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No screed of my devising appears.
Later I am abashed. The penguin adds much in comments.
BadTux shames me further with this stentorian Penguin snort.
What can I say?
Gad I wish I had said that even half so well.
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Chinese name: "binlang xishi"
Betel nut beauties are young women who sell betel nut from booths on the streets of Taiwan. These young women have stirred up controversy because of their racy attire. Standing in glass, neon-lined booths, the girls attempt to attract their share of the millions of Taiwanese users of the stimulant by dressing in anything from short skirts to string bikinis. Needless to say, the majority of betel nut-chewers are male.
Taiwanese politicians are continually making noise about cracking down on the girls' choices in wardrobe, citing issues of public decency and traffic safety. Thus, some girls have been charged with indecent exposure and prostitution. There are additional concerns about spitting, as betel nut is chewed without swallowing, much like tobacco. Also like tobacco, the drug is known to cause mouth cancer.
The powerful betel nut growers lobby, not to mention fans of the girls and their wares, have kept anti-betel nut advocates from getting very far. However, in 2002, officials in Taipei and the nearby county of Taoyuan succeeded in legally requiring the local betel nut girls to cover up. The girls, of course, were not happy, as this hampered their sales. Many women's rights groups have pointed out the hypocrisy of forcing the betel nut beauties to cover up while ignoring the overt sexuality of supermodels, pop stars and other (evidently more legitimate) figures, suggesting a class bias against the predominantly low-income girls.
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So yesterday was the day that I have been waiting for for months – the #EastMidsMeetUp!
I was super excited because it was my first proper blogger event. I attended the #DerbyBloggersBrunch in May, but that was more of a casual meet up than an event. The #EastMidsMeetUp was organised by Emmie from Carpe Diem Emmie, Kirsty from Kirsty Ralph, Kirstie from Behind the Scent and Lianne from The Brunette Says and took place at Manhattan 34 in Leicester. Around 40 bloggers attended and there were some awesome brands there such as Blogosphere Magazine, Angel Eyes and Danique Hairdressing.
The wonderful Charlotte from Shoestring Chic and Discovering Charlotte organised a casual pre-meet up lunch at Bru in Leicester city centre. I am so glad I tagged along to that because I was unbelievably nervous and getting to know a few bloggers before the main event was really helpful.
Bru is genuinely one of the best cafes I've ever been to. The service was incredible! Everyone was smiling and cheery, even when they had a huge queue of people to serve. From what I heard, they're like that all the time. A couple of the other bloggers mentioned that the service is always outstanding, so I'll definitely be back next time I'm in Leicester!
I can never resist a good milkshake, so I ordered a classic chocolate milkshake and a brownie. My milkshake was thick and creamy, just like a good chocolate milkshake should be. The chocolate brownie was served warm so the thick fudgy topping went all gooey and melty. Safe to say I was in chocolate paradise!
We finished our food and headed off to Manhattan 34 for the main event. On the way in we each picked a unique fact about one of the other bloggers at the event out of a bag. The ice breaker game was to match the fact to the blogger who it belonged to. My fact belonged to Izzy from A Dose Of Chatter and it turns out that one of her songs featured on Geordie Shore! How cool is that?!
The venue itself was fantastic. It had huge windows which let the gorgeous sunlight pour in. The wooden floors and exposed brick walls gave the place a rustic feel, yet the sophisticated cocktails and the décor made it modern and classy. It was the perfect venue for the meet up. The atmosphere was really chilled and casual. Everyone was stood around chatting, getting to know each other and drinking cocktails. Plus the lovely Becky Bruce performed for us all and she was incredible!
We had a couple of talks at the event. The first was from Gabby from Cool As Leicester PR and she gave us a super informative talk about the dos and don'ts of working with brands. We also had a talk from the lovely ladies behind Blogosphere Magazine. They told us about how the magazine started, the subscriptions available and the events that they're planning on organising in the future. Very exciting!
The ladies from Angel Eyes and Danique Hairdressing were on hand providing complimentary eyelash extensions and hair styling. I didn't bother myself, since I don't wear makeup and I doubt there was much they could have done with my hair anyway! However the bloggers who did choose to have a makeover looked incredible.
The event was in support of Bowel Cancer UK and Rainbows Hospice so the girls had organised a raffle to raise money for them. It must have been my lucky day because I won not one, not two, but three prizes! I know, how greedy of me! I won some stationary from Ohh Deer, a bronze subscription to Blogosphere Magazine and bowling vouchers from MFA Bowl. It's not often that I'm lucky enough to win on a raffle so to win three times was fantastic, but also a little bit embarrassing!
At the end of the event I was given two incredible goody bags absolutely bursting full of treats! There's all sorts in there including a beautiful candle, Love Hearts hand wash and a gorgeous mason jar. I've wanted a mason jar for so long so I'm thrilled that I've finally got one! In fact, I loved the goody bags so much that I wrote a goody bag reveal post all about them! If you'd like to find out more about the products then you should definitely check it out.
I met some lovely local bloggers including Leanne from Latte Leanne, Lora who vlogs literally everyday (wow!) and Becky from Geek Gets Glam. I really hope we'll all meet up again, and I'm sure we will. We're already discussing it now!
I had a fantastic time at the event and I'm so grateful to Emmie, Kirsty, Kirstie and Lianne for organising everything. Honestly I could never organise an event like that myself. I'm also really grateful to the brands who kindly provided their products for the goody bags and raffle prizes. Plus I'd like to say a big thank you to Blogosphere Magazine, Angel Eyes, Danique Hairdressing, Manhattan 34 and all of the other brands involved in the meet up.
Hopefully there will be another #EastMidsMeetUp soon!
Let me know in the comments whether you've ever been to a blogger event? Did you attend the #EastMidsMeetUp? If so, what was your favourite part of the event? Don't forget to check out my goody bag reveal post to find out more about the products I received!


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6:01 Vomit, providing melancholy narration between hurls.
6:15 Breakfast! Half a grapefruit, some Raisin Bran, and a handle of the cheapest whiskey available.
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Understanding Private Equity Funds' investment criteria is essential to achieving a win-win outcome when selling a business to these investor groups.
This is part three of a series of videos discussing the motivations of prospective buyers and the dynamics of the markets in which they operate.
We have previously discussed buyers from Buy a Job, Private Investor and Medium and Large Corporations and in this video we cover Private Equity Funds.
Did you know Private Equity Funds usually have a specific investment criteria? Understanding Private Equity Funds' investment criteria when making acquisitions is essential to achieving a win-win outcome when selling to these investor groups. We outline their criteria in this video.
Make sure to watch out for the last video in this series discussing Publicly Listed Companies and what drives their acquisitions.
Director, Tony Brown, helps a global audience of Business Owners and Investors understand the in's and out's of business sale transactions, and how to prepare themselves and their businesses for the most important transaction in their business lives; through TonyBrown.net.
The video can be viewed here: https://tonybrown.net/who-will-buy-your-business-private-equity-funds/
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How many children, youth, and families do you serve?
What are the reasons children and families need help?
Children are removed from their homes frequently due to:
- physical, emotional, or sexual abuse
- neglect or abandonment
- marital discord which has become debilitating to the family
- serious illness or death of parent(s) or caregiver
- emotional or behavioral disturbances in child or parent
- delinquent behaviors
- alcohol or drug abuse by adult caregivers
Who is eligible to receive help?
What are the ages of the children and youth in your programs?
How is The Children's Home funded?
- gifts from individuals, organizations, and foundations;
- interest income from our endowment;
- payments from counties for children and youth placed with us; and
- contributions from churches.
Our church support comes largely from one Sunday in September when United Methodist churches across North Georgia collect The Amazing Grace Offering for our ministry – The Children's Home is not in the budget of the North Georgia Conference.
If you are interested in making a donation to The Children's Home, click here.
What percentage of your budget is spent on the children and families you serve?
Who owns/operates the United Methodist Children's Home?
What are some of the needs of The Children's Home?
Who is The Children's Home certified by?
Do you have an alumni organization?
Can my group come tour the campus?
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Zentrys provides assistance in mission critical infrastructures. We are capable in managing the mission critical lifecycle from end-to-end. Mission critical infrastructures require a unique approach compared to others. Small failures lead to events that could cost billjons. To increase the efficiency of data centers and decrease the number of failures, Zentrys invests in data center research, tools and people.
Zentrys designs, develops, manages and improves new and existing mission critical infrastructures, of which many data centers, for a broad range of customers. Besides mission critical management our track record contains many designs, greenfield developments (fully new built data centers) and brownfield developments (redevelopment of existing warehouses or data centers). Therefore we could also advise clients on all kind of relevant issues.
Zentrys combines technical, real estate, IT/networking, legal (permitting) and security-skills within one team. This integral approach enables us to cover the entire lifecycle of a data center and finally come to a more reliable product with a shorter time to market compared to other companies. This is a unique approach in a market where most parties don't have all the skills in house.


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In previous posts we have covered many examples of alleged an actual instances of attorney malpractice in New Jersey. Sometimes the underlying causes of the malpractice may seem obvious; at other times, it may be harder to discern. This post addresses the standard by which courts decide whether an attorney's behavior meets the threshold to qualify as legal malpractice.
Is your attorney ripping you off?
When you hire an attorney in New Jersey, you likely expect them to "work for their money." After all, you are likely paying thousands of dollars for their advice, expertise and representation. You want to ensure they are using the hours they are charging you for effectively in an effort to win the case for you. Of course, this is not always easy to gauge.
What you should know about legal malpractice
When you experience a traumatic event, such as a serious work injury or divorce, you go to an attorney with all of your faith and trust. Like doctors, attorneys are supposed to be the right hand person of their clients and have their best interest at heart, working hard to get them the best results after their case has settled. You expect your lawyer to stick to his or her own professional standards. Unfortunately, that does not always happen, and legal malpractice in New Jersey is more common than you think.
When settling a case constitutes legal malpractice
All attorneys in the state of New Jersey must follow the Rules of Professional Conduct. Failure to do so can be grounds for legal malpractice. One common basis for a legal malpractice claim is that an attorney accepted a settlement offer without the client's consent.
New Jersey attorney sanctioned for frivolous lawsuit
On many occasions when we hear of attorneys running into trouble with the courts, the heart of the matter has to do with a problem between the attorney and the client, such as a dispute involving client funds or the failure to meet a court-established deadline to the client's detriment. But sometimes an attorney can get too emotionally close to the subject matter of a case, and this can cloud his or her judgment. When this happens, it is possible for such an attorney to cross the line when it comes to professional ethics.


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None other than Rob Verlinden, well-known Dutch tv-gardener, recently helped garden centre Groenrijk Hans Menken in The Netherlands to celebrate its 25th anniversary. During his show Rob wowed the audience by creating and giving away combination planters using Cool Wave Pansies.
Rob has tried Cool Wave for himself and is very enthusiastic about how large Cool Wave plants grow, spread and hang and how full of flowers each plant becomes so that the result is that when you combine 3 plants in a hanging basket what you get is a ball of beautiful smelling pansies. Cool Wave Pansies can spread up to 75 cm per plant and produce a mass of large scented flowers.
During the demonstration, Rob combined yellow and white Cool Wave plants in mixed combinations and also worked with a fantastic new colour: Blueberry Swirl, which is a soft lemon coloured flower and holds a blue cap to every flower.
Cool Wave Pansies are now freely available, request details from your local garden centre or visit the store locator to find your local retailer. For easy care tips see the 'how-to' sections of the Wave website or take a look at our Facebook pages.
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The hottest ticket in town last night was, without doubt, the launch party for Acne's brand new London launch. The fashion crowd flocked to Mayfair to check out the four-floor Mayfair townhouse and all it had to offer, and there were some familiar faces amongst the crowd too.
There was quite a model contingent on hand. Daisy Lowe arrived with friend Jaime Winstone, wearing an Acne leather jacket and shoes respectively. Model/designer Ben Grimes was decked out head to toe in the brand, as well as Anouck Lepere. But it was male model David Gandy who set the most eyelashes fluttering.
We also spotted Henry Holland, an extravagantly dressed Daphne Guinness and Julia Restoin Roitfeld. But the best-dressed award surely goes to the long-suffering (and slightly humiliated) waiters who sported towering helmets made from fresh flowers that apparently weighed a ton. Click here to see their look.


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Damn we miss you, Bill
My friend bought the new Bill Hicks DVD and we were watching it at her house tonight. Bill did a bit where he accused all the world of having our priorities out of whack, as we allowed John Lennon to die, but not Milli Vanilli. Where Bobby Kennedy, John Kennedy, MLK were all murdered and Reagan was only wounded. Great joke and all too true considering how short his life was.
As of late, it's hard not to miss Bill Hicks, and many people in Austin are prone to missing him out loud. It's turned into quite the cliche to shake your head and say, "I can only imagine what Bill Hicks would make of this." He railed against the war machine, against the fundamentalist Christians, against the deliberately ignorant and he made it seem so much like common sense and funny to boot. I forgot some of his great bits, like how he imagines the Jesus of the fundies coming back with an Uzi, just mowing down people Rambo-style. Or how he almost pleads with people to understand that sex and drugs are not the enemy, but just a made up enemy to distract us from the enemy within of loneliness and despair.
He loathed George Bush and always portrayed him in his act as a soul-less monster who mouthed Christian platitudes while brainlessly ordering the deaths of thousands. One can only imagine what he would make of the Son of Bush.
Since Hicks has died, a whole crop of edgy young politically minded performers have filled the gulf--Janeane Garofalo, David Cross, Chris Rock, you know the score. All are very funny, but none of them is as willing to hang the idealistic heart out on a sleeve to show exactly where the anger and frustration comes from like Hicks was. He does a joke making fun of the anti-drug hysteria and the commercial with the egg in the frying pan. And he begins to rant about all the things he's seen on drugs that are not an egg turning into a brain, which is sort of a silly joke but it works in this case. And he starts to talk about hallucinating that he sees a spaceship and the aliens take him aboard and tell him that we are all one and death is just an illusion. And pause....and then he says, but no, never that an egg was a brain.
He could start off with a crude but funny joke about porn or oral sex and then turn it into a plea for people to embrace life for all its worth and especially the human connection you get in sex and end with an angry but hysterical slap at how marketers exploit sex to sell things. It's a revelation--how many people ever consider that using a sexy model to sell a stupid product is more exploitative than to have the same model sell her image more honestly as pornography? Porn is upfront about what it is--it's selling a fantasy, no more no less. Most ads sell you on a fantasy and simply give you a product you didn't really want to begin with. It will cause you to stop and consider--are we really just afraid of having our desires reflected back to us without the veneer of lies and excuses?
Now more than ever these questions need to be asked and sadly, we may not be up to the task like he was. But we have to strive. How the fuck is it, really, that we are in a such a sad sack state of the country that people are more up in arms about their kids seeing housewives having sex on "Desperate Housewives" rather than getting sent over to Iraq to die for reasons we still don't understand? What's wrong with people that they are more worried about women having sex without "consequences" than they are about children getting blown to bits for lies? I know these questions get asked all the time, but it becomes this mindless drill of the same questions over and over and over. But watching Hicks unleash the anger and humor over these very same questions on stage over ten years ago brings them fresh to mind.
And it brings up another, even more disturbing question. How is it that in all this time things have just gotten worse?


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Queen + Adam Lambert (the active members of the legendary British band Brian May and Roger Taylor together with American vocalist Adam Lambert) have just announced a handful of North American and European dates for this year. The band will perform in Žalgirio Arena, Kaunas, on November 17th, 2017.
This is the first long-term collaboration of Queen since the Queen + Paul Rodgers project ended in 2009.
Queen and Lambert first performed together in 2009 when Queen members Brian May and Roger Taylor appeared as guests on American Idol on which Lambert was a contestant. Soon after the show (which Lambert didn't win), May indicated to Rolling Stone that he was considering Lambert as a front man for Queen.
In November 2011, Lambert joined Queen for a performance at the MTV Europe Awards in Belfast where Queen received a Global Icon Award. Soon after that, Queen + Adam Lambert played their first full concert at Kiev's Independence Square for a joint show with Elton John.
Queen, one of the most popular, ambitious and beloved classic rock bands ever, formed in London in 1970. Their classic line-up was Freddie Mercury, Brian May, Roger Taylor, and John Deacon. Mercury, the lead vocalist and principal songwriter, died from AIDS in 1991.
The show in Kaunas will be the only one in the Baltic States - the band hasn't announced any concerts in Scandinavia, too. This means you should book the concert tickets (on sale from April 21st - follow the link!), flights and a hotel as soon as possible.


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We have been investigating the origins of Autism Spectrum Disorders (ASD), by conducting visual, physiological, genetic and behavioral studies in infants who are at risk for ASD and individuals with ASD.
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1) Sleep Patterns in High-Risk Infants. High-Risk infants are those with an older sibling diagnosed with ASD, which puts them at an elevated risk of developing ASD (~19%) because there is a genetic component to ASD. We track development in these infants with the hope of finding early markers for developing the disorder. In collaboration with Liz Harrison, Ph.D., and Gena Glickman, Ph.D., we are currently funded by the DOD to study sleep and hormonal (melatonin/cortisol) patterns in these infants.
2) Face and Emotional Processing in Individuals with ASD and Typical Individuals with ASD Characteristics. We study visual and emotional processing in individuals with ASD, as well as in the typical population because even "typical" individuals vary in the degree to which they experience ASD-like characteristics (i.e., "everyone is on the spectrum!"). We are currently studying empathy and the ability to discriminate different facial expressions of emotion.


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Real Madrid target Eden Hazard models new Chelsea kit -- will he be wearing it next season?
Chelsea have unveiled their new home kit for the 2019-20 season, and, in the most polite phrasing possible, it's likely to split opinion.
It's blue -- no major surprise there -- but it's also covered in a motif reminiscent of that which you'd see on the seats of the London bus than runs past Stamford Bridge.
Eden Hazard has been charged with modelling the new shirt -- along with teammates Cesar Azpilicueta and Ethan Ampadu -- though there's a strong chance it might be enough to finally convince him to make the leap to Real Madrid.
According to the official blurb, the abstract pattern is actually made up of various images of the Stamford Bridge architecture, which have all been mashed up and knitted together.
Chelsea will debut the new strip for the first time on May 5 during the club's final league home game of the season against Watford.
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Enterprise, Utah Offers Much for Outdoor Lovers
There are many good reasons for us outdoor types to visit the community of Enterprise, 37 miles north of St. George. For one thing, there are Upper and Lower Enterprise reservoirs. Last time I was at Lower, a friend and I caught some two dozen 12-14 inch rainbow trout. And I've seen bigger ones taken in both lakes.
Upper Enterprise has smallmouth bass as well as trout. In my experience, the angler should do well on both lakes as soon as the ice breaks open in April. My best bets: a no. 3 Mepps spinner and/or a size 6-8 black woolly bugger streamer. I like to locate the fish with spinner, then go to the fly. Weight it with a split shot at eye of the hook and again 12 inches up the leader.
A boat would be an advantage on these waters but so far I've found fast fishing on Lower from the south bank. Keep moving around because these fish seem to school up. The reason for that is probably due to minnows gathering in back bays and coves. There is a stream (Pine Creek) flowing from the lower lake but it does not hold water year around; any fish would be washed down and not resident.
The upper lake has a wonderful campground (Honeycomb) although not many units. You would likely have to get there at mid-day (checkout time) on weekends and holidays. Kids love to climb those rocks at this campground and it's a good place for them to play hide and seek.
Dixie has many bass waters but I have not found them particularly productive until at least middle of May. Then, Sand Hollow can be fast fishing with jigs. This is a strange lake in that the largemouths do not hang around surface structure. I've seen many taken in open water on the east and south sides. Best for trout in this region following spring thaw are besides the two Enterprise lakes are Kolob (north of Virgin northwest of Zion National Park), plus Upper Sandcove and Newcastle. Note: Lower Sandcove does not hold trout. Quail Creek Lake is good for trout until summer heat.
But back to the Enterprise community. It is in the heart of superb mule deer country. Troy Truman's taxidermy shop displays some of the local trophies taken every year. You can also view many trophy mounts in Lee Bracken's General Store east end of town. But my favorite memory of Enterprise was looking at a two-point buck prancing down Main Street. During the archery deer season. One woman told us she was not surprised. "They get in my garden about every night."
One day a conservation officer in the area pointed to cliffs and ledges north of town where he has seen bobcats. He also told me of a golden eagle which attacked a young coyote that the bird could not quite subdue. "It was an interesting wildlife show," he said. "The eagle was too ambitious for its own good but then he lost nothing by trying."
In any event, it was just one more indication of the reason to spend some time in and around Enterprise. I've also seen bald eagles in the general area on north toward Beryl Junction, and westward toward Hebron. Latter was the original settlement in the vicinity but flooding and an earthquake moved settlement where it is today. According to Utah Place Names, Hebron was settled in 1868 with a fort but was later demolished by the 1906 San Francisco earthquake but no damage was done to Enterprise. ( I don't know of any impact on other Utah communities but that's what it says in Utah Place Names.) Enterprise was just meant to be where it now is.
I have noted over the years that Enterprise is a community of pride. It is clean and exudes energy …all reason enough to deserve the name it has. The town has also a major share of winning high school sports programs. Whenever I've checked, the Wolves usually excel in both boys and girls competition.
Access to the two reservoirs has been via the road north of Gunlock, (from bottom of the hairpin turn) as marked; but flooding sometimes knocks the road out, so many have taken to going via SR 18 to past Central to Enterprise itself.


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The heart of Appalachia's coal country might not be the first place you'd expect to see cutting edge public health initiatives -- it's one of the least healthy regions in America. But a group of residents is determined to change that. In Williamson, West Virginia, neighbors are coming together to promote healthy living through an exciting new community fitness program: the Lunch Walk Challenge.
In an effort to encourage each other and get fit, Williamson residents committed to walking 10,000 steps (about five miles) a day. They quickly connected with residents in Marin City, California, who launched their own Lunch Walk program. Now the two communities are logging miles, competing, and supporting each other as they virtually "walk" to each other's cities.
Williamson's Lunch Walk program sprung out of work Green For All Fellow Eric Mathis was doing in collaboration with local leaders, through Sustainable Williamson, to create economic diversification and community health in the coalfields of central Appalachia.
Mathis was concerned about the growing illness in his community, and across America -- much of it caused by obesity. Our health care system, he observed, is set up largely to treat illness once it's developed, rather than focusing on preventative measures. Encouraging neighbors to walk together and get in shape offers a way to stave off future health problems like diabetes and heart disease. And it is a powerful chance to build healthier, happier communities.
Mathis joined forces with Green For All Fellow Selim Sandoval in Marin City, California, to take the program across the country. They hope their efforts will serve as a model for communities all across America.
On April 24, we're calling on folks around the country to join the National Lunch Walk Challenge--a simple, fun, collaborative effort to get fit. Our Green For All Fellows -- many of whom already work on health issues like food justice -- will be helping by organizing lunch walks in their hometowns.
You can join the effort, too. It's easy to organize a Lunch Walk in your town -- just use the Lunch Walk Challenge Tool Kit. Click HERE to find out more.


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Print on Demand Services
One of the most common questions I've received since starting to teach my self-publishing and e-publishing seminars is how to choose a print on demand service.
What is POD?
First, print on demand or POD is a computerized system whereby a customer places and order for one or more books electronically, and a computerized system prints them on an as-needed basis.
Many of the firms also offer direct fulfillment which means that you never see or touch the book that was ordered – it's all done for you, for a price of course, and you get to keep whatever is left over. J
POD is an excellent place for new authors to offer their books to clients, agents, publishers, and reviewers, without having to inventory a large quantity of books and bear the costs of that inventory.
Some specifics
POD is now done mostly high quality laser printing, but it was originally done with high speed ink-jet printers with a pretty marginal quality.
To make sure you're going to get a quality print job, ASK if they're using a laser or dry ink toner process, if they're not, do NOT use them – your books will look horrible!
POD's sole advantage is that you can print in lower quantities, which is the where the name "print on demand" comes from because you can basically print as many or as few as you need at any time.
Traditional printing is either electronic or offset printing and while these types of printing are far cheaper per unit and generally look more professional, you have to print at least 100 or more books to even consider using the processes.
The general rule of thumb I've found when asking around for prices is that if you can sell around 100-150 books, then you can probably at least break even by doing offset or electronic printing. Otherwise, consider POD.
As mentioned above, POD services are usually a satellite service that you're going to offer so that your customers can order the book and have it shipped by a another company for you.
I want to emphasize that if you plan to get your orders fulfilled through another company and what I mean by this is that you plan to send your customers to another site for orders instead of having a stock at home, take the time to try ordering through that company yourself.
The reason is that you should know what kind of experience your readers will have when they buy a book from you. If you're putting your readers through a bad experience, it will reflect poorly on YOU.
Buying one book from a POD you're seriously considering will only cost you $10-20, and will save you a lot of possible headaches in the future.
Before I get into specific POD services, here is an intimidating list of POD services I found: www.bookmarket.com/ondemand.htm
It's such a long list, that it's difficult to know where to start. But by quickly looking at each company's specs and comparing them to your needs, many of these companies can be quickly eliminated.
Here is a couple that I researched in my role as book shepherding expert for my clients.
Ka-Blam www.ka-blam.com
Ka-Blam is a POD service that specifically caters to comics. In principle, this has the nice advantage that you don't have to order a big stock of books, because you can send your customers directly to them instead (more on this in a minute).
Another advantage with Ka-Blam is that they have no setup fee. You just pay a flat fee per book, and their price was reasonable at $13.60 for a 92 page, full-color book.
Lulu www.lulu.com
Lulu is probably the biggest and best known of all the POD services and they do a lot of business with a lot of different types of products, from traditional books to calendars to CDs.
My main turnoff for Lulu was the price which is $18.33 for a full-color book, making too expensive for a $19 book, and that's not even taking into account shipping fees.
The reviews all state that users were happy with their experience, the quality of the product, and the speed of delivery.
360 Digital Books http://360digitalbooks.com/index.html
360 Digital Books has great personal service. They have regional service representatives that you can talk to over the phone.
They offer a WIDE variety of paper choices for both interior and cover and well as different cover finishes (plain, matte or gloss, with professional materials that don't warp).
This way you can find the perfect price range as well as a paper stock that best compliments your artwork. They also offer order fulfillment.
The drawback is that you must order at least 25 books and they also have a $30 minimum setup fee for the first order. For an additional price, they offer printed proofs, which is a nice service that many POD services don't offer.
The bottom line
The bottom line with POD is that it was NOT intended for the mass market but was created as a quick and relatively inexpensive way for the world to get single copies of hard to find or out of print books.
If you plan on using it, be prepared for the cost and quality tradeoffs associated with the process.
This is not a negative comment, simply a reality about what POD is, how it works, and what it'll cost you.


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I am sure the cruise will be repriced just as mine was. I dont even know what made me think of looking at the individual costings for each cruise...probably just had nothing else to do one night. In round figures mine came to approx $10,000 less! Now that is huge in anybodys language! Also can tell you that Eric even managed to better it by a hell of a lot more.
Back to backs over (I think) 26 days? are called Grand cruises.
All our cruises have been lots of back to backs. We have never had to do the customs thing after the first time.
Only on one cruise did we have to change suites. We had done the 72 days South American navigation, and then added a Trans Atlantic at a later date, so couldnt keep the same suite. If you want, the crew will move all your belongings for you and put them back in the same places in your new suite. We decided to just do the move ourselves. On embarkation day the crew are so busy, and we were in Fort Lauderdale, and didnt want to go onshore....so was easier for us to do it ourselves.
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By Todd Spangler
Source: Variety
Conan O'Brien's late-night show on TBS may evolve into a primarily digitally distributed show, Turner president David Levy said at the Variety Entertainment Summit at CES.
The TV landscape is changing, and "Conan" could remain on television weeknights, or air on TV once a week with episodes going on digital platforms the rest of the week, Levy said.
"The definition of a television network in 10 years, what's that going to mean? Premium video content is what's really important to Turner," said Levy, who was interviewed by Variety Co-Editor-in-Chief Andrew Wallenstein. What's less important is how and where the audience watches it, according to Levy.


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Sustainable School Furniture
This section plays host to our entire range of Sustainable School Furniture. All items within this section are suitable for schools and colleges. With ethical, sustainable sourcing a major concern for every earth conscious organisation and individual, we are proud to offer sustainable furniture that fits this bill for your school, college or work place. Our school furniture, including our school benches are made of either sustainably sourced timber or 100% UK Recycled Plastic.


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A second important public meeting regarding the future of Gateshead Thunder will be held at The Elephant on the Tyne on Tuesday at 7.30pm.
Supporters group Thunder Storm are currently providing funds on a short-term basis to help the club overcome their financial problems.
And, with confusion reigning over the introduction of a new five-figure sponsorship deal, a new Supporters Trust is to be launched.
"We now have a better idea about the sort of financial input needed from the fans," said spokesman Derek Marshall.
"We really believe this is attainable and are confident the club can progress, but it's vital all fans attend Tuesday's meeting."
RFL representative Gary Tasker again visited the North East this week for talks with Gateshead Council, Thunder's emergency management committee and the club's players.
All were productive and hopes are high that Gateshead Thunder, away to Chorley Lynx in the Arriva Trains Cup today, will be able to fulfil its commitments this year.
"The talks were very positive," said Gateshead Council official David Bunce.
"There's now every chance the club can find a way forward."
Rumours of a possible name change from Gateshead Thunder next year however received a less favourable response.
"The council is backing Thunder's survival fight and we will assist in every way possible apart from financially," added Bunce.
"But losing the Gateshead Thunder tag would be akin to the Post Office changing their familiar identity to Consignia."
Coach Paul Fletcher, meanwhile has withdrawn his threat to quit the club following the back-to-back hammerings against Salford City Reds.


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Driving School – Why Should You Learn and How It May Help You
Nowadays, driving has become a component life. Students getting to the age of 15 are getting themselves admitted to the driving school to hone their abilities and also drive their own independent car. Nonetheless, before hitting the roads one has to be a driving permit as well as a level of maturation to take care of the website traffic as well as unfavorable scenarios when driving.
Why has driving become so essential?
Learning how to drive has ended up being crucial for the hectic timetable we need to go through every day. It is nearly impossible to take a public vehicle and also go to as well as fro for job. Family members favor to use their personal car instead of waiting in the queue as well as obtaining late for the regular timetable. As soon as you have drunk the skill of driving, you are cost-free to being in your automobile and also off to your work check outs.
Exactly how has driving encapsulated our lives?
If you do not have driving abilities, you will need to constantly depend upon someone who is a professional in this field. Whether you are off to work, or visiting a pal's home, going for a date, off to holiday, or grabbing kids from institution, the very first thought that will cross your mind is taking the auto. Regardless of just how much range you travel, you will constantly seek a smooth, risk-free as well as practical ride. This can be just achieved if you have the ability to drive the transportation and reach your destination place.
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Discover a credible driving school
In order to learn the expert driving ability, you need to obtain assist from the driving teachers. There are numerous institutions opened up in the city, that are providing expert driving lessons to all so that they do not have to depend on any individual. The motoring college ensures the newbies to have a safe and secure driving experience, educated by the skilled teachers. The diving license obtained at the end of the training aids the people to drive their own lorry.
For them that sees this as a career
Driving is taken into consideration as a serious occupation. Some make their everyday resources via their driving skills. The transport on the road would certainly have stopped working if there were not enough proficient vehicle drivers. Henceforth, there are some colleges that schedule totally free driving lessons to the one that can not pay for the charges. They not only master this art however also assist him to live independently.


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Since 1991, Cassandra's approach to storytelling, Stories in Motion, has taken her around the globe from the heart of the rainforest to the roof of the world, to work in temples and train stations, forests and festivals, in and out of theatres, festivals and schools, on land and at sea.
Inspired by Asian interweaving of art forms, she combines elements of circus, theatre and dance to create a style of storytelling that is truly her own.
As a solo artist she has toured nationally and internationally, including: Australia, Barbados, Hong Kong, Laos, Malaysia, Nepal, Singapore, Switzerland, South Korea, Thailand, Taiwan and Vietnam.
As teacher and trainer, she has inspired children and adults to tell stories around the world. As a director she has: trained teenage apprentice storytellers, devised performances with casts of ninety children, directed solo and ensemble professional performances.
Above all as an artist she is committed to making storytelling as accessible as possible, to break down barriers and challenge discrimination. She has worked with disabled people, arts, health and environmental agencies, social services and children in care.
Cassandra Wye International Storyteller - Stories in motion


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Wednesday, April 13, 2011
Announcing a New Jotwell Section: Courts Law
Today the new Courts Law section of Jotwell is officially up and running. For those of you who are unfamiliar with Jotwell, here's a quick summary:
Jotwell, the Journal of Things We Like (Lots), is intended to provide a space where legal scholars can go to identify and celebrate the latest work of their colleagues. The goal is to help Jotwell's readers locate interesting developments both inside and outside of their particular areas of interest and to encourage positive reviews and discussion of legal scholarship.
The first contribution for the Courts Law section is Evidence Meets Civil Procedure by Howard Wasserman (Florida International). Howard's essay discusses the recent article by Michael Pardo (Alabama), Pleadings, Proof, and Judgment: A Unified Theory of Civil Litigation, 51 B.C. L. Rev. 1451 (2010). Watch for contributions in the coming months from the roster of Courts Law editors, after the jump:
Section Editors
Contributing Editors
- Sergio J. Campos
- Brooke D. Coleman
- Lee Epstein
- Lonny Hoffman
- Suzette M. Malveaux
- James E. Pfander
- Suzanna Sherry
- Suja A. Thomas
- Jay Tidmarsh
- Steve Vladeck
- Kevin C. Walsh


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Does your life revolve around kids' basketball games and cheer practice? We've got the home for you! And if you have OU in mind for their college destination, you won't even have to redecorate. Amenities of this backyard of this spacious new listing in Prosper include an outdoor basketball court bedecked in University of Oklahoma's colors and logo, a permanent tumbling track, a trampoline set in-ground, and a fabulous pool to cool off in after the game or workout is done.
Set on a one-acre lot backing up to private lake, the 5,598-square-foot, two-story, five-bedroom, six-bath home at 951 Woodview Drive is set in the Whispering Farms neighborhood of Prosper. Once the central railroad stop between Dallas and Sherman, Prosper is an affluent suburb located 35 miles north of downtown Dallas and 55 miles from Fort Worth. From this small town, it's a quick jaunt to Frisco to the west, McKinney to the east.
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My Very First Post!
I am not exactly sure where to start and what to write. Since today is 1/1/2016, so Happy New Year to all of you! My goal is to write something once a week. Since the title of this blog is "Nepali Dream Network," the issues and topics that will be covered in this blog would […]Read more "My Very First Post!"


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From the 1947 Chrysler Corporation book, Secret.* * *FORWARDIN the tremendous endeavor which produced the atom bomb, and thus brought World War II to a sudden close, Chrysler Corporation had an important part.This is a simple narrative of what was done to give man his first control over the energy locked in the atom.The presence of this new force at man's command, and the stark terror that imagination gives to atomic weapons carried to their still distant ultimate development, has stirred anew the determination of good men to create at long last in the world a state of permanent peace.Peace never has been made by outlawing a given weapon. History shows new wars beginning where old ones left off. To keep peace men must honestly recognize and eliminate the things they do and that nations do which culminate in bloodshed. Perhaps the dire possibilities of atom power will some day bring men to this point.Meantime science and industry will be working on ways to employ the atom's energy for men's benefit, ways that might even in time utterly overshadow the first destructive application.K. T. KELLER President, Chrysler Corporation* The text of this book has been reviewed and permission for its publication has been given by the U. S. Army, Corps of Engineers, for the War Department.* * *The war ended, in effect, in the New Mexican desert at dawn of July 16, 1945, when the first atomic bomb was set off experimentally. What followed at Hiroshima on August 6th, and at Nagasaki three days later, was, like the formal Japanese surrender in another five days, predestined four weeks earlier at Alamogordo.Chrysler Corporation was a major industrial contributor to the atomic bomb itself, as well as the largest source of the engines which powered the B-29 Superfortresses which dropped the bombs.The bomb first was proposed to Chrysler in the spring of 1943. The top war secret of all, it was known within the Corporation only as X-100 and all knowledge of its nature and purpose limited to a few key men.What may come of atomic fission, for good or for evil, is enough to stagger any imagination, but the atomic bomb itself is no awesome mystery. Its how and why can be understood by any one who doesn't shut his ears and mind.If you think of the tapping of atomic energy as a detective story, the first meager clues were found about fifty years ago when a German, William Roentgen, discovered the X-ray and a Frenchman, Antoine Becquerel, discovered what we call radioactivity when he found uranium salts had developed a photographic plate iii the dark.From this point, Pierre and Marie Curie, pupils of Becquerel, went on to discover radium, the first known radioactive element and always present in uranium.
How to account for radioactivity, this giving off of faint charged particles? Science deduced that this energy could be nothing less than a breaking down of the element, a conception which stood the science of physics on its head; for all the elements in Nature, her basic building blocks, had been thought to be unchanging and unchangeable.As radium dissipates its energy, it eventually turns into lead, but this natural decay is very, very slow. Dangerous to human flesh and bone as exposure to radium is, a gram of it would be one hundred years in giving off enough heat to boil a small cup of water. So no one then dreamed of trying to harness mechanically such a feeble force.What is an atom? Everything is made up of invisibly small particles. We call these particles atoms from the Greek root meaning "uncuttable," and when many of us were in school we still were taught that the atom is the least particle existing in Nature; that it was indivisible.Yet as early as 1900, Sir J. J. Thompson, the British physicist, had identified the electron, a minute particle of the atom. By 1918 his pupil, Lord Rutherford, had chipped a fragment from an atom and discovered the proton, another particle. And in 1932 Sir James Chadwick discovered a third particle which he called a neutron.Rutherford had reasoned on circumstantial evidence that the atom must consist of a number of negatively charged electrons flying around a central charged body, the nucleus or core. Now we know that this is true, and we know much more.This tiny core is only one five-thousandth part of the atom in size, though it is so dense that it contains nearly all the atom's weight. The rest is empty space enclosed by a cloud of electrons which move around the nucleus much as the earth and the other planets move around our sun.The positively charged nucleus and the negative electrons attract each other, but the electrons are held out in their orbits by the centrifugal force of their great speed, something as the earth is held away from the strong pull of the sun.The nucleus itself is made up of two kinds of smaller particles, as many as 200 of them, tightly locked together. Some are Rutherford's positively charged protons, others are Chadwick's neutrons, which are neither positive nor negative.Imprisoned in each of these cells is a force many thousand times more powerful than the pull of gravity, a force that seems to be the ultimate source of all life and energy.Though atoms are made up of the same three parts—protons, neutrons and electrons—each of the 96 known elements (four new ones have been found or created since 1938) has its own atom. It is the proportion of protons which makes one element differ from another. That is to say, except that both are heavy, gold and mercury are as unalike as night and day, yet the difference between them is one proton only.If you could knock off one of the 80 protons which play on the mercury team you would have an atom of gold. Or if you could chip off one proton from the eight in an atom of oxygen you would have an atom of nitrogen.For each proton in the core there is one electron in the cloud flying around the core, for plus and minus must balance in the atom. In other words, hydrogen, lightest of known elements, has one proton in its nucleus and only one electron planet while uranium, heaviest element known until recently, has 92 protons and 92 planet electrons flying around its core.
No one has ever seen an atom, let alone a proton, a neutron or an electron. This is far beyond the power of the strongest existing microscope. And if Science often has been wrong in the past, why should we believe what it now says about something no one can see, feel, taste or smell?Well, no Japanese person is in a doubting mood. The atomic bomb should be its own proof to a layman, for it began with deductions no one could prove by any of the senses. Acting on these theoretical assumptions, Science put the bomb together, prevented it from exploding in the process, exploded it at the desired moment, got exactly the result it had foreseen.Science doesn't pretend to know all about the atom as yet. In fact, only lately it has identified still further and smaller atomic sub-particles it is calling positrons, mesotrons and neutrinos. But there could have been no bomb if these major assumptions had not been true.The first of these was reasoned out in 1905 by Albert Einstein, whose name is likely to be as famous to our descendants as that of Galileo and Newton. In the same year that Rutherford first foresaw the structure of the atom, Einstein announced his conclusion that mass and energy are different forms of the same thing.It has been said that no more than ten minds in the world can grasp some of the Einstein theorems, but this is not one such. He was saying that all matter in the universe is locked-up energy and that all energy (which includes light and heat) is unlocked or dissipated matter.As all matter is made up of atoms, this energy is frozen in the atom. How he thought this through is beyond understanding by all but a few, but the conclusion is reasonably simple.
Einstein knew no way of unlocking this energy, but by his prophetic calculation of more than forty years ago, if 2.2 pounds (1 kilogram) of any matter could be converted into energy by the breaking down of its atoms, it would produce unbelievable power, as much as all the electrical generating capacity of the United States for two months.A lifetime's fuel for an automobile could be carried in a fountain pen. A cup of water could drive a liner across the Atlantic and back.This seemed to have about as much practical value as the medieval speculation as to how many angels could stand on the head of a pin until, in 1919, Lord Rutherford announced that it should be possible artificially to cause small leaks of energy from stable elements by bombarding them with the particles thrown off by radium in its course of slow natural decomposition into lead.Which means that Rutherford was predicting that man could tap the energy locked-up in the atom, though only in infinitesimally small amounts.By 1934, the Curies' daughter, Irene, and her husband, Frederique Joliot, had followed the Rutherford trail to the point where they had made stable elements radioactive, giving off particles and radiation like radium.Now the story moves down to the University of Rome where Dr. Enrico Fermi shortly got a more exciting result by bombarding a speck of uranium with Chadwick's newly identified neutrons, and by first slowing these neutrons down.To understand what he did, let's go back to 1919 and Rutherford, first man to chip a fragment off an atom. His great difficulty and the great difficulty of all physicists down to Fermi, was to score a direct hit.He found that he had to shoot a million subatomic particles from radium to get one bull's-eye. As late as 1934, Dr. Einstein complained that it was like "trying to shoot birds in the dark in a country where there were not many birds in the sky." The odds seemed so long that Einstein then wondered if man ever should succeed in releasing atomic energy in useful amounts.
Rutherford got his first hint of the atom's structure when he fired radium rays through a thin sheet of mica. They should have passed through this flimsy barrier like a battleship's shell through a canvas sail, yet he found their direction was changed slightly.They must be striking something strong enough to deflect them. Later, one of his assistants repeated the experiment with a thin sheet of gold—which should have been just as easy as mica for an atomic particle—and the rays were bent even more.Recognizing this as an important clue to some mystery, Rutherford asked his assistant to repeat the experiment with great care, and this time some of the radium particles bounced back without penetrating the gold film. They had been thrown for a loss."It was quite the most incredible event that had ever happened to me," he said many years later. "On consideration, I realized that it must be the result of a single concussion, and when I had made the calculations I saw that this was impossible unless you assumed that the greater part of the mass of the atom was concentrated in a minute nucleus."When the Rutherford conjecture was followed through, Science found that the cloud of electrons moving about an atom's core protects the core from atomic projectiles much as sand bags shelter a soldier from bullets. This may be Nature's way of insuring that the universe is not blown up by cosmic rays, those atomic particles from other worlds which come hurtling through space with such terrific speed that they usually drive through our atmosphere and deep into the earth.From 1919 down to Fermi's discovery, Science was building bigger and bigger atom-smashing machines to bombard atoms with streams of protons or other positively-charged particles with ever greater speed. This was thought to be necessary because the positively-charged particle had to batter its way into the atom's core.But by using the neutral particle, the neutron, as a bullet and by first slowing it down by passing it through hydrogen, Fermi scored a direct hit every time on the core of the atom.Fermi was not looking for the atomic bomb, nor were any of the other many experimenters. He was hoping to create from uranium one or two elements heavier than uranium and unknown in Nature, and he did get one such, an atom of 93 protons in its nucleus, one more than the protons in an uranium nucleus.All over the world scientists now went to work with slowed-down neutrons. In Berlin, Prof. Otto Hahn, head of the great Kaiser Wilhelm Institute, assigned Dr. Lise Meitner to this research. The Nazis were in power and Dr. Meitner had Jewish blood, but Hahn managed to protect her until the end of 1938, when she was forced to flee to Stockholm, her work unfinished. Hahn and Dr. F. Strassman took over her data and continued her research.Hahn quickly identified barium in the result which followed the bombardment of a speck of uranium with slowed-down neutrons. This was the all-important basic clue to the atomic bomb, but as barium is not even distantly related to uranium, Hahn was not too sure but what barium had been present all along in the uranium as an impurity. He published his findings in a German journal in January of 1939, seeing to it that a copy went to Dr. Meitner in Sweden.
Until now the most powerful atom-smashing machine had done no more than knock a few particles off an atom, with a slow, tiny leak of energy, far less energy than that which went into the machine.But satisfied that no barium had been present in the uranium, Dr. Meitner reasoned that an atom of uranium actually must have been split roughly in half. And if one of the halves was barium, the other should be krypton because uranium has 92 protons, barium has 56 and krypton has 36; subtract 56 from 92 and you have 36.This was sensational enough, but if an atom had been split in this manner, then, by the Einstein theorem, a great burst of energy should have been released—by rough estimate, about 200 million electron volts.The electron volt is a new yardstick, meaning the amount of force needed to move one electron through a potential difference of one volt.And that brings up the fact that we now know what electricity is. Until the day before yesterday we knew only what it did, but nuclear physics has shown that it is a stream of electrons in motion. When you switch on a lamp, billions of electrons per second start bumping their way between the atoms of the copper wire to the lamp filaments.By mail, Dr. Meitner discussed these conclusions with a confrere in Copenhagen, Dr. O. R. Frisch, also a refugee from Germany. Frisch is the son-in-law of Dr. Niels Bohr, one of the great names in atomic physics.Bohr had fled from Denmark by then and was in the United States working under the name of "Mr. Nicholas Baker" with Einstein at Princeton and with Fermi at Columbia.Fermi, who since has become an American citizen, was in exile from Fascist Italy.Frisch was so excited that he cabled the substance of the Hahn-Meitner findings to his father-in-law. When the cable reached Dr. Bohr January 24, 1939, he quickly got in touch with Dr. George B. Pegram, dean of physics at Columbia, and Dr. John R. Dunning.Without knowing the full details of Dr. Meitner's calculations, they scribbled some figures on a pad and arrived independently at the same result.If the uranium atom had been split into barium and krypton, the parts should have flown apart like celestial cannon balls, each fragment travelling with a force close to 100 million electron volts.They proved it the next day in the laboratory.Two days later Dr. Bohr stampeded a conference on theoretical physics at George Washington University when he reported all. When his hearers began to appreciate what he was saying, most of them dashed from the auditorium to telephone their laboratories. In another 24 hours, a score of laboratories had confirmed that the atom had been split, with a high release of energy.Yet something important was missing. If theory was right, when the atom was split, many high-speed atomic bullets in the form of neutrons should have been released and some of these should have split other atoms, starting a chain reaction like a string of firecrackers until all were blasted in a shocking explosion. This had not happened; only a release of energy greater than any before measured in a cyclotron.
Meanwhile, in 1935, Prof. Arthur J. Dempster of the University of Chicago had discovered by means of an "atomic microscope" that uranium contains three different kinds of atoms. Chemically, they are identical; they differ only in their number of neutrons. He called them U-238, U-235 and U-234, the sums of the combined number of protons and neutrons in their respective cores.More than 99% of uranium is U-238. There is only 1 part in 140 of U-235 and the barest trace of U-234.Science called these off-beat atoms "isotopes" from the Greek for "same place." There are many of them in nature. When radium, for example, turns into lead that lead can not be distinguished by any chemical test from ordinary lead, yet it has a slightly different atomic weight.
Dr. Bohr and Dr. J. A. Wheeler of Princeton reasoned that the less than 1% of U-235 in uranium must be the firebug which set off the blaze, the 99% plus of U-238 the fire department which put it out.This was pure deduction. It could he proved or disproved only by isolating U-235 in a pure state. This never had been done and it was questionable if it could be done, 238 and 235 being chemically the same.
But an international race to find a way began. It was won by a 27-year-old physicist at the University of Minnesota, Dr. Alfred O. Nier, with a sample much too minute to be seen by the eye. The General Electric laboratories shortly produced a slightly larger speck. These were enough to prove the Bohr-Wheeler theory.It was the less than 1% of U-235 in uranium which was the stuff out of which an atomic bomb might be made. The thing now was possible, yet only remotely possible, for it would take twelve million years by these methods to produce one pound of U-235. Much more than a pound would be needed for one bomb.Hitler was about to invade Poland . . .


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National Gamekeeping Show
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National Gamekeeping Show
The National Gamekeeping Show 2017 is part of the new group of trade fairs
From May 11 to 14, 2017, the second National Gamekeeping Fair will take place at the Brno Exhibition Centre. This event will take place together with the Fair for Sustainable Living in the Landscape NATUR EXPO BRNO, the National Show of Livestock and the International Fair for Animal Production ANIMAL TECH. This group of trade fairs was set up in cooperation with partners and co-organisers – professional associations, state administration, local government and specialised schools.
The National Gamekeeping Show will follow the model of last year's successful premiere. Aside from exhibits for visitors we are preparing a podium with an accompanying programme on hunting, and exhibition of trophies, forest pedagogy, game gastronomy and interesting personalities. Along with the NATUR EXPO BRNO trade fair gamekeeping will be presented as one of the elements involved in caring for the landscape and wildlife. Part of the accompanying programme will be the traditional presentations of falconry, trumpeters and dog-handlers, an exhibition of trophies and a display of paintings with hunting themes. There will also be lectures and seminars on current themes concerning hunting.
The main areas of the 2017 National Gamekeeping Show:
- Hunting equipment
- Hunting weapons
- ATVs
- The preparation of trophies
- Hunting clothing
- Art objects
- Wildlife protection
- Hunting interiors
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This one's for Phil :)
http://www.nytimes.com/2006/12/06/us/06 ... ei=5087%0A
December 6, 2006
Recreating A Christmas Story for Tourists in Cleveland
By CHRISTOPHER MAAG
CLEVELAND, Dec. 4 If Denny Renz were a boy again, he said, he would love nothing more than to re-enact Ralphie Parkers childhood.
He would crawl under the kitchen sink the way Ralphies brother, Randy, did to hide from Mr. Parker, their father in the 1983 movie A Christmas Story. He would swing from the tree in the backyard, he said, dodging imaginary BBs fired from Ralphies coveted official Red Ryder 200-shot carbine action range model air rifle.
Ive never seen this house before, but its like I grew up here, said Mr. Renz, 62, who drove 103 miles from Fairview, Pa., to see the home here where exterior shots of A Christmas Story were filmed.
Though originally panned by critics as a dark depiction of the holidays, A Christmas Story has earned status as a movie classic, rivaling long-time seasonal favorites like Its a Wonderful Life. Now fans from as far away as Los Angeles and Phoenix are flocking to a gritty Cleveland street overlooking a steel factory to visit the Parker family house restored to its movie glory.
A San Diego entrepreneur, Brian Jones, bought the house sight unseen on e-Bay for $150,000 in December 2004. He grew up watching A Christmas Story every year with his family. After Mr. Jones failed the vision test required to become a Navy pilot, his father tried cheering him up by building him a lamp with a womans leg as the base, similar to the one that enchanted Ralphies father in the movie.
Mr. Jones loved the gift so much that he started manufacturing copies of the lamps himself. Complete with fishnet stocking and a black high-heeled shoe, most lamps sell for $139 each; more than 7,500 have sold. Mr. Jones used the proceeds to cover the down payment on the house.
When I first saw the house, there was snow on the ground, and I started running around the backyard, said Mr. Jones, 30. It felt like I was a little kid again.
Unlike the Parkers single-family home in the movie, the Cleveland house was a duplex. (All the movies interior scenes were filmed on a sound stage in Toronto, Mr. Jones said.) Previous owners had installed modern windows, and covered the original wood siding with blue vinyl.
Watching the movie frame by frame, Mr. Jones drew plans of the Parker home. He spent $240,000 to gut the interior and transform the house into a near-exact copy of the movie set. (Darryl Haase, a tour guide, apologizes that the new stairwell is a few inches narrower than the one where Ralphie modeled his pink bunny pajamas.)
Now I watch the movie and I catch myself looking at the background for anything were missing in the house, Mr. Jones said.
To make the home feel more authentic, Mr. Jones hopes to install a stereo that recreates the sounds of Mr. Parker in the basement, swearing at the furnace. He briefly considered a Cleveland businessmans offer to blow artificial smells of food, including Mrs. Parkers cooked cabbage, through the houses heat ducts.
Mr. Jones borrowed $129,000 to turn the house across the street into a museum and gift shop. Displays include the comically immobilizing snowsuit worn by little Randy, who famously cried, I cant put my arms down!
Fans can buy a copy of the movie script for $40. Chunks of the houses original wood siding cost $60.
About 4,300 people toured the house on opening weekend in November, Mr. Jones said. Admission is $5 for adults, $3 for children 12 and under. He has no official attendance projections, but expects at least 50,000 visitors a year.
In a city starved for jobs and tourist dollars the Census Bureau ranked Cleveland as Americas poorest big city in 2006 the house has sparked a miniature tourism boom. For $159 the Renaissance Cleveland Hotel offers Christmas Story packages, which include overnight accommodations for two, tickets to the house and the movie playing continuously on the room television set.
Patty LaFountaine-Johnson, an actor from Cleveland, sews red-and-green felt hats like the one she wore as an elf in the movie. Autographed, they sell in the gift shop for $35 each. A veritable steal, made personally by the elf from hell herself, Ms. LaFountaine-Johnson said.
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Costa Book Award Finalist and the Waterstones (UK) Book of the Year 2016
An exquisitely talented young British author makes her American debut with this rapturously acclaimed historical novel, set in late nineteenth-century England, about an intellectually minded young widow, a pious vicar, and a rumored mythical serpent that explores questions about science and religion, skepticism, and faith, independence and love.
When Cora Seaborne's brilliant, domineering husband dies, she steps into her new life as a widow with as much relief as sadness: her marriage was not a happy one. Wed at nineteen, this woman of exceptional intelligence and curiosity was ill-suited for the role of society wife. Seeking refuge in fresh air and open space in the wake of the funeral, Cora leaves London for a visit to coastal Essex, accompanied by her inquisitive and obsessive eleven-year old son, Francis, and the boy's nanny, Martha, her fiercely protective friend.
While admiring the sites, Cora learns of an intriguing rumor that has arisen further up the estuary, of a fearsome creature said to roam the marshes claiming human lives. After nearly 300 years, the mythical Essex Serpent is said to have returned, taking the life of a young man on New Year's Eve. A keen amateur naturalist with no patience for religion or superstition, Cora is immediately enthralled, and certain that what the local people think is a magical sea beast may be a previously undiscovered species. Eager to investigate, she is introduced to local vicar William Ransome. Will, too, is suspicious of the rumors. But unlike Cora, this man of faith is convinced the rumors are caused by moral panic, a flight from true belief.
These seeming opposites who agree on nothing soon find themselves inexorably drawn together and torn apart - an intense relationship that will change both of their lives in ways entirely unexpected.
Hailed by Sarah Waters as "a work of great intelligence and charm, by a hugely talented author," The Essex Serpent is "irresistible ... you can feel the influences of Mary Shelley, Bram Stoker, Wilkie Collins, Charles Dickens, and Hilary Mantel channeled by Perry in some sort of Victorian séance. This is the best new novel I've read in years" (Daily Telegraph, London).
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"Starred Review. The sumptuous twists and turns of Perry's prose invite close reading, as deep and strange and full of narrative magic as the Blackwater itself. Fans of Sarah Waters, A.S. Byatt, and Elizabeth Gilbert's The Signature of All Things should prepare to fall under Perry's spell and into her very capable hands. Stuffed with smarts and storytelling sorcery, this is a work of astonishing breadth and brilliance." - Kirkus
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Winter has arrived, stripped bare trees remind me of nakedness, adornments have been shed and the elements have their way. The dark and light dance to make shadows as fairy floss fog descends on the village under the gaze of a Sagittarian strawberry moon. I have never had much interest in astrology, however the sun, the stars and the moon are my constant companions and I can usually find Venus in the night sky. The Seven Sisters are my favourite constellation and in the winter, and with the solstice approaching they take their place centre-stage.
Once the solstice arrives, the shortest day of the year, and in the southern hemisphere we are furthest from the sun, and we are poised to begin a new season of turning. This is what will happen again in a few days, a turn away from the dark, a journey towards the light. Energy begins to be stored and, emerging from the dark, potential from what has been incubating under ground now begins to be visible. I have not pruned on the June long weekend like I usually do and so I not in sync. The solstice helps to re-set and forecasts the light arriving to do just that
There are going to be arrivals and departures between this solstice and the next, in much the same way there is every year. Comings and goings inside the hidden places of the soul and in the highly visible public places of airports and churches. An arrival of a loved one, international gathering for celebrating lives committed signing up for a life long journey … and probably between this solstice and the next …. a goodbye.
Moving with the seasons and having respect for the shortest of days and the longest of nights is a movement of the heart. To live in harmony with the elements, intertwined with nature and love, where, like a Celtic love knot, there is no beginning or end. To live enchanted by this phenomena of constant movement to and from the light is my promise to tomorrow. Imagine always living knowing what step you are taking towards or away from the light. When the sun hits the ocean's meeting place and throws itself on to the horizon reaching as far as the eye can see, the curve of our planet glows. Radiant beams. 'You are alone with the transfiguration'…. 'you ask the question you are afraid to ask' May the shortest day of the year and the longest night bless and remind us the transitions from dark to light and light to dark.
Turn sideways into the light as they say
the old ones did and disappear
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Walk the green road above the bay
and the low glinting fields
toward the evening sun, let that Atlantic
gleam be ahead of you and the gray light
of the bay below you, until you catch,
down on your left, the break in the wall,
for just above in the shadows
you'll find it hidden, a curved arm
of rock holding the water close to the mountain,
a just-lit surface smoothing a scattering of coins,
and in the niche above, notes to the dead
and supplications for those who still live.
But for now, you are alone with the transfiguration
and ask no healing for your own
but look down as if looking through time,
as if through a rent veil from the other
side of the question you've refused to ask.
And you remember now, that clear stream
of generosity from which you drank,
how as a child your arms could rise and your palms
turn out to take the blessing of the world.
In RIVER FLOW: New and Selected Poems
© David Whyte and Many Rivers Press


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I suspect some dear readers out there, much as they like me, are getting sick of seeing my bristly face when they load the page, so I figured I'd get something else up here at the top, though I don't have time for a proper post right now. One thing about those beard shots — ok, 2 things — 1) some people like em; 2) you can't exactly call me a typical navel-gazing blogger now, can you?
As for placeholders, I've got a couple good ones per ongoing conversations in the comments.
The first comes c/o "Acid Washed Genes," where we've been having a pretty lively discussion of "gypsy" signifiers, balkan beats, and nu-whirled politricks. Special shoutout to Joro-boro who, among other gems, posted a link to the following video, about which he writes —
It is kolbasti and according to my Turkish friends it is a style of music and dance originating from the Laz communities in the Trabzon area.
In addition to it being kolbasti, I would add that it is awesome:
The second is just a thought, inspired by some reportage c/o Marlon and Tito, who both have noticed a number of English language pop/club songs drifting into formerly Spanish-only (if not reggaeton-only) playlists. It's easy enough to blame Pitbull alone for that, but I think the responsibility might actually lie with reggaeton itself. I have been thinking, for some time now, that reggaeton was remarkable for making space in Anglo media for Spanish language music, but I might have gotten it totally wrong: instead, reggaeton has made it safe for English language pop/club music to work its way into formerly Spanish-only spaces. Maybe the genre's anti-imperialist detractors were right all along? Reggaeton: making the Latin world safe for Ke$ha.
I don't have a video for that, but I do have a reggaetony YooToob which people seem intent to send my way. I wonder whether it will rub you as wrongly as it rubs me.
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1. Marisol LeBron | January 26th, 2010 at 11:58 am
People keep sending me the Mini Daddy video as well. It freaks me out — I feel like it should be featured in one of these end of times Nostradamus Effect shows on the History Channel.
2. Nina | January 27th, 2010 at 10:45 am
No more beard on the front page? I think I prefer that to this video. I hate to say, it sort of reminds me of the purple hippo tra video (which is the funniest video EVER. for real)
3. wayneandwax | January 27th, 2010 at 11:03 am
Yeah, that purple hippo thing is hilario. Thanks for the pro-beard vote!
4. Nina | January 27th, 2010 at 2:39 pm
Ah wait, the beard is still there! (I check this via the feed thang) Sort of balances out our lil toddler rapper. I predicted a few years ago that one day we'd have an infant reggaetonero, seems like that day is getting closer.
5. Ted | February 3rd, 2010 at 12:31 am
That kolbasti seems to be laying some amped-up guitar lines from 3 Hur-El's "Kol Basti" http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MeRvovk7jPM over a techno. Which is good in my book, as Kol Basti is an amazing song.


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"This is the most congested road in the United States of America right behind me," said Gov. Terry McAuliffe (Va.). "The most congested region and the most congested road. It was time to do something about it."
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