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- http://www.hope.edu/student/career/resources/Writingltrinquiry.pdf
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If you have been offered a position and choose to not accept it, be sure to let the employer know in a courteous manner. Writing a letter to let them know that you will not be accepting their position is the professional thing to do. Never say anything negative about the employer or the organization. Just be brief and to the point.
- http://www.quintcareers.com/sample_declining_letter.html
- http://owl.english.purdue.edu/owl/resource/634/07/
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Once you verbally accept a job offer, it is a good idea to write a letter of acceptance and send it to the employer. This shows you are professional and have a commitment to the challenge. In the letter you should politely accept the offer and outline the details discussed such as salary, benefits and first day of employment.
- http://career-advice.monster.com/in-the-office/starting-a-new-job/job-accpetance-letter/article.aspx
- http://www.sa.miami.edu/toppel/mainsite/Portals/0/assets/pdfs/jobOfferAcceptanceLetterSample.pdf
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The interview is arguably the most important part of the job search process. Its not just a reiteration of the information on your resume. Rather, an employer is looking to see if you will be the right fit for their organization. Do you know what to wear? Which questions they will ask? How to research the place of potential employment beforehand? Knowing the answer to these and other questions can ease the anxiety of the interviewing stage.


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I am sure that many of you know that baker's twine is soooo in right now in the crafty world. There are a few manufacturer's that produce them, but today we are focusing on Divine Twine by Whisker Graphics. So let's cut to the chase and get to the bottom of it!
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-I love that their twine is thin and compact. With other baker's twine, it is a little too thick and can unravel quickly.
-What great colors they come in!! So pretty.
-It comes in spools. I love love love that! I have had some come wrapped around cards and that just makes the twine kink. Also I have had some come loose which is almost worse because it can become a knotted mess so easily.
What I didn't like:
Nothing. There ya go.
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Product: Divine Twine
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MSRP: $15.00 per 240 yd spool
Available Online: Whisker Graphics, Stampington & Company, Two Peas In a Bucket
Bottom Line: I love this twine! Truly. I have tried a few and this is my go to twine. Just so easy to work with and is the best quality I have seen!
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New start up on-line baby boutique. The website is focused on the shopping cart components with a few additional sections for non-sales content. It should be a clean, modern design. Here are a few samples of sites we like: http://www.teacollection.com, http://www.oboxers.com, http://www.katequinnorganics.com, http://www.hostesswiththemostess.com,
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NEW PARTNERS AND DIRECTORS Morris L. Crouse, Chicago George A. DeBon, Seattle Fernando J. Domenech, San Juan James A. Gallagher, New York E. Frederick Halstead, Miami John E. Kolesar, Pittsburgh Donald L. Krier, Milwaukee Edwin R. Lang, Cleveland Don A. Nelson, Los Angeles Leonard Pace, New York Haldon G. Robinson, Cincinnati Robert F. Skeehan, Chicago Charles G. Steele, San Francisco Leo C. Voet, Cincinnati Carroll L. Webb, Jr., Dallas H&S+ Mr. DeBon graduated magna cum laude from the University of Washington in obtaining the BBA degree there in 1950. He also was elected to Phi Beta Kappa, Beta Gamma Sigma, and other hon-orary fraternities. He was born in Kent, Washing-ton in 1922. He became a member of the staff of McLaren, Goode, West & Co. in Seattle in 1950, and of our organization when that firm joined with us in 1952. Mr. DeBon has been a director of the Washington Society of CPAs. He and his wife, Betty, and their children, Gregory, 10, and Lynn, 8, live in suburban Seattle. Mr. Crouse was born in Savanna, Illinois, in 1917. He received a BS degree from the University of Illinois in 1939. From 1940 to 1949 he was asso-ciated with Alexander Grant & Company, the last four of those years as resident partner of their office in LaCrosse, Wisconsin, and spent the next eight years with a manufacturing company there, as an officer and director. During that time he was a member of the LaCrosse Board of Education. Mr. Crouse joined H & S in the Chicago Office in 1957 and became a principal in 1959. An MAS specialist, he has served as chairman of the man-agement services committee of the Illinois Society of CPAs. He lives with his wife, Norma, and two teen-age children, Harrison and Sally, in Wilmette. Mr. Domenech, who had been a partner of De-loitte, Plender, Haskins & Sells in San Juan since 1955, became a partner of Haskins & Sells when that office became a domestic office of the Firm this year. He was born in Isabela, Puerto Rico in 1912 and was educated in Santurce. Since 1939 he had been with Sparrow, Waymouth & Co., which merged with DPH&S in 1955. His field of special interest is taxes. Among his recreational pursuits he enjoys growing orchids in the garden of his home in Santurce. Mr. Domenech and his wife, Socorro, have four children, Awilda, 25; Ma-ria Virginia, 23; Fernando, Jr., 15; and Rafael, 13.


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Actress Brittany Murphy's death certificate was released nine days after the death of the beloved but troubled starlet stunned Hollywood.
The "Clueless" star's cause of death is listed on the certificate as "deferred," and it could take as long as four to six weeks for toxicology, histological and neurological test results to be released, according to E! News.
The document does not mention her estranged father, Angelo Bertolotti, and lists her dad as "unknown."
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Murphy, 32, was remembered in an intimate ceremony attended by close friends and family on Christmas Eve and was later buried at Forest Law Memorial Park in Hollywood Hills. Cops continue to investigate the starlet's death but foul play is not suspected.
The troubled actress appeared to be rail-thin in the final months of her life, fueling rumors that she had an eating disorder or had been popping pills. Her husband of two years, British screenwriter Simon Monjack, denied both claims.
"I'm confident it wasn't an overdose," Monjack told the New York Daily News last week.
The starlet had fallen ill with laryngitis before she collapsed in the Hollywood home she shared with her husband on Dec. 20 -- but she was not taking any life-threatening meds, Monjack told the paper.
"There's no question that's rubbish," he said.
Murphy spent her last night curled up in her bed wearing her pink Beverly Hills Hotel bathrobe and monkey pajamas watching movies and ordering Thai food, her husband said. The next morning, Brittany's mother found her collapsed in the shower.


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Charlie Sheen is sounding off about Phil Robertson's recent anti-gay comments.
Days after the Duck Dynasty star said homosexuality is illogical, among other things, Sheen went on a Twitter rant Saturday about the reality star's sentiments.
"Hey Mallard brained Phil Robertso! you have offended and hurt so many dear friends of mine, who DO NOT have the voice or the outreach that I do. well news flash shower-dodger, I will speak loudly and clearly for ALL of them. so, just when your desperately sub evolved ass thought the pressure was off, you are now in the crosshairs of a MaSheen style media beat down. (I'll try to keep the big words to a minimum as not to confuse you)," the Anger Management star said.
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"Your statements were and are abhorrently and mendaciously unforgivable," he went on. "The idea that you have a job outside of dirt-clod stacking is a miracle. the only 'Dynasty' you are attached to might be the re-runs of that dated show."
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And there was much, much more.
"The only thing you should ever be in charge of building is a hole in the ground the exact size of your head," Sheen continued. "perhaps your beard would fit as well if you plucked out the army of scabies and bull weevils sequestered deep in it's sarcophagus of dander and weasel pelts. shame on you. you're the only surviving brain donor I've ever known."
The actor went on to tell Robertson he needed to make "serious amends" to those he "radically offended," adding that he was "repulsed" by him.
In the January 2014 issue of GQ, Robertson shared his views on homosexuality saying, "It seems like, to me, a vagina--as a man--would be more desirable than a man's anus."
"Everything is blurred on what's right and what's wrong," Phil continued. "Sin becomes fine. Start with homosexual behavior and just morph out from there. Bestiality, sleeping around with this woman and that woman and that woman and those men."
Paraphrasing Corinthians, he added, "Don't be deceived. Neither the adulterers, the idolaters, the male prostitutes, the homosexual offenders, the greedy, the drunkards, the slanderers, the swindlers--they won't inherit the kingdom of God. Don't deceive yourself. It's not right."
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LOS ANGELES, Jan. 24 (UPI) -- Actress Melissa Gilbert revealed on Bravo's "Watch What Happens Live" she dated Tom Cruise when he first arrived in Hollywood decades ago.
"When I dated him, he was Tom Mapother still," the 49-year-old actress said of Cruise, who is now 51.
"He had just moved to Los Angeles," she said. "I did not have sex with him. We made out, but honestly, there was no sex. He was a struggling actor and I was working. I actually bought him his first set of dishes."
Two people she doesn't have fond memories of, however, are her former "Little House on the Prairie" co-stars Shannen Doherty and Melissa Sue Anderson.
Gilbert explained Doherty had a brief fling with her first husband, Bo Brinkman.
"[I] would just punch her in the nose," Gilbert said about what she would do if ever ran into Doherty again.
Gilbert went on to describe Anderson as "hateful, horrid, mean, terrible, mean, difficult."
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Editor's note: The Business Journal is recognizing 10 nominees for its 2012 Newsmaker of the Year Award, based on their long-term economic impact on the region. One nominee will be featured each day on grbj.com — leading up to the Jan. 21 announcement of the 2012 Grand Rapids Business Journal Newsmaker of the Year.
ArtPrize's artistic merit often spurs a good debate, but one thing is certain: The 19-day event leaves a ginormous economic footprint on downtown Grand Rapids.
2012 was ArtPrize's fourth year, and the annual open art competition showed no signs of slowing down. With 162 venues participating, 1,517 artists vying for $560,000 in prize money and attendance soaring with an estimated 400,000 visitors, the contest is becoming a relied upon fall staple for restaurants, hotels, boutiques and other retail stores — and even businesses hoping to be discovered by passerbys who may think of them for services later.
Anderson Economic Group conducted a study of the 2011 ArtPrize competition and reported that it had an estimated economic impact of $15.4 million. It generated 204 jobs and more than $4.6 million in new earnings for local households. The study reported that $10.1 million of the total amount came from new-attendee spending and that $1.9 million was spent on event operations.
Though the economic impact of the past year has yet to be fully tallied, Brian Burch, director of public relations for ArtPrize, said he is expecting the total impact to be within range of the $15.4 million garnered in 2011.
Opening weekend numbers easily reflected that likelihood.
Even a rainy opening weekend didn't prevent art revelers from wandering city sidewalks and spending money downtown. Several restaurants reported 45-minute waits, up from the typical 15-minute delays they see on other fall weekends. Places like Sweet Yo's, MadCap and Kilwins had lines out their doors as people patiently waited to make purchases.
Dan Verhil, owner of One Trick Pony and Cottage Bar, said both of his establishments saw a 50-percent increase in sales compared to a typical weekend.
BarFly Ventures owner Mark Sellers reported a 15-percent increase above last year's opening weekend sales at his restaurants, Hop Cat and McFadden's. Even Stella's Lounge, which does not participate as a venue, experienced a 30 percent sales increase thanks to the competition.
On that following Monday, the effects of ArtPrize could still be felt; restaurants were experiencing above average patron levels at lunchtime and into the mid afternoon.
Dave Reinert, president of Rockwell and Republic, said that September is typically a slower month for his restaurants and the industry at large. That's because people are re-establishing their back to school and end-of-summer routines and going out less. ArtPrize has significantly bridged that gap and made that slower time prosperous for the restaurant community.
Artwork sales also do well, according to Burch, who said previously that 30 percent of artists sell work during the competition. Because artists pay their own way or have to raise funds to participate, however, it remains questionable if the artist community receives its equal share of the profits and overall benefits from ArtPrize's draw, but they certainly are spending money downtown.
ArtPrize also has spawned additional events, competitions and gallery shows both during the competition and later in the year, enhancing the duration of its economic impact. This year, ArtPrize partnered with Spotlight616 for Fashion Force Challenge, a fashion design competition that took place at The Establishment, a venue on Grand Rapids' west side. Frederik Meijer Gardens just concluded its ArtPrize-inspired show "Body Double: The Figure in Contemporary Sculpture," which included 26 ArtPrize artists, and, recently, the Grand Rapids Art Museum announced "ArtPrize 2012: Encore!" The exhibit will feature 13 works of art from seven different ArtPrize venues.


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I'm working on a Roguelike console app for C#. I have several key features working such as movement arithmetic but I am unable to coordinate things so my sprite moves around the screen properly.
If you'll compile and run the code you'll notice you have to enter in a "w", "a", "s", or "d" key twice before you can start moving the character. After that, the character keeps moving in one direction whether you enter in a different key or not. Not only that, but the Console.ReadKey(false) method doesn't work and you have to enter another key and press enter in order to move the character again. Other problems persist as well, like the character disappearing from the screen.
Instead of what I have, I want smooth movement. For example, if the user presses the "w" key, it should move the character "up" without the user having to hit enter. Likewise, "a" and "d" should move the character left and right to allow for movement as seen in the original Rogue.
I've tried using Console.ReadKey(false) but it doesn't work to move the character without having to hit enter. The code seems to be a mess and I would like to know how I can eliminate those two Console.ReadLine methods so the user doesn't have to enter in two characters to start the game properly.
Can anybody help me make sense of this?
Code:using System; class Sample { protected static int origRow; protected static int origCol; protected static void WriteAt(string s, int x, int y) { try { Console.SetCursorPosition(origCol + x, origRow + y); Console.Write(s); } catch (ArgumentOutOfRangeException e) { Console.Clear(); Console.WriteLine(e.Message); } } public static void Main() { Console.ReadKey(false); int sr = 10; int sc = 10; Console.ReadKey(false); ConsoleKeyInfo theKey = Console.ReadKey(false); string choice = Console.ReadLine(); do { Console.Clear(); origRow = Console.CursorTop; origCol = Console.CursorLeft; string input = Console.ReadLine(); WriteAt("@", sr, sc); Console.ReadKey(false); switch (theKey.KeyChar) { case 'W': case 'w' : sc = sc - 1; WriteAt("@", sr, sc); break; case 'S': case 's' : sc = sc + 1; WriteAt("@", sr, sc); break; case 'A': case 'a' : sr = sr - 1; WriteAt("@", sr, sc); break; case 'D': case 'd' : sr = sr + 1; WriteAt("@", sr, sc); break; } } while (choice != "Q"); } }


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Find the right trade show
Sales, promotion and relationship-building are some of the main reasons to exhibit as a vendor at a trade show. Participating in a show costs time and money, but thorough preparations can help you to get the most out of it. The key is choosing the right one.
Start by deciding what you want from the experience. Be realistic about your expectations and narrow down your goals. For example, are you hoping to:
- Meet potential buyers, make sales, and launch new products?
- Advertise your product, create awareness, and present your branding?
- Make contacts, build relationships, and get feedback?
- Gain industry knowledge?
- Get media exposure?
Next, you'll want to look for shows that have the potential to meet those needs. Points you might consider:
- Are you better off exhibiting in a business-to-business event or in a consumer show?
- Who is your target audience, and which shows do they attend?
- Which shows do your competitors attend?
Learn more about a trade show to ensure it is the best option for your business.
- How many vendors and attendees does it have?
- How much marketing does this show do?
- Is the show's theme compatible with your branding strategy?
- Will the show's location attract the right attendees?
- What are the costs?
- Does it have the potential to offer a good return on your investment?
Find out if anyone in your network has attended in the past, or attend the show first as a visitor to get a feel for it.
After you make your choice, you'll want to plan ahead. Getting ready for a major trade show can take a year or more, so be sure to leave enough time for your preparations.
To find shows, a number of resources can help. Websites can help refine the search by industry or country. Other information sources might include:
- Industry associations or publications
- Chambers of commerce
- Tourism and convention bureaus
- Your contacts
If you are looking at export markets, consider registering for the Virtual Trade Commissioner to learn of upcoming events within your industry in markets abroad.
For more information on preparing for a trade show, take a look at our section on Trade show marketing.
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Before I begin with the Debate topic... let's set some ground rules:
Mods! Please correct anyone who engages in these things! Thanks a bunch! ^_^
1. Theists are welcome to participate, with one important rule - NO PROSTHELYTIZING!!! - In other words... this debate is to strictly be a debate on the historicity of Jesus as a man, ONLY!! DO NOT use this forum to push your ideas of Jesus as the "son of god" or "god himself" ... please leave that to another debate!
2. BE POLITE!! NO TROLLS ALLOWED!! [Atheist trolls are not allowed as well!]
3. Please be respectful when providing a dissenting opinion to another individual.
Thank you!
Alright... here's the topic.
For many years the historicity of Jesus as a man has remained virtually undisputed among historians. However, I have noticed in recent years a rising number of historians [admittedly still a minority] who have expressed doubt that Jesus ever existed at all.
What do you all think?
[P.S. If you can... please provide evidence and sources for your opinions].
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I guess by the standard of a gospel being a "narrative" you could consider the Toldoth Yeshu to be a gospel... right?
I did find the Jesus portrayed in the Sepher Toldoth Yeshu as vastly different a character than the traditional Jesus of the gospels.
Although, in some ways [perhaps because I have read the 4 gospels so much that I can't find them interesting anymore] the Toldoth Yeshu seemed even more interesting than the traditional gospels. Although the Toldoth Yeshu is DEFINITELY NOT CREDIBLE! In fact it is as useless as a "historical document" as are the four gospels.
It is highly fascinating though.
The Jesus [called "Yeshu/ Jeshu" in the text] of the Toldoth is not the noble pious prophet of the gospels, but an arrogant, attention-hungry, trickster who fools the people into believing him the son of god and finds a tragic end as he is revealed as a fraud. Maybe the reason this is more interesting to me is because the Jesus of the Toldoth is a classic "tragic hero" who is brought down [like all tragic heros of fiction] by his own major character flaw.
The story is long, and has only recently been revealed to laypeople [because in the past the few clergy who knew of the Toldoth also knew of it's potential to cause pogroms as it is supposedly a "Jewish Criticism of Jesus and Christianity."]
The story is just as fantastical as the gospels... but has more "human" characters.
Miriam [Mary] who is raped by a criminal [or in some versions of the story - a Roman soldier] named Joseph Panthera [Panther]... and gives birth to a son who is applied the shameful label of "Jeshu" by the Jewish authorities who recognize him as "the child of an adultress."
Even as a child, the Toldoth shows Jesus as an impertinant, angry boy who [for example] refuses to cover his head [as is proper] in the presence of the Jewish elders.
The tragic flaw of this Jesus is his hunger for power and attention and his anger and bitterness. He seals his fate when he discovers the power of the unmentionable name of God in the temple of Jerusalem [YHWH]. By uttering this name he performs miracles with the magical utterance and proclaims himself the "son of a virgin and a god" [quote: "Who are these bad men who report me to be a bastard and of impure birth? They are themselves bastards and impure. Did not a virgin bear me? Did not my mother conceive me in the top of her head? Indeed I am the son of a God, and concerning me the prophet Esais spoke saying, 'Behold a virgin shall conceive, etc.'" - Jeshu Ch. 1 verses 46 - 48 of the Toldoth - English Translation]
Jeshu claims himself to be the son of YHWH and convinces even King Alexander Janiaeus' wife, the Queen that he is by doing many of the same type of miracles described in the Bible. But his power in the story comes only from the name of God... and when he forgets it because the parchment he wrote it on is stolen by his enemy, Judas, he loses his power and is executed as a blasphemer. [Not on a cross... he is stoned and then his body is hung from a branch of a cabbage plant and buried under the part of the street where he was stoned.]
Quite an interesting piece of fiction... and I guess it could be considered a gospel. *thoughtful*
When you talked about the old testament allusions and allegorical fiction it reminded me of this:
The real question, Nelson, is WHO WAS the "historical Jesus?" Can he be separated from all the woo-woo that surrounds him in the few documents that mention him in an early enough time frame to be AT ALL credible? Can we know this historical Jesus? Or is he lost to time?
In "The Jesus the Jews Never Knew" Zindler makes the ironic observation that the Christians may have destroyed the historical Jesus in their quest to solidify the mythical one.


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ADVENTURE TIME Goes KaBOOM! With Ryan North in 2012
Cover A #1Oh. My. Glob. We're so lumpin' excited to bring you news of what might well be the most algebraic, mathematical, most downright RHOMBUS new comic of 2012. That's right, you know what time it is… Adventure Time!
Since the Emmy-nominated animated series premiered on Cartoon Network in April 2010, viewers have noticed how a number of the show's writers and artists have backgrounds in web and independent comics, including creator Pendleton Ward. Now, that experience is coming back to comics with an all-new ongoing series from BOOM! Studios' all-ages KaBOOM! Imprint, written by webcomic giant Ryan North (Dinosaur Comics).
We grilled North for what readers can expect from this new series, why hardcore Adventure Time fans will want to pick this up, and some of the other creators who'll be working on the book. We're headed into the Land of Ooo turbo-time! And while Cartoon Network hasn't released any interior images from the first issue, we have a series of special Adventure Time doodles from some of comics' best artists and the first look at a new Mondo poster of the gender-flipped Fionna and Cake from Tiny Kitten Teeth's Becky Dreistadt!
Newsarama: So Ryan, how'd this come about?#1 Cover C Ryan North: I'm sure there was tons of work behind the scenes to even get to this point, but basically I got an email saying "We're doing an Adventure Time comic, would you like to write it?" and I wrote back "YES" in what it turns out was a 250 pt font. I didn't know fonts went up that big, but turns out they do!
I've been a fan of Adventure Time since back when Finn was called "Pen" in the pilot, so it didn't really take any convincing on my part. I made time in my schedule (Adventure Time time, if you will) and jumped right in.
Nrama: Okay, there might be some non-Adventure Time fans reading this. For them: Sell them on why this is just going to be a flat-out awesome comic book, and the appeal of the show.
North: I looked to see how Wikipedia described the show, and it was all "The series focuses on the adventures undertaken by two best friends, Finn the human boy and Jake the dog with magical powers, who dwell in the Land of Ooo."
Oh, Wikipedia. We can do better than that.
Adventure Time tells stories where anything can happen, but what happens is. It stars Finn, a boy who fights evil, and Jake, a dog with stretchy powers. Both of them can talk.
Oh, and it takes place a thousand years in the future, after an atomic war, when magic is back again. And Finn may well be the last human left.
I'll say this: it's the only show on television you'll never regret watching. I'm working on making a comic that you can say the same thing about!Cover B #1 Nrama: What's coming up in the first few issues?
North: I don't want to give too much away, but a villain from the show returns and threatens not just BMO, not just Finn and Jake, but everyone in the Land of Ooo and the entire planet itself. It's - it's bad news.
Nrama: What's different about writing extended narrative stories, as opposed to T-Rex's self-contained rants in Dinosaur Comics?
North: It's actually deeply satisfying to write a story out in full. I'll often have T-Rex describe premises rather than fully realize them myself, which is a great timesaver, great for jokes, and lots of fun to write, but it turns out it's fun to actually write stories out too! Who knew?
Here's some examples of what I'm talking about: T-Rex's ghost story or T-Rex's machine of death idea , which did end up becoming real after all!
Kurt Vonnegut wrote once about how he had his fictional character, Kilgore Trout, write things in his stories to save himself, Vonnegut, from writing the stories himself. I think there's something similar at play here.
The other difference in writing a longer narrative is that this first story arc goes over several issues, so you get to work out pacing and beats not just for each page of comics, and not just for the story as a whole, but for the issue as well.Cartoon Network's
Christmas CardNrama: Tell us about your artists, Shelli Paroline and Braden Lamb. What do they bring to the book?
North: Shelli did The Muppets: Snow White for KaBOOM! and Braden is both an artist and a colourist who colours some of KaBOOM!'s all-ages books. They're currently doing the Ice Age comic for them as well.
Both of them were at San Diego Comic-Con, drawing custom Ducktales sketch covers for KaBOOM!, and everyone there was really blown away with the movement and fun they brought to even the weirdest requests, while also managing to stay really true to the look and feel of the characters. KaBOOM! really wanted to get them on something exciting where that talent could shine, and here we are!
I've actually not met them in person, but thanks to the Internet we can still talk and hang out! Their styles are really terrific. I'm a writer who can't draw and who generally works in a visual medium (yay comics!) so I'm super impressed when I see what people with talent and skill can do. It's stuff I literally cannot do myself, and it's a privilege to be able to write stuff for them.
We haven't started drawing yet [Newsarama Note: This interview was done a while back, and held for the official announcement], but we're hoping to have a collaborative process going, where Shelli and Branden can add things that are awesome as they go. The show itself is set up in this way, with storyboard artists contributing a lot, and it'd be cool to duplicate that for the comic.Katie Cook Finn sketch Nrama: Went I went to SPX in September, I was impressed by how many web and indie cartoonists knew both Adventure Time and Pen Ward personally. In addition to yourself, will we see any other cartoonists working on Adventure TIme stories for KaBOOM!?
North: I can say that the answer to this is... DEFINITELY YES.
Pen and me and the editors at KaBOOM! are huge fans of indie comics, so Adventure Time is going to have a huge presence from the indie scene. In addition to the on-model, issue-to-issue story that Shelli and Braden and I are working on (on-model means it'll look like the show does), there will be a 5-8 page artist-driven story (done in their own style!) in each issue that focuses on a different supporting character, along with 1-2 special artist covers per issue. It's going to be awesome! We're cramming in as much awesome per page as legally allowed.
I can't tell you everything, but I have official clearance to say that so far we've got Jeffery Brown, Emily Carroll, Scott C., Lucy Knisley and Aaron Renier lined up for covers or back-up stories or both! And there's more to be announced down the line too. Each of these artists is a huge talent, and I'm actually really excited that I'll be there in the same book as them.
Nrama: For that matter, a number of writers and artists on the show have worked in comics -- will any of them contribute to the book down the line?
North: The TV team has a great collection of super talented writers and artists, and we'd love them to contribute what they can! KaBOOM!'s been discussing this with a few of them, and it'll come down to their schedule. Adventure Time is a lot of work! You'll have to wait and see...
Nrama: Okay, getting into hardcore fandom here. How deeply is this intertwined with the show's mythology? Will we find out more about the pre-apocalyptic Land of Ooo, or just why Marceline's dad ate her fries? Or tales of the Mushroom War, Billy the Hero, or the Ancient Psychic Tandem War Elephant?
North: It's funny: since this was announced I've had tons of people emailing me, some offering actual cash money to write scenes with their favourite characters. And then I said on Twitter something along the lines of "Man, Adventure Time fans are offering me actual cash money to write shippy scenes for various characters!" and that just got the offers doubled. [Newsarama Note: Well, who isn't curious about Marceline and the Ice King going on a date?]
The show and the comic take place in the same universe, but I like that the show leaves a lot to the imagination and I don't want to take too much of that away!Janet Lee Peppermint
SketchNrama: What's fun about writing Finn and Jake?
North: Their relationship is just stellar: here are two guys, total bros, saving the world routinely but also taking time out to make videos for their friends. And they're both so great at talking, so great at taking language and making it awesome, that it's really fun to write. When you're writing you can almost just put these two guys in a situation and watch what they do.
Nrama: Which characters, major or minor, are your favorites, and of everyone on the show, who do you relate to the most?
North: I love BMO: he/she/it's so cute, so fun, so insanely powerful. I am the #1 fan of BMO over here. I also love Peppermint Butler: he's so mysterious and he pals around with Death. I would share an apartment with these two any day.
And of course Finn and Jake, but I don't see how anyone could watch the show and not have Finn and Jake be their favorite characters.
I think I relate to Finn the most: he's always down for anything and has amazing friends. If I died and my epitaph read "Here Lies Ryan: He Was Down For Anything And Had Amazing Friends", I think I might have the best epitaph in the entire graveyard.Jeffrey Brown Beemo Nrama: Almost forgot: Annnyyyyyy chance we might see a visit by Fionna and Cake?
North: Maybe? POSSIBLY?? The book's editors are excited about the possibility, so this is me winking, throwing down a capsule onto the ground, and disappearing in a puff of smoke.
Nrama: What's it been like dealing with Pen Ward and with Cartoon Network for this?
North: It's been great. I sent Pen an couple early draft of the stories and he called me up with a videophone because it is THE FUTURE and we talked through the stories, changing and tweaking things.
While we talked he actually sketched out scenes on his computer, which was amazing. It was like watching Adventure Time come to life in real time. Unfortunately, I swore I would take the images he sketched... to my grave.
Nrama: And what would you say is your all-time favorite Adventure Time episode and why?
North: It's super hard to say, and I think it changes all the time, but as I'm writing this I'd have to say "Adventure Time with Fionna & Cake". The gender-swapping was fun, of course, but what I love and keep thinking about was how the whole thing was Ice King fan fiction.
Ice King is this guy who sat down and wrote a story about his enemies, Finn and Jake, and - switched everyone's genders? For no reason? It's like this staggering view into the guy's head. Then he has Fionna declare that she'd love to date Ice King and the episode ends and it's just perfect.Kate Beaton Marceline Nrama: What's next for you?
North: For me personally, there's Adventure Time (yay!), plus I've got a new Dinosaur Comics book out, a new Machine of Death book coming out in 2012, and another yet-unannounced surprise long-form comic that'll be starting in 2012 too. All of these will be super neat, I promise.
Nrama: Anything else you'd like to talk about that we haven't discussed yet?
North: I'm guess I just want to say how excited I am to see Adventure Time transformed into comic book form. The show is so creative and freewheeling and it translates really well into the comics medium, where you can go anywhere and do anything as long as you can imagine it.
I'm really aiming to keep the surreal vibe the show has, and also the surprising elements that make the show so great: the calamity always lurking at the edges of the stories, the sadness you can sometimes detect. It's really exciting.
I think the comic will be great for kids and adults, especially with the backup stories in the book. As a kid I loved the idea of alternate possibilities, roads not taken, that sort of thing - and I think seeing the Adventure Time universe rendered by the artists in those stories will scratch that same itch really well.
What time is it? It's Adventure Time from KaBOOM! in February! Sketches from Zack Smith's personal Adventure Time Sketch Book.


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Berger, in his essay Ways of Seeing, is an elitist. He has no modesty in the way he expresses his opinions and a supreme confidence in his expertise regarding art. His self-assurance often causes a conflict with the reader because he regards himself as being so completely infallible that he feels he doesn't have to explain why he arrives at the conclusions. His subtle argument is that since he is superior in understanding art, the audience should wholly accept that his assumptions are correct which makes persuading the readers to agree with him unnecessary. This forceful communication Berger uses is highly significant in the section of his essay regarding what he calls "mystification" and is immediately prominent and influential in the opening sentences. Berger, describing the book that he will soon analyze, writes, "As a book of specialized art history, it is no better and no worse than the average." (p. 138) While Berger's critique of the book (and by relation, the author) is undoubtedly honest, it's of understated significance that he chooses to tell the reader that the book is average. This is Berger's way of telling the reader that the author of the book is inferior to him and thus puts Berger in the position to critcize the author's opinions in the condescending way that he uses throughout the section. Before we know anything about the author besides that he wrote a significant book about Frank Hals, we are already led to believe that his expertise on art is less than Berger's which means that if the two disagree on the subject then Berger is in the right. Furthering this degradation of the author is the fact that Berger doesn't even mention his name, acting as if he is trivial and his book merely serves as an example of mystification for Berger to debunk. By mentioning the author's name, Berger could have shown respect and acknowledgement. Instead, Berger attempts to lower the reader's opinion of the claims he argues against as opposed to explain his own claims and improve the clarity of his position. In doing so, Berger comes across as arrogant.and offensive.


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Why Imitation Gets A Bad Rap... And Why Companies Need To Be More Serious About Copying
from the copying-is-a-part-of-innovation deptEarlier this year, we had a short discussion, based on a review, over some of the concepts in the recently published book Copycats, by Oded Shenkar. I've finally had a chance to read the book, and wanted to post some quick thoughts on it. The book is definitely worth reading. It's a really quick read actually, so it's not even a huge time commitment. The basics concept of the book is clear: it notes how much economic advantage is gained through companies copying one another, while bemoaning the negative connotations associated with imitating and copying others. But, of course, if you look closely, you see elements of copying from companies all the time. Any time a competitor does something successful, you're likely to see others copy it.
Where the book really shines, in my opinion, is in Chapter 4, where it details the massive successes and failures of copycatting in two key industries: airlines and discount retail. In that chapter, Shenkar looks at the success of Southwest Air, which "imitated" the failed People Express, but figured out how to do discount air travel while avoiding a few key elements that resulted in People Express' failure. He then goes through a variety of other airlines and how they tried to mimic Southwest Air, covering many examples of both success and failure, and explaining why some succeeded where others failed. Most notable, perhaps, was the dismal failure of pretty much every single attempt by the big airlines to copy Southwest. They all appeared to copy the superficial aspects of it -- the key things that everyone knew about -- without quite grasping the underlying structural reasons why Southwest succeeded, thereby setting up a business model in conflict with itself. It's yet another fantastic reminder that the idea that big companies can just come in and copy what some innovator does is quite frequently not really true.
The same chapter also looks closely at Wal-Mart, how it, too, copied certain key aspects from others, while also learning from the mistakes some other players made. The chapter notes that Wal-Mart, K-Mart and Target were all founded in the same year (1962), but were hardly the first in that space. Instead, all were copying a few other players who were there before -- none of whom survived. It looks at how these three firms have changed over time, including how Wal-Mart copied many ideas from K-Mart, and then improved upon them, and how K-Mart then tried to copy Wal-Mart back, but failed (for the same reason that the big airlines had so much trouble copying Southwest -- they got the superficial stuff, but didn't realize how that clashed with certain infrastructure issues). And then it covers how Target has carved out its own highly successful niche, both by copying Wal-Mart, but also in tweeking the model in different ways as well, such as targeting higher-end shoppers.
Overall, the book is definitely a worthwhile read, though, at times it gets a little too caught up in the idea of "copying" vs. "innovating." As the details of the book make clear, true innovating is really a combination of copying the best ideas of others, adding new things (tweeks) to them, improving on them, learning from the mistakes of others, and continually experimenting. It's all really a part of the same spectrum. The problem is that we have such a negative association with the concept of "copying," even though every company does it, and the end results are often really important and beneficial to society.
My other complaint -- though I totally understand why Shenkar did it -- is that he purposely stays away from the question of intellectual property, noting that his focus was only on copying that does not violate patent laws. I think it could be interesting to look at how patent laws have impacted such copycat activities. Some have argued that patent laws help force "copycats" to do more tweaking to "innovate around" patents. I think it could be a ripe area for research as to whether or not that's actually true. My suspicion (not surprisingly) is that there's little evidence to support such a claim, and that by limiting how companies can copy certain aspects, it's actually limiting their ability to successfully tweak and improve upon important concepts.
Finally, the book does try to break out some "rules" for more successful copying, and that part of the book feels a bit weak. That is, the book is much stronger in the descriptive phase, rather than the prescriptive part, which comes off just vague enough that it's probably great for generating some consulting revenue for Shenkar, but doesn't yield much more in the way of general insights. But, that's really a small issue overall, and that section of the book is still worth reading, if only to get you thinking creatively about some of the ideas in the book.
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App Review: Tempo is a Musician's Best Friend
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Metronomes are expensive to buy and then you have to carry it around with you to orchestra rehearsals, quartet practices, and lessons. Tempo by Frozen Ape allows you to use your iPhone, which you are probably carrying everywhere anyway, as a metronome. The only questions are, does it have all the functions you need and how well does it work?
After downloading this app and playing with it for a few minutes, I am convinced that it is a great tool for anyone involved with music. The user interface is simple and easy to use, which is a must. The home screen has all of the basic metronome functions. You can easily choose the tempo by using the up and down arrows. You can also tap along with music to find the tempo that is being used. The longer you tap, the more accurate the tempo becomes. You can do this with the metronome sounds and lights on or off and it will adjust to your tapping. To help you keep tempo and perform more accurately, you can also add a meter and a beat to the metronomes tapping. There are 6 of the most common meters displayed, but if you tap and hold one of the six, it opens another menu where you can select from even more meters. The meter that you choose determines the number and arrangement of the lights across the top of the screen. There is one light for each beat in the meter. You can further subdivide the beat by tapping one of the beat buttons. The lights will flash on the beats, but the metronome will tick on each of the subdivisions thereof (ie. eighth notes, triplets, etc.). You can also change the beat emphasis by selecting or deselecting the lights at the top of the screen. The metronome defaults to accenting the downbeat of each measure. However, you can turn that one off by tapping the first light and turn others on by tapping them. These functions alone make for a useful metronome.
If you tap on the "i" in the corner of the screen, you open up even more possibilities. You can turn on or off the full screen flash on the down beat. You can also choose between two play modes. The first, Solo, will allow the metronome to keep playing even when the screen is locked. The second, Overlay, allows you to play the metronome over music that is on your iPhone/iPod. However in this mode, the metronome will stop when your screen is locked. There are 3 choices of sounds for the metronome to make. Digital sounds like a digital metronome. Analog sounds like a mechanical metronome. Drum Kit makes it sound like you are playing along with a drum set.
The last function is the tuning function. If you don't have a piano around to tune your instrument to, this function can be extremely helpful. You can choose any note in the diatonic scale to tune to. Unfortunately, you cannot fine tune your selection and tune to an A444 instead of A440, but for most people that is not necessary.
Overall, Tempo is a great metronome app that eliminates the cost of buying a more expensive device and lugging it around. It performs many functions that are often seen only in more expensive metronomes like Dr. Beat.
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"The Intro chapter gives a solid overview of Android. The Welcome app chapter is a nice intro to layouts, keeping it simple, while still using a common layout (RelativeLayout) and explaining the resulting XML. Favorite Twitter Searches app is a great chapter that introduces a lot of new (core) concepts. The app descriptions give a clear understanding of what is being built and the technologies overviews are particularly nice; the colored highlighting is helpful. The SpotOn Game app is a great intro to 3.x animation and produces a fun game without a lot of code. Doodlz is a great app—anyone can identify with it and it gives readers a chance to learn about Android. The Address Book app is a good intro to some key aspects of Android programs (in particular, launching other Activities and utilizing a SQLite database). The Route Tracker app chapter is excellent." —Ian G. Clifton, Independent Contractor and Android App Developer
"One of the most comprehensive intro chapters I have read, especially the number and variety of links to outside sources. I like the Welcome app as a way to get the reader's feet wet; it breaks them into Eclipse and it gets them making something without Java code. The Tip Calculator app UI highlights the tricky cases of TableLayout and TableRow. The Favorite Twitter Searches app does a good job of introducing important UI skills, especially using the LayoutInflater and the ScrollView to programmatically add UI elements. The Flag Quiz app chapter does a good job of showing a variety of tools, such as collections, DialogBuilder options and animations; the method used to handle all the data is a good one. Those property animators sure make the SpotOn Game app code straightforward; well done. The Route Tracker is a solid example of a location and map app. The Slideshow app reinforces list handling and adapters. I like the intro to serialization in the Enhanced Slideshow app." —Douglas Jones, Senior Software Engineer, Fullpower Technologies
"Good intro to overall Android, Java and OO concepts." —Ronan ''Zero'' Schwarz (CIO, OpenIntents)
"A good intro to Android platform capabilities and online resources for getting into Android development; a valuable timesaver, particularly with the increasing amount of available Android information; the walkthrough for getting an app running in the emulator is easy to follow. The Flag Quiz app chapter is easy to follow and quite enjoyable; clear description of key UI elements; good that the distinction between assets/ and res/ is presented; nice that View animation is included in an example relevant to the app (adds a professional touch); the yellow code highlighting works well. The Address Book app chapter is a good introduction to CRUD [create, read, update and delete] apps. The Route Tracker app chapter is an easy introduction to location tracking. The Enhanced Slideshow app is a straightforward demonstration on how to use the camera and display video in an application." —Sebastian Nykopp, Chief Architect, Reaktor


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The royal baby has arrived
LONDON -- Get ready for a 62-gun salute, watch the water in the fountains turn blue, let the fireworks and street parties commence: The royal baby has arrived, and it's a boy.
Prince William and Duchess Kate's first baby, a future monarch, was born today at 4:24 pm local time in London's private wing of St. Mary's Hospital, the palace announced. The announcement said the baby weighed 8 pounds, 6 ounces, and William was present for the birth.
In a statement, Prince William said: "We could not be happier."
Mother and baby were both doing well, the announcement added. The name was not immediately announced. There's a chance it could be announced as early as Tuesday, but it's also possible it may not be known for some days.
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The news was supposed to be first announced in the traditional manner, on fancy paper with a Buckingham Palace letterhead on a gilded easel at the palace front gates. Instead, it went out by electronic press release first, to the royal Twitter feed and websites, and then proclaimed from every TV and computer screen in the country.
After that, the framed announcement went up on the easel at the gates, watched and cheered by a growing crowd despite what was being called the hottest day in London in years.
But the baby's great-grandmother, Queen Elizabeth II, was the first to get the news from her grandson, by encrypted phone to the palace, and just in time, too. She's scheduled to leave on her annual vacation at her Balmoral estate in Scotland at the end of this week.
The palace announcement said the royal family, including the queen's husband, Prince Philip, the baby's grandfather, Prince Charles the Prince of Wales, his wife, Camilla Duchess of Cornwall, and William's brother, Prince Harry, and other family members have been notified and are "delighted."
Prince Charles issued a statement saying he and Camilla are "overjoyed" and "thrilled" for the couple.
"Grandparenthood is a unique moment in anyone's life, as countless kind people have told me in recent months, so I am enormously proud and happy to be a grandfather for the first time and we are eagerly looking forward to seeing the baby in the near future," the first-in-line to the throne said.
Prime Minister David Cameron came out of Number 10 to hail the "wonderful news" and the "important moment in the life of the nation."
President Obama and first lady Michelle Obama congratulated the couple on "the joyous occasion" of the birth.
"We wish them all the happiness and blessings parenthood brings," the Obamas said in a written statement. "The child enters the world at a time of promise and opportunity for our two nations. Given the special relationship between us, the American people are pleased to join with the people of the United Kingdom as they celebrate the birth of the young prince."
In a separate message posted on Twitter, Mrs. Obama said: "Being a parent is the best job of all."
Speaking of Twitter, the company announced late Monday that more than 2 million tweets about the royal baby were sent out starting when Duchess Kate checked into the hospital early in the morning, reaching a royal-baby buzz peak of about 25,300 tweets per minute.
There was no word yet on whether Kate's mother and younger sister, Carole and Pippa Middleton, 29, were at the hospital for the birth.
The duchess was expected to spend at least one night overnight at the hospital, but it's possible she and William and the baby will emerge from the hospital as soon as today for the customary pose before the media, after three weeks of waiting, outside the hospital.
The birth of the royal baby was a model of the careful blend of traditional and modern exemplified by this royal couple in the dozen years they've been a couple. Plans call for a multi-gun salute near Buckingham Palace, probably on Tuesday, blue water running in the fountains, blue lights at the top of iconic buildings, fireworks and street celebrations throughout the land.
The baby arrives just short of 27 months since William and Kate were married in a spectacular ceremony at Westminster Abbey on April 29, 2011. The nine months of her pregnancy have been chronicled by the British and world media with excruciating detail and growing excitement about the first royal heir to be born in 31 years, since William himself was born to Prince Charles and Princess Diana.
(In fact, the last time the easel-and-note was used to announce a royal birth was for William.)
The baby moves immediately to third in line to the throne, behind father William and grandfather Charles. The queen is 87 and celebrating her 61st year on the throne.
The past few weeks saw rising royal-baby fever in Britain, with hopes high that the birth would provide an estimated $360 million boost in the flat British economy. Meanwhile, royal-baby doodads, such as Will and Kate masks, poured into shops for use at the street parties soon to break out all over the country.
The baby arrived a little late , based on a mid-July due date. Unlike the majority of births in Britain, no one, not even the parents, knew the sex of the baby until the birth.
The baby was the second royal heir to be born in a London hospital, the same one where William was born in 1982 (as well as other recent royal babies not close in line to the throne). The Lindo Wing of St. Mary's is a favorite birthing destination of London's rich and famous, with estimates of the cost of a natural birth in a private suite as high as $15,000.
William was in the delivery room, as was his father when he was born. He is taking two weeks off for paternity leave.
Many details about the birth were unclear, and some of the speculation was a bit unseemly. Kate had planned a natural birth, being "not too posh to push," as the Daily Mail put it. Did she employ a "hypno-birth" or some other birthing strategy to dull pain? Will she breast-feed the baby?
It seems likely the couple will take the baby and stay for a few weeks at Kate's parents' estate in the country, where there is a nursery. The couple live in a small apartment at Kensington Palace when they're in London and are not expected to move into more palatial digs until the fall.
If they stay at the Middletons' mansion in Bucklebury, Berkshire, that would mark the first time a royal heir spent the first few weeks of life outside a royal palace or estate. These details matter to the British.
Britain learned that the duchess had gone into labor after she checked in and settled at the hospital. In the age of Twitter, it was considered impossible to keep the news under wraps for long, so the palace announced it. (The palace was forced to announce Kate was pregnant ahead of schedule when she experienced acute morning sickness early in her pregnancy and had to be hospitalized.)
Palace press officials had arranged for a theatrical ritual if the baby was born during daylight hours: After the birth, the formal notice, signed by her doctors, would be brought out the front door of the hospital, handed to a driver and then driven with a police escort through London to the front of Buckingham Palace, where it would be placed on the easel. The birth of a royal heir is rare enough to warrant the trouble, palace officials said weeks ago.
But if the baby were born in the middle of the night? No midnight runs to the palace, no police escort. The news would go out in an electronic news release and the notice on the easel set up in the morning.


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In some cases, Alzheimer's disease may in fact be the result of an infection, and may even be transmissible, a new study in mice suggests.
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In the study, mice injected with human brain tissue from Alzheimer's patients developed Alzheimer's disease. The mice developed brain damage characteristic of Alzheimer's disease, and over time, the damage spread throughout their brains, the researchers said.
Mice injected with brain tissue from healthy humans showed no signs of the disease.
"Our findings open the possibility that some of the sporadic Alzheimer's cases may arise from an infectious process," similar to the way mad cow disease arises from infection with diseased proteins called prions, said study researcher Claudio Soto, a professor of neurology at The University of Texas Medical School at Houston.
"The underlying mechanism of Alzheimer's disease is very similar to the prion diseases," Soto said. "It involves a normal protein that becomes misshapen, and is able to spread by transforming good proteins to bad ones. The bad proteins accumulate in the brain, forming plaque deposits that are believed to kill neuron cells in Alzheimer's," he said.
However, the new findings are very preliminary and it's unclear if the same thing could happen in people. Moreover, the transmission occurred under highly artificial conditions that a person would likely not experience.
The researchers are currently setting up experiments to determine whether the same transmission can occur under more natural routes of exposure, Soto said.
The study was published today (Oct. 4) in the journal Molecular Psychiatry.
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Has anyone ever heard of any surgeons in the USA that will implant SCI patients? It?s just an off the shelf pain stimulator and the surgery is not complicated and can even be 30-60 mins outpatient. Obviously optimizing the settings could be the biggest challenge. I would think you could get it put in for pain in the eyes of insurance and who would dispute that we have this pain.
its become evident to me that some of the bigger researchers doing this do not seem to have much intention or motivation to take this to clinic to actually help us. I don?t want to and won?t go to Thailand but would love to find someone to do it in North America.
Just one benefit of anything even as minimal as better bladder capacity resulting less cathing and UTIs justify it. The implant itself is not even expensive.


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No one ever comes into our offices excited to be hiring a lawyer. Usually they are scared, injured and incredibly emotional. For most it is a brand new experience and they have only TV shows to reference for what the legal process will be like.
Sitting across the table from an attorney they have just met, they are asked deeply personal questions about a traumatic experience. Then, they have to make a decision which will impact the rest of their lives.
To make matters worse, it is very hard to compare attorneys to each other. There is no other "buying" experience like it.
Here are of the top five reasons hiring a lawyer can be hard along with advice on how to choose the best attorney for you:
Previous generations of attorneys felt advertising was unseemly, and passed rules against it. Of course, it helps that those lawyers were already successful. They probably preferred no competition.
As times changed, the rules were relaxed. But they are still strict.
For example, for a limited time, Florida lawyers could advertise the results of their cases. Unfortunately, the resulting billboards and TV ads from a few lawyers drew so much scrutiny the rules have now been changed back.
It should be noted that Florida is more restrictive than other many other states: the "awesomely bad" ads with flaming sledgehammers and rapping lawyers would never be permitted here. Presently, attorneys are challenging the Florida Bar restrictions in federal court, fighting for the First Amendment right to commercial speech which would cover even "awesomely bad" commercial speech.
Personally, I would let the market place decide if an advertisement is effective or in bad taste. I believe consumers are smart enough to decide for themselves and do not need the Florida Bar to safeguard them from lawyer advertising.
Effective advertising would let consumers know facts about their attorneys, their past results, and give lawyers a chance to inform consumers about the quality and nature of their services. Because it is hard and expensive to advertise legal services, many lawyers just give up and the result is the consumer only sees a few mega "brands" and may miss out on finding the lawyer that is perfect for them.
If you need to hire an attorney, friends and family are not a bad place to start looking for recommendations. But sometimes, for whatever reason, it may not be easy to ask the people close to you about your legal issue. If that's the case:
Do your research: The phone book and the search engines are a great place to start. Once you have a few names, see if you can find reviews. Check newspaper sites online and search them for the attorney's name - maybe they have handled a few high profile cases.
Talk to courthouse staff and deputies: If you have time, I always suggest people go to the local courthouse and ask any Deputy Sheriff working there who they would recommend. Or, if you have a list of names, ask a Deputy about the attorneys on your list. Courthouse staff see all the local attorneys, and they know who gets great results.
Meet a few attorneys in person: Once you have a few choices, make appointments and meet the attorneys in person. Look around their office - is it busy and vibrant? Is the staff energized? Are they professional? I am proud to say when you come into our Daytona Beach offices you will see an office we have devoted a lot of love to. Our office is decorated with newspaper clippings from exciting cases, thank you letters from our clients and even a video clip of me in my first cage fight. You can look through our book of verdicts, read client testimonials in another book, and generally see firsthand how much pride we take in our brand!
You need to feel a "connection" with your attorney because law is a personal service. You need the right lawyer for you.
When you buy a TV, you are looking for a great picture for a great price. You know you want certain features. And your best friend will probably see your TV set the same way you do - the resolution does not change depending on who looks at it you don't have to worry about whether your TV explains things in a way you understand or whether it dismisses you. You probably don't have a strong personal feeling about your TV - you don't think it's charming or rude, kind or cruel, endearing or abrasive.
When it comes to selecting your lawyer, you need to find the most qualified attorney that you can work with. It does not matter if your attorney is the most talented to ever live if you can't stand being in the same room as them.
That is why I suggest meeting the lawyer in person. If there are multiple attorneys in the firm who handle your type of case, ask to have them join you in the conference. You might "click" with another member of that firm.
Having a good feeling about your attorney and good chemistry is critical because you will be working together for a long time and in some really tough situations. You want to find the lawyer or firm that is right for you.
Always remember that your case may end up in a trial. If your lawyer does not make a good first impression on you, what will happen in front of six strangers on a jury? With seven accomplished trial attorneys in our firm, we have a wide range of personalities, and a long track record of successfully representing people like you. We always have at least two lawyers work your case because we believe two heads at better than one (and seven heads are even better than that). No two attorneys will see a case the same way because each attorney will have a unique point of view. We feel this diversity of experience and viewpoint is of great benefit to our clients.
Legal services do not have MSRPs like cars do. There are different types of fees and varying amounts depending on the lawyer and the type of law.
Legal fees are paid in three ways:
The "flat fee" - a single price is set for all legal services (usually excluding costs) regardless of the number of hours spent on the case. This is how most criminal fees are structured. The "hourly rate" fee - the lawyer charges by the minute for handling your case at an agreed upon hourly rate. How much the case costs depends on how much time is spent on the case. This is how most civil and family law fees are structured. The "contingent" fee - the famous "we don't get paid unless we win for you" where the attorney receives a percentage of any recovery to cover their fees and costs. This is almost always how personal injury cases are handled. Because legal fees vary in each case it is very difficult to comparison shop. While one lawyer may charge five hundred dollars for a case, another may charge ten times that. If price is your only concern, then the five hundred dollar fee would seem the winner, but how can you be sure?
Behind every hourly rate or flat fee are several "hidden" facts, which are built into the quote:
There is always a premium for experience and talent; an experienced lawyer may charge more per hour than someone just starting out, but should be more efficient than a newly minted lawyer.
Attorneys who are in demand because of their talents and past results may have to turn down work at a lower fee because they have a higher case load.
Attorneys with state of the art technology and research as part of their "product" offer a real value to their clients, but need to charge more to cover the cost of those tools.
When choosing a lawyer, you want to make sure he or she has the time and energy to devote to your case. For example, our firm does not take every case that calls. We have to balance our case load with our ability to deliver top notch representation to our existing clients. With seven attorneys, we have the horsepower to aggressively represent people who have been arrested, injured or wronged. We are big enough to take on tough cases but small enough to offer personal service and attention. If you need a team of trial attorneys to fight for you, please come and meet with us. We know price is always a concern and we can work with you to make sure you can afford first rate legal services.
Every case is unique. When people ask me how many cases I have handled like theirs the honest answer is "zero!," even if it isn't the first time I have worked with that client. That is not a very comforting answer at first blush, but it's absolutely true.
Even if you have defended a thousand DUI cases, no two are exactly the same. Even if at the base level they are all similar. However, with that said, you should definitely select a lawyer who has experience in handling cases similar to yours.
Do not be surprised if an ethical attorney hesitates to tell you about past results to "sell" you. Simply put, past performance on similar cases does not guarantee the same result in your case. Ethical attorneys know this, and won't prey on your lack of knowledge with a tactic that suggests all cases are the same.
What past results do tell you are that the attorney is willing to work hard and has experience working in the legal system and within the legal process. That is incredibly important.
At our firm, we keep a book of verdicts in the lobby for our new clients to read. That book shows recently trial results and while it doesn't mean that you case will end in a trial, it shows we are willing and able to effectively try cases like yours.
No lawyer can guarantee results or predict the future (if they could they would have won the lottery several times already). If you buy a car you want to know it works. You want a warranty. As a consumer, it might seem like your attorney lacks confidence if they aren't promising the result you expect.
In law, no attorney can or should promise you any result or outcome. It's outright unethical. If an attorney tells you they guarantee an outcome, take your money and run. Fast.
Here are the only promises or predictions an ethical lawyer can make, and I am going to make them to you, here and now, on behalf of our firm:
"If you hire me, I promise to give you my best counsel and to do my best for you - as I have for every client from the moment I started practicing law - until the day I retire. I promise to treat you as I would want to be treated and as I would treat my own loved ones. I promise I will always stand between you and harm."
At Aaron Delgado & Associates, we have more than 150 years combined legal experience. We have helped thousands of people who sat across the table with us nervous, angry and scared or in terrible pain. We have sat across from people in jail cells who wondered if they would ever walk free again. We have stood beside hospital beds and held the hand of injured clients. We do not envy you having to hire a lawyer. It is always at a time in your life when you would rather be doing anything else. It is extremely unlikely you have been putting money away in your "hire a lawyer" fund.
We get it. When you meet with us, we understand it's probably one of the worst days of your life. So we want to make it easier for you to hand your burden over to us and let us shoulder it for you.
Please, if you have been arrested injured or wronged, contact our firm and schedule a consultation. We will be honored to serve you.


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5 Excellent Twists on the 'Breaking Bad' Finale
After five seasons, 'Breaking Bad' has finally come to an end. If you watched the show, we're going to go ahead and assume you've spent the majority of the past few days reading countless blog posts about the show to get a fix before you realize it's actually gone forever.
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DeKALB – The city is researching the pros and cons of expanding its number of tax increment financing districts.
At Monday's meeting, City Manager Mark Biernacki said the DeKalb City Council will be presented with a report by the end of 2012 on whether certain areas of the city should be designated as tax increment financing districts.
In these districts, local taxing bodies can only collect on a property's base value for a maximum 23 years. Property taxes are not capped though. The money collected above the base value – referred to as the increment – goes into a special fund to pay for improvements within the district.
The goal of the districts is to encourage redevelopment in blighted areas, and Biernacki identified three possible district locations. Those are along South Fourth Street, past Taylor Street toward Huntley Middle School; the apartments in and around Greek Row; and parts of Sycamore Road near Hopkins Park.
Both Mayor Kris Povlsen and Second Ward Alderman Tom Teresinski said that the South Fourth Street corridor between City Hall and Huntley Middle School needs redevelopment.
"In my view, we need to make sure there's viable retail [along the corridor]," Teresinski said. "If something were to be accommodated, it'd be a way to restart some of the business down that corridor."
Officials are in the planning phases, and nothing has been voted on by the council, Teresinski said. Biernacki said the process for creating a special taxing district requires four to six months to complete. Any vote on the creation of a new district would not occur until lspring or summer of 2013, he estimated.
DeKalb is not limited in the number of TIF districts it can create at one time, Biernacki said. But the districts are limited in lifespan. The designation normally expires after 23 years, although the city can petition the Illinois General Assembly for a 12-year extension.
This is what DeKalb did in 2008. The Central Area TIF district, created in 1985, was set to expire that year until the city successfully lobbied the state for an extension.
"You don't get to do that again," Biernacki said. That district expires in 2020.
The Central Area TIF, which encompasses parts of Lincoln Highway and Sycamore Road, is projected to have $2.8 million sitting in its account by June 30. A second district, which includes the neighborhood south of Lincoln Highway and north of Taylor Street, will have $5.9 million in its account.
But the city is expecting to see revenues to these accounts drop between July 2013 and June 30, 2014, said Jennifer Diedrich, the city's economic development coordinator. She said property values are expected to fall 5 percent in fiscal 2014.


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Lauren Bucherie is a music supervisor and film producer based in Austin, Texas. In 2009, she co-founded The Sessions with CJ Vinson, a music production company specializing in events, concerts and music videos. The Sessions also serves as a platform to connect audiences with undiscovered bands and nationally acclaimed artists, and is always tuned in to discover the next breakout act. This accomplished company has now filmed over 100 bands on the brink of success and currently hosts the exclusive 'Living Room Live" concert series in partnership with the W Hotel. Currently, she works as the Director of Music and Brand Activations for Kimpton Hotels and Restaurants.