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In this English dialogue practice, Luke and Rachel talk about shopping for clothes. Many conversational phrases are used in this episode, including ‘nailed it' and ‘can't go wrong with…'Read a transcript while you listen to the episode or review the vocabulary list on the Dialogue Frog website. We also have an ‘Extra!' on this episode for more vocabulary about bargain shopping. You can find it on our website here: https://dialoguefrog.com/english-dialogue-practice-clothes-shopping-54/Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/dialoguefrogIf you like Dialogue Frog, we hope you will rate and review our podcast. We look forward to hearing from you! Thank you for a wonderful year! See you again next week as we start our second year of Dialogue Frog! Copyright 2021 Dialogue Frog
The country's extremely online feminists are ditching movement building to go all-in on shaming people for their lack of ‘uterine morality.'Read the article by Li Jun: https://www.sixthtone.com/news/1007117/the-curious-case-of-chinas-feminist-eugenicistsNarrated by Kaiser Kuo.
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TEXTHELP's 'READ & WRITE":POSITIONING TO CORRECT POSSIBLE LEARNING LOSS NEXT YEAR Jeff Levinson of Texthelp is joined by Stacy Alvare of Nassau County FL ( the county north of Jacksonville) of their Board of Education's Dept of Learning Support and Disability Services. YOU'RE ALWAYS WELCOME TO CONTACT HOST LARRY JACOBS AT "LARRY@ACE-ED.ORG". JOIN WITH US FOR PREK-12 EQUITY AT OUR HOME WEBSITE AT ACE-ED.ORG
Dez and Thalia discuss a common misconception about Texas. Which social media trend is currently driving us crazy? Thalia shares about testing positive for Covid. We play 'Billboard Hit or Miss' and Dez reveals our listeners' favorite things in 'Read the Room!' Want to show us some love? Leave a 5-star rating and review on Apple Podcasts!
Sure, we all have a past. We all have a story, but sometimes we are too embarrassed of our story to even begin to share it with others. We allow our vanity to keep us from sharing with others that they might be encouraged by our story, and more importantly, by HIS story in us! Luke's account of Paul before King Agrippa offers us an out line. Tell of your past, your personal encounter with the Savior, and challenge others to do the same. We are changed by Christ in us, and that change is the breaking news the world needs! "Our affinity for stories begins at an early age, as little kids begging weary parents, 'Read it again! Read it again!'" - Bill Hybels
This week we're traveling back to the 1920s up through the 1950s with an NSFW episode on Professor Marston on the Wonder Women! Join us to learn about the love story between Elizabeth Marston, William Marston, and Olive Byrne, corset fetish photography, comic books, and more! Sources: Charles Guyette: Tony Mitchell, "Review of Charles Guyette: Godfather of American Fetish Art," The Fetishistas, available at https://thefetishistas.com/charles-guyette-unsung-fetish-hero/ Charles Guyette, FetHistory. Available at https://fethistory.blogspot.com/2017/09/charles-guyette-in-robert-harrison_3.html Linda Williams, Porn Studies. Duke University Press, 2004. Free Love: "Victoria Woodhull, And The Truth Shall Make You Free: A Speech On The Principles Of Social Freedom. 1871. Available at http://gos.sbc.edu/w/woodhull.html" Emma Goldman, Marriage and Love. Available at http://www.gutenberg.org/files/20715/20715-h/20715-h.htm Wendy Hayden, "(R)Evolutionary Rhetorics: Science and Sexuality in Nineteenth Century Free Love Discourse," Rhetoric Review 29, 2 (2010) Christina Simmons, "Women's Power in Sex Radical Challenges to Marriage in the Early Twentieth Century United States," Feminist Studies 29, 1 (2003) Mytheli Srinivas, "Birth Control in the Shadow of Empire: The Trials of Annie Besant, 1877-1878," Feminist Studies 21, 3 (2015) Leigh Ann Wheeler, "Where Else But Greenwich Village? Love, Lust, and the Emergence of the American Civil Liberties Union's Sexual Rights Agenda, 1920-1931," Journal of the History of Sexuality 21, 1 (2012) Penis Envy: Freud, "Three Contributions to the Theory of Sexuality," Full Text available at https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Three_Contributions_to_the_Theory_of_Sex MC Gaines: William Moulton Marston, "Why 100,000,000 Americans Read Comics," The American Scholar 13:1 (Winter 1943-44): 35-44. https://www.jstor.org/stable/41204638 W.W. D. Sones, "The Comics and Instructional Method," The Journal of Educational Sociology 18:4 (December 1944): 232-40. https://www.jstor.org/stable/2262696 M.C. Gaines, "Narrative Illustration: The Story of Comics," in Comic Art in Museums ed. Kim A. Munson (University of Mississippi Press, 2020) 88-97. https://www.jstor.org/stable/j.ctv128fpwk.12 Shawna Kidman, Comic Books Incorporated: How the Business of Comics Became the Business of Hollywood (University of California Press, 2019), 18-45. https://www.jstor.org/stable/j.ctvfxvb4q.6 Noah Berlatsky, Wonder Woman: Bondage and Feminism in the Marston/Peter Comics, 1941-1948 (Rutgers University Press, 2015). https://www.jstor.org/stable/j.ctt1qft01w.5 Noah Berlatsky, "Not the Secret History of Wonder Woman," The Hooded Utilitarian (17 November 2014). https://www.hoodedutilitarian.com/2014/11/not-the-secret-history-of-wonder-woman/ Alex Buchet, "Prehistory of the Superhero (Part Seven): Reign of the Superman," The Hooded Utilitarian (5 November 2013). https://www.hoodedutilitarian.com/2013/11/prehistory-of-the-superhero-part-seven-reign-of-the-superman/ Carol L. Tilley, ""Superman Says, 'Read!'" National Comics and Reading Promotion," Children's Literature in Education 44 (2013): 251-263. https://rdcu.be/ce2wF Louis Menand, "The Horror: Books" The New Yorker 84:7 (31 March 2008): 124. Film Background: Mark Jenkins, "'Professor Marston And The Wonder Women' Is Strangely Subdued," NPR (12 October 2017). https://www.npr.org/2017/10/12/555647901/-professor-marston-and-the-wonder-women-is-strangely-subdued Christie Marston, "What 'Professor Marston Misses About Wonder Woman's Origins" The Hollywood Reporter (20 October 2017). https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/heat-vision/what-professor-marston-misses-wonder-womans-origins-guest-column-1049868 Wiki https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Professor_Marston_and_the_Wonder_Women Heather Hogan “Professor Marston and the Wonder Women” Gives Us Comics History, Kink and a Queer Poly Marriage" Autostraddle (13 October 2017). https://www.autostraddle.com/professor-marston-and-the-wonder-women-gives-us-comics-history-kink-and-a-queer-poly-marriage-397758/ Rotten Tomatoes https://www.rottentomatoes.com/m/professor_marston_and_the_wonder_women BUILD Series https://youtu.be/pB-ZZWvvlcE Angelique Jackson, "Netflix in Talks to Acquire Rebecca Hall's 'Passing' in Near $16 Million Deal," Variety (3 February 2021). https://variety.com/2021/film/news/netflix-passing-acquisition-deal-rebecca-hall-tessa-thompson-ruth-negga-1234899976/ Early Relationship: Jill Lepore, The Secret History of Wonder Woman (Knopf, 2014). "Wonder Woman (LAW 1918) BU alum said to be model for first female superhero," Bostonia. http://www.bu.edu/articles/2017/law-alumni-dc-comics-wonder-woman/
An overview of Matthew 14-28. Part of our 'Read the Bible Together' (RBT) project
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An overview of the book of Isaiah. Part of our 'Read the Bible Together' (RBT) project.
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An overview of the book of Joshua. Part of our 'Read the Bible Together' (RBT) project.
www.PoliceScienceDr.com Full transcripts of each episode complete with key learning points, timestamps and references are available on the site above on the 'Read' page. This page is pass-word protected and you can get access by joining the mailing list. How to interview children in a forensic context - Ann Stuart interview “Hello, my name is Ann Stuart, and I am a retired police officer from the Metropolitan Police, I served 34 years in the Met Police. And the last 20 of those I worked in child protection. I performed three roles. I was an investigator for a few years then I wrote policy and procedures and then I took over the training team, where we delivered specialist child witness interviewing and the specialist child abuse investigation development program to obviously officers and detectives who were to investigate child abuse.
www.PoliceScienceDr.com Full transcripts of each episode complete with key learning points, timestamps and references are available on the site above on the 'Read' page. This page is pass-word protected and you can get access by joining the mailing list. How long do the effects of hotspots policing last? Simon Williams interview I'm Simon Williams and I'm currently a senior sergeant with the Western Australian police. Prior to that I was a police officer with West Midlands Police I'm Simon Williams and I'm currently a senior sergeant with the Western Australian police. Prior to that I was a police officer with West Midlands Police for nearly 16 years. I first heard about evidence-based policing when I was running offender management teams in Birmingham. And we partnered with the University of Cambridge to deliver what was then the biggest randomised control trial and policing anywhere in the world called operation Turning Point. So operation Turning Point was a test of deferred prosecution. Of low-level or first-time offenders away from the criminal justice system. And that's what was my introduction into this concept, this thing called evidence-based policing.
www.PoliceScienceDr.com Full transcripts of each episode complete with key learning points, timestamps and references are available on the site above on the 'Read' page. This page is pass-word protected and you can get access by joining the mailing list. Can emotional skills predict gang membership? In 2017, it was estimated by the Children's Commissioner (2017) that over 46,000 children between the ages of 10 and 18 years are involved in gangs in the UK. Even though this problem is increasing in severity with a number of fatal stabbings having taken place in England in the last few years, psychological understanding of gang membership is currently limited (Wood & Alleyne, 2010). In an effort to alleviate this shortcoming, recent research has attempted to shed some light on the emotional risk factors of gang membership by reviewing and summarising existing research (Mallion & Wood, 2018). It is known that emotional processes guide moral reasoning (Dhingra, Debowska, Sharratt, Hyland, & Kola-Palmer, 2015), aid decision making (Modecki, Zimmer-Gembeck, & Guerra, 2017) and support behavioural regulation (Coffman, Melde, & Esbensen, 2015); And we also know that deficits in emotional competence can cause offending behaviour (e.g., Day, 2009; Ward & Nee, 2009). There has been an increasing recognition of the influence that emotional processes can have on other risk factors of offending behaviour, that is social and cognitive factors (Ward, 2017).
www.PoliceScienceDr.com Full transcripts of each episode complete with key learning points, timestamps and references are available on the site above on the 'Read' page. This page is pass-word protected and you can get access by joining the mailing list. What is an RCT? You've probably heard the term ‘RCT' a few times, especially in the field of academic research and / or evidence-based policing. Commander Alex Murray used it a lot in his Dr IPIP interview on evidence-based policing. But what is an RCT? In essence, it is the most robust and reliable way of carrying out research that tests something. RCT stands for randomised-controlled trial. Now, you might think the terms ‘random' and ‘controlled' might sound as if they don't really belong together, but it will become more obvious in a bit how they are connected.
www.PoliceScienceDr.com Full transcripts of each episode complete with key learning points, timestamps and references are available on the site above on the 'Read' page. This page is pass-word protected and you can get access by joining the mailing list. What is the evidence-based policing matrix? What is the evidence-based policing matrix? And how do you use the EBP matrix? It is an online tool that has been developed to help police decision-makers make sense of the current research that is out there. Hopefully you've seen in the ‘What is Evidence-Based Policing' video what EBP is and why we need it to become more and more a part of policing, and you may also know that it is not always easy to make sense of all the research, or you might not even be able to access any academic works. Watch the ‘How to read academic research?' video if it might be useful to you. In essence, the evidence-based policing matrix is there to provide you with a single location where relevant policing research on interventions that have been tested is stored, and it also tells you whether the interventions it lists are effective or not. And they are all of at least moderate robustness. Quite neat, isn't it? And it's openly available to anyone who's interested, just go to www.PolicingMatrix.org. It was put together by Drs Cynthia Lum, and Christopher Koper of George Mason University, with the assistance of Dr Cody Telep. It is updated annually with new research that has come out and it tells you a number of things about each study, including whether it worked, didn't work or had mixed results, or whether it actually had a negative effect, as in backfired.
www.PoliceScienceDr.com Full transcripts of each episode complete with key learning points, timestamps and references are available on the site above on the 'Read' page. This page is pass-word protected and you can get access by joining the mailing list. Analysing the future of policing - Nic Pole interview My name's Nick and I'm a principal analyst at the College of Policing, and I suppose people might know me because in policing, when people think of 'analyst', they think of crime analyst or intelligence analyst or performance analyst. But I do a different type of analysis which is futures analysis. Which means I kind of analyse the future to try and inform and support present-day decision-making. So to think about issues that are kind of developing on the horizon. So for the longer-term five or ten years from now and what implications those things might have for, for policing - in the here and now. So how we might better prepare for them.
www.PoliceScienceDr.com Full transcripts of each episode complete with key learning points, timestamps and references are available on the site above on the 'Read' page. This page is pass-word protected and you can get access by joining the mailing list. Commander Alex Murray on Evidence-Based Policing Hello everyone, my name is Alex Murray. I'm a police officer in West Midlands, the West Midlands Police, currently a temporary Assistant Chief Constable [moved on to become a commander in the Metropolitan Police since the interview]. But for a long time within policing I've been interested in 'What Works' and for that you can read 'Evidence-Based Policing'. ....
www.PoliceScienceDr.com Full transcripts of each episode complete with key learning points, timestamps and references are available on the site above on the 'Read' page. This page is pass-word protected and you can get access by joining the mailing list. Why do police use force? The first and obvious answer is that they deal with some of the worst members of society you could think of. Just imagine the people that normal individuals would run away from, those are the people that the police have to run towards. Some of those people are often not very nice, rational or reasonable. When the police do use violence, it looks very bad and often makes the headlines, because they're in uniform and are supposed to protect us. Out of context, however, you should refrain from making a snap judgement on who was at fault there – the officers or the members of the public, until you know the circumstances better. Undoubtedly, there are and have been incidents of police using violence completely without any moral ground whatsoever. In some countries, that is still the norm. I'm speaking about Western police forces here though, which should be bound by modern laws and accountability. In general, only 2% of police-citizen encounters involve violence (MacDonald, J. M., Kaminski, R. J., & Smith, M. R., 2009). Also, most violent police-citizen interaction is predicted by the citizen's demeanour, not the officer's (Engel, R. S., Sobol, J. J., & Worden, R. E., 2000). I'm not talking about extreme incidents such as riots, mass demonstrations, terrorist incidents or football games here. I'm talking about 1-on-1 incidents of use of force by police officers and what the factors are that can contribute to it. Police, like any other profession, should aim to be the best they can be. In this video, we'll talk about research on three factors that can lead to police getting involved in violent incidents: the officer's heart rate, self-control and carrying weapons....
www.PoliceScienceDr.com Full transcripts of each episode complete with key learning points, timestamps and references are available on the site above on the 'Read' page. This page is pass-word protected and you can get access by joining the mailing list. Prof. Kim Rossmo on Geographic Profiling - interview SKN: So, Kim, thank you very much for agreeing to speak with me and I know it's the middle of the night for you, about half past midnight, 6 o'clock in the morning here for me in the UK. I do really appreciate you taking that time. Would you mind starting by telling our viewers your short definition of what geographic profiling is. Some people will not have heard of it – it is something you swim and bathe in daily, but for some people it's new. How would you just give them a quick explanation of what it is so they really get it? Kim: Geographic profiling is a criminal investigative methodology that uses the locations of a connected series of crimes to determine the most probable area where the offender responsible for those crimes is based. So, let's say we have a serial arsonist or a serial robber or a rapist: We analyse the locations where those crimes have occurred, and then, using a specialised software system produce maps that show the most likely areas to find the offender. So you could think of it as an information management strategy or as a suspect prioritisation tool. It helps you find the needle in the haystack.
www.PoliceScienceDr.com Full transcripts of each episode complete with key learning points, timestamps and references are available on the site above on the 'Read' page. This page is pass-word protected and you can get access by joining the mailing list. How to avoid false confessions What is a false confession? It's when someone who is being interrogated, for example by a law enforcement officer, claims responsibility for an offence they have not committed. Intuitively, most people would think that never happens, as the immediate consequence is often a conviction, and let's face it, that's usually what criminals and innocents alike try to avoid. So you'd be more than justified to wonder why anyone would ever confess to something they haven't actually done, when they're likely to get punished for it? ....
www.PoliceScienceDr.com Full transcripts of each episode complete with key learning points, timestamps and references are available on the site above on the 'Read' page. This page is pass-word protected and you can get access by joining the mailing list. Prof. Lawrence Sherman on Evidence-Based Policing My name is Lawrence Sherman. I've been working on an idea called evidence-based policing for over 20 years now and before that with the New York City Police Department, Metropolitan Police in London at Scotland Yard and many other places, to try to find the most effective ways police can identify the greatest risks to public safety and the most effective ways of reducing those risks. The way I have approached this is through experiments as well as 'big data' and increasingly what's called 'digital policing'.
How to read academic research I suggested in the last video, the one on evidence-based policing, that you should try and find research about the topic you're interested in. So, what is academic research, where do you find it and how do you read it? www.PoliceScienceDr.com Full transcripts of each episode complete with key learning points, timestamps and references are available on the site above on the 'Read' page. This page is pass-word protected and you can get access by joining the mailing list. What is academic research? Academic journal articles are the published research results of professional researchers who work at universities or other organisations. Sometimes, they receive funding from somewhere for their time spent on that research. In some cases, it might be worth looking at that funding source, which they have to declare, so that you can decide for yourself if that funding relationship might have affected the researchers' impartiality and objectivity during the project. For example, I once got really excited about an article which claimed you could reduce behavioural problems in children by giving them omega 3. But then I saw that the
www.PoliceScienceDr.com Full transcripts of each episode complete with key learning points, timestamps and references are available on the site above on the 'Read' page. This page is pass-word protected and you can get access by joining the mailing list. You've probably heard of evidence-based policing. It is becoming increasingly engrained in UK police forces, and quite frankly, it's about time. When we say ‘evidence' in this context, we are not talking about forensic evidence such as DNA or fingerprints. We are talking about something that has been proven to be true. So, if you're making your decisions in an evidence-based way, that simply means you are making your decisions based on what has been shown to work, or what has been shown not to work. This is a much better decision-making process than just going with that you've always been doing, or going ‘with your gut'. Although individual, professional experience does have its place and can be very valuable, it might be biased and tainted by opinions and other external factors that make it unreliable. On the other hand, if you base your decisions on a solid evidence-base, that simply means you use information on what has been tested and scientifically shown to work or not to work through methodological research.....
www.PoliceScienceDr.com Full transcripts of each episode complete with key learning points, timestamps and references are available on the site above on the 'Read' page. This page is pass-word protected and you can get access by joining the mailing list. What exactly is investigative psychology? Investigative psychology is a form of applied psychology. That means it is psychology that can be applied to solve real-world problems. investigative psychology tries to understand offenders' behaviour and the decisions they took so that this understanding can be used to assist in the investigation of crimes. It is also about how best to investigate, and how the police make decisions when they deal with crime. So it looks at both the offender and the police. The term was first coined by Professor David Canter in 1994, who had been studying environmental psychology and then found a link between an offender's spatial behaviours and their cognitive map, which is a person's awareness of where they live, frequent and pass through. I will take you through some of the main areas of investigative psychology in this series. Welcome! ...
www.PoliceScienceDr.com Full transcripts of each episode complete with key learning points, timestamps and references are available on the site above on the 'Read' page. This page is pass-word protected and you can get access by joining the mailing list. What is the difference between forensic psychologists and investigative psychologists? The forensic psychologists are perhaps better known, as these professionals are firmly established within the criminal justice system. They provide psychological treatment to offenders, make assessments on individuals' (both witnesses' and suspects') mental competency or credibility and provide other advice to the court. The salient difference is that forensic psychologists are more concerned with working with offenders after the investigative process and during their incarceration in terms of their treatment and risk assessment (Canter, D. (2004). Offender Profiling and Investigative Psychology, Journal of Investigative Psychology and Offender Profiling, 1: 1-15). Nevertheless, they can also assist in ongoing investigations by using their expertise in criminal behaviour, especially when coupled with mental illness. They can advise on how to interview suspects, or witnesses with mental health problems or developmental needs, for example. On the other hand, the investigative psychologist's input is more useful before conviction, as they can focus their efforts on helping the police identify the most promising suspect(s), as well as getting the best evidence out of them as well as victims and witnesses, in order to convict the right person. A forensic psychologist might then provide an expert opinion at court on the mental health of the perpetrator, as well as assess the level of risk they pose to the public when it is considered whether they can be released from prison or not, after they have served some time behind bars...
www.PoliceScienceDr.com Full transcripts of each episode complete with key learning points, timestamps and references are available on the site above on the 'Read' page. This page is pass-word protected and you can get access by joining the mailing list. Geographic profiling is a major aspect of investigative psychology. It seeks to use offenders' decision-making on where and when they choose to offend to either catch them in the act, prioritise suspects based on where they live or hang out or to seek further intelligence and evidence on the suspect. GP is able to infer an offender's familiarity with the area where the crime occurred, why they were there by analysing the locations and timings of offences. It has been found that criminals do not tend to travel far from their base to commit their offences (Bennell, C., & Canter, D. V. (2002). Linking commercial burglaries by modus operandi: Tests using regression and ROC analysis. Science & Justice, 42, 153–164); (Goodwill, A. M., & Alison, L. J. (2006). The development of a filter model for prioritising suspects in burglary offences. Psychology, Crime & Law, 12, 395–416) unless their particular target is not available in their vicinity. The utility of GP really came to the fore in the context of serious serial crimes, when psychologist David Canter assisted police in identifying the so-called ‘Railway Rapists' who had devolved into murderers in the 1980s (Canter, D. (2003) Mapping Murder: Walking in Killers' Footsteps. Virgin Books)....
www.PoliceScienceDr.com Full transcripts of each episode complete with key learning points, timestamps and references are available on the site above on the 'Read' page. This page is pass-word protected and you can get access by joining the mailing list. Crime linkage is the practice of identifying which different offences were committed by the same offender. For example, if you have a whole lot of unsolved burglaries, you want to find out which offences are attributable to the same person. That is because you might have some information about the perpetrator from one crime, for example a shoe print that points to a male with a certain shoe size and weight. See if you could identify which other offences you think are linked to that same person. Perhaps some of those have other information about the burglar, such as a witness seeing that he has a tattoo on one hand, and in this way you can put together more and more pieces of the puzzle. You now have good reasons to believe that the offender who is responsible for this particular series is of a certain gender, weight, has a certain shoe size which might point to his approximate height, and he has a tattoo on one hand. If you allocate one of those pieces to the wrong puzzle (i.e. to the wrong series of offences), you unnecessarily hinder the investigation, so it is important to link the right offences to the right person.....
www.PoliceScienceDr.com Full transcripts of each episode complete with key learning points, timestamps and references are available on the site above on the 'Read' page. This page is pass-word protected and you can get access by joining the mailing list. Eyewitness testimony is the evidence that you get from someone who has witnessed a crime. Instinctively, people tend to believe and rely on it to a great extent. It can be seen as a factor that can sway a judge and/or jury to establish the guilt or innocence of a defendant (Loftus, E.F. (1979), Eyewitness Testimony. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press). It is often used in the initial stages of an investigation, for example when a witness reports the perpetrator was of a certain appearance, then the police will be looking for potential suspects who match that description. Witnesses' evidence is also used in court when either the prosecution or defence try to convince the jury that a certain person is or is not guilty. However, whilst in the past, the criminal justice process has relied greatly on eye witness accounts and still does, over the past few decades we have learned more and more about how unreliable this kind of evidence can be. It took DNA evidence to exonerate a number of innocent people who had been convicted based on eyewitness evidence (Wells, G.L. & Olson, E.A. (2003) Eye Witness Testimony, Annual Review of Psychology, Vol. 54: 277 – 295) And mistakes made unwittingly by eye witnesses are a substantial cause of wrongful convictions (Scheck, B., Neufeld, P. & Dwyer, J. (2000) Actual Innocence: Five Days to Execution and other Dispatches from the Wrongly Convicted, Bantam Doubleday Dell Publishing Group).....
www.PoliceScienceDr.com Full transcripts of each episode complete with key learning points, timestamps and references are available on the site above on the 'Read' page. This page is pass-word protected and you can get access by joining the mailing list. In the olden days, investigative interviews, also known as suspect interviews or interrogations, were very coercive processes in which accusations were shouted at the detainee who was also sometimes subjected to violence and intimidation by the interrogator. Whilst this is still the case today in some countries and make sure you never get arrested there, interviewing practice in the UK is much more evidence-based now, which means it employs methods that have been shown to work better. By ‘work' I mean not scaring innocent people into taking the blame for something they haven't done and enabling police interviewers to identify when someone seems to be lying, at least in theory....
www.PoliceScienceDr.com Full transcripts of each episode complete with key learning points, timestamps and references are available on the site above on the 'Read' page. This page is pass-word protected and you can get access by joining the mailing list. Offender profiling is a prioritisation tool. When the police are looking for an unknown offender in a similar vein to how you might look for a needle in a haystack, effective profiling suggests to the police which out of the many haystacks they should look in first, based on a behavioural analysis of the case. Whilst offender profiling has been this very mysterious and glamorous thing that near-psychic people do in films and TV shows, in real life there have been a number of successes and a number of failures. Investigative psychology encompasses a lot more than offender profiling, but even that it does with a scientific method. In the UK, the people who do the actual offender profiling, the National Crime Agency's behavioural investigative advisers (BIAs), use offender profiling as only one of the tools they offer police forces, amongst several others. Providing behavioural investigative advice (BIA) is the practice of using the individual characteristics of the offence as well as the unknown offender's behaviour and choices that can be gleaned from the crime site or the victim's account, to advance the investigation....
www.PoliceScienceDr.com Full transcripts of each episode complete with key learning points, timestamps and references are available on the site above on the 'Read' page. This page is pass-word protected and you can get access by joining the mailing list. What is Investigative Psychology? Part 1 of 7 of the ‘What is Investigative Psychology?' series What exactly is investigative psychology? Investigative psychology is a form of applied psychology. That means it is psychology that can be applied to solve real-world problems. investigative psychology tries to understand offenders' behaviour and the decisions they took so that this understanding can be used to assist in the investigation of crimes. It is also about how best to investigate, and how the police make decisions when they deal with crime. So it looks at both the offender and the police...
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Hey listeners! It’s been a mad mad mad week here (all of you in the future, check the date), and I bet there too. Result: there are no shownotes for this episode. We’re talking about revamping my website to get it in gear for my forthcoming second book. Here’s the image we mention—the before—and for the after (which is still in progress), head over to my site and see what you think. Any questions, shoot me an email (kjdellantonia@gmail.com or reply to this.Transcript (We use an AI service for transcription, and while we do clean it up a bit, some errors are the price of admission here. We hope it’s still helpful.)KJ (00:00):Hey #AmWriting listeners, this is KJ and this is my seventh time attempting to record this pre-episode discussion of something really cool that's being authored by Author Accelerator, our sponsor. I think you all know that I loved working with Jennie Nash on revising my manuscript for The Chicken Sisters. Well, if you'd be interested in working in a small group with Jennie, she is offering a Rock Your Revision small intensive workshop for fiction writers ready to revise manuscripts this summer, July 16th - 19th of 2020 in Santa Barbara, California. If that interests you, if it sounds like something you'll be ready for, if it sounds like something that having it scheduled might make you get ready for (and I think that will work) head on over to author accelerator.com click on the retreats and summits link, and then scroll on down to Rock Your Revision to learn more. Is it recording now?Jess (01:05):Now it's recording.KJ (01:06):Yay.Jess (01:06):Go ahead.KJ (01:08):This is the part where I stare blankly at the microphone like I don't remember what I'm supposed to be doing.Jess (01:12):Alright, let's start over.KJ (01:13):Awkward pause. I'm going to rustle some papers. Okay. Now one, two, three. Hi, I'm KJ Dell'Antonia and this is #Am writing the podcast about writing all the things and getting them out into the world. And that's all I'm going to say about that this week.Sarina (01:37):Really? Well, I'm Sarina Bowen and I write long things, primarily genre fiction and I've written 30-odd romances and my newest one is called Sure Shot. If I ever finish it.KJ (01:50):I can't wait for it. Okay. I am KJ Dell'Antonia, the dithering other voice on the other end of the microphone. I am the author of the novel, The Chicken Sisters coming out this summer and the book How To Be a Happier Parent as well as the former editor of the New York Times' Motherlode blog. And those are the things that I do and it's just me and Sarina today.Sarina (02:23):It is. We're here to work on KJ's launch sequence.KJ (02:26):Yes. And if we sound a little odd, we are (as we often are) working in our local libraries. So, yes. Sarina, as we all know, has many, many, many past identities and for all I know is also cat woman when we're not together. But one of those past identities is helping people, specifically authors, with their websites. So that's our plan today. We're going to go over my website and talk about how I can shift it from being a website, primarily designed for a parenting author to a website designed for an author in general. And the way we're going to do this (if you want to take a look) by the time you hear this, I will have changed it. So we're going to take a lot of screenshots. So if you'd like to see what we're talking about and we will describe it cause you're probably in your car. But if you do want to just head over to the show notes at amwritingpodcast.com and there will be pictures, screenshots of this website as it is today before the dramatic changes that I'm going to make to it. I mean, it's a good website somebody made it for me and I can change it and you know, there's nothing wrong with it other than that there is absolutely no mention of my nove,l at all whatsoever.Sarina (03:55):Right.KJ (03:56):Because that's the first thing that's wrong with it. Check.Sarina (03:59):So I usually get involved with an author's website at about this same point. Sometimes I'll get calls earlier before people have cover art for their book and those people have been told that they must have an author website and start building their platform and blah, blah blah, but they don't have a book cover. And that is fine. Like, it's great to be invested in handling your book launch, but if you really do your website before you have cover art, you're wasting your money because it, you know, it would be disappointing to do a website all in purple and to find that your book cover is bright yellow. So, you know, I gently dissuade people from spending their hard earned cash early on, but you're ready to go because you have your cover art.KJ (04:50):I do.Sarina (04:51):And I have to say that I have seen some smashingly beautiful author websites over time, just so original and stunning that angels weep.KJ (05:03):That's not really what I'm going for.Sarina (05:04):Well, that's not really what I go for either. I mean, I think that the most important, pretty much the only important thing is that your website do two things. One is that it helps readers bond with your book before they're ready to click that one-click button. So that means that they're familiar with the cover art. So when your page loads at kjdellantonia.com we should see the new cover art immediately. That's pretty much step one. And the second thing is that most readers, I mean they can learn about us anywhere, right? Like social media, Amazon, Barnesandnoble.com, there's so many places. But if they actually take the trouble to find their way all the way to your website, it's probably because they have a question. So we're going to anticipate that question and try to answer it within one to two clicks, two being the absolute maximum. So if you can do those two things, you're doing so, so well.KJ (06:10):Excellent. And one of the reasons I'm leaping on this is that I searched another author somebody that I know because I knew that they had a new book coming out, and I couldn't remember the name, and I needed to know for various reasons. And I went to their website and it wasn't there. And that's exactly what someone could do for me. Although let me just say that author's book is coming out before me. Okay. So that person had better just get on it.Sarina (06:40):And this is sometimes difficult, like not everybody likes noodling with websites. Like I love it, honestly.KJ (06:46):I'm happy to crawl around in there, too. I just want to have a mission.Sarina (06:51):Right. And for some people this is like the hardest partKJ (06:55):And if it is the hardest part, hire someone. You don't have to do this yourself.Sarina (07:01):It doesn't have to be fancy.KJ (07:02):It doesn't. Or you like Squarespace, right?Sarina (07:06):I love Squarespace. But there are even easier things to do. Like did you know that if you join the Author's Guild for approximately $200 a year, you get a free website from them and they will help you set it up?KJ (07:18):I did not.Sarina (07:19):Yeah. And you won't have as much control over it as I like to have over mine. But if you just hate websites, that is not a bad option.KJ (07:27):You know, we don't need blogs anymore. You know, your website is probably (correct me if I'm wrong) a largely static entity.Sarina (07:38):Well, mine is not actually.KJ (07:40):No, I know yours isn't. Because you are a person who puts out many, many books a year. So if you're that, then you're working with a website with probably shopping, and possibly merch, and some other things. I, on the other hand, am a one book every couple of years author at the moment, although I'd like to speed that up. And so I am not really needing to use my website to inform you of immediate developments.Sarina (08:10):Right. So I would like to add a third thing to our little to do list, though. Because I don't want to burden everyone and say that you have to do a million things on your author website. But honestly, this third thing could save your career, which is that you must have a way for people to sign up for your newsletter that is both easy without being irritating.KJ (08:29):That's a challenge.Sarina (08:31):Yeah. Well, I mean, we're all quite used to popups now. There are obnoxious ones and less obnoxious ones. And anyway, I'll leave that to our readers to decide.KJ (08:41):I turned my pop-up off because it was outdated and I could not figure it out. So normally I have a pop-up.Sarina (08:49):I turned my off as well because I didn't like the conversion rate of it. Like I thought, wow, I'm irritating 97 people for every three that type their email address in. But, instead I have many other very useful solicitations for email addresses.KJ (09:10):If you want to sign up for my email, you can go to followkj.com and there you will find my website sign up.Sarina (09:16):That's great.KJ (09:17):I think so, I'm pretty pleased with it. Wait, you'll laugh, I have to show it to Sarina. Because I changed it very on the fly recently I had to come up with an image very quickly and...Sarina (09:34):Oh, you know, that is funny. And I saw this the other day. I don't remember why, but I looked at it.KJ (09:39):It's a Playmobile character barfing into a tiny little Playmobile toliet.Sarina (09:42):Yes, we're going to have to work on this, KJ.KJ (09:44):I know, but I figured it would get attention.Sarina (09:48):It does, but your book cover needs to be right there.KJ (09:49):Let's start with the website and then we'll do the signup in a minute.Sarina (10:00):So right now, KJ's website has a bunch of wonderful parenting pictures on it, which suited her last book perfectly.KJ (10:07):And they're all in a sort of a red - pink theme.Sarina (10:10):Yes. I would quibble with the way that your cover art is not above the fold here. I will just tell you a couple of things about this challenge. So, websites as we design them on a screen are usually horizontal. Books are vertical. This is the main challenge of my life, aside from plotting novels. So KJ also just opened the website on her phone because this is something that I beg people to do and they don't usually listen. But more than half of your website visitors will be on their phones. And that is really hard for authors to figure out when they're struggling to get their hands around their website in the first place, that the phone part is almost more important. You know, people will come and say, 'Could you move my name a half an inch to the right?' And I usually let fly that line from The Matrix. Because most modern web building tools, i(ncluding Squarespace and the better templates at WordPress) now build a website on the fly for every single visitor based on the dimensions of their screen. So there is no one website, you can't design it like a movie poster anymore, you have to make something responsive. And that's why I use Squarespace because they're very good at that. And obviously lots of WordPress themes are too, I just am not as familiar.KJ (11:37):Mine is a WordPress theme, so we're not going to mess with the backend. I'm going to go and do that on my own. We're just going to talk about what it looks like and what it ought to look like. So step one...Sarina (11:48):You have a banner on yours with your name kind of in the middle instead of here above the main navigation. For displaying cover art I actually think that's a little trickier, but you can probably find a way around it or you can just move your name to the top. I know it's boring but it works. Okay? And then your main navigation is terrific. You have a home, you have the book which is going to have to change to books at the top and one of those books will be your new one. You have share the book, which is a great idea, you have blog, the podcast, resources, about KJ Dell'Antonia, and media, which are all great. So I actually wonder if about KJ Dell'Antonia and media couldn't become one thing if you wanted them to be. There's nothing wrong with there being two. So people get tunnel vision and let's say somebody wants to book you on The Today Show for your new book. So one of these things should say contact, because people get tunnel vision and I'm sure your contact information is here. But I've been like half asleep, needing coffee, and not spotting it on a website, and you really don't want that to happen to you. So, contact should always be one of those things. And also, if you did dispense with your pop-up and you're leaving that that way, then the thing on the far right should be subscribe. And that can hop right to that page you showed me a second ago, the follow KJ page, but it should be there. Yeah, so we're doing great. Now, if you scroll down on KJ's front page you do get her most recent book before this new one. Oh, okay, I would've put the bio links right here, but you have them fairly close. So that's all good. And then you could also have, instead of this got a book club thing (not that there's anything wrong with it) an email signup here, as well. So I would like to have one up in the main nav and then here on the scrolly scrolly front page. So the reason that websites got scrolly scrolly is because of phones.KJ (14:01):Let's have a look at it scrolling on my phone. So on the website you see things laid out, like you see the book cover and then to the right you see the text about the book. On the mobile, you see the book cover and then you scroll down and you see the text about the book, and then you scroll down and you'll see the by the book in a vertical list.Sarina (14:25):So the buttons are horizontal on the laptop and they're vertical on the phone. And that's because you have a properly responsive website. Now, there are some authors who had their websites built more than 10 years ago, and the site still looks good when you pull it up on the computer. But if you pull it up on the phone, it's quite broken. And here's the reason that's not good. Google will punish you. They promote (in their search rankings) sites that perform on a mobile device and they sort of demote sites that don't. And you don't want to be demoted by Google. You know that old joke like, where's the best place to hide a dead body? On the seventh page of the Google search result. Okay, so don't be that dead body.KJ (15:21):So, but it's okay to have the scrolly scrolly first page is what I'm hearing. So the fact that if you just keep scrolling, you just get stuff, after stuff, after stuff is fine. It's just that maybe the stuff is not in the right order.Sarina (15:38):Well, your stuff was in a decent order. It's like the New York Times - you know, above the fold, below the fold. So here's the thing, when I'm helping an author with a website, I send a questionnaire. And these are the questions on the questionnaire. Which author websites in your own genre do you like best? Cause that's not a bad place to get inspiration; to take a shortcut to figure out what other people are doing. Right?KJ (16:06):That's how we made our podcast. There's a podcast, it's called Hurry Slowly. I love her and I love the design of her website. And I basically was just like, this really looks great. I'm going to make ours look pretty much just like this and it is. Thank you very much, Jocelyn Keighley.Sarina (16:26):Then the second question, the colors on your site will be chosen to compliment your cover art, but please tell me what colors do you not like and what are you hoping to see? And so with you, you have a lot of colors between your two books, but they compliment each other and that's just where you know we would go.KJ (16:41):Yeah, we're going to lose the pink-iness of this theme and shift it.Sarina (16:47):And shift it to highlight the yellow. And then it will look right. So then, one of the hardest decisions is what do you want your visitors to see first when they arrive on your site. In other words, the most valuable real estate should be allocated to which of the following? And these four choices cover almost everybody. So choice one - your newest cover art and a blurb quote, which is never a bad choice. So maybe you have that cover because you want readers to bond with it immediately. And you have a very short blurb quote, like the best little bit of something that somebody said. And then a button that says 'Read more' so you can put that person right onto that book's page. So that's always a good decision if you have a book coming out. Then choice two - a view of all of your covers, like an art gallery. Like if you have an extensive backlist and you want readers of your most recent book. Cause what if someone arrives on your site with a question, what else did she write? So that's the one click thing. And in your case we would have it in a dropdown menu probably cause the art gallery doesn't really work for you. So choice three - your newest blog post. So this is usually not the right choice for my clients, but it could be if you are a very active blogger and your blogging was related to the book you were trying to sell. Then that might work. And the last choice I have here - is a book representing each of your various series.KJ (18:18):And that's what yours looks like.Sarina (18:20):Yes. And the websites that have the most content on them are the biggest challenge. Because when we have that question - what question did the person arrive with? The more books you have, the more varied that question could be. Like what's next and this or that series, which audio book did I not listen to? You know, the questions get more complicated with the more books someone has in their catalog.KJ (18:44):Yeah. I don't think that there are that many questions you're going to come to my website looking for an answer to. I guess a peculiarity of my website is that I have these resources. And they are parenting resources. You can get holiday survival guides, you can get an ebook about homework, you can get the 10 mantras for happier parents. I mean, I have quite a few of them. Most fiction readers aren't going to be here coming after these things. But my parenting book is also coming out in paperback. So some people will be coming out for them and sometimes I will be talking about them, so it's a little more complicated.Sarina (19:28):I wonder if your website shouldn't have two book covers sort of facing each other on the front of it. With The Chicken Sisters on the left and The Happier Parent on the right. And it's basically like, people make a grand choice the minute they arrive at your website because they're probably there for what topic. And then you would sort of move the person on to the page that deals with that and your resources might be down at the scrolly scrolly bottom of the parenting book.KJ (19:56):And right now the resources require you to add your email and they might as well continue to require you give your email. That seems like a good idea although in terms of my personal ability to adjust this website, hopefully I can pull it off. I've done them. Somebody else did this one. I don't have the money to have them go back in and fix it. I might get somebody else. But see on this page your name is at the top, not in the middle. So you just need to duplicate a page like this. You're right. So what I can do is abandon the current - just to get a little bit into the weeds, but you might be in my position too - is abandon the current. So right now, when you go to kjdellantonia.com it's actually not pointing to what's called home here. It's pointing to the book. So I can pick anywhere. So you can pick anywhere for you know, u.com to point to. I mean home is probably not a necessary piece of it. Okay. Like you said, I can do some redesigning here.Sarina (21:14):And you know, as you move through the process of pre-launch, to the book launch, to after the launch, your needs change a little bit. I am accustomed to people who come back once a year to have their website gussied up for their new book. One thing I would like to mention for any listeners who are considering paying to have a website done is please don't hire someone who wants you to pay them on a monthly basis forever. This used to be the way it was done. And there are still some people out there who are paying for a website which is static and they're just paying to have it hosted cause they're stuck. And you don't have to do that. You can pay someone to design a thing and to set up the hosting for you, but then you have to have the keys, you know?KJ (22:10):So part of your design process, and it was part of mine, should be the person walking you through the most basic changes that you might want to make on your website. So, to change the pictures, to change the pop-up, to change where the homepage points, you should know how to do those small things. And I do, it's more that I think they used something called Bakery Builder to build this. And it's not my more familiar thing. I can do it. And I will say, you can find that, just ask around. Ask your author friends for who has designed their website but do ask around, because I also have a friend who's been working on designing her website with her web designer for let's see, since August. Yeah. The person is really slow and she called me fairly recently and was like, 'Is this normal?' And I was like, 'No, absolutely not.' Of course, this friend also draws a picture of what she wants it to look like and then sends that to the web designer. So the web designer may also be a little frustrated. There may be fault on both sides, but I don't think so. I think it just should not be taking anywhere near this long. It's crazy. Somebody should be able to get you rolling fairly quickly.Sarina (23:39):And also just to have the ability to say when it will be done.KJ (23:45):Alright. What's next?Sarina (23:47):Well, if you really like working with your website, there are so many things you can do to help guide your author destiny using your own website. For example, you can give away a free book in exchange for an email signup. So the parts of my website that you can see when you just navigate to Sarinabowen.com is like just the tip of that iceberg because I have lots of other hidden content there that is serving special purposes for me. And the more comfortable you are touching your own website and making pages, the more fun you can have with that. So during launch week, I usually have a contest where people enter it by sharing the book. Now, not every reader of my books is interested in entering the giveaway and sharing the cover, and that's fine. But for that core of people who is really interested in helping me promote it (for whatever reason) I have a contest on a hidden page in my website where you enter the link of where you shared it, and you put in your name, and the winner gets a $25 gift card or something. So there's all kinds of things you can run off of your own website that are more controllable than social media. And if you think about Facebook, which we all basically have to use when we promote a book, it's ugly and you can't make a post do what you want. You can't make it have a button. It's just not a friendly, friendly place in the world. And when you become a little more comfortable with using your own site, you suddenly figure out how much you can do.KJ (25:34):I think a lot of people who have a website don't realize that you can have pages on your website that aren't immediately visible to every visitor to your website. And it's not that they're hidden. It's not that someone who typed you know, KJDellantonia.com/potatocakes wouldn't get to the potato cakes page, but who's gonna do that? And it's not in your menu. So you can have, you can have a hundred potato cake pages or whatever. And I think even I forget that sometimes.Sarina (26:13):So if you're doing an event in Chicago, you could have kjdellantonia.com/chicago if there was something, a resource there that you wanted those people to have.KJ (26:20):And if you want to, you can buy you can buy a special URL. Like you can create a page within your own website. So it's kjdellantonia.com/potato cakes. But instead you buy the website you know, potato lovers.com and then you just point it, you don't create a website for potatocakelovers.com. You just point it to that page on your website. So there's all kinds of playful things. So for example, this follow KJ link, I just own that and I just point it to different things. Right now it's actually pointed to the Flodesk, which is the email software that I used to create my emails. But it used to be pointed to a page within my website. And before that it was pointed to a Mailchimp page. I can point that wherever I want to.Sarina (27:08):Right. And you actually bring up a really good point, which is it's usually better to point your signup at your own website. Like you have this capacity to point at different places which protects you. But I have a friend who can never leave MailChimp because she has the MailChimp signup link in the back of a 40 book backlist. So she's stuck there at their new higher prices because she can't go and change. She literally can't, because the people that bought that book before now and they read it and click on that link are going to her old spot.KJ (27:50):Yeah, no she's stuck. I remember you telling me about that cause I had kind of fallen into that cause I pointed something that I couldn't unpoint because I forgot things.Sarina (28:01):So I use a service called Genius Links and it's a page short linker, but you can change the destination link of absolutely anything.KJ (28:13):That is very nice because you can't do that with tinyurl.com.Sarina (28:17):Right. So Genius Links is great. There are probably others. I believe smartURL allows you to change the ultimate destination. But the other thing that Genius does (it does several things well, actually) it also points people to the Amazon store of their geographical location. So I can make one Amazon link, but it's a Genius link and if that person is in France, it will take them to Amazon.Fr. And the other thing it does (it pays for itself) is that if you have affiliate accounts at Amazon, Apple, Google, Kobo, (those are the ones that come to mind) you put that information into Genius and it just adds it to every single link. And that is very helpful to me as well. Yeah, not Kobo actually. But anyway, there's lots of ways. So, I just got a check from Apple Affiliates for 500 bucks, which I'm sure paid for my entire year's worth of Genius linking. So it's not just this added expense, but it can actually put money in your pocket.KJ (29:30):So, what's next? Should we look at anything else on my thing specifically?Sarina (29:36):I think your work is cut out for you in a way that is quite doable. You're gonna change some colors around.KJ (29:45):I'm going to just have fewer things up here at the top, I think. There's already some chickens so I'm partly set.Sarina (29:52):You're going to get both of those books on the front page and probably lose some more personal pictures because they won't make as much sense to your novel.KJ (30:02):So I'm just going to abandon some of these pages. I'm just going to make a new page - a new landing page.Sarina (30:12):Just like if you were going to redo chapter four of your work in progress, you wouldn't delete chapter four, you copy it, and tinker until we're satisfied. So this will be the same.KJ (30:23):Yup. That's my plan. Any other thoughts for people as they embark on either changing or creating their own websites?Sarina (30:32):I would look into the Authors Guild if you're really hesitant to play with websites. I would look into Squarespace if you're slightly more adventurous. I dislike WordPress with the fire of a thousand suns, so I can't in good conscience recommend it. Although lots of people like it, I'm not a fan of Wix. Usually the platforms that have a free option look kind of...I don't know, but I don't like them. But one free option that is, you know at least more user friendly is Blogger. Like you can still make a website at Google and it is what it is, but if you need a landing spot and you have no funds to devote to that at this point then there are ways to make happen.KJ (31:26):I'm trying to think if there's anything else we should say about websites before we move on. You should have one.Sarina (31:35):You should have one. It won't sell your book, though. It's great to be find-able and to help you answer questions.KJ (31:45):I wanted to talk about the whole, should I have a blog page? Not me personally, but as a general rule. If a blog feels like a like a mandatory additional task to you, then my thought for you is no, you don't really need to. Cause there's nothing worse than clicking on someone's blog page and seeing three entries from 2016.Sarina (32:11):Right. Well the other thing is you can call it news. And you can just put something there three times a year when you have news. Like, here's my new cover. And the nice thing about having that there is that it's also then you can put the link to that news on Facebook instead of typing the news into Facebook.KJ (32:33):And the other nice thing is that typically if you use the blog software of whatever you are creating, that is designed to be easily updatable. So if you use that for your news, it's designed so that you could just pop in and be like, 'I'll be in Chicago.' And that's it. You don't have to sort of change something that feels more set on your page. So there's reasons to use that software, but maybe not to call it blog.Sarina (33:03):Yeah. It used to be, like 15 years ago. Every agent would say you have to blog. But that's just not true anymore. People consume their news differently.KJ (33:39):The first decision is going to be to go in here, put the two book covers up and close off everything else while I revise it. Basically I'm going to just do that. So if anyone comes in the meantime, there are two book covers, there are links to the books and I'm playing around in the background.Sarina (33:58):Right. And when you link your book, you should do a few vendors. Cause nobody wants to live in a world where Amazon is the only store. No. And we do have that new one.KJ (34:12):What's it called again? I can't remember.Sarina (34:17):Is it BookShop?KJ (34:17):Maybe...Sarina (34:18):We're going to find this and put it in the show notes.KJ (34:20):Yeah, because it's important. Yeah, we've been linking to Indiebound, but it's changing. The booksellers association is creating a new way for authors to link to an Indie supporting platform, which can help you sell books. Cause I will say Indiebound affiliate linking is agonizingly painful (as the person who does it). And also, you listeners typically don't end up buying the book that way. And I get it. But I could see why you're not buying it on Indiebound, but we don't want to link to Amazon because while we're all buying stuff from Amazon, we don't want them to rule the world.Sarina (35:17):So bookshop.org is the new storefront and it's new, new, new, like it just launched within the last four weeks. And they're going to take some of the friction of buying from Indiebound away. So give bookshop.org a look and they also have an affiliate program, but every book that is purchased on here kicks profit into a fund, which is divided among the member bookstores, which is most independent bookstores.KJ (35:48):And the cool thing that they're doing is helping those independent bookstores set up their own websites. So this doesn't really apply to us, but it's kind of neat. I'm pleased, I'm delighted that it's out there.Sarina (35:59):After I read about it, I thought, Oh my goodness, this should not have taken so long.KJ (36:06):Now we got to figure out what we've been reading.Sarina (36:08):Oh, I know. I'm ready. Well, yesterday I opened an envelope and discovered a copy of Chasing Cassandra by Lisa Kleypas inside, which means that at some point I pre-ordered it and I never preorder anything, but I love this author so much and she has a new novel about once a year, which is just about right because if she had more of them, I would never get anything done because she is my queen. She is a romance author, her series is set in the Victorian era, actually in England. But she's so skillful with characters and just so amazing with dialogue that I have to take a few deep breaths after I finish her book and go look at my poor excuse for a book afterwards.KJ (36:59):I think everybody has somebody that is like that. So I have just finished Minor Dramas and Other Catastrophes by Kathleen West. I don't think I've mentioned it on the podcast yet, but I loved it. If you liked The Gifted School, if you have liked books by Tom Perrotta, basically if books set in hothouse schools (public, not boarding schools, that's a different genre) but books set in a hothouse schools full of crazy parents are something that you enjoy (and I do) then this is one for you. It's a really fun story of a dedicated teacher who's a little bit too too intense about teaching her students about the social evils of the world and how the parents around her react to that. It just fun, it's a weekend read, it's entertaining, it's smart, the characters are great. I think you'll enjoy it. So that's Minor Dramas and Other Catastrophes from Kathleen West. Alright, that is our podcast, but before we shut down, let me please remind you to head out to Facebook if you can stand it and join our Facebook group where we don't talk about any of the things that you avoid Facebook for. Instead, we talk about all things writing related, and writerly questions, and just about anything you can get it answered. If you want to find the show notes and the screenshots from the website that we're talking about that's amwritingpodcast.com, which is also where you can find links to support the podcast if you'd like to with a small donation and supporters of the podcast get (pretty much weekly) top fives and small mini podcasts, five minute long shorts, little bits of advice from one of us to all of you that drop right into your podcast player once you get it set up, you don't have to go somewhere special to listen. I think that's cool. That's it. Now you can take us out.Sarina (39:35):Until next week, keep your butt in the chair and your head in the game. 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We talk VR in real time... foot fetishes? Thumb wars? Priests again? We also discuss a severe Grinder incident involving cannibalism and a snacky snack... as well as a few 'Read it on Reddit" segments. We even get a visit from our copyright infringement dog Bert... --- This episode is sponsored by · Anchor: The easiest way to make a podcast. https://anchor.fm/app Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/podcast-unknown/support
I had the absolute honor to be a guest in the Pizza Nomad Den of Deliciousness... it was an incredible learning experience and we discussed the food truck business and a little of what makes Liberty grind to sustain his passion. We had a few 'Read it on Reddit' segments and drank a beer or two and grubbed on some butter chicken wings all while Liberty baked pizzas in a 900 degree oven less than 5ft away... find Pizza Nomad on Facebook and Instagram to see where they will be set up for the week and get your Nomad on! www.pizzanomad.co --- This episode is sponsored by · Anchor: The easiest way to make a podcast. https://anchor.fm/app Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/podcast-unknown/support
We start a new social media platform called Twatter. Send us your twats. What happens when you cut off a dolphins tail? Why do they sing so good? What's the difference between a microwaved sweet potato and a flying pig? Find out on this episode of PODCAST UNKNOWN... we also have a nice 'Read it on Reddit' segment and talk Batman nipples and learn about the Clam Jam Jamboree. --- This episode is sponsored by · Anchor: The easiest way to make a podcast. https://anchor.fm/app Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/podcast-unknown/support
We talk porn names, and bellows, and if you can you drown yourself a little. Learn about cam girls, dick picks, and about cam girls taking dick pics. Is Robert Pattinson going to do the dark night justice? Hear our opinion and find out how not to write a slogan for a business as well as a nice 'Read it on Reddit' segment on this episode of PODCAST UNKNOWN. --- This episode is sponsored by · Anchor: The easiest way to make a podcast. https://anchor.fm/app Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/podcast-unknown/support
We talk gender... rapping... the future... and we also talk about rapping in the future about gender... hitting on hard subjects like entrepreneurship and life changes. Do CDs have better audio quality than mp3s? See why we dont really care what you shove in your anus... plus get some 'Read it on Reddit' action. --- This episode is sponsored by · Anchor: The easiest way to make a podcast. https://anchor.fm/app Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/podcast-unknown/support
What's Grinder? Why is it important to check the battery life of your pleasure devices? Would you like to be the receiver of a 'Patrick Duffy'? These questions answered on this episode of PODCAST UNKNOWN as well as a nice 'Read it on Reddit' segment for your ear holes. --- This episode is sponsored by · Anchor: The easiest way to make a podcast. https://anchor.fm/app Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/podcast-unknown/support
Ever wonder how many communion wafers it would take to eat a whole Jesus? What's a half-tag? Wanna find out about the candy lady? All of these questions answered with lots-o laughs along the way!! Also some nice 'Read it on Reddit' segments and I'm pretty sure Oscar Mayer is shutting the Podcast down... find out why... on this installment of PODCAST UNKNOWN. --- This episode is sponsored by · Anchor: The easiest way to make a podcast. https://anchor.fm/app Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/podcast-unknown/support
We sit and talk about Brazilian Jiu Jitsu, Dogs, music and movies. Justin digs up an insane long lost rap group known as Last Call, and we talk about our injuries and plans for future Twitch collabs with his video game stream/Podcast Goose_FM. We also revisit a 'Read it on Reddit' and discuss a ASMR baking episode. --- This episode is sponsored by · Anchor: The easiest way to make a podcast. https://anchor.fm/app Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/podcast-unknown/support
In this second installment we resume our D and D adventure and chat after... we tackle a 'Read it on Reddit' segment and fail at avoiding a copyright strike. --- This episode is sponsored by · Anchor: The easiest way to make a podcast. https://anchor.fm/app Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/podcast-unknown/support
In Episode One we talk about 'number two'. We discuss music and horror films, as well as give our opinions on the new movie Scary Stories to Tell in the Dark. We visit Urban Dictionary and talk through a few 'Read it on Reddit' segments. --- This episode is sponsored by · Anchor: The easiest way to make a podcast. https://anchor.fm/app Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/podcast-unknown/support
We talk music, alter egos, and nacho cheese... hang out with us and try not to get a copyright strike while getting YEET-sticked! We also debut a segment called 'Read it on Reddit'. --- This episode is sponsored by · Anchor: The easiest way to make a podcast. https://anchor.fm/app Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/podcast-unknown/support
Two guys who are bad at blood bowl, podcasts, have weird accents and love beer. This week Pug pays us another visit to talk about Fling Nation show, and Drew's back for his second episode, much to Mike's dismay. Music by Audionautix.com, Incomptech.com and FreeSFX.com except for 'Re-cite it, you scum' (00:45:45 - 0:49:14) & 'It's all part of the bereavement dividend' (1:23.53 - 1:28:15) which are by Chas Palmer-Williams, taken from the album 'American smile British Teeth' and are used with the express permission of the artist. 'Read the rules Alan' Choral part and 'What if Pug had two Heads' intro/outro were written and performed by M. Armitage (myself), and were Dynamic Mike Recordings Productions hence no were permissions required. Sound effects are available from FreeSFX.com, various free sound effects packs from Youtube (majoritively the packs uploaded by 'Mchapelle') and Freesound.org.
Chelsea FanCast on Love Sport Radio - the only 100% Chelsea show on the radio! Stamford Chidge, Jonathan Kydd and Alex 'The Girl Who Likes Balls' Churchill join Aaron Paul to discuss a trilogy of Cup matches where Chelsea were humbled by Man Utd in the FA Cup, beat Malmo in the Europa Cup and take on Man City in the Carabao Cup final.Liam Twomey Chelsea correspondent for ESPN, joins us on the phone to report back on this weeks press news starting with the report on a Transfer Ban for Chelsea; Sarri's comments about Callum Hudson-Odoi in the post match presser after the Malmo game and the rumours that Steve Holland might be in the frame to take over from Sarri.Talking of the match against Malmo, Chelsea were dreadful, clueless and nervous until they scored and then the confidence seemed to flow back. But were they playing Sarriball? Plus N'Golo Kante showed us again why he is one of the best and Hudson-Odoi had arguably his best performance in a Chelsea shirt.Did the limp defeat against Man Utd in the FA Cup on Monday night mark the beginning of the end for Maurizio Sarri? His tactics were picked apart by United; his substitutions were criminally insane and the players played with no belief. Is it any wonder then that the supporters have lost belief in him and his 'football'?Long time listener to the Chelsea FanCast, Fredric Karberg, joins us in the studio to talk about following Chelsea from Sweden and to talk about the support Chelsea gets from the Swedish Blues.Looking ahead to the Carabao Cup final against Man City, we ask will it be another disaster if Sarri doesn’t change? Is there any way Chelsea can win and if Sarri makes the same mistakes and we get hammered will he be fired & will it be deserved? We also have Dave Walker joining us on the phone from 'Read but never Red' to give us the City fans perspective on the match.To wrap up we answer this week's Chelsea FanCast Quiz: Name the Chelsea scorers in all of Chelsea’s League Cup finals? And give our predictions for the Carabao Cup final.Chelsea Fancast is broadcast on Love Sport Radio every Friday from 7.00-9.00 pm. LOVE SPORT is a London radio station and is broadcast on 558 AM and on London DAB along with numerous digital channels. You can listen from anywhere in the world. You can visit lovesportradio.com to listen live to the station and of course you can download LOVE SPORT apps in the android and IOS app stores. You can also listen to LOVESPORT radio through Radioplayer and TuneIn.The best thing is that you can phone in and join in the show and the debate with us, live. The number to call is 0208 70 20 558 See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.
In this rebroadcast episode from earlier this year, Maria and Julio are joined by Shelby Chestnut, National Organizing and Policy Strategist with Transgender Law Center, and Verónica Bayetti Flores, freelance writer and co-host of Radio Menea. They discuss the LGBT rights movement and how the media can do a better job of covering the LGBT community. ITT Staff Picks:Check out Latino USA's Interview with the stars of FX's 'Pose.'Read about The New York Times' coverage of LGBT candidates running in midterms. The latest case of workplace discrimination reaches the Supreme Court by Rewire.News.For information regarding your data privacy, visit acast.com/privacy See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.
'Read, Listen, Do!' Acts 8:26-40 - Rev Bruce McDowall - 19th August 2018 A shorten sermon due to a family service.
Join us on our series of four letter words, this week with Dr. Saldivar, Lecturer Nicole Nicholson, and students Sareth Espinoza and Paloma Pena tackle 'READ' and reading!
We chat Sandra Bernhard and Madonna. Plus Will Young, Ryan Murphy, George Michael, and not forgetting Joan Crawford & Betty Davis and their Feud Remember you can see plenty more at www.facebook.com/NDebzOfficial and also @ThisisNDebz on Twitter. If you'd like to get in touch with the show you can email us via thisisNDebz@gmail.com or message us via our Facebook page.
From the makers of Mask That Cat! and Voice to Dog Translation comes a new product guaranteed to improve your relationship with your cat by a factor of 12! The Feline Apparatus for Reciprocal Translation looks like your ordinary gingham cat bonnet. But unlike your cat's other hats, once the Feline Apparatus for Reciprocal Translation is securely in place, the bonnet's hidden electrode system will send waves through Fluffy's cerebral cortex allowing you to read your cat's thoughts as they appear as convenient text messages on your smartphone! "Ever since I've started getting texts from my cat, I feel like we're so much closer! Like this one, 'Feed me, mortal!' Isn't that adorable? He's really opening up about his needs. Oh, this text is so cute: 'Pet me, peasant. I said, PET ME. No, not like that. *poop emoji*' Before Fluffy started using the FART bonnet, I didn't know that he was a lover of literature. Look at this! 'Read to me. No, not the Nora Roberts. Read The Fountainhead, if you've even heard of it.' And he just wuvs music, don't you, Snuggles? He said, 'Playing Tom Waits again? He was okay back when I saw him in a secret bar in New Orleans in the '70's. Now everyone thinks they're smart because they discovered him while they were living in the dorms getting their communications degree.' Just go to www.fartbonnet.com and enter the promo code, "spirit" for the option to have your cat's texts read to you by MIchael Caine. Feline Apparatus for Reciprocal Translation: because nothing shows your cat's dignity like wearing a fart bonnet.
'Read & React' and Sledging Quiz both feature this week. Why not subscribe on our patreon page: https://www.patreon.com/user?u=2358164&ty=h Follow us on Twitter: @auscricketpod, or email auscricketpod@gmail.com We are also on: FaceBook, Stitcher Radio App, podomatic.com & audioboom Please SUBSCRIBE and leave a review on Itunes. Produced by Menners released 19/09/2016 See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.
This week: ODI reviews, T20 Preview, Sledging Quiz, Commentary Critique & 'Read & React' Why not subscribe on our patreon page: https://www.patreon.com/user?u=2358164&ty=h Follow us on Twitter: @auscricketpod, or email auscricketpod@gmail.com We are also on: FaceBook, Stitcher Radio App, podomatic.com & audioboom Please SUBSCRIBE and leave a review on Itunes. Produced by Menners released 05/09/2016 See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.
We share our thoughts on fictional disabled characters who have caught our imagination.
Meet this week's awesome studentpreneur: Patrick Henry, 27 y.o., postgraduate Law student at the University of Copenhagen and co-founder at Sensohive in Denmark. Wrap up: Patrick wasn't born knowing exactly his passion and what he wanted to do in like! Like a lot of us he discovered his passion after High School. At Uni, he was elected to run the student association with much competition and was thrown in the deep end but he got experience to run an organisation. From that experience, he tried to start different businesses before he got onto something with Sensohive. He picked robot engineers students as co-founders and bootstrapped with a lot of failures on the way. His biggest learning was to accept that you will fail again and again but that you have to learn from the failures methodically. Patrick is always looking for constructive criticism, even though I didn't like to be criticised. That's how he picks his mentors. Finally, Patrick shares the incredible experience he had in being involved with 50 studentpreneurs from around the world at the University Startup Worldcup competition. Quotes: - 'Check how big the entrance barrier is' - 'After High School I didn't know my passion but sometimes that's what leads to the best thing' - 'I owned nothing of the businesses I worked for, I wanted to own something, that's why I started Sensohive' - 'We all do things that are outside our education [in our business]' - 'I chose the mentor who gave me the most constructive feedback and a pitching competition' - 'Get to pitch as many times a possible' - 'The biggest failure come from people who are not motivated all the way through' - 'If you can't sell it, you can't beep doing what you love.' - 'Read outside your comfort zone.' - I practice pitching everywhere, even in front of my class’ Balance: - 'Sometimes I do manage and sometimes I don't. There is no way around it, you have to make compromises. Remember that grades are not everything. Books Podcast, and Blog: - Alex Ferguson: My Autobiography by Alex Ferguson - The Advanced selling podcast - Richard Branson's blog on virgin .com U2U: - Expand entrepreneurial project from developing ideas to supporting the actual running of a business. Links: - Sensohive.com - Sensohive on Facebook - LinkedIn: Patrick Henry If you have what it takes you can apply to share your story on air. CLICK HERE
As it's the start of a new year, Mark and I take a look at how 2014 went, what we learned and achieved, and what we plan to do in 2015 from a web development and freelancing point of view. Mark's ToolStar is http://caniuse.com, a website that shows which CSS, SVG and other sorts of elements can be used in which versions of popular browsers and platforms. Mark also shares a 'Read of the Week': Laura Kalbags's article on 'Breaking Stuff' at http://alistapart.com/column/breaking-stuff. My Jukebox pick this time is 'Swords' from Leftfield's album 'Rhythm and Stealth'. Mark's own suggestion out of leftfield is 'Life on Mars?' by Brazilian dude Seu Jorge. The music we use for various intro bits, stings and outro is 'Vitreous Detachment' by Origamibiro, used with kind permission. - Ben Subscribe and keep in touch iTunes - http://relativepaths.uk/it Stitcher - http://relativepaths.uk/st SoundCloud - http://relativepaths.uk/sc Twitter - http://twitter.com/relativepaths Facebook - http://facebook.com/relativepaths If you like the show, please leave a review or comment wherever you like to listen to us. We'd particularly love an iTunes review :)
Dan Hames asks Dane Ortlund whether reading the Bible can really help Christians grow spiritually.
[ Reposted from http://creativeplayandpodcastnetwork.podbean.com/ http://creativeplayandpodcastnetwork.podbean.com/feed/ ] join us as we have some awesome guests sit down with us. Seth, Karen and Tony three of the Champions from the Tucson RinCon leadership are kind enough to sit down with us and be interviewed for the first episode of the Creative play and podcast networks' podcast. let me know what you guys think? If your interested in an interview or bringing more attention to your event let us know! Inside info to the 'Case of the Maltese Meeple!'Read more at http://creativeplayandpodcastnetwork.com/http://rincongames.com/http://rincon2014.sched.org/https://www.facebook.com/RinConGameshttp://pulpgamer.com/welcome.phpT-shirts at https://squareup.com/market/rincon2014And again Thank you to our awesome guests Seth, Karen and Tony!Quote: "I feel were at least a little entertaining"
[ Reposted from http://creativeplayandpodcastnetwork.podbean.com/ http://creativeplayandpodcastnetwork.podbean.com/feed/ ] join us as we have some awesome guests sit down with us. Seth, Karen and Tony three of the Champions from the Tucson RinCon leadership are kind enough to sit down with us and be interviewed for the first episode of the Creative play and podcast networks' podcast. let me know what you guys think? If your interested in an interview or bringing more attention to your event let us know! Inside info to the 'Case of the Maltese Meeple!'Read more at http://creativeplayandpodcastnetwork.com/http://rincongames.com/http://rincon2014.sched.org/https://www.facebook.com/RinConGameshttp://pulpgamer.com/welcome.phpT-shirts at https://squareup.com/market/rincon2014And again Thank you to our awesome guests Seth, Karen and Tony!Quote: "I feel were at least a little entertaining"
In the fourth halaqa of Seeking Beauty: Travels in Islam, Dr. Abou El Fadl begins with the first revelation of the Qur'an, surah al-Alaq. In the first part of the halaqa on this surah, Dr. Abou El Fadl explains the significance of the first word of ...
Read the full story with photos at: https://www.otsuka.co.jp/en/company/globalnews/index.php?year=2012 Otsuka Pharmaceutical Europe Ltd.'s 'Read between the lines' hyponatraemia awareness advertising campaign was honoured with two Awards of Excellence at the Rx Club Show Awards Ceremony 2012. New York's Rx Club Show is internationally renowned in the healthcare industry for showcasing the world's best healthcare advertising and recognising excellence in global healthcare communications. It honours the creative aspects of pharmaceutical advertising and promotion and is judged by a panel of industry experts that are solely centred on creativity. The campaign is targeted at Healthcare Professionals and brings the patients' perspective to the forefront of the mind, making the campaign a highly emotive one. It was developed to promote awareness and recognition of the symptoms of hyponatraemia so that minor, as well as major symptoms are considered and drive earlier treatment and referral. "I was truly happy and proud that we won the award. As a company in Europe that provides a treatment for hyponatraemia secondary to SIADH (syndrome of inappropriate antidiuretic hormone secretion), we have a lot to do to raise awareness of this difficult to treat condition. It all starts with increasing the disease awareness in order to be able to identify patients who need treatment and to treat them better," said Anne-Sophie Audibert, European Product Manager - Specialty Products, Otsuka Pharmaceutical Europe Ltd. The first award of excellence was received for an advertising awareness campaign that was published in a number of key international journals, including Kidney International. The second award was for a digital online banner advert that was hosted in a number of highly regarded electronic journals, such as the New England Journal of Medicine. Both of these serve to drive Healthcare Professionals to the www.hyponatraemia.com disease awareness website, which aims to provide education and increase the awareness of hyponatraemia.
New Thinking: Advances in the Study of Human Cognitive Evolution
A very wise person of our acquaintance once said, 'Read old books to get new ideas'. Here, we pursue the ideas presented in old books by Lev Vygotsky and George Herbert Mead as a means to account for the differences in social life between human and non-human primates and, by extension, their cognition. We consider the contrasting perspectives of Vygotsky and Mead on the links between thought and language, and relate these to subsequent developments in the study of animal cognition, and the emergence of the fields of embodied and distributed cognition. We then use this synthesis to argue that, as Wundt originally suggested, the study of social life must be fundamentally social and situated, and cannot be a laboratory endeavour focused solely on processes within individuals. We use developments in social network analysis (specifically a new formalisation of social networks, which can be presented as multi-dimensional mathematical objects, 'tensors') to explore the possibilities of a new approach to comparative social cognition. This approach recognizes that sociality and behaviour are constitutive of cognition and not simply its visible manifestation, and emphasizes that there is no such thing as a social brain in isolation, but a complex nexus of brain, body and world. Presented by Louise Barrett, Peter Henzi and David Lusseau (Psychology, University of Lethbridge, Canada).
Former Secretary of State Madeleine Albright shares personal stories of how she used her vast collection of brooches to make diplomatic history. In a conversation lead by MAD's Chief Curator David Revere McFadden, Secretary Albright will discuss the exhibition Read My Pins, and how she used her brooches as a means of personal and diplomatic expression.r Link to MAD Calendar: http://madmuseum.org/DO/Calendar/200909/Albright.aspx
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