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Why Use Giveaways and Contests?
- Branding– get exposure for your book and/or your other services.
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1)Decide on what you will give away. Make it something related to your target audience and what they would like.
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Giveaway ends February 1, 2015 at 11:59 PM EST. Print copies open to Residents of the US only. Digital copies will be distributed via Smashwords.com where the preferred format can be chosen. Winners will be selected randomly via Rafflecopter.com and be notified by email. Each winner will have 48 hours to respond before a new winner is selected. If chosen for a print copy, Shelley Hitz will send the prize to each winner directly. The product offered for the giveaway is free of charge, no purchase necessary. Facebook and Twitter are in no way associated with this giveaway. By providing your information in this form, you are providing your information to Shelley Hitz alone. She will not share or sell information and will use any information only for the purpose of contacting the winner. If you have any additional questions – feel free to send us an email!
Make sure to choose your winner in a timely fashion and be creative in how you announce the winners. Here's how to pick a winner via Rafflecopter's blog.
What the Rafflecopter widget looks like at different phases of your giveaway:
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Admiral Thad Allen to Keynote A&WMA's 2011 ACE in Orlando
Pittsburgh, PA (Dec. 13, 2010) – The Air & Waste Management Association (A&WMA) has announced that Admiral Thad Allen, United States Coast Guard (Retired) and National Incident Commander of the Unified Command response to the Gulf of Mexico Oil Spill, will offer the keynote presentation at its 104th Annual Conference & Exhibition in Orlando, FL, June 21-24, 2011.
"We're honored to have Admiral Allen as our keynote speaker," said Mike Kelly, A&WMA Executive Director. "His experiences and comments will enrich the understanding of other presentations in our Technical Program that relate to the lessons of the spill and living with its legacy."
Allen, who led spill response efforts for the United States immediately after stepping down as Commandant of the Coast Guard in preparation for his retirement, also led Coast Guard search and rescue efforts during the response to Hurricanes Katrina and Rita in 2005. Allen retired from the Coast Guard on June 30, 2010, but continues to serve as National Incident Commander for the Gulf spill as a civilian. He is also a Senior Fellow for the Rand Corp, a non-profit research and analysis organization aimed at improving policy decision making.
A&WMA's 2011 Annual Conference & Exhibition will also feature Dr. Timothy Townsend of the University of Florida, who will intricately explore e-waste during the Association's annual "Critical Review" presentation. Townsend, a leading expert on waste management and e-waste challenges, will have his discussion and conclusions on tackling this growing global problem critiqued by a select panel of peers, as well as by audience members and conference attendees.
A&WMA's 2011 Annual Conference & Exhibition will be held at Disney's Coronado Springs Resort in Orlando. In addition to presentations from Allen and Townsend, the event features an extensive exhibition hall, exclusive technical tours, the student Environmental Challenge International (ECi), professional development courses, and countless opportunities to network with leading environmental professionals from around the world.
Platinum sponsors for the event include 3M, Walt Disney World Resorts, and Golder Associates. Sponsorships and exhibition opportunities for the June event are now available. For additional information, visit www.awma.org/ACE2011, or contact Malissa Wood at firstname.lastname@example.com, or 1+412-232-3444.
About A&WMA
The Air & Waste Management Association is a nonprofit, nonpartisan professional organization that serves as a balanced forum for the safe exploration of ideas related to environmental issues. It provides training, information, and networking opportunities to thousands of environmental professionals in over 65 countries. For more information, visit www.awma.org.
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Each year the Lincoln Square Ravenswood Chamber of Commerce works with the 19th and 20th Chicago Police Department Precincts to organize a Business Safety Seminar. This Seminar is intended to assist businesses with best practices on preventing crime within their establishments and along the commercial corridors. In addition, a Q&A is offered to allow business owners and staff the opportunity to discuss with local police current issues affecting the community.
Safety Seminar Details
Date: Wednesday, March 16th 2017
Time: 9:00am – 10:00am
Location: Sulzer Regional Library, 4455 N. Lincoln Avenue
Admission: FREE
The Northcenter, Greater Ravenswood, and Lincoln Square Ravenswood Chambers of Commerce are collaborating to present a neighborhood business safety forum. Representatives from the 40th and 47th Ward Alderman's offices and 19th and 20th District CAPS representatives as well as local security expert Frank Iccas, will be present to discuss trends and issues in the neighborhoods our members should know and strategies for keeping your business safe.
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The partnership between police and community is the foundation of Chicago's own philosophy of community policing, known as CAPS — the Chicago Alternative Policing Strategy. Beat community meetings are a key part of the CAPS strategy of partnerships and problem solving. These meetings, held on all 279 police beats in the City, provide a regular opportunity for police officers, residents, business owners, and other community stakeholders to exchange information, identify and prioritize problems, and begin developing solutions to those problems.
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QuotePlenty I like, but yuh have tuh give meh reason tuh like yuh.So whappen Organic one, yuh like Very Shitty Naipaul?Quotei doh dislike de man he never do i anythign.. i said i liek him fomr a literary perspective. and i do.but i perfer sam selvon and micheal anthony ... for reasons in my initial reposne in this threadQuoteGreen days by the river is still one of my fav books. doh worry wid TT, he experiencing menopause.
As Edward Said, a former professor of English and comparative literature at Columbia University, once put it, although Naipaul, in the West is seen as "a master novelist and an important witness to the disintegration and hypocrisy of the third world, in the postcolonial world he's a marked man as a purveyor of stereotypes and disgust for the world that produced him - though that doesn't exclude people thinking he's a gifted writer."
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Steve Ballmer announced that Mango will have over 500 new features and we've seen quite a few of those. Having played around with Windows Phone 7 Mango for more than 24 hours I've found the beta release to be stable and pretty functional. There have been lengthy reviews of the update and I won't be getting into that. I will however share a list of my top additions (or tweaks) in the upcoming update. Here are 11 that complement the features linked above:
Call Log (History):
I stumbled on this when I was at a bar and looking at a friend's profile only to realize that I hadn't seen such a comprehensive (and clean) log of contact activity. Divided by weeks, the log displays SMS, email and call activity with ability to see more activity with synced email accounts like Google or Outlook.
Conversation View
My inbox used to be filled with 20+ emails when I turned my data connection ON and it used to be annoying to manual delete each email in a thread I am not interested in. Not anymore. Threaded mail or conversation view is a feature I would like to thank the overlords in Redmond for.
PS: Linked Inboxes isn't in my list since I've got only three mailboxes that I follow.
Battery Saver
Windows Phone 7 did not show a lot of statistics and it felt incomplete. In Mango, Microsoft has introduced a new feature that shows you how long (time) your battery will last and also an option to initiate a battery saver mode when the battery is low. The battery saver mode turns the following services off:
- Push Email
- WiFi
- Background Applications
The well thought-out tweak under Battery Saver is the control allowing us to initiate battery saver whenever we want to till the phone is connected to a power source. While I am not sure what is battery low but I guess when remaining life is around 20%.
Switch between SMS and Facebook chat
It is one those attention to detail features that as users we want. All text conversation threads with friends now have an icon at the bottom that allows us to quickly switch between SMS or IM. If the user is listed as online we can have a IM conversation. Unfortunately, we can't send a private Facebook message if the user is offline. Nevertheless, the seamless switching between Facebook chat & SMS is fun!
Facebook Notifications
As I wrote earlier, with Mango the Me tile has become a lot more useful. The tile allows users to set their IM status, update their social status and check in using Facebook Places. The tile also lists Facebook notifications, coupled with push notifications introduced in the Facebook app, being able to glance at the latest notifications within the phone is handy.
Bing Local Scout & Music Search
Apps like Foursquare (Explore) and Yelp are quite handy to know what's happening around your location but with Mango, Microsoft has built this functionality into Bing. In a feature named Scout, Bing lists the following:
- Restaurants
- Shopping locations
- Local activates
- Highlights
I will be doing a more detailed look into Scout in the coming days.
The other addition to Bing on WP7 is a Shazam-killer. A few weeks back, Shazam introduced a paid version of their popular music search app for WP7 and crippled the free version. As a user I was annoyed, not anymore. Microsoft has introduced Shazam-like feature in Bing and it works splendidly well! With Bing's music search, a user can directly buy identified song from the Zune marketplace or go through his scanned music history later.
Facebook Events Integration
Windows Phone 7 syncs calendars from all email accounts but for all the Facebook integration, it did not sync Facebook Events. This changed in Mango. While I am not a heavy user of Facebook events, the reason I find this feature pretty damn cool is because now I can see all my Facebook friends' birthdays as calendar entries on the phone.
Background Tasks
As a Windows users, the Task Manager is a feature I love. I like to know what processes are running in the background and what is the resource usage like. With Multitasking being introduced in Mango, a Task Manager to know the tasks running in the background and probably kill them if needed is crucial. While I haven't been able to test it as yet, since there are no apps currently in the marketplace that can run in background, I've added this as a worth mentioning addition.
Now Playing Lock Screen
Till NoDo, the lock screen showed the wallpaper with notifications about new messages and calendar entries. To control the currently playing songs one had to press the volume buttons. In Mango however, the lock screen turns into a whole new level of awesome. If there is album art for the currently playing artist, the lock screen wallpaper will be replaced with gorgeous images from Zune with big play/pause control buttons.
Share Links from IE to Social Networks
In iOS 5, Apple has introduced deeper Twitter integration with users being able to tweet images and links from within the Safari and camera roll. You will be able to do it in Windows Phone 7 too. As of now, you can share links on LinkedIn, Facebook and Windows Live. With the expected Twitter integration I expect Twitter being added to the social networks.
PS: I would like to see this Social Networks share option under Pictures and even in the marketplace.
Autofix Pictures
In NoDo, options under images showed an entry called Extras that allowed third party apps to list themselves for interaction with the images. I was able to open an image in Thumba Photo Editor and edit the image or tweet the picture using the TwitPic app, in Mango this option isn't there (I assume it'll be back). Meanwhile, a new option has been introduced under image menu called Auto-Fix. This is a quick image editing option that applies certain basic fixes to the image such as hue, saturation etc. It does seem to work; before/after images below:
Unfortunately, the edited image isn't stored as a separate image, so once fixed there's no undo.
Next time I'm in Redmond I would like to take the guys behind these features for a drink, they've made Mango pretty damn useful to me.


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A Charlie Johnson Thanksgiving, Now With More PamPosted: November 24, 2016 Filed under: Charles "Icarus" Johnson, Little Green Footballs, Pam Geller, Penis Penis Penis LOL | Tags: Alan Levinovitz, Charles Johnson, LGF, Little Green Footballs, Pamela Geller, penis penis penis lol, Stalking, Thanksgiving, twitter 57 Comments
Oh, shut up about Pam Geller. She's equivalent to Nazis? How do you reach adulthood with that level of blind їdiocé, Charles? On Thanksgiving? Bet you're a fun person to be around during holiday get-togethers with family (and friends, if you still have any).
At least there's some funny on the thread:
What's the percentage of sites that load faster? 69%?
Bonus: Some wag threadbombed the Pamtrum Convo already.
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Note: our sources tell us McDumbth bought that black leather jacket especially for this occasion, the long-awaited meeting with his prospective ladylove. After Teh Straightarm, he destroyed the jacket with scissors, and burned the pieces. Then Teh Vlaams Belang Deluge, followed by Teh Banning Of 16,000. Then, Teh Begging. No wonder he calls her "Cock-Tehz." Then he noticed her earrings were golems, and went totally insane.
He did keep the black t-shirt.
I don't think he's taken it off since that deadly day of humiliation and rejection. 😆
Here's the lovely Pam commenting very rationally on the BBC World News.
Suck it Stompy.
She's good. So is the BBC announcer. Nice sparring match! 🙂
"Westworld" is a good show, btw. In case you were wondering. I trust you know how to obtain "premium cable" entertainments for free without risking your personal id. It's easier than posting idiotic glurge on Twitter all day, while scarfing Cheetos or swigging Sterno.
Anyway, I decided to check out this show because the original movie was a huge fave of mine, from way back. I heard they were spending lots of money to make it a serious endeavor, and they hired a couple of my favorite actors, in Ed Harris and Evan Rachel Wood. It's a good one, I have to admit, even though I'm skeptical about these things and wary of lame leftoid productions. Five episodes in, it's getting better and better. Sci-fi Western with a strong tinge of lunacy. Not to mention, Evan Rachel Wood. Last time I saw her, she was owning the defunct series "True Blood," with a classic star turn. Here she goes again.
Ed Harris looks about a hundred years old, and partially mummified from the dry heat of the desert. He's great, as always.
@Karoli @arthur_affect Fuck Andrew Sullivan. "Demolition" my ass. This is the guy who helped legitimize The Bell Curve. Repeat: fuck him.
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Stompy's outraged by Sullivan's telling the truth about what a horrible candidate Shrillery was. He won't accept anything but lying meme's about Trump being a rapist and a grifter er something. And rejects any criticism of the Shrillbeast. And then bizarrely brings up The Bell Curve for no apparent reason other than he can't refute facts.
Sullivan crushes it.
BBC Radio 4 – Letters from America – Available now
Chunky will never get over the backhanded drubbing served on him by Sully Power-Glutes, back in the day. The mere mention of the names of the many people who've turned him into gibbering-slop on their off-days re-ignites the flames of dumbthy passion, leading to a chain of incoherent tweets that nobody in the world besides DoD understands or cares about.
We explored "The Bell Curve" previously in some detail, and determined that Chunky had absolutely no familiarity with the actual content of the work. He read some libturded nonsense about the book on Media Matters, and quoted it verbatim during his attack on Sully. Business as usual, in other words. Hey, why is that Thai Ladyboy wearing an "LGF Minions" t-shirt?
Had to port some code from a Linux shell script to PHP that made heavy use of cURL, & this was an enormous help: whatsmyip.org/lib/php-curl-o…
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Spare us the techno jargon Stompy. ObserverArt would just like the page to load.
I'm about halfway through the documentary, "Weiner," about the freaky-deaky pervish libturd's run for mayor of NYC in 2013. It's wonderful! Especially in light of Shrillary/Huma's Big Wet Fart on the national stage. Huma is seen here in all her glory, as is the creepy Weiner. Check this one out.
Strange watching this knowing what we now know- Keep that girl away from any campaigns from here on out. She's cursed!
It a beautiful
Black FridayFriday of Color and Pakimog ready for NHL hockey!
The Philadelphia Flyers host the New York Rangers in Metro Division slugfest!
Now Pakimog have excuse to avoid
Black FridayFriday of Color shopping train wreck and instead lounge in recliner and drink beer and try to get lady friend to get in kitchen and make Pakimog turkey sammiches!
Pakimog's lady friend probably too wise to come over today and fall into Pakimog's turkey sammich making trap.
Pakimog will just have to make own turkey sammiches… lots of them! 😀
RT @juliakmarsh: Secret Service in negotiations to take over 2 floors at Trump Tower, costing taxpayers millions: @nypost exclusive https:/…
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Yet Stompy never gave a shit about Obungle blowing tax payer money on vacations he vowed not to take when he campaigned. And the need for secret service protection in Trump Tower sounds like a lot more legitimate use of taxpayer money than the first lady breezing off to Africa with an entourage of 100 like some movie star on taxpayer dime.
Newly revealed expenses for Martha's Vineyard, more
President Obama, who famously suggested he would give up taking vacations if he was elected president, has spent nearly $80 million of taxpayer money on vacations.
That's according to the newest total compile by Judicial Watch, which has been monitoring those costs since Obama moved into the White House and started getting away to Hawaii, sending his kids to Mexico for spring break and his wife to Africa.
Judicial Watch said Wednesday the information from the Department of Homeland Security shows the Obama family's August 2015 vacation on Martha's Vineyard cost taxpayers $465,420.49 in Secret Service expenses alone.
What You Should Know About Betsy DeVos, Trump's Education Secretary Pick lgf.bz/2gktdpE https://t.co/sB46BeeF6z
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It's a a way to slip creationism, David Barton's twisted wingnut mythos history, and anti-science views into schools whole cloth because a big part of charter schools is lack of oversight, and it's noteworthy that DeVos fought oversight for charters tooth and nail. Public schools have their issues, but they do not fail as often and as badly as most private schools.
The thing our species does better than any others is to nurture and teach our young for a very long time, and that thorough public education a big part of our success as a species and a country. If we throw our children to these Luddite voucher fiends we will tearing at the foundations of greatness in our country
This is Stompy's regular poster Thanos' commentary. Spoken like a true progressive with no kids of their own regurgitating Media Matters fear mongering talking points. Like everything else progressives get their meat hooks into, their primary concern is not educating the kids but fostering more brain washed progressives and expanding government control. The teachers themselves are more interested in expanding their pensions and benefits and imposing their view of progressive politicians as charismatic God-like creatures of light that are beyond all questioning.
Completely agree. The teachers around here are the whiniest people in town. They've instituted testing recently, and are rating teachers by how much the child improves from year to year, and the teachers are literally having cows about it, even though they've seen huge improvements in scores in classrooms where the teachers have been identified as needing improvement and they get extra support from the school. But they all act like their shit doesn't stink and it's impossible to measure their performance in any way, shape or form. Oh, and they act like if you pay them more they will magically work harder, which is bullcrap. Any teacher with the attitiude that they are not paid enough to care, needs to be shown the door, and kicked across the threshold.
Charter schools will tear at the country? We are graduating children with 3rd grade reading levels. Children with straight "A's" have to take remedial English and math and chemistry when they get to college. It almost can't get worse.
White police officer shot and killed by black thug with history of combative encounters with police — MSM silent on matter. SSDD.
Seven wins, seven late-fourth quarter comebacks. Surely a team can't keep going to this well, right? 🙂
I liked Aretha's long version anthem with piano and organ. I didn't even know she played piano much less very well. I usually forget half the details of the game the next day but I do remember being very impressed with Stafford's throwing accuracy and his physical mobility. They definitely look very capable and solid which is a great place to be at this point in the season.
It's an amazing place for Detroit to be, and they could be even better if their luck holds and they get a couple of guys back who are said to be nearly ready to come off the IR. Running back Ameer Abdullah was going great guns early, only to break his foot — might be back in 10 days, or the game after that. Brandon Pettigrew doesn't catch a ton of passes anymore, but he's the best blocker on the team, and makes the running game work — should be back in two weeks. Deandre Levy is damaged goods and hasn't played much in the past two seasons, but is said to be eager to join his suddenly contentious teammates for the final push. Ziggy Ansuh has been playing hurt all year which has hurt his performance, but he's getting better every week — this 10-day break should be very good for him.
As for Stafford, he's peaking as a pro right now. Everything has come together in his game, even though the offense lacks a consistent running game and the receivers drop the most passes of any team. Matthew wills the team to victory — without him, I think the Lions would be winless.
Regarding Aretha's anthem, I have mixed feelings. It was a strong, gospel-rich performance from the old girl, but it had a few unfocused moments and went on a tad too long. Nothing's perfect, though. Nice to see she can still bring it.
The number of women joining the Donald's administration Stompy will have to smear as crazy yet dangerous continues to go up.
Because Donald hates women, the Hitlerian misogynist and racist that he is. These women must hate themselves! 😆
Fatso haz a sad.
"ISIS leader who ordered U.S. Muslims to murder Pamela Geller killed by drone strike in Syria"
Nice shot, men. We need Pam alive and kicking ass. Plus, every time Chunky goes into a Pam-tantrum, we get a huge hearty laugh.
It's simple, Garage Boy. The Left is severely butt-chafed from the horrendous drubbing they took in the election, and they are pursuing irrational, doomed means of "fixing" the result. They want a recount, that ends in their favor, in enough states to reverse the electoral college landslide, which will never happen in a million years but gives them something to do besides walk into traffic and be severely injured. So, keep going, libturds! 😆
Oh, and stay off the highway. It's not safe for anyone to walk around on, especially dim-bulb special snowflakes.
Heheh…do they still sell the Rumpswab™ in the giant blue barrels? 😆
"The Russians are coming, the Russians are coming!" You're a laff-riot, Fatass.
A documented case of fake news by the DNC media complex
For 200 years, we've known about "climate change," and that humans are responsible, according to this idiot. Chunky is totally on board with this fantastic notion, because he's a big fat imbecilic recluse.
I'm sure there has been "climate change" on earth starting from the moment our solar system was formed.
Fatso is such a predictable dolt.
Is there a reason why you choose to disbelieve Facebook, whose study of fake news concluded it was more common on the right? @Brian_Sniffen
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Oh maybe it's because the "fake news spread by the Russians" retard meme was only rolled out about a week ago in a coordinated fashion between the libturd media and Demoncrap liar party. And because it's clearly an idiotic distraction from the fact that the Clinton campaign team committed federal crimes and Shrillery was a shitty and stupid candidate.
Exactly. Wasn't there a poll that asked people if the media influenced how they voted, and like 98% of them said it did not. So, it probably didn't matter if it was real or fake news, it had no efffect, anyway.
Efffffect. Effffect. Efffect. Effect.
844-308-6816 "Microsoft Technical Support". Feel free to call them, they called me all day today.
We've since exchanged a few words, The sissies hang up before I even approach beginning to be cussed out in Texas.
Some people have fun with it.
More here.
Are you sure that's Microsoft? I called it and a hot sounding chick named Bambi asked me for a credit card number.
Yea because falling for the bogu$ hype of "climate change" makes one rational.
Spare me.
Because if you can get a gang of people to back something because of ideology and/or ignorance = rational.
So Barrett Brown gets out of prison next week. All that trouble he had with Palantir. Guess who the Chairman of Palantir is? Peter Thiel.
My sister hosted T-day and I'm sure she and her kids (my nieces) were all Shrillbeast supporters. Thankfully they are all very kind and didn't want to make us feel unwelcome knowing we were likely Trump supporters. Great conversation about anything but!
We kept it civil, too. Wasn't easy, especially for me. 😉


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Maggie had tried to contact the local testing center and although a few others were reaching out to them because of the storm and documents that had gotten damaged; they said there was little they could do. Apparently they only printed one copy of the ged diploma and that was at the time of passing the tests. There would be no replacements or second copies made available to her.
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Hypobaric Hypoxia Induces Depression-like Behavior in Female Sprague-Dawley Rats, but not in Males
The researchers housed rats for a week at simulated altitudes of sea level, 10,000 feet and 20,000 feet using altitude chambers, and at local conditions of 4,500 feet, the elevation of Salt Lake City where the research took place. They then used a widely accepted behavioral test in which depression is gauged by how much persistence rodents demonstrate in a swim test. "In female rats, increasing altitude of housing from sea level to 20,000 feet caused a parallel increase in depression-like behavior," Kanekar says.http://healthcare.utah.edu/publicaffairs/news/2015/03/03-25-15_KankekarRats.php; full text of study online at https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4376288/.
The correlation between altitude and high rates of depression and suicide is strikingly obvious in the Intermountain West region of the United States where elevations are considerably higher than in the rest of the country. In 2012, the eight states that comprise the Intermountain West–Utah, Colorado, Wyoming, Montana, Idaho, Nevada, Arizona and New Mexico–had suicide rates exceeding 18 per 100,000 people compared with the national average of 12.5 per 100,000, according to the American Foundation for Suicide Prevention. The high rates of self-inflicted death in the West have earned the region a gloomy moniker: the Suicide Belt.
"The fact that both depression and suicide rates increase with altitude implies that current antidepressant treatments are not adequate for those suffering from depression at altitude, leading to high levels of unresolved depression that can contribute to higher levels of suicidal ideation and suicide attempts," says Kanekar.
I know of a couple of people--both of whom are female, which fits the finding of this mice study--dealing with difficult-to-treat depression here in Colorado. (Although most of my regular contacts are LDS, neither of these two people is LDS, which doesn't seem to fit with occasional claims that LDS people are more prone to depression than non-LDS people.) Could their depression be in part due to the lower barometric pressure and oxygen content of Colorado air?
Despite my adoring the mountains, if my daughters were to suffer from chronic depression, I would consider moving to a lower elevation if I couldn't somehow up the amount of oxygen they inhale.


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The Death Penalty Discussed
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Among the punishments faced by citizens in a modern society, none are more severe than the death penalty. In use from Canada's founding in 1867, till its abolition in 1976, the death penalty was exercised in the sentencing of nearly 600 persons. Having only been abolished in 1976, with an attempt to reinstate it in […]


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Faye will likely do my professional author pics…eventually. Can you just imagine it? Me, in some stuffy suit and pearls? Perhaps I will give the camera that Usher stare—you know the one he does with his eyes kind of crinkly and half-closed, where you're not quite sure if he's half asleep or merely debating different ways to eat you.
I think if I were to post a photo on my book jacket, I would want to have one that looks like this:
It's not quite the Usher stare. Rather, I'm pretty sure this look says, "I-totally-see-your-soul-and-it-looks-rather-tasty-doesn't-my-book-look-awesome?" Plus, the phone over the face adds that air of mystery I think all authors should have.
If you think you don't need professional photos, well, maybe you don't. What do I know? You can ask Jane Friedman* if you're uncertain. She'll likely tell you that every author needs professional headshots.
Actually, I'm pretty dang sure that's what she'd tell you.
I'll be honest. I'm not sure how I feel about this. I've been rather resistant to the whole notion of author branding, and this just seems to take it one step further. Like, look at me, I've now been hermitically sealed in a brand with this uber professional photograph of me sitting in a random field of poppies staring off like I'm thinking really hard about my super story.
It's not that I don't agree that branding is necessary. I mean, fans and followers need something more concrete to hang on to, an image that they can put to your name, right? Usher, for example, will indelibly be, in my mind, that guy with a lazy, fresh-from-the-bedroom smile and a crinkly-eyed, will-you-go-best-with-pinot-or-merlot stare. This look is something I can remember.
But I bet Usher is more than just a sex god. I wonder if it bothers him that this is how he's viewed? Maybe he doesn't imagine every woman naked save for stilettos and a spoon. Perhaps, some days he sheds his sunglasses and puts on a beanie and sweat pants. Maybe he thinks to himself, "I really wish people knew about my stuffed pig collection and my penchant for fish tacos. I'm not only an oysters and champagne and handcuffs kind of guy."
I suppose his image sells, and in the end that's what matters.** I just don't know how to be only one thing. How do you capture in a photo—or in a brand—the everything that you are?
Maybe I'll just keep taking photos with a phone over my face, so it doesn't matter who I am. I'll just be the author with a phone face. Think it'll sell?
Just don't look into my eyes. Cuz your soul's looking mighty tasty.
**I feel the need to clarify that I have no idea if Usher actually has a beanie like this one or a stuffed pig collection. If it's not blatantly obvious to you that the photo of Usher has been altered to suit my purposes, don't feel bad—perhaps I'm just a crazy good photoshopper (Original photo found here).


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When Dracula is called away on "official vampire business," it is a chance for his teenage daughter, Mavis, to show her father what she can do. Assisted by her friends Hank N Stein, Pedro and Wendy Blob, she puts into motion her ideas about how to run Hotel Transylvania. It's not all fun and games, though, when Aunt Lydia, Dracula's older and much meaner sister, enters the picture. She pushes for more order and tradition at the hotel, curtailing Mavis' plans to let loose with her friends. The animated series is based on 2012 feature film "Hotel Transylvania."
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After applying many changes in its flagship smartphone (Xperia Z) and introducing it as Xperia Z1, now Sony has moved into providing first mini version of its flagship smartphone. Recently we saw the launch of Sony Xperia Z1 Compact which is the mini version of Xperia Z1 and here I'm starting with its review so that you can know what this device got for you.
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Sony Xperia Z1 Compact Review
The Xperia Z1 has got 5 inch of display which brings the device into the Phablet category but Sony Xperia Z1 Compact has got 4.3 inch display and it got most of the features of the main flagship smartphone.
The build quality is pretty good and the overall design of the Xperia Z1 Compact is still the same. You won't find any major difference in the main and this mini version apart from the display size.
Sony has launched it in four different color options which are black, white, pink and yellow. All colors are looking great and I personally liked the white and black one. Yellow color option was also attracting me though.
The device is also dust proof and water resistant up to 1 meter for about 30 minutes. This is going to be the main attractive feature of the device.
Till now all the smartphones manufactured by Sony were not having better display quality but Sony has shown its technology and hard work in the Xperia Z1 Compact. The display quality is best in the Xperia Z1 Compact till now and you're not going to find any lag in it.
The device looks awesome in different viewing angles and the display also make sure that the content is visible under sunlight. Sony has used its Triluminos and X-Reality engines in it to provide this quality.
The display size is as mentioned 4.3 inch which offers highest resolution of 720×1280 pixels i.e. HD resolution. The display also supports multi touch and is protected from scratches and shatter.
With Snapdragon 800 chipset device is a power booster. It got quad-core processor clocked at 2.2GHz along with Adreno 330 GPU and 2GB of RAM. The internal storage is 16GB while the storage can be expended using microSD card of maximum 64GB size.
The same CPU was there in the parent Z1 and so the Xperia Z1 Compact is really a power booster. You won't find any performance or graphics lag in the device even while playing high quality games.
The device runs on Android 4.3 Jelly Bean and its going to receive the latest Android 4.4.2 KitKat update as well. The software has got no changes and it's still undeveloped, Sony definitely needs to worry about its skin pack now, it's high time!
The rear camera is still the same 20.7MP camera with Sony's G lens along with features like touch focus, face detection, smile detection, image and video stabilization and panorama. The front camera has got 2MP lens and both the cameras offer better picture and video quality. Camera is again the plus thing in this phone.
Xperia Z1 Compact supports up to LTE (latest standard of cellular data) along with Wi-Fi, Bluetooth 4.0, NFC and microUSB port. There is also a port for TV-out in the device.
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I work with various aspects of data assimilation for numerical weather prediction. My research covers algorithmic developments, handling of background error statistics and observation handling, both for upper-air data assimilation and surface data assimilation.
I am involved in several European research projects and also in the developments of the common Swedish-Norwiegan operational modelling system, covering a North-European area.
The algorithmic developments that I am involved in are 4-dimensional variational data assimilation for the upper-air part of the kilometre-scale forecast model applied at SMHI. Furthermore I work with application of Kalman Filter techniques for the surface data assimilation part of the kilometre-scale forecast model applied at SMHI.
The observation handling work is focused on observations considered important for km-scale data assimilation, such as moisture information from the Global Navigation Satellite System (GNSS) and soil moisture information from the Advanced SCATterometer (ASCAT) instrument.
I am involved in a national project, RSLAND, funded by the Swedish National Space Board (SNSB). The European Union projects that I am involved in are DNICAST, IMPREX and COST ES1206. All projects focus on improving various aspects of numerical weather prediction.
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- Numerical weather prediction
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Thursday, May 23, 2013
Confessions of a Lia Sophia Addict
My party was small but I still took advantage of all the free, hostess and half price deals I could. Since then every February and August I eagerly await the new catalogs. I've ordered a few individual pieces directly through advisors.
I check out the list of retired pieces in July and January to make sure I don't miss something.
I check for new specials at the last Monday of every month.
I have "liked" numerous advisors' Facebook pages based on the fact that they have giveaways/ deals/ headsups on upcoming specials.
I have the Lia app on my phone.
Shortly after the new catalog came out in February I came up with a wishlist of almost $700 worth of jewelry. I called the advisor from the most recent party I had attended and booked a party.
I earned a ton of new items after that party, but still have a long wish list. I will be attending a party next week (that will be my 5th Lia Sophia party attended in four years and I have hosted 2).
I know I said I don't consider myself a jewelry person but I really like this line. They have a wide variety of styles and while there are always plenty of pieces that are not my style, there are many that are. I've gotten in the bad habit of throwing clothes on the morning, when I take a little extra time to think about what I'm going to wear and accessorize, I feel better about myself. When I bump into someone I know in town I can hold my head high knowing I look good, instead of thinking I should have taken the extra couple of minutes getting dressed that morning.
Bottom line - I have seriously been considering selling Lia Sophia. I've made a list of every woman I know and came up with over 150. I ran the numbers to see how much I would have to sell before I would earn commission. I have come up with a month by month plan of how to grow my business. I came up with a list of ways to market the business. I scoured the internet and managed to find some unprotected "advisor-only" documents.
The problem is I don't want to do home parties. I know this is the basis of Lia Sophia's business, but I'm way to introverted to do it. Lately I've seen some catalog and on-line shows. I'm not sure how viable those really are though? I think those are usually extras for busy advisors who do the usual home parties. To be fair I'm going to start by asking the advisor who ran my last party, and if she thinks I'm insane I'll check with some of the advisors I found through Facebook. I know this is not how the company wants their advisors to do things as everyone makes more money doing home parties, but my main goal is free jewelry for me, not paying the bills.
Any Lia or other jewelry reps out there, I'd love your input. Am I crazy to think this could work, or can I make this work?
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Not sure where you are in this goal? As it is now September. But I agree with you in so many ways - however I took the plunge and signed on to be an advisor. My first party is Oct 3rd so we'll see how it goes :)ReplyDelete
I've decided to wait a year (until my youngest is in Kindergarten and I'll have more time to myself. Still not sure how effective the online/FB parties are but I'm planning on talking to other advisors this year and see if it's doable.ReplyDelete
Good luck to you!!
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Bill Murray is typically the fan favorite at the Pebble Beach Pro-Am, hamming it up with the crowds and entertaining the masses, but a report has surfaced stating Murray threw fans' cellphones over a restaurant's second-floor rooftop this week.
From MSN.com: On Thursday night, Murray was at the restaurant Vesuvio, where Justin Timberlake was throwing a party for his 901 tequila, when a number of fans bombarded the comedic actor and started repeatedly taking flash photos of him. Murray, who's usually very accommodating, became annoyed with the too-close-for-comfort fans, and grabbed some of their phones and tossed them over the restaurant's second floor rooftop.
The report claims that Murray tossed three phones, damaging two, and has agreed to pay for the damages caused.
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MIDDLETOWN, NY – A battle between two of the most iconic Modified drivers in the history of the Orange County Fair Speedway took center stage last Saturday evening as the track presented its final regular season program of the 2018 racing campaign. Jeff Heotzler Sr. and Richie Eurich, who are only two of four drivers to crack the 50-win barrier during their illustrious OCFS careers, brought the crowd to its feet with… Read More
By FRANK CATIZONE MIDDLETOWN, NY – Jeff Heotzler Sr. carved another notch into his racing belt at the Orange County Fair Speedway last Saturday night as he drove to his 52nd career Modified victory at the historic track in the 30-lap main event. Heotzler, who has struggled throughout the early season, feels he may have finally hit on something good as he took control of the race from the second lap and… Read More
The Jeffer is now one of only 3 drivers at the historic Orange County Fair Speedway to notch 50 career big block modified wins! The Jeffer took advantage of a late race restart to power to the lead and then cruised on for his 50th modified and 71st total victory at "The Hard Clay!" Thank you to everyone who made this win possible and especially to our car owner Ronnie Roberts!
After rebounding from last to 6th in 10 laps after a right rear flat tire on lap 38 of 50, The Jeffer cut down another tire, this time with only 2 laps to go. What would have been a strong start to the Short Track Super Series, turned in to a disappointing outing aboard the Roberts Racing 14h. A scoring blunder recorded The Jeffer as 2 laps down, however, the team is challenging… Read More
Despite the wild nature of Friday night's racing events at Accord, The Jeffer steered the Schrufer Racing 2a from 14th to finish 4th. The Jeffer now leads the Championship Point Standings at the Accord Speedway. OCFS held "Twin 20s" on Saturday night and The Jeffer faired well in each feature. The first feature produced a 4th place finish while the second feature resulted in a 6th place effort. The big block modifieds are… Read More
On Friday night, The Jeffer continued his early season success at the Ulster County Bullring in Accord, driving the Academy Transmissions 2a to a 3rd place finish. The Jeffer had a shot at stealing the win but his late race heroics were denied by a lap car who happened to take the same lane as the 2a was performing a 3 wide pass for the lead. Jeff Jr., who was making his 2nd… Read More
The Jeffer had a solid weekend of racing, scoring a 2nd place finish in the Academy Transmissions 2a at the Accord Speedway on Friday night and a 10th place effort at OCFS on Saturday in the Array of Monograms sponsored 14h. Passing was at a premium at both speedways but The Jeffer did what he had to do in the heat races to put himself in a position to be towards the front… Read More
For the 49th time in a big block modified and the 70th time total, The Jeffer pulled into victory lane at the Orange County Fair Speedway on Saturday night aboard the Roberts Racing 14H. Taking advantage of his front row starting position thanks to the tough luck the weekend before, The Jeffer led every lap of the 30 lap feature event and cruised to the checkered flag. Heotzler now has 120 total wins… Read More
The Jeffer was lightening fast on Saturday night at OCFS for the Hard Clay Open, yet unfortunately didn't have the finish representative of the performance of the 14H machine. After a poor draw that determined the starting line up for the heat race, The Jeffer found himself lined up 8th in the 10 lap qualifier. The top 3 cars would transfer to the feature and the top 2 to the redraw. From the drop of… Read More
The Jeffer Proves He Is Still At The Top Of His Game – Charges To A 5th And 6th Place Finish At OCFS's Eastern States Weekend
As the saying goes, it's not how you start, it's how you finish. There aren't many drivers in dirt racing that are as smooth and patient as Jeff Heotzler. Those traits were once again on display during the 53rd running of the Eastern States Weekend at the historic Orange County Fair Speedway over the weekend. On Saturday night, The Jeffer carefully navigated his way though the field from his 26th starting position en route… Read More


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All occupations have certain disciplines that go with being good at what you do. For example, anyone involved in the medical profession develops the discipline of regularly washing their hands! (One should hope so!)
There are personal disciplines too, which if not developed, can result in disastrous consequences; the discipline of brushing your teeth before bedtime, balancing your expenses and income regularly, tidying up behind you (as I keep telling my teenage kids!).
Disciplines have to be developed
Disciplines don't come naturally, they are developed. In our spiritual life, there are spiritual disciplines that contribute to our spiritual growth which are important to develop. New believers are often instructed in these basic spiritual disciplines being told: Read your Bible, pray, go to church and love others.
Bible reading is a foundational discipline
Reading your Bible is one of the foundational disciplines for a believer who is feeding their spiritual person on the word of God.
Why develop this discipline?
Paul urges us in Ephesians 4:1 to "live a life worthy of the calling you have received," and later (verses 12-13) we are told to "be built up… reaching unity in the faith and in the knowledge of the Son of God and become mature; attaining the full measure of the fullness of Christ."
If we do not develop the discipline of a regular devotion, we will not grow spiritually. And yet, every day, we meet people who have been believers for years, that have still not developed this discipline in their lives and they wonder why they don't grow spiritually, never hear from God, give way to doubt and slowly drift away from God, the church and other believers.
Having a regular devotional is defined as:
- Spending time alone in the presence of God, daily.
- Reading your Bible, reflecting and praying.
- It is a time taken out of the regular routine of the day, with no interruption, to partake in a personal relationship with God.
- It's also referred to as a Quiet Time or Personal Bible Study.
All you need is the Bible and the Holy Spirit. Everything else is just EXTRA!
8 points to consider when developing this discipline:
- Make up your mind that without the discipline of a regular devotional time with God, we will not grow spiritually. This is the DEAL BREAKER.
- It is a process. A discipline needs to be developed and you may not get it right straight away. You cannot buy it or fake it; it is a development process similar to taking a journey. Be realistic, expect to find this process challenging and hard to implement into your life – just think how long it takes to teach toddlers to regularly brush their teeth, on their own.
- Plan ahead. It does not automatically happen. You need to plan a time in the day (when you are at your best) that will regularly work for you and a place (quiet) where you will have it. Be flexible. Make it work for you. The discipline is one that you are developing for yourself, so be practical, not rule bound. Plan what you are going to do, so that you don't spend half the time wondering what to do. The plan could be a devotional, a reading plan and self-study. The better you plan, the more you will get out of the experience.
- Prepare for it. Some of us need to go to bed earlier if we want to stay awake during a regular quiet time with the Lord in the morning. This may mean that our TV time, or reading time needs to be shortened. Some of us need to prepare our loved ones to give us this time, like putting a baby/toddler to sleep at a certain time, or communicating that we are taking this time for ourselves.
- Get the best material. We all know the taste of a meal is determined by good ingredients, so too, ensure the tastefulness of your Quiet Time by investing in good reading material. Get the best Bible you can afford and use the best devotional material you can lay your hands on.
- Stay focused. This may require some "attitude adjustment" in making it a priority in your life. The purpose is to grow spiritually, so make every effort to grow.
- Get back-up. Someone in your life needs to know that you are developing this discipline in your life. You need to share with them where you are and where you want to be. Just like a mother asks a toddler: "Have you brushed you teeth?" You need someone in your life who will ask you, "Have you had a regular time with God lately?"
- Share. Tell others what you have learnt. Often we spend time in the Word and nothing jumps out to us. But we are not given the Word for our sole purpose, it is meant to be shared. Your sharing may be just the Word that someone's starving spirit needs to hear. This has been the most satisfying part of having a daily devotional for me, the watching to see who the Lord brings across my path to share what He has shown me in His Word that morning.
Developing this spiritual discipline in our lives is NOT optional if we want to grow spiritually. It is as vital to our spiritual growth as the air we breathe.
What are you going to do today to make this discipline a regular activity in your life?
Do you have any ideas for having a meaningful Quiet Time that I may have missed? Please comment below and add your ideas.


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Guest Speaker—Yvonne Line
Yvonne Line is an International Award Winning Art Quilter who has been exploring the use of textiles in various forms since her mid-teens. She has a wide range of skills and interests and has run her own businesses is several forms over many years including Costume Design and Dressmaking; Patchwork and Quilting classes for all ages; Education and Community Artist, working with many Councils in the Sydney Area; Art Quilt Exhibitions and the establishment of Before and After School Care Facilities in the northern suburbs of Sydney.
These endeavours have been supported with skills in book-keeping, communications and tenacity. One of her main interests has always been in voluntary endeavours particularly of Quilt Organisation being a founding member of Quilt NSW and current President of Ozquilt Network. Inc. Australia's premier art quilt organisation and locally as a member Macarthur Textile Network Inc.
Yvonne has provided support in reading and understanding of English as a second language to all ages and backgrounds including tutoring of Aboriginal Students at University level. She continues to supporting many charitable organisations, schools and individual with donation of quilts and other textile items.
Over many years, Yvonne's focus has been on presenting art work as layered textiles, using remnants and recycled textiles and re-inventing them into a new form. That which others discard form her palette.


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"I was confused and just shocked," said Spc. Jerry Richard, 27, who works at the center but was not on duty during the shooting. "Overseas you are ready for it. But here you can't even defend yourself." Soldiers at Fort Hood don't carry weapons unless they are doing training exercises.Yesterday a 39 year old Psychiatrist, Major Nidal Malik Hassan, executed 11 unarmed American warriors at the Fort Hood Army base in Texas. Hassan, a Muslim, may have been a frustrated single man. The Imam from his Mosque told reporters that Hassan complained to him about not having a wife. Hassan received a poor job performance evaluation from Walter Reed Medical Center in July, just before he transferred to Fort Hood.
The words of Spc. Jerry Richard quoted above haunt me. He said, "Here you can't even defend yourself." How many massacres of this kind will America absorb before it halts its freefall into the gun control abyss?
Just one armed individual in close proximity to Hassan would have radically changed the outcome of this rampage.
Instead of creating a society full of responsible armed men prepared to protect innocence we are creating a surveillance society in which we demand that the government guarantee our safety. That doesn't make any sense at all. It isn't possible to build a government big enough to protect all 300 million of us all the time. That should be painfully obvious to everyone by now.
How many more Columbines, Virginia Techs and Fort Hoods will it take to wake us up from our utopia-induced stupor so that we can take personal responsibility for ourselves and those we love. It has become, of course, impossible to protect yourself in much of the world because of bad thinking about guns. The liberal idea of ridding the world of guns has actually only kept guns away from the good men who would use them properly.
A perhaps unintended consequence of this bad ideology is that the process of feminization gets a testosterone boost. Men will always choose coddling over duty, if those are their only two choices. The problem with the world is that those aren't ever the only two choices.
Feminists think duty can be feminized. Men are eager to let them believe that. It makes life so much more pleasureable ... until the going gets tough.
Then everyone, feminists included, look for the alpha male -- the man of principle who was created to use just the right amount of force, at just the right nanosecond, to secure justice for all.
That man was surely present in the Soldier Readiness Center yesterday. Our society just made sure he was denied the tools to perform his duty.


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Flight 57 is delayed for four hours due to the weather.
JAMES groans. He drags his bag over to the seats. He sits down and places his bag next to him. He take out his phone. He unlocks it and he checks instagram. After, he texts his friend and tells him about the delay. He sighs. He looks around the waiting area of the airport. The airport is pretty loud for the time of day. He didn't expect many people to be here.
(to himself)
That's what I get for flying during the holidays.
He sighs again. He sees people sitting in their seats, looking annoyed. Some have little kids. Those little kids are running around, making noise, but their parents yell at them. They drag them back to their seats. He looks down and looks back up. He sees a well dressed MAN. He's clothing is business causal. He has his sleeves rolled up to his elbows. The MAN paces back and forth while talking on the phone. He looks nervous and upset.
It's not my fault sir. What am I suppose to do? It's not like I can make them fly the plane.
The MAN keeps pacing.
I'm sorry, I don't how to fix it. I swear I'll be there in time. Alright. Bye sir.
The MAN hangs up and looks through his phone. He slowly walks back to his seat. As he does this, he walks into a wall. JAMES snickers to himself. He looks around to see if anyone saw. He gets to his seat and sits down. He looks at his watch and groans. He slumps into his seat and takes out his headphones. He puts his headphones in and crosses his arms.
(to himself)
That poor idiot. At least he made me laugh a little.
He looks at his phone again. He takes out his headphones and listens to his music.
(scrolls through the songs)
What should I do?
He picks a song. He takes out a book. JAMES couldn't believe it. Out of all the days, it had to be today. He was excited to go visit his friend. They are suppose to go to a concert to see their favorite band. He sighs. He opens the book and begins reading. He looks up and sees the MAN sleeping.He looks back to his book. He looks back up and sees a GIRL with her FRIEND. They look like they're in an intense conversation. He turns down his music to listen to their conversation.
Like, I can't believe he told you that. What an asshole! He can't tell you one thing and like tell me something different. Who does he think he is?!
Well, he's like just looking out for your well being. He just thinks you're not thinking about it enough.
JAMES thinks this conversation is interesting. He turns his music down even more.
If I want to get my bellybutton pierced, then like I will. He like can't tell me what to do!
(rolls eyes)
Actually, he can. He is your dad.
He's like not my real dad.
Ugh, whatever! Let's talk about something else.…


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Friday, March 16, 2018
Hey Fletch … There was a column on January 14, 2018 that all of a church's W2s vanished. Some insurance policies have coverage for this and the church may have a legal obligation to monitor the credit of those employees that had their personal information stolen. In California, if it was stolen electronically, cyber hack or a lost computer, there is a protocol for how this needs to be handled. If it is paper copies, there may be a liability as well for the church. I'd recommend that the church at least put their insurance company on notice and have a pro guide them through it. There could be coverage and an experienced adjuster could be of assistance.
DRF—As a capable leader of an insurance agency, you have made an excellent point. Thanks for giving more ideas for the church to consider. I immediately forwarded your thoughts to the church that had the problem.


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Sixteen comments
Who know the name of this tune?
S:Joanie Madden
"this is the tune, as played and taught by Joanie taught by Joanie Madden in the whistle workshop at the 1999 CCE Convention in Parsippany, New Jersey, USA on April 10, 1999"
Tom Madden from his notes on notation handed out by Joanie Madden
Gan Ainm/The Moving Bog
This tune is in Brendan Breathnach' s "Ceol Rince" Vol 1 as "The Moving Bog" - reel #130.
Michael Cranitch
Ah, I don't know how I couldn't find this tune before. I heard it played by Matt Cranitch's father, Senate Michael Cranitch on Siar an Bothar ages ago. Nicolas Carolan called it "The Moving Bogs of Powelsboro". I really like this tune and I got a recording of it on i Gcnoc na Grai by Tony MacMahon and Noel Hill.
To Jeremy,
Please would you be able to sort out the dots for this one? At the moment it links to a gan ainm posted by zina. Thanks in advance.
Miss Wallace (reel)
From the fiddle and flute duet playing of Kevin Moloney and Sean Moloney. Kevin was one of the original members of Ballinakill Traditional Players together with his father Stephen Moloney and Tommy Whelan. Sean is Kevin's nephew and a son of legendary E. Galway flute player, Eddie Moloney.
On their recording, this tune is played with Miss Johnson and Miss Thornton.
This version is slightly different from the one in O'Neill's. There are several similar tunes, notably Micho Russell's (aka Sean Reid's Fancy): https://thesession.org/tunes/2509
Moving Bogs
I have no doubt this is already on the site under what is the more usual name these days, "The Moving Bogs."
You're quite wrong there, "blarneystar". "The tunes titled "The Moving Bog[s]" posted here are nothing like this, unless I missed something.
Good man for posting this , "slainte". I was taught this tune at a Willie Clancy flute class in the mid 80s by P.J.Crotty RIP]. He recorded it on the CD with the Cullinanes a few years ago. It does bear similarities to quite a few other reels in "G". A fine flute tune, which I must start playing again.
Maybe an apology due to "blarneystar" - it is very like the "Moving Bogs" I know, - but nothing like the "Moving Bogs" posted here by Gian Marco. Like "blarneystar", I would have thought that tune to have been posted here already, but maybe not, and that would be surprising, unless it's lurking under a different name.
I think PJ's version was more like the version in "O'Neill's" than the Moloney's version as posted here by "slainte". I'll hunt out PJ' s playing of it in the Miltown class, and post it as an alternative, because there are some differences. Sorry, "blarneystar".
Moving Titles
No problem Kenny. Tune titles move around a lot, probably because musicians remember both titles and tunes but often can't recall which goes with which.
Composed by Paddy Sweeney
According to the liner notes of Danish band Moving Cloud's CD "Sweet Nyaa" this tune was composed by fiddle player Paddy Sweeney, who was a native of Powelsboro, a little place between Tubbercurry and Ballymote. The title of the tune refers to a natural phenomenon which occasionally occurs when water pressure causes part of a bog to move or slide.
That's the first tune, the one in G, that was composed by him.
Moving Cloud's setting
I've also added Moving Cloud's version of this tune, see version 3 above.
The Tap Room / The Moving Bog
The set played by Peter Conlon and James Morrison: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u2helr_qXFQ
The Moving Bog
I suddenly realised this tune is closely related to The Sandymount: https://thesession.org/tunes/176
Frank Quinn recording 1924
Frank Quinn (1893-1964) of Greagh, Drumlish, Co. Longford recorded this tune on the fiddle in May 1924. It was the first tune in a set entitled "Miss Wallace's Reel" (The second tune was a version of "Rakish Paddy"). He probably learned it from O'Neill's book where it appears under that title. I transcribed his version and it follows O'Neill's version closely.
The Moving Bogs of Powellsborough
The non-abbreviated spelling of the townland name is "Powellsborough". A 1966 set from Jimmy Power:
The Moving Bog, X:4
Taken from 'A Fine Selection of Over 200 Irish Traditional Tunes for Sessions', compiled by David Speers with a Forward by Matt Cranitch. Lovely tune, those accidentals give it a haunting feel.


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Report from Stephen
The monthly Dementia Club UK meeting was held on the 8th January at Sha'arei Tsedek Synagogue in Whetstone.
Approximately 35 guests and carers attended the session with the assistance of seven helpers from the synagogue. It was a lively session with entertainment provided by the versatile James Le Bec who sang a variety of popular songs to which some of the guests danced. There was also a birthday for one of the members. It was Sylvia's birthday on the 2nd January. James Le Bec got everyone singing happy birthday.
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Art Destination: Perry and Carlson
Just an hour north of Seattle is a wonderful destination: Perry and Carlson. The combined gallery and shop are an inspirational art spot in Mount Vernon, WA.
Trina Perry Carlson and Christian Carlson bought an old building in the center of downtown Mount Vernon, WA, and have created a beautiful live-work-gallery-shop space. The shop features carefully curated home decor and art elements, and the gallery is home to the couple's work as well as select guest artists. For the month of December 2017, the gallery is chock full of small works by both artists.
Trina Perry Carlson creates engaging mixed media pieces that evoke memory and nature. She cleverly uses the backs of stretched canvas panels as the basis for her works that incorporate weaving, stitching, fiber and found objects. Each piece suggests a story of some sort, or a specimen in a quirky collection. Using the backs of canvases gives you a feeling of seeing something secret, a special hidden meaning.
Christian Carlson's encaustic paintings are inspired by the fertile Skagit Valley, where Mount Vernon is located. His current series suggests wintry landscapes with a hint of agricultural structure, all in very beautifully subtle shades and textures. Christian's use of a limited palette and pared-down mark-making give the pieces a timeless yet modern feeling.
In my own work lately, I've been drawn to quiet palettes and almost Scandinavian simplicity. Walking into Perry and Carlson, I felt like I was among kindred spirits. Both artists' work has a strong feeling of calm about it, and just looking at each piece gives you a sense of peace.
Visit Perry and Carlson soon, and you may even be treated to a peek behind the gallery doors into their home studio and living space. Take home a gift or two for family and friends, and maybe even something for yourself.
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504 South 1st St
Mount Vernon, WA 98273
The shop at Perry and Carlson is chock full of wonderful treasures, some hand made, and all from their travels. Many are unique items created by artisans, locally sourced in the Pacific Northwest.
The Carlson's were hanging their new work the day I visited. The gallery is a big, bright space with shows that change frequently. Visit in December 2017 to see the couple's own artwork on display.
Here are the pieces I couldn't leave without purchasing… they have many wonderful pieces available, and all with small gift-worthy prices:
"Corrective – Black" by Trina Perry Carlson, mixed media with hand stitching, 10″ x 10″
"Furrows 3″ by Christian Carlson, encaustic on board, 8″ x8"
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Important notices
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