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Celeste Ng is the author of the novel Everything I Never Told You, which was a New York Times bestseller, a New York Times Notable Book of 2014, Amazon’s #1 Best Book of 2014, and named a best book of the year by over a dozen publications. Everything I Never Told You was also the winner of the Asian/Pacific American Award for Literature and the ALA’s Alex Award, and was a finalist for numerous awards, including the Ohioana Award, the John Creasey (New Blood) Dagger Award, the VCU Cabell First Novelist Award and the Massachusetts Book Award.
Celeste grew up in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, and Shaker Heights, Ohio, in a family of scientists. She attended Harvard University and earned an MFA from the University of Michigan, where she won the Hopwood Award. Her fiction and essays have appeared in One Story, TriQuarterly, Bellevue Literary Review, the Kenyon Review Online, and elsewhere, and she is a recipient of the Pushcart Prize. Celeste and I first connected on Twitter after I read her book, and she graciously agreed to chat with me about the novel, her writing routine, being part of and writing about interracial families, how to address issues of race and representation without being pigeonholed, writing outside one’s own culture, what she’s working on now, and much more!
How did the idea for this novel come to you? Was it difficult working on such a tragic story, and why did you decide to focus on such tough issues — misunderstanding and racism and unfulfilled dreams and the grief of losing a child?
Celeste Ng: Thank you! Both for the kind words and for sharing. The novel emerged, as most of my work does, when several seemingly unrelated things collided in my mind and I had to try and figure out why my mind was connecting them. My husband happened to tell me a story about his school days: when he was about 8, he was at a friend’s house when the friend pushed his own little sister into a pond in the backyard. She was pulled out immediately by her parents, but I kept thinking, what if they hadn’t been there? What was the relationship between this brother and sister like before he pushed her — and what was it like after?
Around that time, I was also working on a story about two sisters whose mother has abandoned the family, which kept getting longer and more unwieldy. That story eventually found a life of its own, but that idea of the absent parent, and the effect it might have on siblings, stuck with me. That was maybe the tonal seed of the novel, the echoes left behind when someone leaves.
And finally, morbid as it sounds, I had been thinking about young women who die for a long time. I grew up in a lovely suburb of Cleveland, but in the ten or so years I lived there, three young women from the high school were murdered, including one who had been in my grade. Those deaths really haunted me, and I wondered if there was some way they could have been saved, as well as how their families could go on after losing them in such a sudden and tragic way. All of those things came together in my brain, and the novel grew from there.
As for the larger themes you mention, I’ve always been drawn to writing things that scare me or puzzle me. In particular, I wonder if it’s ever possible for any two people to truly understand each other, or if there’s always going to be some scrim of incomprehension between them. This plays out in so many ways: in a marriage, between parents and children, between siblings, between cultures. So I guess it’s only natural that those questions wove their way into this book.
Apart from being caught up in the story and the beautifully drawn characters, your book was important to me personally because I’ve always been part of an interracial family — first through adoption and now through marriage as well. I so rarely read stories or see portrayals of families that look anything like mine. Why did you decide to make the family in your novel an interracial one, with biracial children? Was that always the plan for this story?
In the very early stages of the novel — when I was no more than about 15 or 20 pages in — I didn’t really think about the races of the characters at all. If anything, I thought of them as white because that’s so often the default mode for our culture. Then one of my advisors, Eileen Pollack, asked me about the characters’ ethnicity, and I started to realize that this was a racially mixed family: that tied into many of the issues they had to face and the concerns and misunderstandings they had with each other and with outsiders.
Both my parents are ethnically Chinese, but growing up in an area with very few Asians, I have always felt somewhat distanced from that Chinese heritage. I don’t speak the language, I don’t cook Chinese food, I don’t know a lot of the customs and traditions that might be second nature to someone growing up in a more Asian area. Yet at the same time, I have enough of a sense of my Chineseness that I didn’t feel totally at home in suburban America, either. I don’t pretend that’s the same as being interracial, but I relate to feeling somewhere in between two different cultures, and wanted to explore that. Most of the stories I’ve written that deal with ethnicity focus on people in that in-between space: an adoptee who tries to connect with her Chinese heritage in college; a non-Chinese widow who finds comfort in Chinese grieving rituals, and so on.
Writing about an interracial family felt even more urgent to me after I got married — my husband is Caucasian, so our son is biracial. Well before he was born, I was thinking a lot about what his experiences might be and how he might relate, or not, to his two cultures.
I’d love to read the other stories you mentioned. When you decided to write about an interracial marriage and family, did anything you learned in your research surprise you?
I’m in an interracial marriage myself, so I had some first-hand experience to draw on — though happily, I think my marriage is a little more stable than Marilyn and James’s. Still, there are moments of friction where I see how my husband’s background and my background made us into people with very different outlooks, and it was all too easy to imagine how those differences could get magnified into huge rifts that could destroy a relationship.
In addition, I read about the history of interracial marriage — for example, books about Richard and Mildred Loving, whose interracial marriage was at the center of Loving v. Virginia, the Supreme Court case that legalized interracial marriage across the United States. I hunted for academic studies on interracial marriages, particularly Chinese-white marriages, and specifically marriages between Chinese males and white women. There aren’t many such studies out there, but I read what I could — and as a side note, I wonder if more research will be done in this area as interracial marriages become more common.
And I read books about interracial children, from parenting books like Does Anybody Else look Like Me? A Parent’s Guide to Raising Multiracial Children to Kip Fulbeck’s Hapa Project, which photographed Hapa adults and children along with their own thoughts on their identities. Have you seen this project, by the way? There are so few images of part-Asians out there — I was really grateful to see these, just to have members of that group be seen and celebrated.
There were definitely some surprises. One study, conducted in 2001, aimed to assess attitudes towards Chinese Americans in particular. It found that nearly 75% of those polled had somewhat negative or very negative attitudes towards Chinese Americans, and that 23% would feel uncomfortable if a family member married an Asian American. I was appalled to see that those attitudes were so prevalent even so recently. I think most Asians have encountered racism, on both small scales and large — but even so, those statistics were startling.
You must receive so many messages from readers. What have been some of the most rewarding responses?
On average I get a few emails a week about the book, and every single one of them moves me. One part-Japanese teen wrote to me to say she felt as if I had been standing in her home with a tape recorder listening to her family speak. That was incredibly powerful. Quite a few people who are multiracial have emailed to say that this was the first time they had seen themselves and their experiences reflected in a book — one said, “I wish I had had this book when I was younger, and so badly needed to see myself reflected in literature.” One woman painted a picture of Lydia and sent it to me! And just the other day, a teen wrote to say that growing up as up as the only minority in a white town, he felt suffocated, and that the novel made him feel better. I can’t tell you how moved I am by messages like those.
I’ve been happy that the book seems to resonate with both Asian American readers and non-Asians. The problem is never being seen as an Asian American writer; the problem is with being seen only as an Asian American writer.
Recently I laughed and cringed with you over the casting of Emma Stone as “Allison Ng” in Aloha. On Twitter, you often comment on representation and diversity in pop culture — in particular the way Asian/Pacific Islander Americans are portrayed (or not portrayed, as the case may be).
It’s funny, that was just an off-the-cuff remark I made about Emma Stone, but it seemed to hit a nerve: that tweet got shared so much, and many people wrote to say how perturbed they were by this instance and this issue. At the same time, I got a ton of tweets from random strangers accusing me of racism — for not wanting a white actress to play a part-Asian character, mind you. I am still getting replies to that tweet, months later.
Twitter is truly the gift that keeps on giving even when you wish it wouldn’t!
What gives you hope, in terms of recent representations of Asian Americans in the media? And where would you still like to see real progress?
What gives me hope: that there are more and more Asian Americans visible in the media today. When I was growing up, there were probably three Asians on TV or in the movies people could name: Bruce Lee, Jackie Chan, Connie Chung. Maybe Sammo Hung if you were a real TV buff. But that has gotten longer: from Lucy Liu and Margaret Cho to Sandra Oh, Jet Li, Kelly Hu, Daniel Dae Kim, John Cho, Mindy Kaling… And of course there’s “Fresh Off the Boat,” which feels like a watershed moment: a TV show, on network TV, about an Asian American family! This fall, there will be another TV show with an Asian lead — “Dr. Ken” — which I believe is the first time there have ever been two sitcoms featuring Asian Americans on network TV.
That cuts both ways — there are more Asians represented in media, but they’re still so rare that every sighting is like spotting an ivory-billed woodpecker or something. We still need more representation, and we’re still fighting some of the same old stereotypes. It was great to see Jeremy Lin get the spotlight, but the narrative was always about his Asianness and how he met — or didn’t meet — the stereotypes we have for Asian men. Margaret Cho’s performance at the Golden Globes was problematic — I get what she was trying to do, but I suspect many viewers just saw the generic Asian caricature. “Unbreakable Kimmy Schmidt” has a major Asian character, but it too walks a fine line between undercutting the stereotype and reiterating it — I’m still working out how I feel about that one.
I think we see so few Asians in the media that people think any representation is progress, even if, as you say, some of those portrayals play to stereotypes or are used just to sell products. It’s frustrating that interracial couples and multiracial families are common in commercials but not at all centered in actual shows or films.
Not long ago, you compiled a list of Asian American fiction writers in response to someone remarking, “There aren’t a lot of you out there.” (I love that that was your response to that comment!) Do you feel a responsibility to speak and write about issues surrounding race and diversity?
I’m starting to. I used to feel reluctant to talk about race, as I think many people of color sometimes do — there’s an exhaustion that sets in after a while because you’re constantly forced to confront your race in a way that Caucasians aren’t. Like, “Just because I’m Asian it doesn’t mean I have to talk about Asian issues, I think (and write!) about more than that!” All of that is true, but these are issues that have always been important to me, and now that the book is out in the world and found an audience, it feels like I have a responsibility to speak up while anyone is listening.
And I’ve seen firsthand how these issues affect me personally — we might like to think of ourselves outside of racial terms, but the fact is that your race is a big part of how the world sees you. The same goes for being a woman — I knew, intellectually, how different things are for women than for men in pretty much every aspect of life, especially work and public life, but now that I see it, I feel like I have a duty to speak about it and engage in the conversation.
Do you feel, with a platform as wide-reaching as The Toast, you have to speak or write about these issues? I know you’ve said you don’t want to become the “Asian Issues” person, so how do you balance those things?
Oh, I’ve pretty much embraced being The Toast’s Asian American Correspondent. (I’m kidding.) I used to worry more about being pigeonholed, so now it’s refreshing to feel like I have the freedom to speak to my own experience, and issues that matter to me. It would feel strange if I only wrote about race and Asian American issues, but it would feel just as strange to purposefully avoid those topics.
As an editor, it’s also very important to me to publish work by other writers of color and promote that work. At the same time, I think writers can sometimes feel frustrated or bewildered when it comes to publishing about issues of race and culture — some feel pressure to write about these things, as if that’s all that is expected of them; some think when they actually do, it leads people to typecast them and their work. Were or are you ever concerned about being thought of as “an Asian writer”?
I was and am, as you might guess from the above. I wrote an essay once called “Why I Don’t Want to be the Next Amy Tan” — the reasons are less about anxiety of influence and more about the ways that minority writers tend to get boxed into only writing about one thing.
I’ve been fortunate that my publisher appreciated the Asian American aspects of my work without ever trying to pigeonhole me, and I’ve been happy that the book seems to resonate with both Asian American readers and non-Asians. The problem is never being seen as an Asian American writer; the problem is with being seen only as an Asian American writer.
What do you think about white authors writing about Asian families or experiences? Should they do it? How can they ensure they are doing it well?
This is a tough one. I never want to tell someone they can’t write about a race not their own — isn’t fiction about imagining your way into someone else’s experience? That said, if you’re going to write about Asian experiences as a non-Asian, you have to be extra sensitive to stereotypes and exoticization, because that’s so common in depictions of Asians. It’s worth thinking long and hard, too, about why you need to tell this story. That doesn’t mean don’t do it — but as with any story, you need a compelling reason that you must tell it, and in this particular voice or through this particular lens. And you need to be sensitive to the reactions of people who do have similar experiences to the group you’re writing about — if they have concerns about your depiction, you owe it to that group and to your story to acknowledge what you don’t know and to take those critiques seriously.
Really, now that I read that over, it’s the same rules as any time you’re writing outside your own experience. The stakes are just exceptionally high when it comes to race.
Before Amy Tan, when I was a little kid, I just never read many stories about people who looked like me — I remember reading a memoir about the Japanese American internment, a YA novel called April and the Dragon Lady, and a Judy Blume book with an Asian best friend, and that was really it in terms of kids’ books for me. Who were some of your first Asian American authors?
My mom made a point of buying any books she saw by or about Asian Americans, because at the time there weren’t that many, and she felt very strongly about representation. And I think she realized, way earlier than I did, how important it was to see people who looked like me in literature. So I grew up with a fair number of books by and about Asian American: Journey to Topaz and A Jar Full of Dreams by Yoshiko Uchida, Who’s Hu? by Lensey Namioka, Child of the Owl and Dragonwings by Lawrence Yep, Fifth Chinese Daughter by Jade Snow Wong, In the Year of the Boar and Jackie Robinson by Bette Bao Lord. I had biographies of Sun Yat-Sen and Madame Chang Kai-Shek.
Reading those books was powerful — sometimes I related so closely to them that it was almost painful. At the same time, I also got the impression that if you were Asian American, you had to write about being Asian American. And I was very resistant to that idea when I was younger, partly because that didn’t fully feel like my culture and I didn’t always feel qualified or moved to write about it, and partly because of the kind of racial-explaining fatigue I mentioned earlier. At Chinese New Year I would always have do this presentation to the holiday to the class, and any time anything Asian came up at school, I was usually the one called on to try and explain it. So while those Asian American authors certainly shaped me, I was almost running away from them in my early writing life — I was writing imitations of Anne of Green Gables and Little House in the Big Woods and A Little Princess instead.
I’m nosy and I like to know how people spend their time, so can you please describe a typical day for me? What is your writing routine, if you have one?
I have a four-year-old, so my writing schedule has to flex around his schedule. On a typical school day, I take him to preschool around 8:30 and then write, at home or at my favorite cafe or at the public library, until I have to pick him up at either 12:00 or 3:00. Usually I start by answering my email, checking Twitter, reading some stuff online — I used to fight this but now see it as the warm-up stretches I do at the keyboard before diving into actual writing. Then I open up my document and start by rereading what I wrote last time — usually I’ll see something in there I can fix or want to tweak, and that’s how I ease myself back into the story. I’m a recent convert to Scrivener, so sometimes I’ll write a chunk of story that’s come to mind, and save it figure out where to put it in later. Other parts of the routine: tea, Haribo candies, a lot of eavesdropping on the people at the next table.
Usually once I get into a good rhythm, it’s just about time to go pick up my son. I am usually running late, so sometimes I end up stopping literally mid-sentence. This has turned out to be a benefit, though, because the next day I open the document and there’s half a sentence and all I have to do is finish it to get rolling. It’s like a writing prompt from my past self.
Who are some of your favorite up-and-coming writers?
One of the nicest things about the book doing well is that now people send me ARCs — I love discovering new writers and I love championing the writers whose work I love. Mia Alvar’s debut, the collection In the Country, is a knockout. Jennine Capó Crucet’s first novel, Make Your Home Among Strangers, is great. The Sleepwalker’s Guide to Dancing, by Mira Jacob, is one of the best debut novels I’ve read in a while — funny and poignant and loving all at once. Justin Torres’s We The Animals is like poetry — I’ve heard he’s working on another book, and I can’t wait for that one. Elliott Holt. Kim Fu. Taiye Selasi.
What advice do you offer to writers just starting out?
The best advice I have for people just starting out is: (1) read a lot, and try reading things outside your comfort zone; (2) write a lot, and try writing things outside your comfort zone — different genres and different forms; and (3) keep at it.
One of the most encouraging things anyone ever said to me was, “You’re very talented and you work very hard, so I have no doubt you’ll succeed.” Often I think we forget about the working-very-hard part and get discouraged when success doesn’t happen right away — but every “overnight success” probably has 10+ years of work behind them.
What’s next for you? Are you working on anything right now?
I’m still doing a lot of events for Everything I Never Told You, but I’m hoping to get back into writing mode soon. I’m working on another novel — no title yet — that takes place in my hometown, Shaker Heights, Ohio. Shaker Heights is a very lovely, progressive, affluent, and relatively racially diverse place, but the flip side to that is that it’s also hyperaware of appearances. I’m still working out the story, but there’s a family that lives in Shaker, and a mother and daughter who come from outside the community, and the story is about how they get entangled with and stir up some trouble for each other.


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Booksquawk: Tell us a little bit about yourself and how you came to be a comic book writer.
John Farman: I was approached by a friend of mine, David Braysher to script a comic he had already drawn, “Black Maria”, I was open to the idea and two months later I was holding a copy in my hand. I still remember the feeling of pride and excitement on looking at the book, From that moment I was hooked. So I guess I owe a big thanks to “Black Maria” and David for that.
Booksquawk: What is it about comic books / graphic novels that you like? Have you ever wanted to write for different forms e.g. screenplays or novels?
John Farman: Having worked in theatre, the differences between the stage and the comic page are fairly obvious. Ambiguity is often the playwright's best friend, my experiences of theatre centre around you building with dialogue driven characters, slowly revealing the plot; this is usually for a cast of 4-5 characters and it can be a very difficult thing to achieve. If you get it right it’s a wonderful feeling. With comics the process is collaborative, only you have far more people adding to the mix, including lighting, props, set design, sound effects, the director, and last but not least the actors themselves. Sometimes it works, sometimes it doesn’t. With comics you are free to write as many characters and locations as you like (you can achieve this in theatre in a creative way, too) with the ability to show whatever you want, there are no budget constraints on your imagination on the comic panel. Pacing is much faster and can on occasion be less subtle than theatre; this includes use of weapons, explosions and multiple simultaneous running narratives, achievable in theatre but a lot less difficult to pull off on the comic page. Finally seeing the final printed work is always a special moment, with the theatre the memories of the various shows always fade, with comics they are there to re-read and reference as you wish. I would say I can see myself revisiting theatre, but comics in terms of writing and the actual reading/viewing experience are my first and true love.
Booksquawk: One of your earlier comics, “School of the Damned” opened on St. Kilda. “Royal Descent” is set on Mingulay. Is there any reason why you keep returning to the Outer Hebrides in your writing?
John Farman: For me the romantic elements of the islands have always appealed, as well as the sense of loneliness and isolation. These are perfect backdrops for my imagination to run wild. Also the actual natural beauty and isolation of the island lends itself perfectly to the various horrible acts of violence that populate my stories. Essentially nature is a hard, cold mistress, and this fits the tone of both books in my island trilogy. I have plans to write a “School of the Damned” annual focusing on the events of St Kilda in greater detail, so more Dracula and Van Helsing on the cards. The trilogy might be a wee while in coming as I have no idea how I’m going to top “Royal Descent”.
Booksquawk: “Royal Descent” doesn’t pull any punches and attracted the wrath of the Daily Mail… Has the newspaper’s reaction helped or hindered sales?
John Farman: To be honest it hasn’t hurt.
Booksquawk: “Royal Descent” is clearly influenced by “Battle Royale” but are there other works of fiction or film that have inspired you?
John Farman: The works of Edgar Allen Poe, Charles Dickens, Henrik Ibsen, John Carpenter, early David Cronenberg. Comic wise the 60’s works of Jack Kirby and Stan Lee, the 80’s works of John Byrne, Walt Simonson and Jim Starlin. Of the Brits Alan Moore, Grant Morrison, John Wagner and Pat Mills are the main writers I’ve taken most inspiration from.
Booksquawk: Do you have a routine for writing?
John Farman: My routine is a simple one, I usually sit down around 11pm and play a game or two of chess, I find this gets me ready to write, it’s as simple as that. I usually write for around 4-5 hours, this might be plotting, scripting or re-writing/editing. I’ll usually think about the work for a wee while before I write, I see this as priming the ideas before I go in.
Booksquawk: The royal family are forced to fight to the death in “Royal Descent”. Who else would you like to strand on a remote island and force to engage in bloody hand-to-hand combat?
John Farman: I’m actually developing a sequel to “Royal Descent” called ‘A parliament of rooks’ where the surviving member from “Royal Descent” is forced into battle with disgraced politicians from the various parties, plenty of strong personalities here so I think both myself and the audience will have a lot of fun.
Booksquawk: Should the real House of Windsor find themselves in a similar situation, who would you put your money on to come out on top?
John Farman: I think either of the Princes, William or Harry would be a good bet.
Booksquawk: Have you got anything else in the pipeline?
John Farman: I have the sister book to “School of the Damned”, “Tales of the Damned” debuting in May and before that I hope to have my latest title “Purity Ring” out at the end of April. TOTD allows me to feature stand alone stories focusing on key members from the SOTD title. “Purity Ring” represents my first take on an ‘American’ voice and is structured around the middle America and tea party politics as well as a full frontal attack on the Purity Ring movement. I’ve been wanting to write a slasher piece for a while and the Purity Ring movement was for me an obvious choice. I’m also developing a graphic novel called Drumchapel based on my experiences of growing up in 70's/80’s Glasgow, lots of crazy, funny and dark stories to tell. I have two other projects I’m currently developing, ‘Slags’ a Kray-style character in a modern day facility recounting his exploits in the crime scene in the 60’s/70’s. Finally I’m working on a 9/11 story called “The Death of Innocence”, this story revolves around the ever growing list of deaths of first responders who attended the twin towers during the 9/11 attack. I will also be continuing to write the continuing adventures of the inhabitants of the “School of the Damned” with some big changes planned for that universe.
Read the review of Royal Descent here.

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“BE the Light”, 8 x 10″ oil painting on canvas, available in my Etsy shop for $125.
Finished up the painting I’ve been working on yesterday, but didn’t have the camera with me at my studio, so I’m posting it today! My inspiration seems to be leaning towards the light these days. It’s manifesting as paintings of a symbolized sun. Besides love, light is something desperately needed in this world today.
When I say light, I don’t necessarily mean it literally, as in sunlight. The kind of light I’m talking about it the radiant light of joy and love, the light that shines forth when we give of ourselves to others. The light of the Spirit guiding us towards our authentic selves. The light that casts out shadows and makes evil hide in a deep, dark hole. Other Lightworkers know what I’m talking about. It’s the light that draws people into your world because they are in desperate need of positive energy. Perhaps they are like minded and want to share and heighten their positive energy.
I am still working on staying in this place of light. This is most likely why I’m being inspired to paint these pieces at the moment. I NEED the reminder on a daily basis. I don’t like to write these posts about positive energy and love without clarifying that I am on this journey too. I am far from perfect. I am grateful for my spiritual guidance! I’m grateful that I have this medium for bringing more light into the world. I’m thankful for the gift I have been given to share with you all. As long as it keeps inspiring me, I will continue to share it! May you all see and feel this light and be guided to your own higher purpose. Be the gift to the world that you are meant to be. We are here to give of ourselves in our most authentic and loving way.

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With another circuit around Saturn completed, we are once again far from the planet, out near the orbit of Iapetus, and surveying all around us.
Our last orbit of the planet brought us another low flyby over Titan's Xanadu region and even closer inspection of its strange variegated geography, a rare detailed look at a long streak of a cloud hovering at southern mid-latitudes in Titan's troposphere, and this time a clear glimpse of a cloud-free south polar region. Though clouds are sparse, Titan's atmosphere is clearly dynamic and its upper layers of haze are finely structured. So far, Titan is exhibiting the complexity in body and soul befitting a moon revered for its enormous potential to teach and inform. We should have expected no less.
Soon after leaving Titan, we slipped by the icy, airless moon Dione for a magnified view of the puzzling bright wisps, discovered by Voyager 24 years ago, that criss-cross its trailing hemisphere and for which Dione is renowned. In a tale of two moons, what Titan has jealously guarded Dione has freely given. By dint of a few detailed images, we found the mother lode on Dione that we came to find: the wisps of Dione are not thick ice deposits as some had previously surmised but a complex pattern of fine, braided fractures whose clean icy cliff faces give the region its bright white appearance from afar. This is surely one of our most surprising findings thus far.
Now, with the Huygens probe successfully deployed and safely on its way to an historic atmospheric entry and touchdown on Titan in two weeks' time, we ready ourselves for a first close encounter with Iapetus, up ahead and only a day away. With a dramatically split countenance -- one side as white as anything else we see around Saturn, and the other as dark as dark gets -- this is one of Saturn's most intriguing bodies and one of the most unusual in all the solar system. Was Iapetus the site of a major cataclysmic event long ago that caused sub-surface material, unusually dark and rich in organic substances, to gush out onto its surface and coat its leading hemisphere? Or did it sweep up, in its never-ending race around Saturn, the remains of debris that originated on an even more distant moon, like Phoebe, and slowly evolved inward towards the orbit of Iapetus?
This is a question that burns in the minds of some of us. And if Iapetus proves as cooperative as Dione, we may soon know the answer.

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Based on the 1967 iconic novel of the same name by Joan Lindsay and inspired by Peter Weir’s 1975 film, Picnic At Hanging Rock is an epic series that tells the story of the mystery surrounding three schoolgirls that has gone missing during a Valentine’s Day picnic in the remote Australian bush in 1900. But with this reimagined version from Foxtel, the story would now be told from a new perspective with several interweaving layers. The well-loved mystery gets a fresher and more enthralling take with new characters, as well as new twists woven into the storyline. Picnic At Hanging Rock offers both a narrative of Australia during that pivotal period in history, focusing primarily on the nation’s women, and a one-of-a-kind supernatural crime drama that would leave viewers at the edge of their seats. Starring highly acclaimed actress Natalie Dormer, this show also introduces Australian actresses on the rise including Samara Weaving, Lily Sullivan, Ruby Rees, and Madeleine Madden. Good news for binge-watchers, Foxtel is dropping all six episodes from season 1 on May 6.

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101 chance meetings, juxtaposing the famous and the infamous, the artistic and the philistine, the pompous and the comical, the snobbish and the vulgar, told by Britains funniest writer. Life is made up of individuals meeting one another. They speak, or dont speak. They get on, or dont get on. They make agreements, which they either hold to or ignore. They laugh, they cry, they are excited, they are indifferent, they share secrets, they say how do you do? Often it is the most fleeting of meetings that, in the fullness of time, turn out to be the most noteworthy.One on One examines the curious nature of different types of meeting, from the oddity of meetings with the Royal Family (who start giggling during a recital by TS Eliot) to those often perilous meetings between old and young (Gladstone terrifies the teenage Bertrand Russell) and between young and old (the 23 year old Sarah Miles has her leg squeezed by the nonagenarian Bertrand Russell), and our contemporary random encounters on television (George Galloway meets Michael Barrymore on Celebrity Big Brother). All human life is here, dancing in a circle. Ingenious in its construction, witty in its narration, panoramic in its breadth, One on One' is a wholly original book.
Craig Brown has been writing the Private Eye celebrity diary since 1989. He has also written parodies for many other publications, including The Daily Telegraph, Vanity Fair, The Times and The Guardian.


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As a top academic and research institution, Stanford University strives to lead the way in addressing the crucial global problems of our time, including issues of alternative energy and climate change. In order to be a true role model, however, Stanford needs to start on its own campus. Expanded polystyrene (commonly known as вStyrofoamв) is one of the most conspicuous and directly environmentally detrimental materials that students, faculty, and staff use everyday at several establishments on campus. Although we ultimately hope that the university follows the visionary examples of several campuses and cities (including San Francisco) around the world by banning polystyrene from campus entirely, with this petition we request that the Stanford campus branch of Jamba Juice discontinues its use of polystrene cups and products to package their beverages.
1) Acute health effects such as irritation of the skin, eyes, and upper respiratory tract, and gastrointestinal effects. Chronic exposure affects the central nervous system showing symptoms such as depression, headache, fatigue, and weakness, and can cause minor effects on kidney function and blood. Styrene is classified as a possible human carcinogen by the EPA and by the International Agency for Research on Cancer (IARC). Styrene is used extensively in the manufacture of plastics, rubber, and resins. About 90,000 workers, including those who make boats, tubs and showers, are potentially exposed to styrene.
3) Environmental pollution and negative health effects on land and marine ecosystems. Though polystyrene manufacturers claim that their products are "ozone-friendly" or free of CFCs, this is only partially true. Some polystyrene is now manufactured with HCFC-22, which, though less destructive than its chemical cousins, CFC-11 and CFC-12, is still a greenhouse gas and harmful to the ozone layer. 53 In fact, according to a 1992 study by the Institute for Energy and Environmental Research, HCFCs are three to five times more destructive to the ozone layer than previously believed.
Many businesses, schools, and cities have moved to ban the use of expanded polystyrene use due to public pressure and environmental concerns. A study by the Portland, Oregon, public school system concluded that switching the school system from polystyrene to reusable polycarbonate foodware would, over a five-year period, save 11 billion BTUs of energy. It would prevent 248,000 pounds of solid waste and 60,000 pounds of airborne emissions (chiefly, pentane, a greenhouse gas and contributor to smog, and sulfur dioxide, and acid rain pollutant).
Over 20 US cities have banned the use of expanded polystyrene in food packaging, including Berkeley, Portland, San Francisco, and Oakland.
Jamba Juice has demonstrated that is has existing alternative serving products such as recyclable plastic and paper-based cups that could be used in the place of polystyrene, and is currently using those products in the aforementioned cities, among others.
We, the students of Stanford University, request that the Stanford campus branch of the Jamba Juice Company ceases to purchase and serve in expanded polystyrene containers, and instead implements containers that are more environmentally sustainable, such as recyclable plastics 1 or 2, or compostable corn or fiber-based materials.
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This project was very close to home for the Wildetecture team. We were faced with the monumental task of converting a dull office space with low ceilings and dry wall cubicles to a chic, lofty New York style space. We imagined a clean, understated area, with enough space and simplicity to dramatise the art on display.
With our budget on the smaller side we were limited to creating the bare minimum, but fortunately for us, there was an amazing amount of design detail concealed in the roof. We completely removed the ceiling and opened up the trusses to create dramatic depth above the crisp, clean aesthetics. Deep dark trusses made an obvious contrast against the newly pitched white ceiling.
The absolute pinnacle of the space is the bar. Dean Hoffman created the parametric design with a gradual sloping shelf that flows into the space to create an aspect of movement. The bar was completed with a brown leather finish to provide an alternative look and feel. All in all, the area was everything we imagined: a blank canvas ideal for showcasing other creative works, but with unique design features that remained authentic and true to our design team's vision.

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How many years til macbook's get dedicated graphics?
Discussion in 'MacBook Pro' started by anotherarunan, Feb 7, 2008.
Before people assume Im just another "buy now or wait?" person, Im not. I have no plans to buy any apple computer in the next 2 years. Its just out of curiousity that i ask, will consumer trends eventually make a macbook with a dedicated graphics chip essential in the future? I.e is it part of the progression trend with macbooks, or will apple always use this as a major seperating point between the MB and MBP. Because surely MBs cant have integrated graphics in like, 3 years time can they?
If integrated graphics keep climbing in performance (and drivers are updated and developed BEFORE the hardware is launched *poke poke*) I don't see why not for at least 3 years.
The MacBook sells like hot butter and it's for a market who only uses it for very little or no gaming at all.
The lower end of the market remains keen on integrated graphics as a way of reducing costs. I don't see that changing in the near future.
More like, 'when are MBP going to start having integrated graphics chips'.
I would not be surprised if in 5 years notebook computers no longer had separate graphic cards but had the motherboard do it all. Just different grades of performance. Isn't that a trend from Intel with the Santa Rosa platform and the following, unreleased platform?
Cuts down on power consumption, shrinks the innards, reduces heat, etc. Desktops = no way. But I would imagine integrated graphics getting better and better in notebooks.
That all being said, Macbooks won't see huge boosts. Ever. NOT a gaming or rendering platform. Squarely aimed at the iTunes, iPhoto, email, Word, Excel, iMovie bunch. And fair enough, that's probably 90% of the notebook market.
EDIT: Damn. This is pretty much an inefficient wording of what ExRex said above.
I highly doubt they will ever get a dedicated graphics processor. The iBooks that they have replaced had a dedicated graphics processor and they have since downgraded when Apple switched to the Macbooks. Thats the main difference between the Macbook anbd Macbook Pro.
This is a reason to get users to upgrade to the MBP.
I just wish they could put something like an 8400m into the macbooks. That'd be reasonably powerful but it'd still give the MBP a far enough performance gap to warrant buying one.
the approximation of that date could be expressed as turning an "8" 90 degrees to either side.
It won't be happening anytime soon if it ever does.
It doesn't need dedicated graphics. It never will.
i think its more of a question of "when will energy saving CPUs with integrated graphics become powerful enough to eliminate the need for a battery sapping discrete GPU"
There isn't a need for a discrete card except when laptops without discrete cards are compared to those that have them. It's like asking when the Macbook Pro will get a high-end desktop graphics card, and bemoaning how you just can't find one on an MBP. The MBP isn't built for that market any more than the MB is built for the dedicated card market. Accept that the MB will never have graphics capabilities equal to those of the MBP, much as you've already accepted that the MBP will never have graphics cards equivalent to those found in similarly priced performance desktops.
Probably never. Having a dedicated graphics card is the main distinguishing feature of the MacBook Pro. If Apple remove that they have shot themselves in the foot.
To correct this analogy, hot butter does not sell very well at all. It is running and causes your arteries to taken, eew!
The iBooks had no choice but to use a dedicated graphics chip - there's no such thing as a G4 system with an integrated graphics controller.
That said, the GMA950 and the current X3100 are faster than anything ever put in an iBook anyway.


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We have graded all our cycling tours to help you choose the right one. You will also find more detailed information on individual tour pages, along with charts showing daily cycling distances.
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For our last day in Leon we checked out this beautiful gem of a crag, climbing on limestone fins next to a babbling stream and only 2 minutes from the car. Yet another one that fits the Leon blueprint: Gorgeous location, great, but very compact rock and tough grades!
I’d had a very complicated discussion with the campsite owner on our departure, who was very keen that we took in the most “guapa” (beautiful) sights on our drive back to the coast. On her recommendation we took the scenic route via the Embalse de Riano, which did provide some stunning scenery.
This led us to re-cross the Picos via the Desfiladero de los Beyos – even more impressive than the Hermida gorge where we spent our first week.


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Michael Liang in front of Saiyare Refaei's “Re-emerge in Healing” on Market Street in Tacoma.
Spaceworks Tacoma, a joint venture between the Tacoma-Pierce County Chamber of Commerce and the City of Tacoma, has a new director, one who understands the ebb and flow of managing a creative business.
Michael Liang gleaned his business acumen at a young age as he watched his parents run a photography studio out of their southeast Michigan home.
As Spaceworks’ director, Liang, 33, was hired in August to link artists and other creative individuals, like his parents, with organizations that can help them launch their small business ventures.
Liang oversees training, finds retail spaces, implements the installation of public art, and creates special projects designed to showcase the artists and the city in which they live. However, Liang wasn’t always so focused on business.
After graduating from University of Michigan, Liang was stationed in the tiny land-locked town of Stehekin on the northwest end of Lake Chelan, where he worked as an interpretive ranger, helping visitors find personal connections to nature.
“That’s when the Northwest grabbed my heart,” he said.
His road to Tacoma then took a circuitous route through the National Park Service (NPS) in Philadelphia and Los Angeles, where he worked in visual graphics and communications. His goal was to make the parks more accessable to everyone.
Through his work with NPS, Liang learned to navigate the tricky labyrinth of bureaucracy, a skill that helps him as he works to connect people to public resources in his Spaceworks role.
Read on to see a typical day in Liang’s life.
8 a.m. An early morning photo before the coffee kicks in. I live in Tacoma’s Stadium District and can take the 11, 13, or 16 bus to my office downtown.
8:15 a.m. Greetings from 950 Pacific Ave. Fun fact: Spaceworks Tacoma is a program within the Tacoma-Pierce County Chamber.
10 a.m. Once a month, I meet with our amazing Spaceworks Tacoma steering committee. Such great support for a first-time program director.
11:30 a.m. En route to another meeting (via the 28 bus) and reviewing a survey about the Streetscapes design elements in the Hilltop neighborhood.
Noon Waiting for a coffee with one of our alums from the Tacoma Tool Library. I’ve been trying to meet as many people as I can in the first few months.
1 p.m. Checking in with Andy, one of the project managers with Links to Opportunity.
1:30 p.m. Program directors carry lots of different keys and wear lots of hats. This afternoon, I met up with fire marshals to inspect the vault inside the old KeyBank in Tacoma’s Hilltop neighborhood. Spaceworks Tacoma also leases co-working spaces.
2:30 p.m. Decided to walk to my next meeting, from Hilltop to the Tacoma Municipal Building.
3 p.m. A room full of creative “makers!” How do we expand upon the success of being named an official Maker City by Etsy in 2016?
6 p.m. No more meetings, but still a few more emails to respond to before dinner.


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Google Shopping, once known as Google Product Search and way before that known as Froogle, is a service that lets consumers search for products and compare prices through Google Search. Previously consumer products appeared on SERPS through an eCommerce site’s own specific markup or through the relative strength of the Google algorithm. This is no longer necessarily true. Since Google Product Search has been transformed into Google Shopping, eCommerce sites will now have to pay to have their products appear in the listings.
Is Google Shopping Worth it?
Google Shopping is not a place for organic listings; in reality, it’s a place for search marketers and advertisers to exploit. In some respects this is great, especially if you’re a small business with a significant enough budget to go up against the bigger brands. There’s theoretically much less competition now. Other benefits include: better site traffic as searchers that click on the ad will be directed to your store. Click-through rates are higher thanks to richer search results, rather than the standard text listings of a typical Google search. You’ll also be providing the consumer with better quality adverts that should be entirely relevant to their search, thus improving the overall eCommerce experience. So… yeah, it’s worth it. Especially if the product you’re selling isn’t already represented or is represented poorly in Google Shopping. Like any tool, you’ll want to give it a test run before charging full speed ahead – Google Shopping’s not for everyone, but when done well it can definitely deliver results.
Front End Audio for example tripled their click-through-rate and reduced their cost per conversion by 75-80%. Minted saw a 10% increase in clicks and a 14% increase in revenue with the addition of PLAs (aka Product Listing Ads). PLAs automatically sync with Minted’s product feed, so the site can push new designs and product categories as soon as they launch, and attract high-quality traffic. So – interested?
If you’re a stranger to Google AdWords, it’s very simple to setup – especially if you already have a Google Account. A Google Merchant Center account is easy to setup too. This is where you’ll upload your store and product data in order to make it available to Google Shopping.
Next you will have to upload a data feed, which is basically a file comprising the list of products from your store. The data feed can be in either text or XML format. Each one of your products should be assigned certain attributes, which have a standardized value or ‘answer’, in order to describe it accurately. These attributes include information like availability, price, product identifiers like an EAN or an ISBN and information such as size and color if it’s an item of clothing. Some of these attributes are required for all items, some of them are just recommended. Failure to provide relevant attributes may lead to your products not turning up in the search results. Once you’ve verified your website within Merchant Center, just link this account to your AdWords account.
Here are a few tricks and strategies that can help you optimize and manage your Google Shopping data feed to maximize the amount of traffic your website receives from the platform!
Google ranks products based on category and type, so including this information will actually get your products indexed faster! This differs from the merchant category (which can also be submitted in the data feed).
Avoid copying and pasting product descriptions provided by the manufacturer. Instead, write your own descriptions. This method ensures uniqueness and helps your products gain more visibility in Google Shopping results for your items.
Like page descriptions, page titles still remain an important ranking factor. Include keywords, product type and category information within the page title text if possible, but keep it under 70 characters.
How likely are you to make a purchase based on a written description of a product only? Most consumers like to see what they’re buying, and providing quality images will help boost your conversions.
Google likes frequently-updated information, and as a merchant you want your product listings to be accurate. Each time there’s a price change, shipping cost change, or an important change to a product description, update your data feed. Equally as important is running a test data feed, which submits your information to the Merchant Center for troubleshooting prior to including products in the search listings. Failing to do a test run will not only make it more difficult to remedy errors after submission, but not doing your homework and due diligence can earn you penalties and account suspension.


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We might have been making things more difficult for the patients we wanted to help. This is not unknown in healthcare.
Everybody knows that certain substances can be abused, and certain classes of drugs are quite addictive. That’s definitely our experience with morphine and heroin and cocaine and the amphetamines. That doesn’t mean that every user develops a substance use disorder– most don’t– but the potential is certainly there. Knowing that, why do we ‘forget’ the lessons of the last epidemic, long enough to start another?
Sometimes science helps to mislead us. Take the prescription painkiller epidemic. That stemmed from a campaign to address the alleged undertreatment of chronic pain.
Chronic (noncancer) pain is a unique beast. The term refers to pain that persists beyond an injury or illness, suggesting something amiss with the body’s warning system. Pain of this type is a known trigger for depression and other psychological symptoms. It can be a real obstacle for the patient.
A movement started within the healthcare community in the 1990’s to increase the use of opioid medications in treatment of noncancer pain. That meant the introduction of more potent preparations such as Oxycontin. State medical boards and the major hospital accreditation bodies jumped on the bandwagon with recommendations to relax controls on opioid prescriptions. Not surprisingly, pain patients were eager for the promise of relief. Big Pharma wasn’t about to turn down the extra revenue, and began its own high-profile marketing campaign.
Problem: The science behind this change was never very sound. Doctors were advised that when prescribed by a physician, the chances of abuse or addiction to opioids was quite small. That’s not true, but that message carried the day, at least long enough to flood the market.
Then came the overdoses– unintended, frequently fatal, often in combination with other drugs or alcohol. Then came additional research suggesting that perhaps long-term use of opioids wasn’t the best approach for chronic pain, and might in fact be making things worse, in the form of hyperalgesia– an increased sensitivity to pain.
Translation: We might have been making things more difficult for the patients we wanted to help. This is not unknown in healthcare.
On reflection, it really wasn’t so different from the misinformation that once dominated our media portrayal of cocaine. Experts helped lead us astray then, too.

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Today we are going to take it easy, no excavations or museums and after a homemade breakfast we first take a walk through the village and the surroundings. Kalamos is a small hamlet along the coast and our apartment is only 50 meters from the sea. There is a narrow beach that consists mainly of thick stones, not really nice to put your towel on or walk into the sea. We will later look for a more suitable beach. Here and there houses are scattered and most of them seem to be for renting out. Our apartment is on the last piece of paved road, further onb they are all sandy paths.
Besides some houses, it is mainly olive groves that adorn the landscape and we see them in all shapes and sizes, from young and thin trunks to knotty old trees. Olive trees grow very erratic so you get special shapes and also the wood has beautiful veins when you cut the trees. But there are strict laws for cutting down olive trees in Greece and the tree is also a lot more valuable as a supplier of olives and olive oil than for wood. Because of the erratic growth and the fact that only the short stem is thick, you can not really make big objects of it, let alone boards.
We roam extensively around the olive groves behind the village, and there are many more houses than we expected. Yet we see very few people and also not many tourists. The holiday season really starts on July 1st, at least most of the prices of apartments will then go up, sometimes as much as 50%. Kalamos is a very hidden village, there is only one road in and out and the roads to it and those in the village are not very good. Along the boulevard I find it even scary with the car, so narrow is it and you drive directly along the meter high quay so you must not cross the edge with your wheels.
After our walk we drive to Argalasti, a somewhat larger village on a plateau at 200 meters altitude. It is a cozy village and in the travel guides we read that you have to pay attention to the buildings because there are processed stones from the Byzantine period used in them. It is a nice village to take a walk and of course we also try out a terrace. And there are some shops here so we can do some shopping. It is a pity in these kind of villages that cars are allowed everywhere, also on the central square. With a car-free center, these kind of villages would be even more pleasant.
Then we make a short trip to the east side of the peninsula. Short in terms of kilometers but you do not make much progress on the winding roads, 30 to 50 kilometers is the most we get per hour and later we find out that this applies to the entire peninsula. We drive through the hills covered with bushes and low trees, it is green everywhere. On the east coast we find a nice beach at Paltsi but not such a beautiful sandy beach as we are used to. Only now we read in our travel guides that the beaches on the west coast of the peninsula are rather rocky and that the better ones are on the east coast. Fortunately, we have a car.
At the end of the afternoon we find a restaurant in the village and take a salad. But even here we get a free dessert afterwards but it is a very nice one this time: strawberries, served on ice cubes.
Today we drive south along the coast. The peninsula has the shape of a curved finger and the curvature is located in the southwest. We come through several small villages where there is not much to do. There are many houses for rent but it seems that in this part many houses have been bought by brokers and companies that in this way want to get the whole rental business into their hands and therefore can count higher prices.
The landscape remains incredibly green, the trees grow up to the rocky coast. There are indeed few beaches on this side and most are also quite rocky. But sometimes we see beautiful pictures like these houses on a peninsula near Tzasteni. The white of the houses with the red roofs contrast beautifully with the blue sea and sky. When we almost reach the end of the peninsula we want to drive a circle via the south side, but we get stuck on a parking lot near Agia Kyriaki. The continuing road becomes a narrow sandy path along the coast and does not look good. I advise against taking it.
So we drive the curvature of the peninsula along the north side. In this area there are fewer roads and via Trikeri we arrive at Agia Kyriaki. In Trikeri the women inherit land and houses because (at least in the past) all men are seamen and inheritance via the female line is therefore more logical as sailors often did not return from the sea. But probably now more people, including men, will be active in tourism.
Agia Kyriaki is a village with many namesakes, there are hundreds of villages in Greece with that name. We search for a restaurant along the harbor and Teije can once again practice his Greek, because here too we end up at a traditional Greek tavern. A little further away is a Dutch couple that is here with the boat, but the boat is for sale and they try to make a buyer enthusiastic. That would be nothing for me, a holiday on a boit, although of course you can more easily find quiet beaches.
When we leave, Teije asks the boss whether we can also take the car through the village to the other side and thus arrive at the sandy path near the parking lot where we have previously turned. He looks at our car, a pretty wide Volvo and nods: it should just be possible. And in the first corner of the village, a Greek comes running toward us and gives instructions. It is a difficult turn but in the end we drive, with the mirrors almost against the walls of the houses, through the narrow streets of the village where traffic from both sides is allowed. Fortunately, we do not meet anyone! I would never drive such a road, although Teije seems to love them and seek them out.
In the evening we eat again in the restaurant of Yannis' son and while Teije gets Greek lessons from Yannis after dinner, I walk to his son, the cook, to ask him if he might have something special for Teije, because it is his birthday today. It takes a while and I have no idea if he understands what I mean, but at some point Yannis writes a few lines in Greek that Teije has to translate. Then I hear him say something amazed in Greek: the last sentence he had to translate was: I am celebrating my birthday. Funny, he calls, it really happens to be my birthday. And then the son of Yannis comes with a kind of cake and a bottle of champagne. Ha, I got you, since he does not like to do something about his birthday.
The cake is very sweet and with some difficulty we eat a small part of it with the excuse that we are still full of dinner, and so we take the rest to the room. The family also thinks it is a wonderful joke, but we have to pay for the bottle of champagne, even when I didn't ask for it.


text: I am very pleased with my purchase. Only one piece of advise, request urgent delivery because the regular delivery takes a while for the package to be delivered. That is if you are unable to wait a while to receive your purchase. The gown is beautiful and I'm very happy that i made this purchase.


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Northbridge FC wants to ensure several people in each team knows how to operate a de-fib unit.
This is why Louise Jones will be leading a de-fib training course in the Northbridge Golf Club, which has been rescheduled to Monday 29th April at 6.30pm.
We are not limited with the number of people that attend – the more members of our football community that are familiar with this the better.


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Ringling Bros. and Barnum & Bailey present #OutOfThisWorld in CLE! Enter to Win!
As a Feld Entertainment Ambassador, we have received tickets in exchange for this sweepstake and conversation. Opinions are my own. Photos courtesy of Feld Entertainment.
It's officially autumn which means the circus is coming to Cleveland!
Do you have your tickets to The Greatest Show on Earth AND Out of This World? Keep reading to see how you enter to win four tickets to the opening night performance!
Ringling Bros. and Barnum & Bailey present Out Of This World will be at the Quicken Loans Arena October 20-23, 2016!
Once again the Q will be converted from a sports and concert venue to an intergalactic adventure of space-age family fun as the ultimate circus experience launches into the future!
Audiences will take the helm to join the Circus Space Fleet on a heroic quest of good versus evil that will let imaginations run wild with unexpected surprises and thrills at every turn.
Ringling Bros. and Barnum & Bailey® is partnering with the Cleveland Metropolitan School District (CMSD) and Radio One to give back to the northeast Ohio community leading up to their October 20 – 23 performances at Quicken Loans Arena.
For each ticket sold to the Friday, October 21st performance of their newly reimagined production of Out Of This World, Ringling Bros. and Barnum & Bailey® will donate $1.00 back to Shoes and Clothes for Kids.
In addition, they will launch an incentivized attendance initiative by donating 500 FREE tickets (valued at $12,500) to the CMSD that will be used to reward schools that have the most improved attendance leading up to the show. The class with the highest attendance will be eligible for a field trip to Quicken Loans Arena for a special behind-the-scenes look at this brand new production!
Ticket’s for Friday night’s show must be purchased by Tuesday, October 18th to be part of the ‘Give Back’ donations.
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This is the first direct communication between Trump and Xi since the US president's 20 January inauguration.
US President Donald Trump has sent a letter to China seeking a "constructive relationship". In the letter, the new US president has said he is looking forward to working with President Xi Jinping to build better ties between the two countries.
"President Trump stated that he looks forward to working with President Xi to develop a constructive relationship that benefits both the United States and China," White House spokesman Sean Spicer said in a statement on Wednesday night (8 February).
The letter also thanked Xi for his congratulatory note on Trump's inauguration and wished the Chinese people a happy Lantern Festival as well as a prosperous Year of the Rooster, Spicer added.
This is reportedly the first direct communication between Trump and Xi since the US president's 20 January inauguration. However, they have communicated with each other earlier after Trump won the US presidential election in November.
The relationship between China and the new Trump administration has not been smooth. The Republican leader has frequently criticised China over its trade deals. Besides, he has also broken with decades of diplomatic protocol by taking a call from Taiwan's President Tsai Ing-wen.
He has also questioned the 'One China' policy and criticised China's leaders for failing to do more against North Korea.
China's Foreign Ministry has not commented on Trump's letter yet. However, last week the ministry had said that the two nations remained "in close touch".
That contact was led by China's top diplomat, State Councillor Yang Jiechi, who outranks the foreign minister. Yang had told Trump's National Security Adviser Michael Flynn that Beijing hopes it can work with Washington to manage and control clashes and sensitive issues.

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n a large Dutch oven add the butter and place over medium heat. When melted, add the sliced onions. Cover and cook, stirring occasionally until the onions have softened, about 10 minutes. Uncover and continue cooking, stirring often, until the onions turn a lightly golden color, about 35 minutes.
Once the onions have browned, add the sherry to deglaze the pan loosening up any brown bits on the bottom of the pan. Add the beef stock and bouquet garni and bring the soup to a boil. Once boiling, reduce the heat to low, cover and simmer about 30 minutes.
Turn the oven onto broil. Line a baking sheet with aluminum foil and set aside. Remove the bouquet garni from the soup, season with salt and black pepper to taste.
Ladle the soup into 4-6 deep oven-safe bowls. Place two toasted bread slices in each soup bowl. Top generously with grated cheese. Place the soup bowls on the prepared baking sheet. Place in the oven and watching closely, lightly broil until the cheese melts and begins to brown, about 2-5 minutes. Serve immediately.


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Valentine’s Day is rapidly approaching and if, like your curious nutritionist, you have ever wondered about the origins of this day, there’s several different theories. One theory is that it dates from Roman times in the form of a fertility festival dedicated to the God of Agriculture, Faunus. With priests and naked men gently (!) slapping women with goat hides in the belief that it made them more fertile, followed by a match making event with names drawn out of jars and couples spending a year of passion together.
The catholic church recognised a few Saint Valentines, with legends linking these Saints to saving Christians and performing secret marriages as Emperor Claudius II believed that single men made better soldiers.
Roll forward to the present day and you could argue that Valentine’s Day has now become far too commercial. Are we at risk of going through the motions without truly thinking what this day should be about?! Yes, we have one day a year where we celebrate love, but loving and cherishing others should not come with a price tag. It is something we should be conscious of all the time, and not just shown with flowers and a present once a year (though if my husband was to just once bring me flowers and a gift, I’d be delighted ). I am also very aware that others of us do not have a special ‘other’ to share the current day with them.
Valentine’s day should indeed be a time to celebrate love and life, past, present and future, and if we include in its definition, self-love, the importance being kind to ourselves and treasuring ourselves in all our glory, then it is indeed a day which we can all celebrate. While having someone to share the day with is nice, you can have a wonderful time enjoying a moment of nurturing and nourishing self-love!
With a drum roll here is my Valentine’s Day Recipes for you to enjoy. Note that the recipes serve 1, so feel free to double up if you want to! The recipes are healthy, delicious and easy and aimed to keep your self-love vibes flowing!
Once the tomatoes are cooked, place in a small bowl, shred the mozzarella and scatter over the tomatoes. Add all the other ingredients and enjoy!
*The tomatoes can be roasted in advance or you can use sun blush tomatoes (about 6) to save you cooking time.
Place the cooked lentils and peas in a saucepan. Add all the other ingredients and a glug of water (or white wine!). Let all the ingredients warm through over a low heat for 10 minutes. Season to taste.
Blend and go baby! Add more cocoa powder and syrup to taste.
Charlotte Debeugney, a British Nutritionist and Author based in France.


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I've been testing out the new Ultra Motor FastForward Edge Folding Electric bicycle for the past week. This thing is fun- fun for the whole family. In fact, our test mule has been cause for argument and disappointment at our house for this last week with my 12 year old son, me and my wife quietly fighting for the right to ride it.
This is a very versatile bike. For a little over a grand you get a kind of 3 in one product. You get a folding bike. You get an electric bike AND you get a bike-bike. I mean, it's hard to get any of these in the kind of quality of this all in one package for this price and this one has it all.
It's comfortable to ride as bike. Feels like a tall BMX ride, or a scooter with a seat. Stiff, quick handling. Turn on the button, twist the throttle and the electricity takes over. It will let you cruise comfortably on the flats and on slight inclines. Switch to e-assist mode and you just pedal and the motor works on back-up, giving you much better climbing ability.
Hard to beat for the money. It's not fast. If you want fast, you'll need to get a Metro, or a bike with a bigger motor.
The Edge seems to be a great flatlander rider and commuter. Fold it up on the bus or train. Bionical bike gets the job done. Unfold it, start your roll down to the cafe and to work. Tuck it under your desk the rest of the day.
Simple. The FastForward Edge, from Ultra Motor.