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Mercy Health, the sixth-largest Catholic health care system in the U.S., last week announced plans to lay off approximately 200 to 300 employees across its network of hospitals and clinics in Kansas, Arkansas, Missouri and Oklahoma. The company attributed the layoffs, which will go into effect at the end of June, in part to the refusal by some states to expand Medicaid eligibility as authorized by the Affordable Care Act.
Other considerations, including lower rates of inpatient service use and reimbursement reductions, also led to the Kansas-based nonprofit's decision to cut back the number of jobs in support services.
"Like all health care providers, Mercy is managing the impact of market changes, including reimbursement reductions from government and commercial payers, lack of Medicaid expansion in most of the states we serve and declining inpatient utilization," Mercy Health spokeswoman Barb Meyer said in a statement on Wednesday. "We have been expecting and preparing for these changes for several years and have made tremendous progress in redesigning the health delivery system to meet evolving needs."
Twenty-four states opted out of the Medicaid expansion, refusing to extend coverage to Americans making up to 133 percent of the federal poverty level. As a result, these states have forfeited billions of dollars in federal funding.
Of the four states experiencing Mercy layoffs, Kansas, Missouri and Oklahoma decided not to expand Medicaid, leaving 100,000, 253,000 and 123,000 of their low-income residents uninsured, respectively.
Mercy Health, which is also the nation's 20th-largest nonprofit health care system, operates 33 acute-care hospitals and nearly 700 clinic and outpatient facilities and employs 40,000 employees across the four states.
A recent study by the Colorado Hospital Association found that hospitals in states that expanded Medicaid coverage have benefited from a significant decrease in the number of uninsured patients treated and the amount of charity care provided in the first quarter of 2014.


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WiGig Alliance to push for fast wireless streaming
WirelessHD is designed to deliver about 4Gbps for consumer applications, and WHDI promises about 3Gbps. But unlike those systems, WiGig can be used for true IP (Internet Protocol) networking just as Wi-Fi can, Grodzinsky said. In addition to streaming HD video, it could be used for docking laptop PCs or netbooks to a large display, a set of speakers and a hard drive, he said. The group is developing tools in its specification to throttle back power consumption when possible, and WiGig shouldn't affect battery life any more than Wi-Fi, he said.
The group chose the 60GHz band because it's available without a license and almost unused in most countries, according to Sadri. WiGig isn't alone in targeting this band, as SiBeam's WirelessHD chips already use it.
WiGig has an impressive lineup of backers, but its timing may be a hindrance, according to In-Stat analyst Brian O'Rourke.
"The road to WiGig silicon in products on the market is a long way off, perhaps as long as two years. In the meantime, 60GHz silicon is already available from SiBeam, and Amimon also has a wireless HD transmission chip technology on the market," O'Rourke wrote in a research note. In addition, because of the high frequency, he thinks it's unlikely for WiGig to cover a whole house unless it's used in conjunction with Wi-Fi. "Using WiGig technology alone to accomplish this will be a Herculean task, likely requiring the use of some type of repeater in the home," O'Rourke wrote.
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IEC 60204: Ed 2.1 2009We provide onsite testing for IEC 60204 provides requirements and recommendations relating to the electrical equipment of machines so as to promote:
– safety of persons and property;
– consistency of control response;
– ease of maintenance.
High performance is not to be obtained at the expense of the essential factors mentioned above. An example of a possible application of these requirements is a group of machines used in the production of discrete parts where a failure in such production machines or manufacturing systems or cells can have serious economic consequences.
IEC 60204-11:2000 This part of IEC 60204 provides requir ements and recommendations relating to the highvoltageelectrical equipment (HV equipment) of machines together with its associated low voltage electrical equipment (LV equipment)
IEC 60204-33:2009 This standard has been created to reflect the unique needs of electrical safety within the semiconductor manufacturing environment. This includes the specialized clean room environment in which semiconductors are fabricated as well as the specialized nature of the semiconductor fabrication equipment itself. IEC 60204-33 ensures a level of safety consistent with IEC 60204-1 while still permitting the flexibility needed in the design and operation of semiconductor fabrication equipment. It has been drafted to satisfy the electrical safety needs of the semiconductor industry.
IEC 60204-32:2008 This part of IEC 60204 provides requirements and recommendations relating to the electrical equipment of hoisting machines
IEC 61310-1:2007 Requirements for visual, acoustic and tactile signals:
It is via the human- machine interface that the operator interacts with the machinery or process in an open- loop system. This interface consists of actuators , by means of which the opera tor initiates actions ,and indicating devices, through which the operator receives information. In many applications, the information is represented by a signal which is encoded by a distinct set of rules and the operator has then to interpret the signal according to these rules. Different types of coding such as colour, shape or time are used as appropriate to the demands of the task of the operator.
The reasons for using codes are: – to permit the spatial separation of the machinery from centralized control stations;– to increase the perceptible amount of information given by an indicating device,for e.g, per display area unit, per unit of time;– to decrease the mental work - load of an operator and/or exposed persons .
IEC 61310-3:2007 Requirements for the location and operation of actuators
This part of IEC 61310 specifies safety-related requirements for actuators, operated by the hand or by other parts of the human body, at the human-machine interface.It gives general requirements for
– the standard direction of movement for actuators;
– the arrangement of an actuator in relation to other actuators;
– the correlation between an action and its final effects.
It is based on IEC 60447 but is also applicable to non-electrotechnical technologies such as mechanical and fluid-powered systems.It covers single actuators as well as groups of actuators forming part of an assembly.
IEC 61310-2:2007 Requirements for markingThis part of IEC 61310 specifies requirements for the marking of machinery. It gives general rules on marking for identification of machinery, for safe use related to mechanical and electrical hazards, and for the avoidance of hazards arising from incorrect connections.
IEC 60073 6th Ed. Basic and safety principles for man-machineinterface, marking and identification –Coding principles for indicators and actuatorsIndicator for the representation of conditions, and actuating devices to enable intervention under normal and fault conditions, are essential to this purpose.The information presented should meet the needs of the users for the monitoring and control tasks which they are required to perform, for example, in extensive industrial processes.Safety and ergonomic aspects should also be taken into account. The use of only a single means of coding is often insufficient to ensure unambiguous representation of information. Apart from an unambiguous marking of the indicating and actuating devices , there is a requir ement for a clear and consistent system of coding.
IEC 61511-1 Ed 1Functional safety – Safety instrumented systems for the process industry sector Safety instrumented systems have been used for many years to perform safety instrumented functions in the process industries. If instrumentation is to be effectively used for safety instrumented functions, it is essential that this instrumentation achieves certain minimum standards and performance levels. This standard addresses the application of safety instrumented systems for the process industries.It also requires a process hazard and risk assessment to be carried out to enable the specification for safety instrumented systems to be derived. Other safety systems are only considered so that their contribution can be taken into account when considering the performance requirements for the safety instrumented systems. The safety instrumented system includes all components and subsystems necessary to carry out the safety instrumented function from sensor(s) to final element(s). This standard has two concepts which are fundamental to its application;safety lifecycle and safety integrity levels.
IEC 61496-1 Ed 2.1Safety of machinery – Electro-sensitive protective equipment –An elec tro-sensitive protective equipment (ESPE) is applied to machinery presenting a riskof personal injury. It provides protection by causing the machine to revert to a safe condition before a person can be placed in a hazardous situation. This part of IEC 61496 provides general design and performance requirements of ESPEs for use over a broad range of applications. Essential features of equipment meeting the requirements of this standard are the appropriate level of safety-related performance provided and the built-in periodic functional checks/self-checks that are specified to ensure that this level of performance is maintained.
IEC 61496-2 Particular requirements for equipment using active opto-electronic protective devices (AOPDs) IEC 61496-3 Particular requirements for Active Opto-electronic Protective Devices responsive to Diffuse Reflection (AOPDDR)IEC 61496-4 Particular requirements for equipment using vision based protective devices (VBPD)
IEC 62006 Acceptance tests of small hydroelectric installationsThis International Standard defines the test, the measuring methods and the contractual guarantee conditions for field acceptance tests of the generating machinery in small hydroelectric power installations. It applies to installations containing impulse or reaction turbines with unit power up to about 15 MW and reference diameter of about 3 m. The driven generator can be of synchronous or asynchronous type.


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12/6/17 – Two Howell Public Schools FIRST Lego League (FLL) teams are heading to the FLL State Championship later this month. The teams advancing are the Three Fires Elementary Mustache Monsters and the Howell Highlander Robotics Brick Bosses.
The Mustache Monsters qualified by scoring in the top half of the robot run portion of the competition. The Mustache Monsters came in seventh place out of the 23 teams in attendance at their qualifying competition and were one of six teams to advance. The team also received the Project Presentation Award for presenting its project in an exceptionally clear and well thought out manner.
The Brick Bosses qualified to advance by earning the Champion's Award at their qualifying competition. The Champion's Award recognizes a team that embodies the FLL experience by fully embracing the organization's core values while achieving excellence and innovation in both the robot game and project.
While they did not qualify to advance to the state championship, the Highlander Robotics Biking Bots claimed a Robot Design Award and an Innovative Solution Award at their qualifying competition. The Robot Design Award recognizes a team that designs and develops a mechanically sound robot that is durable, efficient and highly capable of performing challenge missions. The Innovative Solution Award recognizes a team's solution that is exceptionally well-considered and creative, with good potential to solve the problem researched.
The Mustache Monsters and Brick Bots will both compete at the FLL Michigan State Championship Dec. 16 at Bloomfield Hills High School.
The Howell Public Schools Board of Education does not discriminate on the basis of race, color, national origin, gender, (including sexual orientation or transgender identity), disability, age, religion, height, weight, marital or family status, military status, ancestry, genetic information, or any other legally protected category, (collectively, "Protected Classes"), in its programs and activities, including employment opportunities.


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Report contributed by Team Dudley
LEE Mills made just one change to the side that beat Kington a week ago with Josh Rogers donning the gloves in goal for Team Dudley.
The game started with Wem trying to pressure Dudley high, but the Black Country side defended well and took the lead on 11 minutes as Craig Edwards got his fifth in three games.
Edward's goal came handed on a plate as Marc Lawrence lofted the ball over the back line, Edwards ran onto it rounded the 'keeper and finished with ease.
Alex Pinches then had a shot from range that went just wide of the post, that was the sighter though as he made it 2-0 with 37 minutes gone.
Preston Green played him in and he unleashed a left footed drive from the edge of the area past the 'keeper's despairing dive.
Chris Knight was then next to try his luck, after beating two his shot at the near post was enough to force a save from Wem's stopper.
Right on half time it was nearly three when a Craig Edwards free kick hit both post and the rebound nearly fell to Alex Pinches but a defender got there just before him to touch it over the bar.
Wem Town started the second half with a strike that went wide of the post - Chris Knight followed that with a lob that went over the crossbar.
Craig Edwards got his second just before the hour mark, a quick Alex Pinches free kick was played over Wem onto Edwards who then lobbed the 'keeper.
Josh Rogers was then called into action when Dudley lost the ball in the midfield - Hawthorne and Bird delayed the shot and when it came Rogers parried the effort wide of the danger area well.
Bradley Cox came into the game and got back amongst the goals as Mitch Blackham played a ball across the box for Cox to finish on the turn.
Blackham also had a goal of the season attempt go agonisingly over the bar as Cox nearly returned the favour with a cross for him.
Blackham went for a spectacular overhead kick that dipped just over the bar.
The duo were at it again not long after and they got Vlad Lungu in on the act as quick play saw a shot across the Wem 'keeper from Vlad denied.
Wem then got a goal with six minutes to go, a penalty conceded by skipper James Hawthorne was fired hard and low past Rogers.
Vlad Lungu then ran through one-on-one but saw his shot saved by the Wem 'keeper before Brad Cox made it 5-1 with a beautiful finish from distance, lobbing the 'keeper to send Team Dudley top of division one on virtue of goal difference.
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Anne Miller is distinguished by her action-oriented approach based on the key premise that "it is far easier to act your way into a new way of thinking than to think your way into a new way of acting". For over 35 years she has worked globally with individual leaders and teams committed to going beyond past successes to create extraordinary futures for themselves and their organizations. She specializes in action learning, rapid cycle time approaches for innovation, leadership development, teambuilding and executive alignment.
Anne takes a pragmatic approach in working with individuals and multi-cultural teams. She created the Action Lab™ as a tool for C-level executives to accelerate the delivery of breakthrough results while developing their leaders and their collaboration practices through a series of iterative accomplishments. Anne has led successful leadership development and organizational transformation efforts for Fortune 100 companies in many areas of the world. She has been invited to work with four leading business schools – London Business School, Vanderbilt Owen, Thunderbird School of Global Management and ASU WP Carey. Anne has also designed and co-led a groundbreaking Women in Leadership Program for a Fortune 100 company to raise the performance contribution of women as leaders in the business. The program was recognized as Best Practice by Catalyst.
Anne is co-author, with Richard Pascale, of "Acting Your Way Into a New Way of Thinking" in Leader to Leader, and "Action Lab: Greenhouse for Change" in Strategy and Business. She is qualified to deliver several leading assessments and training such as the Myers-Briggs, the Hogan suite, Focused Energy Balance Indicator, Tilt365, Voices® 360, Global Mindset Inventory, Cultural Orientations Indicator and The Corporate Athlete course from the Human Performance Institute.
Anne received a BA in mathematics from Colorado College, and graduated with merit as a Sloan Fellow from London Business School. She has trained with the College of Executive Coaching and is certified with the World Association of Business Coaches, the Marshall Goldsmith Stakeholder Centered Coaching Process and Higher Ground Leadership®. As a former triathlon champion, she still thrives on sports and adventure travel and lives in Santa Fe, NM, where she built an award-winning "green" house.
Education, Certifications, Faculty, Publications
2014-15 Dwelling program for ontological coaching with Fernando Flores
2014 Cultural Orientations Indicator Assessment, TMA and Communicating and Negotiating with a Global Mindset, Thunderbird
2013 Certification Global Mindset Inventory, Voices® 360, Higher Ground Leadership® and Body = Brain Course
2011 5-year Renewal Certification World Association of Business Coaches
2011 Certification Corporate Athlete with Human Performance Institute
2009 Certification Tilt 360 and 365 Leadership Profile
2008 Certification in Focused Energy Balance Indicator (FEBI)
2007 Credibility, Influence, Impact, Conversant, Boulder, Colorado
2006 Advanced Coaching, College of Executive Coaching, California
2006 Execution Catalyst Communication, Conversant, Boulder, Colorado
2005 Certification in Marshall Goldsmith Stakeholder Coaching, NY
2005/6 Certification in Hogan Leadership Assessments, London & Nashville
2004 Certification Innovation Training by The Innovation Group, Santa Fe, New Mexico
2004 Oxford Psychologists Press, qualification Myers-Briggs Type Indicator (MBTI ™)
2004 Program for accreditation as Business Coach, Meyler Campbell Business Coach at London Business School; certification by the England & Wales Law Society
2001 3-day intensive College of Executive Coaching, California
2000 Certification to administer the Bar-On Emotional Intelligence Inventory, London
- Richard Pascale and Anne Miller, "Acting Your Way Into a New Way of Thinking" in Leader to Leader
- Richard Pascale and Anne Miller, "Action Lab: Greenhouse for Change" in Strategy and Business.
Faculty Network
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- Consumer Products
- Energy
- Financial Services
- Food and Beverage
- Healthcare
- Higher Education
- Manufacturing
- Nonprofits
- Pharmaceuticals
- Private Equity/ Venture Capital
- Technology
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- 360 Assessment
- Action Learning
- C-Suite Leader Coaching
- Change Management/ Leadership
- Coaching Program Design & Management
- Communication and Influence
- Derailment Management for Leaders
- Executive Coaching
- Executive Team Alignment Facilitation
- Executive Team Assessment & Development
- High Performing Organizations
- High Potential Leader Coaching
- Innovation and Creative Problem-Solving
- Leadership Development Program Design
- Managing and Leading Change
- Navigating Global Business Environments
- Coaching for Executives in New Roles
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Band Aids or a wellness program: which one will help you survive?
While you no doubt answered Wellness, the reality is that when you look at the typical change programs in a major corporation today, Band Aids are far more common. But that's hardly surprising given the short term pressures facing organizations today. Let's reflect on a few examples:
Those in the financial services industry are still struggling to deal with the rash of new regulation post melt-down. Following a spate of high profile failures, risk management has taken center stage, while in others there is a hurried review of operating procedures in far flung corners of the corporation.
In virtually all industries, others are trying to respond to hemorrhaging sales statistics. Customers are no longer happy to keep quiet when they get a bad service experience - they tell their friends and followers via Facebook and Twitter. Customer churn is rampant.
Or is it increased competitive pressures. More and more new entrants are turning up to challenge and disrupt the incumbent business models of many established firms. They don't have the baggage of high cost business models and 12 layers of management.
And we're doing this at a time when devices are taking the world by storm (around 80m iPads in 2 years, yet the iPhone took 5 years to reach that point). We want much of the same core business functionality on the road; while at the same time, our expectations of systems usability in the office is shaped by the ease of use we find on our personal devices.
Now ask yourself how many projects - change programs, reorganizations, post-merger integrations, transformation initiatives, systems modernization, or any other sort of initiative with a 3 or 4 letter acronym - that your organization has on the go. Is it 10, 20, 50, 100, 500 or more than that?
Then think about the degree to which these changes share artifacts, language, or strategic intent? How well coordinated is the decision making and governance of these changes? Do they succeed because of the sponsorship of a key executive? Or is it because of the merit of the program?
Now stop and consider the poor mid-ranking employee - how do you think they are getting on juggling all these seemingly conflicting priorities? From their perspective, there is a veritable deluge of uncoordinated change.
So not surprisingly, savvy organizations today are focusing more on alignment and coordination of change.
Rather than applying Band Aids willy-nilly, these firms are using business architecture to underpin deeper, more meaningful change initiatives.
Rather than pandering to the sub-optimal agendas of individual silos, they are designing their service offerings outside in.
Rather than assuming it's all about the shiny new server in the corner, they've realized it's better to focus on the capabilities of the firm and the services that are delivered.
Rather than bleeding customers as they slowly slip into mediocrity, they see processes as way of delivering those compelling experiences that customers just love.
In short, they're reinventing themselves - using a coordinated approach to change and engagement of employees. And that's what we'll be talking about at our upcoming Business Process and Architecture Forum. I'll be joined by firms such as Philips, TNT, AIG and UMB as they help me flesh out the challenges, pitfalls and lessons learnt on October 4th in London, and October 19th in Orlando.
There's that old adage - "the only thing that's constant around here is change." But is it? As far as I can tell there's nothing constant about it ... it's speeding up all the time. The question is: how will you handle it?
This blog originally appeared at Forrester Research.
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hell ya
I cant wait for my Wiikey
We need a region-free chip for PAL-consoles. NOW.
well i heart this is the first game you can use the internet to connect to other gamers
THIS is the game I've been waiting for!
Time to get a wiikey!
I wonder if any of these have english menus...
I'm trying to get 2 player on this, anyone know how?
So what's the story with this? Can you really connect to other players online?
And wasn't this one of the games they were talking about would have DS connectivity? Any reviews or info on it?
The connectivity is probally similar to the original pokemon staidum on n64 and pokemon red n blue. Those days tho you got an expansion pack that plugged into the bk of the controller and you trnsfered pokemon from the cart to the game.
Will this work on an NTSC-U Wii after installing the SPM update? I'd rather not brick my Wii with this update if I can help it...
edit: nvm, works fine... update is safe
Does this game load's on an PAL Wii?
Or this is like other JAP games that won't run on PAL?
I've a Wiifree 2.45 and burt 2 DVDs on this one.
Tried ISO untouched and ISO patched with RegionFrii 1.20
The media is not the prob bcz all my PAL games works.


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Gary Scott Thompson
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|Gary Scott Thompson
Thompson in 2004
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Gary Scott Thompson (born October 7, 1959) is a screenwriter, television producer, and director. Thompson is most notable for his work on The Fast and the Furious starring Vin Diesel, the sequel 2 Fast 2 Furious, Hollow Man with Kevin Bacon, Split Second, 88 Minutes, starring Al Pacino, and K-911 and K-9: P.I..
As creator, showrunner, writer, and executive producer of NBC's hit series Las Vegas,[1] Thompson also directed 4 episodes and made a brief appearance as a psychotherapy patient. Recently, Thompson wrote, co-developed, and executive produced NBC and TF1's Taxi Brooklyn.
Life and career[edit]
Born in Ukiah, California, but spending much of his childhood in American Samoa,[2] Thompson first gained exposure to the world of entertainment actor, studying the craft from such actors as Powers Boothe.[citation needed] To pay for his education and support himself, Thompson worked in a junkyard, operated heavy equipment, delivered mail, built sets for a theatre company, tutored college students in English, taught high school in New York City, worked in a gym, was a stagehand at the Metropolitan Opera House NYC, was a reader and assistant dramaturgy at Circle Rep Theatre, and did story notes and development for a Hollywood film studio and distributor.[3]
Eventually settling on writing, he received a Master of Fine Arts degree from New York University and went to work as a playwright. Thompson's theater credits include "Small Town Syndrome," "Cowboys Don't Cry" and "Private Hells." Thompson resides in Los Angeles with his wife and two children.:)
For Las Vegas, Thompson received the honor of Best Drama Series at the WIN Awards, an awards show dedicated to highlighting positive and multi-dimensional portrayals of women in media.[4] Additionally, Thompson received the first-ever Visionary Award from spinal cord injury advocacy organization Life Rolls On for the first-ever portrayal of a featured character with a SCI on national television.[5]
- The Underachievers (1987) (Writer)
- White Ghost (1988) (Writer)
- Split Second (1992) (Writer/Associate Producer)
- K-911 (1999) (Writer)
- Hollow Man (2000) (Story)
- The Fast and the Furious (2001) (Story/Screenplay)
- K-9: P.I. (2002) (Story/Teleplay)
- 2 Fast 2 Furious (2003) (Characters/Story)
- Timecop 2: The Berlin Decision (2003) (Writer/Co-Producer)
- Las Vegas (2003) (Writer/Creator/Showrunner/Executive Producer/Director/Cast)
- Intimate Portrait (2003) (Cast)
- The WIN Awards (2005) (Award Recipient)
- Hollow Man 2 (2006) (Characters/Story)
- 88 Minutes (2007) (Writer/Producer)
- Protect and Serve (2007) (Executive Producer)
- TV Land Confidential (2007) (Cast)
- Knight Rider (2008) (Executive Producer/Director/Writer)
- Fast & Furious (2009) (Characters)
- Fast Five (2011) (Characters)
- Fast & Furious 6 (2013) (Characters)
- Taxi Brooklyn (2014) (Writer/Co-Developer/Executive Producer)
- Furious 7 (2015) (Characters)
- The Fate of the Furious (2017) (Characters)
- ^ Bierly, Mandi (January 11, 2008). "Las Vegas: Against All Odds". Entertainment Weekly. Retrieved October 27, 2012.
- ^ About, Gary Scott Thompson was born in Ukiah, California, and grew up on the South Pacific island of Pago Pago, American Samoa.
- ^ About, Thompson worked in a junkyard, operated heavy equipment, delivered mail, built sets for a theatre company, tutored college students in English, taught high school in New York City, worked in a gym, was a stagehand at the Metropolitan Opera House NYC, was a reader and assistant dramaturgy at Circle Rep Theatre, and did story notes and development for a Hollywood film studio and distributor.
- ^ "2005 Film and Television Winners". Women's Image Network Awards. September 26, 2005. Retrieved September 14, 2015.
- ^ Surfermag.com This year's gala will proudly salute the work of producer Gary Scott Thompson and his hit NBC-show "Las Vegas" for its positive portrayal of the SCI community in the media.


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This type of liu an is very popular with the older generation. It is a pleasant, mild tea with a lovely sweet aroma from the aglaia odorata buds. The liu an has none of the smoke traditionally found in young raw liu an tea. I couldn't describe the aroma as it is really unique to these flowers; you'd have to try it for yourself. Scented liu an is used medicinally in Traditional Chinese Medicine and is believed to protect against minor infections and other ailments. I make no guarantees or affirmations of that sort whatsoever, but here's a link to the Wikipedia article on aglaia odorata:


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one of the trapped chilean miners became the father of a tiny girl while he was still underground. modern technology allowed him to watch his wife give birth even though he was not yet freed to be physically at her side. they named their baby 'esperanza' (which is spanish for 'hope').
weeks later he was free. reunited with his wife and holding his precious baby for the first time: what i imagine that felt like was the inspiration for this scarf. three cables attached by vertical strands of yarn. strong, yet flexible. stable and cozy. hope.
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Mahdi Fleifel is a Danish-Palestinian film director who graduated from the UK
National Film & TV School. In 2010 he set up the London-based production company Nakba FilmWorks with Irish producer Patrick Campbell.
His debut feature, A World Not Ours (2012), premiered at the Toronto International Film Festival and picked up over 30 awards, including the Peace Film Prize at the 2013 Berlinale and the Edinburgh, Yamagata and DOC:NYC Grand Jury Prizes.
In 2016 he won the Silver Bear at the Berlinale with A Man Returned. His recent film, A Drowning Man, was selected for the official competition at the 2017 Cannes Film Festival.
Born and raised in Dublin, Patrick's academic background is in Anthropology and Sociology, but he has been drawn to filmmaking from a young age. Since moving to London, he has freelanced as a production manager, line producer and producer on pilots, shorts, and features.
In 2010 Campbell and director Mahdi Fleifel formed the production company Nakba FilmWorks to produce feature documentary 'A World Not Ours' and Fleifel's subsequent works. He has also engaged in collaborations with other directors including with his brother Duncan Campbell to produce The Welfare of Tomás Ó Hallissy in 2016.
Patrick is currently developing a new fiction feature, 'Men in the Sun', with Fleifel through Nakba FilmWorks and co-producers Final Cut For Real in Denmark. Alongside this he has different fiction and documentary projects in various stages of development.


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Province Editing
Moderators of the history application can now edit provinces and add or modify rulers, cultures, religions and capitals. This is an important step towards the final goal of making Chronas completely editable by its community - just like Wikipedia.
This basic province editing feature allows the main dimensions to be edited:
- Ruler
- Culture
- Religion
- Capital
- Population
If you are interested in moderating, become a member of Chronas and tick the Generally interested in moderating and Moderate history data box in your profile. We will send you an email and create a privileged account for you.
Getting Started
- Once we created the account for you, login at the dedicated history application site at http://chronas.org/app/admin
- Change your password at http://chronas.org/app/admin/password_change/ (you can close this tab, but do not logout before you have finished your edits)
- Open the history application as usual at http://chronas.org/history
- Select a province you want to modify
- In the right upper corner, click on the pencil symbol
- Fill the new data in the according fields (only the fields which you want to change)
- Select the time span (start and end year)
- Optionally click on provinces on the map to include additional provinces in the update
- Click "Submit" and wait for all updates to finish before you start a new update process (4-5)
- Click on the Edit Meta tab
- Either add new meta entities by defining the display name (this is what text will be drawn on the map and must be different from already existing ones) plus the area color and full Wikipedia link: e.g. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/English_people
- For new religions, additionally to Name, Color and URL, also the according main religion has to be specified. E.g. Catholicism -> main religion is Christianity
- Or modify an already existing meta entity by first selecting the name of the entity you want to change and then modifying the specific attribute (name, color or link) you want to change
- Both add and modify operations are triggered by clicking the Submit button at the bottom of the forms
In late January, I will add a short movie clip explaining the process.
Next up on the development list are adding/ modifying markers...


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Are you sure that your employees are aware of legislation regarding food hygiene and their responsibilities in the work environment and to their colleagues and customers?
Unless you have a rating of 5 from the Food Standards Agency then there is room for improvement.
Human beings are creatures of habit and these aren't legislated so some of these habits may compromise your business' food hygiene record without an employee feeling that they've acted in any way out of their normal manner.
Do you let staff use their mobile phones in the workspace?
Do staff always wash their hands with soap and water?
Is this hand wash as thorough as it should be or a few seconds?
Have you got a team member who touches dirty and washed vegetables without washing their hands between processes? They could be transferring dirt to the clean food.
Are refrigerated goods left out at room temperature for longer than they should be?
Are meats or fish placed on a high shelf in a fridge which means it could cross contaminate other items?
Do team members blow their noses or bite their nails and not wash their hands before food preparation?
Some of these actions could be caused by what the employee does at home.
Whilst they may have grown up with the saying "a peck of dirt doesn't hurt anyone," this logic cannot be used in a business premises that needs to comply with regulations.
"You don't want to wash your hands too much. It makes you less resistant to germs." Actually, washing your hands means that others won't have to come in to contact with any germs that the employee may be carrying.
If they have a cold or the merest sniffle a customer's meal could carry an extra health consideration.
It's true that washing your hands repeatedly can remove the body's natural ability to fight germs until they recover, this takes a short time, but aiming to not wash hands is a serious food hygiene risk that could cost an employer his or her reputation.
"My mobile's clean," may be said by many an affronted staff member if challenged but research has proven that a large percentage of food hygiene issues are caused by staff not taking adequate care.
In the US a food hygiene report detailed a worrying finding recently, 1 in 6 mobile phones in food preparation areas carried faecal matter. Therefore, is it worth the risk? No.
So how can you re-educate team members without confrontation or morale quashing lectures? Simply book them on to food hygiene and HACCP training with an expert like Food Alert in London. (HACCP = Hazards Analysis Critical Control Points.) These courses inform people about their errors without referring to anyone personally.
HACCP courses give students the knowledge and ability to identify, analyse and recognise risks and to initiate corrective behaviours. After HACCP training you should find that an employee changes their approach and thinks about food hygiene in a business sense.


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SAPEC volleyball
Today's playoff round at the St. Albert Physical Education Council junior high volleyball tournament starts at 9 a.m.
Friday's pool play determined the round of 16 playoff pairings for the boys' and girls' teams.
The tournament draw of 102 best-of-three matches wraps up with the 3:15 p.m. finals for the boys at Sir George Simpson and the girls at the SkyDome.
Playoff matches are also scheduled for Ecole Secondaire Sainte Marguerite D'Youville and Ecole Alexandre-Tache for the boys and William D. Cuts for the girls.
The defending champions are the Lorne Akins Gators for the boys and Simpson Voyageurs for the girls and both teams won the 2016 SAPEC Tier I city banners.
Slash at home
The defending Esso Cup midget AAA champion St. Albert Slash have home-ice advantage to start the Alberta Female Hockey League season.
The Slash host the Calgary Fire at 12:15 p.m. Sunday and the Edmonton Pandas at 8:30 p.m. Tuesday at Go Auto Arena.
The Slash are the first Alberta team to win the Esso Cup in the tournament's nine-year history and the first team to finish with a perfect 7-0 record.
Raiders weekend
The St. Albert Tire Warehouse Raiders are in Sherwood Park today for the season opener in the Alberta Midget AAA Hockey League.
Faceoff is 1 p.m. against the Kings at Sherwood Park Arena.
Sunday's home debut against the Grande Peace Storm at 1:15 p.m. is also the St. Albert Food Bank game. Donation boxes will be located in the Akinsdale Arena lobby for fans to drop off non-perishable food items.
Admission tickets for the game will also be entered into a draw for $2,000 worth of gift certificates towards a new or used Chrysler/Dodge/Jeep vehicle. The draw will take place Sunday night.
Meanwhile, netminder Evan Fradette has been called up by the Portland Winterhawks for the weekend. The second-year midget and first-year Raider was selected by Portland in the fifth round, 97th overall, in the 2016 Western Hockey League bantam draft.
Midget AA games
The hometown Crusaders and Blues have games upcoming in the Northern Alberta Midget AA Hockey League.
Faceoff times are 8:30 p.m. Monday between the Crusaders, last year's NAMHL finalists, and Leduc Roughnecks at Go Auto Arena and Tuesday between the Blues and SSAC Lakewood Chevrolet at Mark Messier Arena.


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Social network web site Twitter recently confirmed that they will be officially shutting down the app, Vine. Word is: "We are sharing the news that in the coming months we'll be discontinuing the mobile app." Following the news, one of Vine's three founders Rus Yusupov posted on Twitter: "Don't sell your company!"
Twitter announced ad groups, a new tool which provides advertisers to have further control over how to spend their budgets and message different audiences. As one campaign can have many ad groups, and as ad groups can have many targeting criteria, the ad groups tool can help you better organize and optimize your campaign. With ad groups, advertisers can test different audiences, set promotion schedules, and find out which Tweets work best. This tool enables you to create, test, and measure several campaigns at the same time. Ad groups are available to all advertisers in the Ads editor tool section. (more…)
Twitter states it has 320 million monthly active users – up for only 4 million compared to the Q2. The total figure is only 307 million when you discount "Fast Followers," (those who sign up using SMS). Growth in the US remained flat at 66 million, which represent the same number reported in the Q1. Twitter revenue increased 58% compared to the previous year state, to the figure of $569 million. Advertising revenue has been spotted up to 60 % ( $513 million ). Around 86 % of total figure was from mobile advertising. Seems like this social network's slow growth mode has disappointed investors, which resulted in dropping its stock below its $26 IPO price. (more…)
Twitter presented a Twitter Amplify program, enabling their users to monetize their videos much easier. Publishers can now start the monetization process by simply uploading their videos to video.twitter.com. According to this report, publishers will be paid the majority of the ad revenue (around 70%) using automated revenue share payments. Furthermore, advertisers will have the chance to choose between specific categories of premium content, and the social network is going to automatically insert pre-roll ads in the most popular videos being watched by their target audience. Twitter Amplify program is currently being offered to select U.S. publishers and advertisers, but it expected to be launched in use on a global level. The first version of this program was unveiled in May 2013.
Read more: http://www.thevideoink.com/news/twitter-makes-pre-roll-video-ads-easier/#.Vh0FsPmqpHw
Let's review all improvements our platform has made through the past year. The entire Brid.Tv online video platform still requires no contracts, no obligations and it's still entirely free for the webmaster to start using from day one, which represents a whole new webmaster-friendly approach in the field of enterprise-level online video platforms. It's an enterprise-level service for no costs whatsoever, tailored towards the big boys as much as the smaller sites.
The player we offer with this service is now cutting-edge HTML5 tech, highly modular and modifiable in the sense that we can tailor its design to fit the webmaster's website perfectly. It has extremely fast loading times and that it's fully hosted on Amazon Cloud. Brid.tv provides to all the webmasters out there a robust and feature-rich turn-key solution to post their videos online and monetize them the way they want to. (more…)
Based on second quarter 2015 earnings for Twitter and Facebook announced on Tuesday and Wednesday, 63% of Twitter users and 63% of Facebook users claim they follow them as a source for the latest news about events and issues. The difference is that 59% of Twitter users say they follow breaking news on Twitter, while only 31% of Facebook users say they to the same on Facebook.
Quick overview of the latest Facebook and Twitter stats:
As from yesterday, Twitter announced all native videos, Vines, GIFs Vines and GIFs are enabled to play back automatically when they appear in a user's Twitter feed. With this new Twitter video ability, users no longer have to tap videos or animated media for them to play. Twitter's autoplay will be activated without audio when a video comes into view on the screen, the sound will be activated if a user clicks or taps on a video. Click-to-play option is still available. If Twitter users have issues with high data rates or low bandwidth on their devices, they can choose to opt out of auto-play within their account settings, and that way miss all the unexpected charges or slow performance.
Read more: https://blog.twitter.com/2015/introducing-a-more-seamless-video-experience-with-autoplay
The latest Twitter report shows 90% of Twitter videos are being watched on a tablet or smartphone, and around 70% of Twitter users watch videos found in their feed. Twitter state's that native video can drive 2.5X more as many replies and 3X as many retweets than any third-party video shared on this social network service. According to this report, 50% of users spend their time on Twitter watching sports clips and TV shows, while 64% watch breaking news. As video content is becoming more popular on Twitter, advertisers should consider the importance of Twitter while creating their video marketing campaigns.
Read more: http://venturebeat.com/2015/05/13/90-of-twitter-video-views-happen-on-a-mobile-device/
When it comes to promoting your company or service on Twitter, it can be really challenging to find the time to get through everything, and get the most out of Twitter. The most convenient thing about using Twitter as a marketing tool gives you the opportunity to look at, retweet, favorite, or comment on anything you want at anytime. By using a Twitter business account, you get a chance to follow your target customer, their activities, and work on building a closer relationship with them.
Posting on Twitter is different from every other social media. There are many theories about how to use visually those 140-character increments on Twitter to drive more traffic to your business or website and effectively use Twitter as a marketing tool. Here's some tips that can help you out with that: (more…)
Twitter officially launched its "retweet with comment" feature, that allows users to embed a tweet in their own tweets, and lets them use Twitter's 140-character limit when they write their own commentary. The feature is now available on Twitter's site and iPhone app and it's expected to be available on it's Android app soon. Twitter previously let users embed quoted tweets by cutting-and-pasting its URL, but "retweet and comment" feature lets you do that by just pressing a button. The feature's arrival allows people to share and comment on tweets without having to shorten the original tweet, which means that its context is conserved.
Read more: http://techcrunch.com/2015/04/06/retweetception/?ncid=rss


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Wednesday, January 11, 2006
Failed Hat for me #1
So this was the first hat I made for myself. After months spent knocking up things for other people (my aim was to make something for everyone at Christmas but I ran out of time in the end) I decided that I would make myself something - especially as I was going hatless while my friends were swanning about in my original creations.
This was the Cloche Cap that I made using this pattern. It was nice and easy to do, but no matter how large the hook was, I couldn't get it to fit the gauge. Possibly because I was intent on only using one strand of double knitting rather than 2 strands as requested in the pattern. Because I'm a cheapskate.
So, as expected the hat came out a little on the small size, but it fitted my pin head fine. You can see my charming boyfriend is reluctantly modelling it for me and it looks a little tight for his manly-sized head, but for me it was just about right. Despite this, I soon concluded that it had another fatal flaw. It didn't suit me. This in spite of the fact that I generally look pretty spiffy in hats. Problem was, it looks better perched on a curly mop, and it just didn't really sit right on my straight locks.
Well that's my excuse anyway. The fact that my fellow straight-haired, pin head friend came over the other day and took my cloche along with the other hat I made her (more of that another time) is beside the point. She tells me she's not wearing it, however, because it doesn't cover her ears which is no good for winter.
So failure all round then.
No wait! There's a happy end to this tale. Having seen how good it looked on Milway's curly locks, I decided it would be a great wheeze to make a similar hat for my brother-in-law, a great tall man with long flowing curly locks of silver and blond. Mighty impressive hair indeed, in dire need of a house cap to lend even more of a distinguished air. I also knew it would annoy aforementioned niece. Incentive enough for anyone. Alert to the undersized failings of the last one, I added an extra shelly bit at the start, and ended up with a huge hat that I thought would be far too large. It did end up being on the large size, but still within the limits of acceptable hat-to-head size ratio. Brother-in-law was, of course, delighted. Niece was, of course, appalled.
So success all round then.
Except she got the better of me. While my father was down for Christmas he took a shine to the hat and took to wearing it. Come leaving day, she convinced him to thieve the hat so now I'm the one who gets to be humiliated by my father and she gets to chuckle in a self-satisfied manner. Truly, there is no justice in the world.
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Wednesday, January 04, 2006
Flower Cushion
I saw this pattern and absolutely loved it immediately. It was only after I made it and showed it to friends that I realised that my design tastes appear to have been stolen from an old lady. I've stuck to my guns, however, and this (still unfinished) cushion has pride of place on my knackered old green chesterfield (see what I mean about the old lady tastes). Still, I must still have some doubts about its design merits, because I bought two cushions to cover and not only have I not made the second one, I've not even finished this one off properly.
This was actually the first non-Granny Square-based thing I made. Until then, I'd only ever known how to create trebles and double trebles, and I only ever picked up my crochet hook (pinched from my mother's collection) sporadically, usually to start a large blanket that would invariably be abandoned by the third square (ah, the folly of youth).
Since I was (and still am) a bit of an amateur at this sort of thing, I went online to learn how to do the basic double crochet stitches. Problem is, when I then made the thing, nothing quite looked right. Being a slow learner, it took me until I'd finished the first side to realise that the Americans have changed the names of all the stitches, so I was doing trebles instead of double crochets and double crochets instead of single crochets (oh, the larks!). Being both lazy and stingey, I decided not to waste time and wool unpicking the whole thing, but simply made the other side correctly (which you see here now) and added a few extra rows to the edges to get them to meet. Incidentally, the guage was totally wrong for the smaller UK sizes - it would never have worked out the right size even if I had followed it correctly. So the extra rows would have been in regardless. Incidentally (mark II), you can quite clearly see that the lazy crocheter has used the older US large central yellow bit for the right-hand blue flower. Louisa Calder wouldn't mind...
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Tuesday, January 03, 2006
Crochet Bag
Good old Louisa Calder came in handy again for this bag I made for my niece. It's a lot smaller than the laptop case I made, but is pretty much the same sort of thing. I still hadn't twigged about the row of trebles, though, so it's threaded through the stitches as per last time. I really like this bag, but I actually meant it to be horribly garish again to annoy my niece (isn't that what Aunts are for?) after she mocked my laptop bag. I was tempted not to give it to her, in fact, but since I'd left it too late to get her something she might actually like for her birthday, I had no choice but to give it to her. I stuck in a load of Burt's Bees products to soften the blow of the ugly present. And gave her a new mobile as well, so maybe I should have kept the bag after all...
Those with a keen eye and a rapier wit will note that I've quite clearly missed a few stitches along the way. I'm still not quite capable of making something without mistakes. Even somethings as simple as a rectangle, double crochet bag.
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Crochet Laptop Bag
Yes, I really did crochet myself a laptop bag. Thing is, the laptop is teeny tiny - about A5 size - and so no normal laptop case was going to cut it. I made it while sat in hospital waiting for Al's Gran to recover after her op went horribly wrong (thankfully she's on the road to recovery now) and it helped to keep me busy and gave me something else to think about that wasn't too taxing. The pattern is based on one from this fantastic old book called "Louisa Calder's Creative Crochet", which is full of loads of garish designs - just the sort of thing I love.
She's obviously a true English eccentric, and the ghostwriter is at pains to point out that she comes from an artistic environment and that her husband, Alexander Calder, was "one of the greatest sculpters of all time". Quite what he had to do with it is a mystery to me, but this was published back in 1979, so maybe including your husband's bio in your own book was less strange back then.
One of the best things about this book is the inclusion of some truly awful designs, that even I, with my love of all things bright and woolly, can't bring myself to admire. There's a whole section on creating woollen ties for men to wear with their suits, and since the designs are very similar to this bag above, you can get a fair idea of just how horrified any man would be to be handed one of these as a gift.
And along with some remarkable revolting neckties, there are a a few designs that appear to have been knocked up by the artist's small, academically inept, relative. Probably around the 6 year's old mark. But no, we discover that Louisa herself is responsible for stitching the red bag together on the outside with black wool and uneven stitches, because imperfections should be left if it "enhances the final result". Certainly, the designs that quite clearly drop and regain stitches liberally throughout for no apparent reason are "enhanced" by the look, but whether that's a good thing in this case is something I'd be willing to dispute.
But despite much guffawing at some of the things our Louisa felt happy to include, she gets full credit for giving me some great ideas of things you can do with simple double crochet (US sc). Specifically, the colour changing is a real eye opener. Usually you're told to pull through the new colour as the final loop in a stitch, but these designs start a new stitch with a new colour, giving a little "bird in flight" dot effect that works really nicely. She does it the whole way through, and while I don't like it when changing rows (I'm too anal for such sloppiness), used to add little colour flecks, or bands of colour, it works really well.
The only downside to creating a bag like this all in Double Crochet is that I find it really hard to work up any pace and so it takes a lot longer than making Granny Squares, for example. There aren't actually any patterns in the book, you get general written instructions on how to do it and what to chain, etc, but after that you just have to work it out from the pictures. I should have put in a row of trebles for the pull ties, but I didn't read the instructions properly.
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Home of all my crochet creations. This is the obligitory test post
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The Chicago North RWA- Spring Fling 2016
The Chicago North RWA holds a conference ever other year called, Spring Fling. This was my first year attending and I have to tell you, these ladies know how to conference!
I must first start sharing my car ride there with my fellow writers and soul sisters, MK Schiller and Aliza Mann. The three of us had a jolly old time singing at the top of our lungs to Prince, Madonna and even little Kim! But the five-hour drive from Detroit to Chicago had us a little restless and we downloaded an audio version a fabulous book by Christina Lauren, Wicked Sexy Liar. Let me tell you, when we finally reached our destination, none of us wanted to get out of the car. The book was that good. Needless to say, we finally made ourselves get out of the car and check into the hotel. But I have to confess, every free moment we had, we were in the car listening to the book (it sounded better on the car speakers!) Here is the link to this awesome book if your interested: Wicked Sexy Liar!
Okay, we conferenced too and we even had a chance to hear Christina Lauren speak at the conference- these two wonderful ladies that use the pen name, Christina Lauren to write together – (Left to right: Christina Hobbs and Lauren Billings). They were wonderfully inspiring woman that talked about the their experiences and brought most of the room to tears! We did get a chance to tell them our story about sneaking out of the conference to listen to there book and they giggled along with us! They were awesome!
I also enjoyed an excellent panel given by (left to right) Courtney Milan, Christina, Lauren, and Robyn Carr on the struggles of writers. Courtney Milan also shared the importance of writing real characters with different backgrounds. The most important thing that I can share with you all is the community of romance writers. They are there to cheer you on, share there tips of the trade and inspire you to write your best book ever!
My friends and I also had the pleasure of having drinks with Robyn Carr.
This was also a book signing, which as super awesome – since it was my first real signing! Here I am chatting with the wonderful woman who won my table raffle!
Since it was my birthday, my friends and I enjoyed the town as well.
My only regret is that there wasn't any models at this conference! No worries, Romance Writers of America's conference is in July, and I promise lots of pictures with those hotties coming soon!
Romantic Times Convention!
There is nothing as fun as Conference season and a few weeks ago, The 2016 Romantic Time's (RT) Reader and Writer Convention was held in Las Vegas, BABY. And I got so many fun pictures, I wanted to share a few! Did someone say Models? Yes – lots of beautiful male cover models attended and I got the chance to pose with this gorgeous duo! They were a fun sport and we reenacted a sexy book cover. Though, I was giggling so much that it wasn't sexy at all!
The parties at RT are a blast – there are always an unexpected treat – like these hot shirtless eye candy! (Yes – thats me in-between two of them … again 🙂
(From left to right – Authors: Aliza Mann, Sage Spelling, MK Schiller, and Shelly Bell)
This guy has the most beautiful smile and makes for some amazing inspiration!
I attended some workshops too … Killion Group did a cool workshop where they showed the behind the scenes of a cover shoot. (Okay enough about models) I did attend some wonderful workshops on craft too-My friends, Aliza Mann, MK Schiller and Isabelle Drake (left to right) did an awesome panel on diversity. Here is them talking about creating diverse characters!
And of course their was a huge book fair, but I was to busy buying books and fangirling over a few of my favorite author to take pictures. (Sorry, I'll do better next time) There was also the Fantastic-Day Party where authors, including me, were giving out free books and swag.
RT 2017 will be in Atlanta next year – If you are a huge romance reader, this conference is the one for you! You'll come home with more free books and swag then the 50 pounds the airline allows.


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The Benson Ford was originally a cargo ship for the Ford Motor Company, but has been converted into a holiday home hanging above Lake Erie.
Looking over the bow, which dangles 18 foot above the Lake, it still looks as if the boat is sailing.
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Frank J. Sullivan who first converted the vessel, tried to turn it into a hotel in 1992 but was denied permission.
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Northanger Abbey. Admiration from afar
The following conversation, which took place between
the two friends in the pump-room one morning, after an
acquaintance of eight or nine days, is given as a specimen of
their very warm attachment, and of the delicacy, discretion,
originality of thought, and literary taste which marked the
reasonableness of that attachment.
They met by appointment; and as Isabella had arrived
nearly five minutes before her friend, her first address natu-
rally was, 'My dearest creature, what can have made you so
late? I have been waiting for you at least this age!'
'Have you, indeed! I am very sorry for it; but really I
thought I was in very good time. It is but just one. I hope
you have not been here long?'
But, my dearest Catherine, what have you been do-
ing with yourself all this morning? Have you gone on with
'Yes, I have been reading it ever since I woke; and I am
got to the black veil.'
'Are you, indeed? How delightful! Oh! I would not tell
you what is behind the black veil for the world! Are not you
wild to know?'
'Oh! Yes, quite; what can it be? But do not tell me — I
would not be told upon any account. I know it must be a
skeleton, I am sure it is Laurentina's skeleton. Oh! I am de-
lighted with the book! I should like to spend my whole life
in reading it. I assure you, if it had not been to meet you, I
would not have come away from it for all the world.'
'Dear creature! How much I am obliged to you; and
when you have finished Udolpho, we will read the Italian
together; and I have made out a list of ten or twelve more of
the same kind for you.'
'Have you, indeed! How glad I am! What are they all?'
'I will read you their names directly; here they are, in
my pocketbook. Castle of Wolfenbach, Clermont, Mysteri-
ous Warnings, Necromancer of the Black Forest, Midnight
Bell, Orphan of the Rhine, and Horrid Mysteries. Those will
last us some time.'
'Yes, pretty well; but are they all horrid, are you sure they
are all horrid?'
'Yes, quite sure; for a particular friend of mine, a Miss
Andrews, a sweet girl, one of the sweetest creatures in the
world, has read every one of them. I wish you knew Miss
Andrews, you would be delighted with her. She is netting
herself the sweetest cloak you can conceive. I think her as
beautiful as an angel, and I am so vexed with the men for
not admiring her! I scold them all amazingly about it.'
'Scold them! Do you scold them for not admiring her?'
'Yes, that I do. There is nothing I would not do for those
who are really my friends. I have no notion of loving people
by halves; it is not my nature. My attachments are always
excessively strong.
The men think us incapable
of real friendship, you know, and I am determined to show
them the difference. Now, if I were to hear anybody speak
slightingly of you, I should fire up in a moment: but that is
not at all likely, for you are just the kind of girl to be a great
favourite with the men.'
'Oh, dear!' cried Catherine, colouring. 'How can you say
'I know you very well; you have so much animation,
which is exactly what Miss Andrews wants, for I must con-
fess there is something amazingly insipid about her. Oh! I
must tell you, that just after we parted yesterday, I saw a
young man looking at you so earnestly — I am sure he is in
love with you.' Catherine coloured, and disclaimed again.
Isabella laughed. 'It is very true, upon my honour, but I see
how it is; you are indifferent to everybody's admiration, ex-
cept that of one gentleman, who shall be nameless. Nay, I
cannot blame you' — speaking more seriously — 'your
feelings are easily understood. Where the heart is really at-
tached, I know very well how little one can be pleased with.
'But you should not persuade me that I think so very
much about Mr. Tilney, for perhaps I may never see him
'Not see him again! My dearest creature, do not talk of it.
I am sure you would be miserable if you thought so!'
'No, indeed, I should not. I do not pretend to say that I
was not very much pleased with him; but while I have Udol-
pho to read, I feel as if nobody could make me miserable.
Oh! The dreadful black veil! My dear Isabella, I am sure
there must be Laurentina's skeleton behind it.'
But, my dearest Catherine, have you settled
what to wear on your head tonight? I am determined at all
events to be dressed exactly like you. The men take notice of
that sometimes, you know.'
'But it does not signify if they do,' said Catherine, very
'Signify! Oh, heavens! I make it a rule never to mind
what they say. They are very often amazingly impertinent
if you do not treat them with spirit, and make them keep
their distance.'
'Are they? Well, I never observed that. They always be-
have very well to me.'
'Oh! They give themselves such airs. They are the most
conceited creatures in the world, and think themselves of
so much importance! By the by, though I have thought of
it a hundred times, I have always forgot to ask you what is
your favourite complexion in a man. Do you like them best
dark or fair?'
'I hardly know. I never much thought about it. Some-
thing between both, I think. Brown — not fair, and — and
not very dark.'
'Very well, Catherine. That is exactly he. I have not for-
got your description of Mr. Tilney — 'a brown skin, with
dark eyes, and rather dark hair.' Well, my taste is different. I
prefer light eyes, and as to complexion — do you know — I
like a sallow better than any other. You must not betray me,
if you should ever meet with one of your acquaintance an-
swering that description.'
'Betray you! What do you mean?'
'Nay, do not distress me. I believe I have said too much.
Let us drop the subject.'
'For heaven's sake! Let us move away from this end of the room.
Do you know, there are two odious young men who have been
staring at me this half hour. They really put me quite out of
countenance. Let us go and look at the arrivals. They will
hardly follow us there.'
Away they walked to the book; and while Isabella exam-
ined the names, it was Catherine's employment to watch the
proceedings of these alarming young men.
'They are not coming this way, are they? I hope they are
not so impertinent as to follow us. Pray let me know if they
are coming. I am determined I will not look up.'
In a few moments Catherine, with unaffected pleasure,
assured her that she need not be longer uneasy, as the gen-
tlemen had just left the pump-room.
'And which way are they gone?' said Isabella, turning
hastily round. 'One was a very good-looking young man.'
'They went towards the church-yard.'
'Well, I am amazingly glad I have got rid of them! And
now, what say you to going to Edgar's Buildings with me,
and looking at my new hat? You said you should like to see
it.' Catherine readily agreed.
Suddenly Isabella exclamed 'Delightful! Mr. Morland and my brother!'
'Good heaven! 'Tis James!' was uttered at the same moment by Catherine.
Catherine, by whom this meeting was wholly unexpect-
ed, received her brother with the liveliest pleasure; and he,
being of a very amiable disposition, and sincerely attached
to her, gave every proof on his side of equal satisfaction,
which he could have leisure to do, while the bright eyes of
Miss Thorpe were incessantly challenging his notice; and
to her his devoirs were speedily paid, with a mixture of joy
and embarrassment which might have informed Catherine,
had she been more expert in the development of other peo-
ple's feelings, and less simply engrossed by her own, that
her brother thought her friend quite as pretty as she could
do herself.
To be continued
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