T and Bell Labs. Engel and Frenkiel of Bell Labs were among the earliest engineers to develop a plan for a network of low-power transmitters that came to be known as cells.?Later improvements that enabled mobile users to make and maintain calls while traveling over wider areas came from the work of Okumura of Nippon Telegraph and Telephone Basic Research Laboratories in Japan and Haug of Nordic Mobile Telephony.
Cooper, who led Motorola?s mobile phone research, made the first call on a hand-held cell phone in 1973.
The Charles Stark Draper Prize was established and endowed by Draper Laboratory in 1988 in tribute to its founder, Charles Stark Draper, who pioneered inertial navigation. It honors those who have contributed to the advancement of engineering and to improve public understanding of the importance of engineering and technology.
Draper Laboratory, which celebrates its 80th anniversary in 2013, is a not-for-profit, engineering research and development organization dedicated to solving critical national problems in national security, space systems, biomedical systems and energy. Core capabilities include guidance, navigation and control; miniature low-power systems; highly reliable complex systems; information and decision systems; autonomous systems; biomedical and chemical systems; and secure networks and communications.
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LOUISVILLE, Ky. (AP) - Five people have joined a Maryland lawsuit that claims a Kentucky-based evangelical church group covered up allegations of sexual abuse against children and failed to alert police and shield children from known sexual predators.
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The new plaintiffs join three women who filed a civil lawsuit against Sovereign Grace Ministries in October. The suit accuses church leadership of encouraging parents of alleged victims to refrain from reporting abuses to police and creating "a culture in which sexual predators were protected from accountability and victims were silenced."
The church moved its headquarters to Louisville last year after three decades in Maryland. The group has struggled in recent years with fractured leadership and criticism over its discipline methods. Leaders at the church must be men and women are not permitted to teach or to have authority over a man, according its website.
A message left at the church office in Louisville on Tuesday was not immediately returned. The church said in a statement about the suit last year that the suit contains "a number of misleading allegations, as well as considerable mischaracterizations of intent."
"Child sexual abuse is reprehensible in any circumstance, and a violation of fundamental human dignity," the statement said.
Susan Burke, a Washington attorney who filed the suit, said the defendants have 30 days to respond to the accusations.
Chip Grange, a McLean, Va., lawyer for Sovereign Grace Ministries, did not return a call early Tuesday afternoon.
The suit alleges a conspiracy spanning more than two decades to conceal sexual abuse committed by church members in Maryland and Virginia.
The seven females and one male plaintiff are identified in the lawsuit with pseudonyms. Attorneys are seeking to build a class-action suit against Sovereign Grace Ministries, which has more than 80 congregations, including a few outside the U.S. Burke said Tuesday that more alleged victims have contacted her office.
In the amended complaint filed on Friday, one of the new plaintiffs, identified only as Carla Coe, accuses church co-founder Larry Tomczak and others of sexual abuse over a 25-year period, beating her "on her bare buttocks and assaulting her with "plastic and wooden sticks." The incidents occurred in Virginia and Maryland, the suit said.
A message left for Tomczak at his office in Franklin, Tenn., was not returned early Tuesday afternoon.
Another alleged victim, identified as Paula Poe, said she attended school in Gaithersburg, Md., at Covenant Life Church, a Sovereign Grace affiliate until recently. She claims she was abused by a pastor and a children's ministry worker on the church's property, according to the suit.
A plaintiff identified as Grace Goe says she was sexually abused and beaten by her father as a child in Maryland. When she and a sibling reported the abuse to church leaders at Covenant Life Church, the men told the girl's father, which led to more abuse, according to the suit.
The suit names as defendants Sovereign Grace Ministries co-founder C.J. Mahaney, Sovereign Grace board chairman John Loftness, Tomczak, Covenant Life Church, Sovereign Grace Church of Fairfax, Va., and others.
The lawsuit includes claims of intentional infliction of emotional distress, negligence and conspiracy, among other damages.
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Scientists reassemble the backbone of life with a particle acceleratorynchrotron X-rays
Monday, January 14, 2013Scientists have been able to reconstruct, for the first time, the intricate three-dimensional structure of the backbone of early tetrapods, the earliest four-legged animals. High-energy X-rays and a new data extraction protocol allowed the researchers to reconstruct the backbones of the 360 million year old fossils in exceptional detail and shed new light on how the first vertebrates moved from water onto land. The results are published 13 January 2013 in Nature.
The international team of scientists was led by Stephanie E. Pierce from The Royal Veterinary College in London and Jennifer A. Clack from the University of Cambridge. It also comprised scientists from Uppsala University (Sweden) and the European Synchrotron Radiation Facility ESRF in Grenoble (France).
The tetrapods are four-limbed vertebrates, which are today represented by amphibians, reptiles, birds and mammals. Around 400 million years ago, early tetrapods were the first vertebrates to make short excursions into shallower waters where they used their four limbs for moving around. How this happened and how they then transferred to land is a subject of intense debate among palaeontologists and evolution biologists.
All tetrapods have a backbone, or vertebral column, which is a bony structure common to all other vertebrates including fish, from which tetrapods evolved. A backbone is formed from vertebrae connected in a row - from head to tail. Unlike the backbone of living tetrapods (e.g. humans), in which each vertebra is composed of only one bone, early tetrapods had vertebrae made up of multiple parts.
"For more than 100 years, early tetrapods were thought to have vertebrae composed of three sets of bones - one bone in front, one on top, and a pair behind. But, by peering inside the fossils using synchrotron X-rays we have discovered that this traditional view literally got it back-to-front," says Stephanie Pierce who is the lead author of the publication.
For the analysis, the European Synchrotron Radiation Facility (ESRF) in France, where the three fossil fragments were scanned with X-rays, applied a data extraction method to reveal tiny details of fossil bones buried deep inside the rock matrix. The fossilised bones are embedded in rock so dense it absorbs most of the X-rays. "Without the new method, it would not have been possible to reveal the elements of the spine in three dimensions with a resolution of 30 micrometres" says Sophie Sanchez from University of Uppsala and ESRF who is a co-author of the publication.
In these high-resolution X-ray images, the scientists discovered that what was thought to be the first bone - known as the intercentrum - is actually the last in the series. And, although this might seem like a trivial oversight, this re-arrangement in vertebral structure has over-arching ramifications for the functional evolution of the tetrapod backbone.
Stephanie Pierce explains: "By understanding how each of the bones fit together we can begin to explore the mobility of the spine and test how it may have transferred forces between the limbs during the early stages of land movement".
But, the findings didn't end there. One of the animals - known as Ichthyostega - was also found to have an assortment of hitherto unknown skeletal features including a string of bones extending down the middle of its chest.
Jennifer Clack says: "These chest bones turned out to be the earliest evolutionary attempt to produce a bony sternum. Such a structure would have strengthened the ribcage of Ichthyostega, permitting it to support its body weight on its chest while moving about on land."
This unexpected discovery supports recent work by Pierce and Clack that showed Ichthyostega probably moved by dragging itself across flat ground using synchronous 'crutching' motions of its front legs - much like that of a mudskipper or seal. Dr Pierce adds: "The results of this study force us to re-write the textbook on backbone evolution in the earliest limbed animals."
"At the ESRF, the new data extraction protocol makes it possible to study fossils in dense and heavy rock in unprecedented detail. What we have seen today is only the beginning of more surprises to come," concludes Sophie Sanchez.
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SOUTH LAKE TAHOE, Calif. ? Deep in the Sierra Nevada, 39 trillion gallons of crystalline water straddles the border between California and Nevada.
That water, Lake Tahoe, can be as smooth as glass, but the politics of land-use planning along the lake's 72-mile shoreline are some of the most contentious and muddled in the country.
Lawmakers from the two states tend to have very different ideas about how to manage development around the lake, to say nothing of the 50-plus federal, state and local agencies with jurisdiction in the basin.
But last month, after nearly a decade of wrangling, the Tahoe Regional Planning Agency, the bistate agency that regulates development, approved a new plan that will guide building there.
"The infrastructure around the lake was built in the 1950s and '60s, and it's failing the communities and it's failing the lake," said Todd Ferrara, deputy secretary of the California Natural Resources Agency. "California and Nevada have this shared treasure, and the stakes are too high not to work together to protect it."
The new regional plan encourages ripping down and rebuilding the area's aging infrastructure, removing buildings from environmentally sensitive areas near marshes, streams and rivers, and constructing denser urban centers. It also streamlines the permit process for construction projects in the basin, which gets 3 million visitors a year.
For many of the basin's 55,000 full-time residents, the fact that the agency's governing board ? made up of seven Nevadans and seven Californians ? reached consensus came as a great relief.
"We're very happy that a plan has finally been passed, because without concrete regulations, nobody wins and the lake suffers," said Darcie Goodman Collins, executive director of the League to Save Lake Tahoe, an environmental advocacy group.
While the plan has broad support on both sides of the state line, some environmental groups say it will result in taller buildings and denser development, which could ultimately harm the ecosystem of the lake.
"This new plan is a plan for improving the tourist economy, not a plan for improving the environment," said Laurel Ames, conservation co-chairwoman for the Tahoe Area Sierra Club, which is considering a lawsuit to halt it before it is implemented on Feb. 11.
But policymakers counter that replacing aging infrastructure would be a major step toward restoring the lake's ecosystem and quintessential clarity.
"The idea is to get rid of this strip development that causes sediment to run off into the lake and rebuild," said Lew Feldman, a lawyer who represents developers in the area.
Beginning in the 1950s, developers hurriedly built in preparation for the 1960 Winter Olympics in Squaw Valley, Calif., and to support the burgeoning gambling industry on the Nevada side.
In just a few decades, whole sections of shoreline were rapidly transformed from stands of Ponderosa pine trees and willow-filled marshes into a kind of continuous strip of low-slung motels, casinos and budget eateries.
By the late 1960s, sewage was leaking into the lake, resulting in the growth of microscopic algae that clouded the lucent waters.
"Every little pebble was distinct, every speckled trout, every hand's-breadth of sand," Mark Twain wrote of his unimpeded glimpse into Lake Tahoe's depths in "Roughing It."
When scientists first began testing the lake's clarity, in 1968, they could see down more than 102 feet into the water. By 2011, the most recent year with complete data, visibility was 69 feet and the summer clarity was the second worst on record.
To control the runaway development in the Lake Tahoe basin, Congress approved a bistate compact between Nevada and California in 1969, creating the Tahoe Regional Planning Agency.
"The focus is on water quality restoration," said Joanne Marchetta, the planning agency's executive director. "The lake is the canary in the coal mine: If the lake is healthy, the surrounding environment and economies can be healthy."
The agency's last regional plan, implemented in 1987, capped development and established standards for environmental quality in the basin.
"The bistate compact was created in an effort to strangle the uncontrolled growth that was undeniably polluting the lake, and it succeeded," said Ross Miller, Nevada's secretary of state.
In fact, the compact restricted growth so rapidly it had the effect of freezing the lakeside communities in time. Much of the infrastructure still looks like it did when Elvis Presley spent summers there playing at the Nevada casinos in the early 1970s.
Other economic forces also hampered development. Beginning in the 1990s, the growth of Native American gambling in California sent Nevada's casinos into a tailspin of lost revenue and empty hotel rooms.
By 2011, Nevada lawmakers became so frustrated with the agency's strict development regulations that they passed legislation to withdraw from the compact in 2015 if a new regional plan was not approved.
"It is time for Nevada to stand alone in serving Nevadans and the valuable natural resource Lake Tahoe," state Sen. John Jay Lee, who sponsored the bill, said at the time.
Since the agency approved the new plan on Dec. 12, some Nevada lawmakers, including Miller, say that as long as the plan does not stall in the courts, they will rescind the bill and recommit to bistate management.
"The different states and stakeholders all come with different perspectives," Marchetta said. "But they share a passion for the lake and a desire to preserve it."
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Not Bruce Norris.
The Inland Empire investor says get ready for a 20 percent price spike by this time next year.
It's a bold prediction, but worth listening to because the principal and founder of the Norris Group in Riverside foresaw the housing bubble burst a year before it happened. And he backed up the call by selling off much of his property just before the crash.
"My best guess is that California will have significant price inflation," Norris said. "Prices could escalate so strongly that we will think we are in 2004 instead of 2013," Norris said.
Not everyone sees things the same way. Many economists and housing experts are looking at flat to modest growth in prices for 2013. Gary Painter, director of research at the USC Lusk Center for Real Estate, thinks at most the Los Angeles area will see about a 3 percent increase. The California Association of Realtors has predicted an increase of about 5.7 percent.
"Well, I disagree with (Norris)," said Michael Carney, executive director of the Real Estate Research Council at California State Polytechnic University, Pomona.
"My forecast is that we're not going to see a whole lot of change in home prices for a long time, and the reason is I don't see the financing coming back. The financing (for the market boom) was coming from worldwide sales of mortgage-backed
securities and that clearly came to an end in 2007.""There will almost be no change in prices until 2030, a generation," Carney added.
Carney has had that discussion directly with Norris, who sits on the council's board.
"Maybe I'll be wrong," Carney admits. "I keep reminding people that the truth is uncertain, but Bruce has a better track record at predicting prices than I have."
Norris argues that market fundamentals are now in place to give the region's home prices a boost. Inventory is at or near record lows in most markets as foreclosures have dwindled. And when properties do hit the market they attract multiple offers that drive up the selling price.
Norris' company has been buying and selling real estate for years.
He's making a big bet on the current market's upside because of the tight inventory and strong demand. His company has bought about 300 properties in San Bernardino and Riverside counties in the past two years. He sold about 100 in late 2004 and into 2005 in advance of the market collapse. Then he sat back and watched the carnage unfold.
"We sold everything we owned and waited to buy it back later. We didn't get damaged at all. We were gone," Norris said.
Now the company is in a holding pattern waiting for prices to heat up again.
"We were getting good deals. A lot of those values tripled and doubled. We bought for less than they were worth. That's why the (profit) marginis where it's at," he said.
Norris did accurately predict the big price run-up in the first half of the 2000s.
"Real estate prices will grow about 3 percent in 1997, and another 3 percent in 1998, then up 5 percent in 1999. After that, we're going to crank," Norris told the Press Enterprise in Riverside in the summer of 1997.
For now, Southern California home prices ended 2012 on a pretty good upward trajectory.
The median price has risen or held steady month-to-month for 10 consecutive months and has increased year-over-year for eight consecutive months in the six-county region, according to market tracker DataQuick.
Prices did take a huge hit during the market bust, according to DataQuick, with the biggest erosion in the Inland Empire.
-- In Los Angeles County, the median home price peaked at $550,000 in August 2007. By January 2012, it had fallen 47.5 percent to $289,000. But by November, it had risen 11 percent.
-- San Bernardino County's median price topped out at $380,000 in November 2006 then plunged 64 percent to $137,000 by May 2009. By November it had increased 34 percent from the low point.
-- Riverside County's peak was $432,000 in December 2006; then the median dropped 58 percent to $180,000 in May 2009. In November it was 27 percent above the low point.
Julian Tu, owner of an Allstate Insurance Co. office in Woodland Hills, sees an investment opportunity in the market in 2013.
This year he sold his house on Santa Rita Street in Woodland Hills for $600,000 and plans to invest in the area's condominium market. He bought the house in 2003 for $531,000.
He's made an offer to buy a two-bedroom, two-bathroom unit on Owensmouth Avenue across from Warner Park for $274,000. It's a short sale, and the offer has been accepted by the owner, and Tu is waiting for the bank to make a decision.
He's also put in a $150,000 offer on a one-bedroom unit at The Met Warner Center, and the owner is considering the offer.
He lives in a two-bedroom condo at KB Home's Ascent complex in the 21000 block of Erwin Street in Warner Center.
"I live around here so it's easy for me to take care of it," Tu said of his real estate investments. "Interest rates are low, and I've got some money. I want to diversify so real estate seems to be an option."
That was the plan for his current residence.
"I bought it to rent out but it turned out that I liked it so I moved in. And my water bill (at the Santa Rita house) was $500 a month.
It looks like low rates will help drive sales well into this year. On Thursday Freddie Mac said rates remained near historic lows.
The mortgage giant said the rate on a 30-year fixed-rate home loan averaged 3.40 percent last week, up from 3.34 percent the week before. A year ago it was 3.89 percent.
The rate on a 15-year fixed loan averaged 2.66 percent, up from 2.64 percent a week earlier. A year ago the rate was 3.16 percent.
The low rates will continue to stimulate the market, Norris believes.
"That allows for price increases to take place without significantly increasing mortgage payments," he said.
Source: http://www.dailynews.com/news/ci_22362273/real-estate-price-spike-2013-maverick-investor-bruce
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In this Jan. 3, 2013, file photo, an unsafe for human occupancy sticker is attached to a home that was severely damaged two months ago by Superstorm Sandy in Bay Head, N.J. New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie, blasted his party's "toxic internal politics" after House Republicans initially declined to approve disaster relief for victims of Superstorm Sandy. He said it was "disgusting to watch" their actions and he faulted the GOP's most powerful elected official, House Speaker John Boehner, R-Ohio. The Republican Party seems as divided and angry as ever. Infighting has penetrated the highest levels of the House GOP leadership. Long-standing geographic tensions have increased, pitting endangered Northeastern Republicans against their colleagues from other parts of the country. Enraged tea party leaders are threatening to knock off dozens of Republicans who supported a measure that raised taxes on the nation's highest earners. (AP Photo/Mel Evans)
In this Jan. 3, 2013, file photo, an unsafe for human occupancy sticker is attached to a home that was severely damaged two months ago by Superstorm Sandy in Bay Head, N.J. New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie, blasted his party's "toxic internal politics" after House Republicans initially declined to approve disaster relief for victims of Superstorm Sandy. He said it was "disgusting to watch" their actions and he faulted the GOP's most powerful elected official, House Speaker John Boehner, R-Ohio. The Republican Party seems as divided and angry as ever. Infighting has penetrated the highest levels of the House GOP leadership. Long-standing geographic tensions have increased, pitting endangered Northeastern Republicans against their colleagues from other parts of the country. Enraged tea party leaders are threatening to knock off dozens of Republicans who supported a measure that raised taxes on the nation's highest earners. (AP Photo/Mel Evans)
Sen. Charles Schumer, D-N.Y., right, accompanied by Sen. Kirsten Gillibrand, D-N.Y, enter a news conference on Capitol Hill in Washington, Friday, Jan. 4, 2013, to discuss Superstorm Sandy aid. The first large aid package for victims of the deadly Superstorm Sandy started moving through the U.S. Congress on Friday, as the U.S. House of Representatives overwhelmingly approved $9.7 billion to pay flood insurance claims. A Senate vote was expected later in the day. (AP Photo/Jacquelyn Martin)
FILE - In this Jan. 3, 2013, file photo, Kim Baker works to clean up her Superstorm Sandy damaged home in Seaside Heights, N.J. Conservatives and watchdog groups are mounting a "not-so-fast" campaign against a $50.7 billion Superstorm Sandy aid package that Northeastern governors and lawmakers hope to push through the House the week of Jan. 14, 2013. Their complaint is that lots of that money actually will go toward recovery efforts for past disasters and other projects unrelated to the late-October storm. The measure bill includes $150 million for what the Commerce Department described as fisheries disasters in Alaska, Mississippi and the Northeast, and $50 million in subsidies for replanting trees on private land damaged by wildfires. (AP Photo/Mel Evans, File)
National Guardsmen Specialist Ivan Pimentel, left, and PFC Harry Cadet walk along the beach past a destroyed house during a break in their work in the Rockaways, Thursday, Jan. 10, 2013, in New York. The guardsmen said they were working with the New York City Office of Emergency Management going door-to-door to determine if residents needed portable heaters or other items to in the wake of Superstorm Sandy. Using portable personal tablets, they said they could provide residents with a heater within 30 minutes. (AP Photo/Kathy Willens)
A construction worker walks on the beach as work continues in the Rockaways cleaning up debris from destroyed homes in the wake of Superstorm Sandy, Thursday, Jan. 10, 2013, in New York. The November storm damaged or destroyed 305,000 housing units in New York. (AP Photo/Kathy Willens)
WASHINGTON (AP) ? Conservatives and watchdog groups are mounting a "not-so-fast" campaign against a $50.7 billion Superstorm Sandy aid package that Northeastern governors and lawmakers hope to push through the House this coming week.
Their complaint is that lots of the money that lawmakers are considering will actually go toward recovery efforts for past disasters and other projects unrelated to the late-October storm.
A Senate-passed version from the end of the last Congress included $150 million for what the Commerce Department described as fisheries disasters in Alaska, Mississippi and the Northeast, and $50 million in subsidies for replanting trees on private land damaged by wildfires.
The objections have led senior House Republicans to assemble their own $17 billion proposal, that when combined with already approved money for flood insurance claims, is less than half what President Barack Obama sought and the Senate passed in December
That $17 billion package will be brought to the floor by the House Appropriations Committee, and Northeast lawmakers will have a chance to add $33.7 billion more.
House Speaker John Boehner intends to let the House vote on both measures. He's responding both to conservatives who are opposed to more deficit spending, and to Govs. Andrew Cuomo, D-N.Y., and Chris Christie, R-N.J., who are irate that the House hasn't acted sooner.
Critics are taking the sharpest aim at $12.1 billion in the amendment for Department of Housing and Urban Development emergency block grants. Any state struck by a federally declared major disaster in 2011, 2012 or this year would qualify for the grants, and that's just about all the states, said Stephen Ellis, vice president of Taxpayers for Common Sense, a budget watchdog group. Only South Carolina, Arizona and Michigan would not qualify, he said.
"That's not a bad chunk of change, particularly if you are trying to get other lawmakers to vote for the bill," Ellis said.
State and local governments like block grants because they provide more flexibility in how the money is spent. The money can go toward a variety of needs, including hospitals, utilities, roads, small businesses and rent subsidies.
The Northeast lawmakers' $33.7 billion amendment also includes more than $135 million to help the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration improve weather forecasting.
"A lot of the money goes to government agencies to rebuild rather than helping people actually afflicted by Sandy," Ellis said.
Before getting to the aid measures, the House on Monday planned to consider legislation intended to streamline Federal Emergency Management Agency regulations that critics blame for slowing down recovery efforts. That bill would let FEMA make limited repairs instead of lease payments to provide housing that might be less expensive than traditional agency trailers.
A $60.4 billion storm aid package passed by the Senate in December included $188 million for an Amtrak expansion project with an indirect link to Sandy: Officials say that new, long-planned tunnels from New Jersey to Penn Station in Manhattan would be better protected against future flooding.
The Club for Growth, a conservative group, complained the Senate bill was overpriced, full of pork and would swell the federal deficit because other government programs weren't being cut to cover the costs of the legislation. That bill expired with the old Congress on Jan. 3. So whatever additional aid package the House passes would have to go back to the Senate for its approval.
Republican Sens. John McCain of Arizona and Tom Coburn of Oklahoma, two frequent critics of government spending, tried unsuccessfully to strip the Senate version of $125 million for an Agriculture Department program to restore watersheds damaged by wildfires and drought, $2 million for roof repairs at Smithsonian Institution museums in the Washington area and the $50 million in tree planting subsidies.
McCain also targeted $15 million to repair storm-damaged NASA facilities, saying the agency had called its Sandy damage "minimal."
"An emergency funding bill should focus on the emergency needs of the victims, not the needs of politicians," said Indiana Sen. Dan Coats, the senior Republican on Senate Appropriations subcommittee on homeland security. "Loading up a massive $60.4 billion package with unrelated projects and earmarks for other states is not the way we should use taxpayer dollars."
Coats' scaled-back $23.8 billion Sandy aid bill was rejected by the Senate.
Republicans also criticized $13 billion in the Senate bill for projects to protect against future storms, including fortification of mass transit systems in the Northeast and building new jetties in vulnerable seaside areas. While maybe worthwhile, those projects don't represent emergencies and shouldn't be exempt from federal spending caps, GOP lawmakers said.
The basic $17 billion before the House on Tuesday is aimed at immediate Sandy recovery needs, including $5.4 billion for New York and New Jersey transit systems and $5.4 billion for FEMA's disaster aid fund. The $33.7 billion amendment would bring the total up to the more than $60 billion sought by Obama and passed by Senate Democrats.
It includes the block grants for previous disasters, weather forecasting improvements and measures to minimize damage from future storms, but not the $188 million for the Amtrak expansion project.
"We know it's going to be a heavy lift for the $33 billion, but we'll find the votes," said Rep. Michael Grimm, R-N.Y., whose Staten Island district was heavily damaged by Sandy.
But conservatives clearly prefer the smaller, $17 billion version. Rep. Tim Huelskamp, R-Kan., a frequent critic of Boehner after losing his seat on the House Budget Committee, said the Sandy aid legislation should be focused on storm-related recovery.
"Conservatives want to see a real plan that addresses real needs for Sandy," he said.
Obama has signed a $9.7 billion replenishment of the national flood insurance fund to help pay claims from 115,000 homeowners, businesses and renters.
FEMA has spent more than $2 billion in disaster relief money for shelter, restoring power and other immediate needs arising from Sandy. The Oct. 29 storm that pounded the Atlantic Coast from North Carolina to Maine with hurricane-force winds and coastal flooding. New York, New Jersey and Connecticut were the hardest hit.
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Je zou het niet verwachten in de zogenaamde "openluchtgevangenis", maar boeren uit Gaza worden in Israel toegelaten voor een landbouw-expo.
Bovendien blijkt dat er weer aardig wat landbouwproducten uit de Gazastrook worden ge?xporteerd, maar de media zwijgen dat goeddeels dood, zodat iedereen hier denkt dat Israel nog steeds een vrijwel volledige blokkade van de Gazastrook handhaaft...?
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#BDSFail as Gaza farmers visit Israel
http://elderofziyon.blogspot.nl/2013/01/bdsfail-as-gaza-farmers-visit-israel.html
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From?YNet:
Some 30 Gaza farmers participated in an agricultural expo held in the Eshkol Regional Council last week, despite the hostile relations between Israel and the Strip's government, run by Hamas.
"Agriculture knows no borders," said Uri Madar, of the agriculture department in the District Coordination Office (DCO). "There are various parasites that can 'jump the border' so there is a clear mutual interest here.If things are calm on the security front, there is no reason not to boost agricultural and economical ties."
"Gaza exports produce to Europe every day," Ahmed Shafi, head of the Gaza City Agricultural Association told Ynet. "We export peppers, strawberries, flowers, cherry tomatoes and spices."
Since Operation Pillar of Defense came to its end, Gaza has exported over 200 tons of strawberries, 130 tons of tomatoes, 5 tons of herbs and spices and a million tons of flowers.
The Strip's farmers say they have no problem doing business with their Israeli colleagues. "We want to keep coordinating exports with Israel and even export to Israel," one of the farmers who visited the expo told Ynet.
"We don't look at this from a political point of view. We ? and you ? look at it from a business point of view."
Another farmer said that Hamas' government leaves the farmers to decide on their own who to do business with. "There's no coordinating with Hamas ? only with Israel and the Palestinian Authority."
The goal, others said, is to reach the agricultural export levels noted prior to Hamas' takeover of Gaza, and to export produce to Israel and the West Bank as well.
Israel used to be Gaza's best and biggest market. The Palestinian farmers said that even if Egypt opens the Rafah crossing to exports from Gaza,?they would still prefer to export their goods through Israel,?because they trust Israel's facilities more.
"We were able to do good business here," a Gaza farmer told Ynet after the expo, adding that there is more to Gaza than militants and rockets. "We make a living and create jobs. Andwhen the economy is good, people are happy and there are no political problems."
This validates Netanyahu's emphasis on an "economic peace" with the PalArabs.
The?BDSers?are absolutely?livid?when Palestinian Arabs?cooperate?with the hated Israelis - for their own self-interest. They have written bizarre articles arguing that these sort of initiatives that directly benefit Palestinian Arabs are terrible. Of course, the real reason they fear economic peace is because it disproves their entire argument that they are "pro-Palestinian" and shows them to be nothing but hypocrites.?
In order to justify their hypocrisy, the BDSers will trot out fake?"agricultural associations"?that they say are against cooperating with Israel.?
Palestinian agricultural organisations and the Palestinian BDS National Committee call for the launching of worldwide campaigns on February 9 against Israeli agricultural export corporations in light of their deep complicity in Israel's ongoing violations of international law and Palestinian human rights.
Endorsed by:
Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions National Committee
General Union of Palestinian Peasants and Cooperatives
Palestinian Agricultural Relief Committees
Palestinian Farmers Union
Popular Struggle Coordination Committee
Stop the Wall
Union of Agricultural Work Committees
Union of Palestinian Agriculture Engineers
A look at the "Palestinian Farmers Union" webpage shows?virtually nothing about farming?- practically every article is denouncing Israel. They never even explained their?vision and mission, because it would have exposed their real agenda, of being a front for an anti-Israel group.?
Similarly, the Palestinian Agricultural Relief Committees has an?explicitly anti-Israel political agenda?as part of its strategy.
The Union of Agricultural Work Committees was?created as an anti-Israel group, and their logo shows this pretty explicitly.
These "agricultural organizations" do not do a thing to help Palestinian Arab farmers, and are political fronts to make it appear that there is a broad-based opposition to economic cooperation with Israel. They don't represent anyone.
In reality, Palestinian Arab farmers will happily work with Israel to succeed - and the BDSers try mightily to hide that simple fact.
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BDS Fail Of The Day
Cropwashing!
Some 30 Gaza farmers participated in an agricultural expo held in the Eshkol Regional Council last week, despite the hostile relations between Israel and the Strip's government, run by Hamas.
"Agriculture knows no borders," said Uri Madar, of the agriculture department in the District Coordination Office (DCO). "There are various parasites that can 'jump the border' so there is a clear mutual interest here. If things are calm on the security front, there is no reason not to boost agricultural and economical ties."
In 2002, Gaza's farmers would ship about 70 tons of produce to Israel, and the latter would send a similar quantity to the West Bank. However, when Hamas took over Gaza in 2007, it enacted new export policies.
Today, the majority of Gaza's produce is exported to Europe ? after being inspected and packaged in Israel, for security reasons.
"Gaza exports produce to Europe every day," Ahmed Shafi, head of the Gaza City Agricultural Association told Ynet. "We export peppers, strawberries, flowers, cherry tomatoes and spices."
Since Operation Pillar of Defense came to its end, Gaza has exported over 200 tons of strawberries, 130 tons of tomatoes, 5 tons of herbs and spices and a million tons of flowers.
The Strip's farmers say they have no problem doing business with their Israeli colleagues. "We want to keep coordinating exports with Israel and even export to Israel," one of the farmers who visited the expo told Ynet.
"We don't look at this from a political point of view. We ? and you ? look at it from a business point of view."
Another farmer said that Hamas' government leaves the farmers to decide on their own who to do business with. "There's no coordinating with Hamas ? only with Israel and the Palestinian Authority."
The goal, others said, is to reach the agricultural export levels noted prior to Hamas' takeover of Gaza, and to export produce to Israel and the West Bank as well.
Israel used to be Gaza's best and biggest market. The Palestinian farmers said that even if Egypt opens the Rafah crossing to exports from Gaza, they would still prefer to export their goods through Israel, because they trust Israel's facilities more.
"We were able to do good business here," a Gaza farmer told Ynet after the expo, adding that there is more to Gaza than militants and rockets. "We make a living and create jobs. And when the economy is good, people are happy and there are no political problems."
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Source: http://israel-palestijnen.blogspot.com/2013/01/bdsfail-boeren-uit-gaza-bezoeken-israel.html
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Harvey Levin Picks NFL Winner
PLAYOFF EDITION!!!
This week's matchup is the Green Bay Packers vs. the San Francisco 49ers.
Heeeeeeeeere we go!!!
Harvey Levin: "I have several connections to Green Bay. First, I did graduate work at the University of Wisconsin, where the waterskiing was awesome."
"On the other hand, I have another connection ... because Evan's brother Alex went to the University of Nevada and played football on the same team as Colin Kaepernick.
"But here's the thing ... I'm just so-so on Alex ... so I'm going with Green Bay.
"P.S. I'm finally ready to let that whole Aaron Rodgers 'I won't wear the jersey even though I lost the bet' thing go. So ... go Green Bay."
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NEW YORK (AP) ? Any conquest, however small, can't be fully assessed without considering the cost of achieving it, the failures that preceded it and the environment in which it occurred.
In Quiara Alegria Hudes' beautifully resounding drama "Water By the Spoonful," the playwright examines an array of emotional toils by splashing together droplets of life's bleak realities, harsh revelations, fragile successes and modest triumphs, all of which conspire like tiny specks of contrasting colors on a canvas.
Each drop of color by itself seems mundane. Together they gradually come into focus as a rich, brilliant montage of American urban life that is as dazzling to watch as it is difficult to look away from.
This inspired and abundantly human play, which was the surprise winner of the 2012 Pulitzer Prize for drama, opened Tuesday at off-Broadway's Second Stage Theatre, making its New York premier after an initial run at Hartford Stage in 2011.
It is the latest shining example of Hudes' uniquely understated yet powerful voice, which came to prominence in her book of the Tony Award-winning musical "In The Heights."
In "Water By The Spoonful," she spins a loosely interwoven, dual narrative about a young Iraq war veteran's tumultuous family and an online support group of recovering drug addicts.
Early in the opening act, grieving cousins Yazmin (Zabryna Guevara) and Elliot (Armando Riesco) leaf through brochures for funeral flowers while reminiscing about the strange and wonderful days of their poverty-stricken childhood in their large, closely knit Puerto Rican family.
Astonished by the prices in the catalog, they worry openly about making ends meet, though stopping to recall the splendor of a garden once cultivated by their recently departed aunt ? an adored matriarch in their extended family.
"It's odd to order flowers when someone dies," Yazmin laments. "The flowers are just going to die, too."
Despite that grim realization and their strapped budget, the cousins decide on the most expensive and exotic floral arrangement for their aunt, knowing they can't afford it but resolving to find a way, even if it leads to more hardship and worry.
It's one of many small but glorious acts of defiance that proliferate throughout this piece.
Despair is never far from Hudes' embattled characters, who all struggle in some way with addiction, regret, poverty or loss.
They're a weary and cynical bunch, but stubbornly spirited, somehow summoning the resilience to endure, and at times flourish, no matter the brutal truth of their circumstances or emotional cost. And that cost is often steep.
Under the direction of Davis McCallum, the talented cast, which also includes Liza Colon-Zayas, Frankie R. Faison and Sue Jean Kim, creates starkly real portraits of flawed but deeply conscientious people, all searching for an elusive path to some spiritual high ground.
This hazardous but relentless growth in a world of full of restrictions is reflected abstractly in Neil Patel's unusual but effective set ? a drab, gray grid streaked with broad swaths of lush plant life that appear as if they sprouted through cracks in a cement sidewalk.
"Water By the Spoonful" is the second in a trilogy of plays. Its precursor ? "Elliot, A Soldier's Fugue" ? was a Pulitzer finalist in 2007. The third play in the trilogy, "The Happiest Song Plays Last," is scheduled to make its world premiere in April 2013 in Chicago, leaving us left to wonder what's next for this uncommonly gifted playwright.
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Online: http://www.2st.com
Source: http://news.yahoo.com/review-water-spoonful-vivid-human-011637497.html
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Do you plan to decorate your living room but you are still confused of choosing the best style? If you do, why don?t you consider decorating living room with retro style that was very popular in 1950s to 1970s eras? Try to Google it, see some pictures, and then decide your choice.
After looking at some pictures you found online, are you interested in using this style for your living room? If you are, you have to follow several tips below:
Last but not least, choose home accessories, such as: curtain, table topper, and mat that use plaid motif to support this retro style in your living room. Keep in mind to gather more information about this style from various sources, such as: books, magazines, and articles so you can enlarge your knowledge and create retro style nuance at home.
This is a sponsored review.
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Source: http://www.captivatemoi.com/2013/01/decorate-living-room-with-retro-style/
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Program: Reba Cross Seals. Self and Peer Editing, a synopsis of the creative writing course she took at Sul Ross last summer.
Writing ?Opportunity?:? Darrell?s assignments this year are a little tougher because they specify a genre, but remember your way of interpretation will be fine. We want you to WRITE, and changing the challenge to suit you will be great. His assignments are for fun and to stretch our abilities. Remember, out of town writers, send yours in by email and we?ll read it and insert it in the 2013 Chaos West of the Pecos. Choices are:
Elm Street [Mystery genre]
Big Iron [Western genre]
Doll Face [Horror genre]
Refreshments: ?A volunteer is needed to bring refreshments to the meeting in Fort Davis. If you would be willing to do this, please contact Reba at moc.l1357706220iamg@1357706220slaes1357706220ssorc1357706220r1357706220. The organization will furnish the coffee and paper goods.
Succeed in New Year?s Resolutions Using a Teaspoon
by Reba Cross Seals
I??ve been known to ?bite off more than I can chew,? as my daddy used to say. That applies to new resolutions, too. We who love writing feel so inadequate in that we haven??t written that new novel Oprah will love nor the non-fiction book that will encourage and aid mankind. In fact, many of us tend to putter around and not write much of anything except a grocery list.
My approach this year is different. I urge you to join me in making our resolutions by the teaspoon full, not the tablespoon. I call it a Recipe for Writing Success.
I resolve in 2013 to eat away at my plate-full of writing plans by the teaspoon full and leave the tablespoon wielders to the over-achievers:
Now on to business: In January the Texas Mountain Trail Writers will meet in Fort Davis at the public library. To carpool meet in the parking lot of Big Bend Telephone Company by 6:20. Bring a friend. (Note the new earlier departure time so we arrive with time to spare!)
Program will be presented by Reba on Self and Peer Editing, a synopsis of the creative writing course she took at Sul Ross last summer. (Remember for summer 2013 that TMTW will help with the tuition of this summer writing workshop in Alpine if you apply and agree to present a program on what you learn.) Reba will have an Editing Check-list handout, 3 Simple Stages of Self-Editing, and others.
The Christmas party at Anne VanLoon?s was fun, and a great time was reported. I forgot to ask for a refreshment volunteer for January. Would love it if someone would call or email me at moc.l1357706220iamg@1357706220slaes1357706220ssorc1357706220r1357706220? If you would like to buy some goodies Saturday in front of Porters on 5th to help the fund for Bianca Morrow, that would be wonderful. Hint! Hint!
Reba
April 12,13 & 14, 2013
More information coming soon!
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Best First Lines: Dec/Jan. 2012-13
submitted by Glenn Willeford (A.Z. Hays), Alpine, TX
Where??s papa going with that ax?? said Fern to her mother??
sourced: E. B. White, Charlotte?s Web
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Saltines and sardines. Staples of his diet. Add a chunk of rat cheese and a Kosher dill spear and you had yourself the four basic food groups.?
source: Sandra Brown, Envy
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When he says ?Skins or blankets?? it will take you a moment to realize that he??s asking which you want to sleep under.?
Worst First Lines: Dec/Jan. 2012-13
submitted by Barbara Blake, Marfa, TX
?I scowl with frustration at myself in the mirror. Damn my hair.?
source: E. L. James, Fifty Shades of Gray
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Three of them, hard men carrying nylon bags, wearing work jackets, Carhartt?s and Levi?s, all of them with facial hair.?
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The disease has been in remission seven years. Now I can try to remember what happened.?
Submitted by Roger W. Manning, Odessa
I finished my NaNoWriMo? in twenty seven days. I finished with 51,265 words. Someone told me that sometimes, when they verify your book, you lose words. So, I overshot a bit. The name of my work is Red Maslewm and the Pilots of Anzu. Since editing is not a requirement for this task, I will have to edit it before anything else. I?m thinking about putting it on Kindle.
Submitted by Kip Piper, Alpine
?Unleash Your Inner Chupacabra? is a poetry anthology by members of the San Angelo Writers? Club. Three of my poems were included in the anthology! Plus one of my poems was quoted online on ?The Horror Zine? review of the anthology. Very cool! You can read the review at: http://www.thehorrorzine.com/ReviewFolder/Chupacabra/UnleashYourInner.html (NOTE: Juan Perez, co-editor of the anthology, is one of the scheduled speakers for this year?s TMTW Spring Writers Retreat.)
Submitted by Frank Carden
Frank Carden?s short story, The Bedroom, won second place in the San Antonio Writers Guild National Short Story contest.
Submitted by Gay Ann Kiser
I?m a long distance member of the Texas Mountain Trailwriters and want to share my good news. I attended my first Annual Cowboy Poetry Gathering out there in Alpine five years ago and began writing a series of women?s fiction novels featuring the sites of your town. The first novel of the ?Dreamcatchers? series is available on kindle and the nook. Although it?s currently only in the e pub format, I?m in the process of creating printed copieis, as well. Penny?s Diner and The Blue Depot are featured in this book, as well as the Chuckwagon where I?ve enjoyed many fine breakfasts!
Here is the book cover because it?s definately my favorite!
Book Title: LAST CHANCE TEXAS (my pen name is Tessa Gray). If you browse under women?s fiction, LAST CHANCE TEXAS by Tessa Gray, it will speed up the process of finding it. It?s available for $3.99.
I look forward to seeing some of you at the 2013 Cowboy Poetry Gathering!
Submitted by Reba Cross Seals
I have 5 of these 10 books and since I agree they belong on this list, I plan to purchase the other 5.? This list was compiled by Author Media, a company that builds author websites, so has lots of author feedback. Reba
10 Books for Writers to Start the New Year
A reader added: I love Marion Roach Smith??s The Memoir Project. Even tho I have no intention of writing a memoir, she??s helped me tell a better story in my writing and speaking.
Editor?s Note: I also recommend Lawrence Block?s ?Telling Lies for Fun and Profit?. It is an invaluable resource and a must read for anyone serious about writing or understanding how the process works.
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Have news? Toot your horn, clang your bell, raise your roof! Tell us your news and stories ? or writing news in general, such as publications you would recommend, contests, book events, etc. Send your Braggin? Rights and Trail Bits to gro.s1357706220retir1357706220wliar1357706220tniat1357706220nuoms1357706220axet@1357706220wtmtk1357706220sa1357706220.
Source: http://texasmountaintrailwriters.org/2013-newsletters/january-newsletter-log-of-the-trail/
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