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All That Music & Video has always maintained it's obligation to the public it serves. The promotion and stocking of local artists and talent has been a tradition. Over the years however, we have noticed that a large number of local consignment CD's get forgotten or abandoned by their consignees. ATMV has always maintained a commitment to local artists but will now adapt to a more practical, economical, and realistic solution. Due to space constraints and the increased time required to handle non-performing inventory, we must implement the following new guidelines when accepting product from local artists.
|• A limit of 5 units of any one item will be accepted initially for resale. If the product demonstrates proven sales activity, ATM will contact you immediately for a reorder.• A traditional in-store-play promotional copy will not be considered for settlement. If appropriate, please request your promotional copy for return.
• After 90 days and an evaluation of the sales activity on your item, ATM will make a decision for continued shelf space. (Every CD has a sales cycle; our experience has shown 90 days is a fair and reasonable period of time to evaluate sales worthiness.)
• If you have not contacted ATM within those 90 days, we will send you a status report and instructions to settle-out the consignment.
|• ATM will pay out earnings only at the end of the 90-day period when sales activity is less than 5 units. Immediate payment can be made only if and when all initial consignment product is sold out. Likewise, ATM will settle and pay out your earnings before any subsequent consignment reorder.• ATM will not be liable for any product after 30-days from the date of our settle-out notice. It is your responsibility to supply us with current and accurate contact information. After this 30-day period, remaining product will be considered abandoned and may be eligible for promotional giveaway.
• Because of changing legal or market conditions, CD-R (homemade CD's) and cassettes are no longer accepted for resale.
ATMV reserves the right to consider each consignment agreement on a case-by-case basis.
Remember the following elements are key to a successful CD release: effective marketing, airplay to drive demand, and a distribution pipeline. All are essential in guaranteeing significant sales and profits. Do your part and we'll do ours. The marketplace decides the rest.
We hope that you will appreciate our improved policy, which will help us with space limitations and remedy the vague accountability for consignment product in the past.


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July 30th, 2007
Tiny Flies
By Neil M. Travis, Montana
The dog days of summer bring low flows, crystal clear water, and hatches of tiny flies on many trout waters. My introduction to this type of fishing came over 40 years ago on Michigan's Au Sable River. Starting in late July and continuing until early September hatches of tiny flies often carpeted the water, and trout noses could be seen poking through the surface film as far as the eye could see. Considered a curse by many anglers I fell in love with this type of angling, and it is a love affair that I still have today.
The Au Sable had prolific hatches of midges, tiny black midges that we tried to imitate with flies we purchased from Jack's Fly Shop in Roscommon. Jack and Ann's fly shop was just outside of town, and Ann tied all the flies herself.
She tied midges in size 18 and 20, and in the 1960's you could buy them for fifty cents apiece. In the days before I was tying all my own flies I would buy a half dozen tiny black ones and set off to try my luck.
It was later that I was introduced to the truly great small fly hatches that the Au Sable produced. Tricorythodes stygiatus, these tiny black and white mayflies are a true size #28, and in those days they hatched in phenomenal numbers. The best fishing was from daybreak until about ten o'clock in the morning. Success was not counted in numbers of fish caught or even hooked since the fish could be extremely selective. Since the flies hatched in such prodigious numbers trying to get a fish to sip in your offering was often more a matter of luck than skill.
Tricos, as they are commonly called today, are an interesting insect. The nymphs live in the detritus, the rotting leaf litter found in the quite backwaters, and their bodies are covered with hairs that collect bits of decaying vegetation causing the nymphs to look like a small moving pile of debris. When they hatch they almost immediately molt into the imago or spinner form, and immediately begin their mating dance. When the hatch is heavy the spinner flights of the adults look like fog or mist just over the water. While trout eat the nymphs and the duns the best fishing is during the spinner fall. Generally it lasts longer, and the tiny spinners are easy picking.
Pseudocloeon anoka, a tiny greenish-gold mayfly, now renamed Plauditus puntiventris, are another tiny mayfly that hatch during the mid to late summer, except rather than hatching at dawn they hatch late in the afternoon with the spinner fall coming right at dark. They are not quite as small as T. stygiatus, only a size 24, but in the fading light of mid-summer it takes a good pair of eyes to see your imitation on the water. The trout always seemed to like these little mayflies, and JC and I had some memorable evenings on the Au Sable fishing to trout rising to these tiny green jewels.
When I moved to Montana in the early 70's I discovered an entire new cast of tiny flies on the local spring creeks and even on some of the larger freestone streams. We have tricos, a number of small olives in the Baetis family, and many small sulphurs. Midge hatches on many of our rivers far surpass anything that I ever witnessed on the Au Sable, but I still have fond memories of those tiny flies that so long ago started me on a fishing odyssey that continues to this day.
~ Neil M. Travis, Montana/Arizona
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It's been over a year and a half since Jimmy Fallon took over the iconic Tonight Show hosting gig. In that time we've learned that Fallon is a fan of playing games with celebrities and making them uncomfortable. Hilarity almost always ensues.
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FAKE Studio Visit
Our man Liam keown was in Amsterdam at the end of last year and managed to pop and see FAKE in his studio.
Our man Liam keown was in Amsterdam at the end of last year and managed to pop and see FAKE in his studio.
Born in New Zealand and raised on Melbourne's Hurstbridge line, Ling is a multi-faceted artist based in Melbourne's infamous Everfresh Studio. With a background in stylised lettering and graffiti, Ling is also well known for his 80's and 90's pop culture pieces, littering the streets of Melbourne and beyond, pushing those who come in contact with the pieces to reminisce of days gone by.
Having shot to international notoriety through his "Allure of Gold" project, taking everyday items like trains and cars that have been left to degrade and painting them gold, giving them the illusion of value once again, Ling is now pushing things even harder. Whilst on the hunt for a holy grail gold piece – 'I noticed an abandoned fighter jet at Santorini airport…'– Ling has started working on far more diverse projects, pushing the canvas-based boundaries of portraiture and abstract work. A member of Melbourne's ID crew, Ling is no stranger to collaboration, and is as familiar working alone as he is taking part in full scale productions, including most recently at Denmark's Roskilde festival.
Photo: LING
Our man Liam Keown has been over to catch up with George Morton-Clark in the studio.
Last time I saw Scott, we were playing ping pong at The Marcy Project in Brooklyn. Sadly for me, he beat me in a best of 7. It still stings a bit. I mention it here as a form of therapy I think. Anyway, I'm catching up with him now as his two person show with Mary Iverson called 'Correspondence' has just opened at Andenken in Amsterdam on November 11th.
'FACING DECONSTRUCTION' by Unwell Bunny is somewhat of a self-portrait for Unwell Bunny otherwise known as Ed Bechervaise. It represents a point of reflection both on himself and the urban art movement he has a lengthy relationship with. Captured are faces of Ed's contemporaries, mentors, figure heads and the new breed of an independent disestablishment art movement.
'FACING DECONSTRUCTION' opens at Backwoods Gallery on October 20th from 6pm. Visit the exhibition page for more information. In the lead up to the show, Ed sat down with Damo….
Damo: We've finally managed to actually speak in person! Could we just start with who is 'Unwell Bunny' and how do you describe your current style?
Unwell Bunny: Unwell Bunny is kind of like my second artistic incarnation; an incarnation of Ed Bechervaise and my first graffiti name in Adelaide that I ran for about seven years. Moving to Melbourne I felt the need to reemerge in a slightly different form and Unwell Bunny was the reemergence. It came from a comic book that I did very early on in about 2002 or 2003 whilst I was actually witnessing the Melbourne street art boom happening. I had not quite ten years' graffiti heritage and the street art boom was just completely new and I'd never experienced anything like that before. So, Unwell Bunny is the reincarnation of my graffiti past in a new form which has gone on to resemble urban contemporary art -giving me another sphere to project myself beyond my own name.
This allows the work to have secondary perspective on things and that works quite well for me. Keeping my name as a part of the linkage to my artistic practice with Unwell Bunny being an easier vehicle to move forward with.
'Content by the Kilo' is Callum Preston's first venture north to exhibit artworks from his home town of Melbourne, with Church Brisbane being the perfect venue considering his history creative visual work in the music industry.
The artworks are a collection of what he calls " fast and loose" butchers shop signs, the kind of thing you would have seen as a kid while shopping with a parent, proclaiming the finest cuts, the cheapest prices or the freshest produce. Big bold and eye catching, from a time before social media, you wanted to say something, you wrote it down and put a splash of neon around it.
Callum sat down with Damo over at Everfresh Studios to have a yarn about his show and what else is happening in his world.
Damo: Thanks for taking the time to hang out today. Can you introduce yourself and talk about your various artistic practices?
Callum: My name is Callum Preston I am based out of Everfresh Studios in Collingwood (Melbourne, Australia). I've been part of Everfresh since around 2004/2005 when I was a lot younger. I'm currently 33 and I'm a full-time… I don't really have a full-time title but I'm sort of a full-time artist / designer / sculptor. It's kind of very blurry; basically I'll have a go at anything. That's sort of my motto. I have just come to accept that I don't really like the 'jack of all trades, master of none' phrase. I think it's not as simple as that, it's more that will do a lot of things to the best of my ability and then I have to decide whether I think that's an acceptable quality. I'm sort of still finding my feet in all elements of my practice but I really am enjoying myself.
The functional specialisation of the brain with some skills, such as analytical and mathematical occurring primarily in the left hemisphere and others, such as perception of visual and spatial relationships occurring primarily on the right.
Liam Snootle presents new paintings that encourage an internal dialogue by stimulating the viewer's lateralisation.
VNA: It's been 12 months since we last spoke, what has been happening in your world?
LS: Yes, well if I'd said it'd gone quickly I'd be lying. At the time of my last show we were blessed with the very early arrival of our first child, little George. He had a pretty hectic first few months, I think it was 137 days in the hospital but now he is home and doing amazingly well, such a happy and inspiring person.
Photo: Nik Epifanidis
VNA: How has the birth of your son changed the way you look at things? Has it changed your artistic practice at all?
LS: I'd have to say it has completely changed me, priorities have been totally reworked. I struggled to find time to paint but I'm in such a great space at the moment, after a really tough time and I'd like to think this newfound optimism and inspiration is reflected in my latest body of work which has come together nicely.
Photo: Nik Epifanidis
VNA: Tell us a little about 'Lateralisation'. There is often a lot in the name of a show, why did you go down the 'Lateralisation' path?
LS: Lateralisation is the theory that people have a tendency to use different hemispheres of their brains in different ways, a preference of one over the other, mathematical/analytical on one and creativity on the other. I've always felt I did both of these naturally and these paintings are my attempt a creating an environment where the viewer was forced to get both hemispheres working in unison.
VNA: What is the make up of the show? Is there a piece you are particularly proud of?
LS: Most of the paintings are diptychs of colour blocks with a black and white dynamic geometric expression. I'm hoping that the two halves complement one another. I'm fond of all of them but there is a personal favourite that I'm hoping stays unsold (they probably all will).
Photo: Nik Epifanidis
VNA: What do you hope people will take away from the show? What messages (if any) are you trying to convey to your viewers?
LS: I'm hoping that people that usually walk away from contemporary art saying "I don't get it" might have an awakening.
VNA: If you could collaborate with anyone, who would you choose and why?
LS: I've got a soundtrack that plays during the show which was designed and recorded by my brother, Dylan. He's an amazing singer, songwriter and guitarist and I guess this was our first art/music collaboration. It's something I'd love to build upon for future projects.
Photo: Nik Epifanidis
VNA: When we last spoke, you commented on the generational gap between you and your students ever increasing and your goal is to make art full time. How is that journey coming along?
LS: Oh yeah that gap is getting wider and wider, they've just made me realise that cool music is now called Dad Rock and that my preference for double denim is downright embarrassing. As far as full time art is concerned, well I still have a mortgage and the bank insists that I keep going back to the classroom most days!
'Lateralisation' opens this Friday at 'Off the Kerb Gallery' 66B Johnston St, Collingwood.
Our man Liam Keown has been over to catch up with London-based artist and East-London art-throb, Ben Slow…
Our man Liam Keown has been over with artist Hannah Adamaszek in the studio for a little visit and an insight into her practice…
Our man Liam Keown has been out and about again with his camera taking snaps of artist's studios. Here's the second of a series giving a little insight into the artists and their work spaces…This time he visits Nick Gentry and gets a few words from him about the space.


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I've had short stories published in print magazines, ezines and anthologies, including:
A Guest for Dinner – The Sky Falls Down: an anthology of loss, Ginninderra Press, May 2019.
Hair and Teeth – Year's Best Hardcore Horror #4, April 2019.
The Sand – Beside the Seaside: Tales from the Daytripper, Things in the Well, March 2019.
For Weirdless Days and Weary Nights – published in Breach #8 (September 2018), is shortlisted for the 2018 Aurealis Award "Best Young Adult Short Story". See the full list of nominees here.
Stagecoach from Castlemaine – DeadCades: the Infernal Decimation, October 2018.
Entombed – AntipodeanSF #243, October 2018.
For Weirdless Days and Weary Nights – Breach #8, September 2018.
Angel Hair and Species Endangered (both included in my award-winning collection Perfect Little Stitches and Other Stories), make Ellen Datlow's Honourable Mentions List 2017 for Best Horror of The Year volume 10, September 2018.
Hair and Teeth – Aurealis #113, Chimaera Publications, August 2018.
Angel Hair – Perfect Little Stitches and other stories, IFWG Publishing Australia, September 2017. Shortlisted in the Aurealis Awards for Best Horror Short Story 2017.
A Faithful Companion – Killing It Softly 2 anthology, Digital Fiction Publishing Corp, November 2017.
Novelette: The Again-Walkers – Perfect Little Stitches and other stories, IFWG Publishing Australia, September 2017.
Nocturnal fury – Perfect Little Stitches and other stories, IFWG Publishing Australia, September 2017.
The sundowners – Perfect Little Stitches and other stories, IFWG Publishing Australia, September 2017.
Sarah Jane runs away with the circus – Perfect Little Stitches and other stories, IFWG Publishing Australia, September 2017.
Stagecoach from Castlemaine – Perfect Little Stitches and other stories, IFWG Publishing Australia, September 2017.
A haunting in suburbia – Perfect Little Stitches and other stories, IFWG Publishing Australia, September 2017.
Species endangered – Perfect Little Stitches and other stories, IFWG Publishing Australia, September 2017.
Delirium of negation – Perfect Little Stitches and other stories, IFWG Publishing Australia, September 2017.
Cast down – Anemone Enemy anthology, Oscillate Wildly Press, July 2017.
Across the white desert – March to the Grave, Deadman's Tome, May 2017.
Perfect Little Stitches – The Year's Best Australian Fantasy & Horror 2015, Ticonderoga Publications, April 2017.
What the sea wants – shortlisted for Best Short Fiction 2016 in the Australian Shadows Awards, March 2017.
Bull rider – Dozen: The Best of Breath and Shadow Magazine anthology, December 2016.
When this you see, think of me – Hell's Bells: stories of festive fear by members of the Australian Horror Writer's Association, December 2016. Also available in print format.
Perfect little stitches – December 2016, the Australian Horror Writers Association releases Dead of Night: The Best of Midnight Echo anthology, edited by former AHWA vice-president and Midnight Echo editor, Shane Jiraiya Cummings.
Angel hair – Highly Commended in the Australian Horror Writers Association's Short Story Competition, June 2016. Comment from the AHWA judges, Lee Murray, Zoe Downing, and Joseph Ashley-Smith: 'Angel Hair was highly commended. A classically structured tale in which spider numbers suddenly blossom in the aftermath of a flood, its potential to be real meant the story stayed with each of us long after we'd finished reading it. Visually beautiful, the story's key strength lay in its portrayal of the quiet and inescapable horror of being smothered.'
The brightest place – Polestar Writers' Journal #30, May 2016: http://tonihildebrand.wix.com/-facebook
Post hoc ergo propter hoc – Allegory Magazine #29, May 2016
Counting the steps from one through five – 100 Lightnings flash fiction anthology, Paroxysm Press, March 2016: http://www.amazon.com/100-Lightnings-Sean-Williams/dp/1876502185/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1457414977&sr=8-1&keywords=9781876502188
What the sea wants – SQ Mag #25, March 2016: http://sqmag.com/2016/02/29/edition-25-what-the-sea-wants-by-deborah-sheldon/ Nominated for a 2016 Australian Shadows Award for Best Short Fiction.
A faithful companion – Tincture Journal #13, February 2016: http://tincture-journal.com/2016/02/13/issue-thirteen-table-of-contents/
Blue light taxi (reprint) – guest post on the popular blog of writer Seumas Gallacher, February 2016: https://seumasgallacher.com/2016/02/16/from-another-of-my-new-scribbling-pals-from-australia-authoress-deborah-sheldon/
Across the white desert – Aurealis #87, February 2016: https://aurealis.com.au/store/aurealis-87/
Excerpt of a review from Tangent, February 2016: "High stakes and realistic dialogue create a strong sensation of endangerment, which holds the reader from page one to the end. The snow, gore, and monsters suggest that the author might be a big admirer of the Lovecraftian mythos. True or not, Deborah Sheldon has done an excellent job". http://www.tangentonline.com/e-market-monthly-reviewsmenu-265/aurealis-sf/3056-aurealis-87-february-2016
Will o' the wisp – Lighthouses: an anthology of dark tales, Black Beacon Books, November 2015: http://blackbeaconbooks.blogspot.com.au/p/lighthouses.html
The Australian Shadows Awards recognise the best in published Australian and New Zealand horror. The nominations for Best Edited Works 2015 include Lighthouses: an anthology of dark tales (which published my story, 'Will o' the wisp'). More information about the awards here: http://www.australianhorror.com/index.php?view=191
Excerpt of an Amazon reader review, December 2015: "Deborah Sheldon's Will O' The Wisp … digs up the still festering bones of the old folk tales from which 'fairy tales' emerged, and gives them a new suit of loose, bloody flesh." – B. Marshall
Excerpt of a Goodreads/Amazon review, December 2015: 'Will O' The Wisp … is a fable full of atmosphere, strong and vivid characters and an ending that will truly shock you. What more do we want from a horror tale?' – Greg
In the company of women – Pulp Modern #9: Dangerous Women, July 2015:
We have what you want (play script) – Gargouille #2, June 2015: http://www.gargouille.com.au/store/
Post Hoc Ergo Propter Hoc – given an Honourable Mention in the 2015 Australian Horror Writers Association Flash Fiction awards, April 2015
Family album – A Quiet Courage magazine, April 2015: https://aquietcourage.wordpress.com/2015/04/25/family-album/
Perfect little stitches – Midnight Echo #11, April 2015
Excerpt of SCARY MINDS REVIEW, April 2015: "Perfect Little Stitches for [me] was the best piece of prose writing in the magazine, including the 2014 AHWA winners. Author Deborah Sheldon has it working on multiple levels, a purely supernatural piece or a downright horror excursion. One of those stories that leaves things with the reader [not] knowing where it might go, excellent achievement with a couple of well received jump scares…" Full review here: http://www.scaryminds.com/reviews/2015/magazine23.php
Pinterest page for Midnight Echo #11, designed by editor Kaaron Warren: https://www.pinterest.com/kaaronwarren/sinister/
The Australian Shadows Awards represent the best in published Australian and New Zealand horror. In April 2016, 'Perfect Little Stitches' is nominated for Best Short Story for 2015, alongside fiction by Kaaron Warren, Martin Livings, Greg Chapman, and Pandora Hope.
The Australian Shadows Awards nominations for Best Edited Works also include Midnight Echo #11, which published my story, 'Perfect Little Stitches'.
Muscle fatigue – One Page Literary Magazine, April 2015
Crazy Town is a happy place – Tincture Journal #8, December 2014: http://tincture-journal.com/contributors/
Fair-Haired Boy – The Day Death Wore Boots, UK Alfie Dog anthology, including international authors, October 2014. http://alfiedog.com/products-page/alan-cadman/the-day-death-wore-boots-a-collection-of-ghost-stories/
Flashpoint – Crime Factory #16, October 2014. http://www.thecrimefactory.com/2014/10/crime-factory-issue-16-out-now/
Thy way, O God, is in the sanctuary – Canterbury Anthology #21, October 2014.
Broken things – Regime #4, August 2014
Fortune teller – Shotgun Honey, July 2014.
Closed for renovations – Polestar Writers' Journal #25, October 2013.
His father's words – Tamba #52, June 2013.
Ducklings – Tincture Journal, issue #2, winter 2013. http://tincture-journal.com/contributors/
Basket trap – (reprint) Alfie Dog UK, April 2013. http://alfiedog.com/fiction/?s=Basket+trap/
Griselda Gosh – (reprint) Alfie Dog UK, April 2013. http://alfiedog.com/fiction/stories/deborah-sheldon/griselda-gosh-deborah-sheldon/
Cash cow – (reprint) Alfie Dog UK, April 2013. http://alfiedog.com/fiction/?s=cash+cow/
Fair-haired boy – (reprint) Alfie Dog UK, April 2013. http://alfiedog.com/fiction/stories/deborah-sheldon/fair-haired-boy-deborah-sheldon/
Farm hands – (reprint) Hard Labour anthology, Crime Factory, October 2012. http://www.thecrimefactory.com/2012/10/new-book-crime-factory-hard-labour-available-for-purchase/ Review by 'Book'd Out' http://bookdout.wordpress.com/2012/10/28/review-hard-labour-edited-by-cameron-ashley-andrew-nette-and-liam-jose/
One grand plan – Crime Factory #10, May 2012. http://www.thecrimefactory.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/05/Crime-Factory-Ten.pdf
Garland Cove – The One That Got Away, crime-fiction anthology by Dark Prints Press, March 2012. http://www.darkprintspress.com.au/books_totga.html
White powder – dotdotdash #8, 'Gambit', December 2011.
Basket trap – Page Seventeen #9, November 2011. Shortlisted for the 2011 Page Seventeen Short Story Competition
A guest for dinner – [untitled] #4, May 2011
Thy way, O God, is in the sanctuary – Polestar Writers' Journal #21, March 2011
Bull rider – (reprint) Breath & Shadow vol.8 no.1, January 2011: http://www.abilitymaine.org/breath/w11c.html
Beach house – Australian Reader, December 2010
Man with a suitcase – The Fringe Magazine, December 2010: http://thefringemagazine.blogspot.com/2010/12/fiction-man-with-suitcase-by-deborah.html
Blue light taxi – Tamba, December 2010
Rooftop – Queen Vic Knives, December 2010
Goodnight – Positive Words, December 2010
First and last words – (reprint) An Eclectic Slice of Life, print anthology by Eclecticism E-zine, November 2010. An Eclectic Slice of Life was nominated for a Western Australian Science Fiction Foundation (or 'Tin Duck') award for Best WA Professional Production. Click here to view a beautiful YouTube video of the anthology http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3RBMPy_gxu4
Griselda Gosh – Eclecticism E-zine #14, Oct/Nov 2010.
We have what you want – (reprint) Children Churches and Daddies #211, August 2010
Free lunch – Short & Twisted 2010 anthology, June 2010
Lopping and removal in three parts – (reprint) CellStories, May 2010
Baggage – Sketch, 2010 edition
We have what you want – Polestar Writers' Journal #19, Dec 2009/Jan 2010
Fair-haired boy – (reprint) Skive Magazine, December 2009, which includes an author interview with me on my upcoming collection, All the little things that we lose
Flight path – pendulum, November 2009
Farm hands – Island, 30th anniversary issue, Spring 2009
Waiting for the huntsman – Eclecticism E-zine, July 2009
Paramour – receives 'highly commended' in the Positive Words Short Story Competition, June 2009
Getting and giving – Prima Storia, April 2009
Party animals – Positive Words, April 2009
Counting the steps from one through five – Cottonmouth, February 2009 http://cottonmouth.org.au/zines/cm-zine-09-february-web.pdf
The birthday present – Prima Storia, February 2009
The sequined shirt – Australian Reader, February 2009
A mother-to-be has a sad story – FreeXpresSion, February 2009
First and last words – Eclecticism E-zine, February 2009
Burnover – Positive Words, January 2009
Fair-haired boy – page seventeen annual, November 2008
Road rage – FreeXpresSion, October 2008
Risk of recurrence – Southern Ocean Review, July 2008
The Caldwell case – Australian Reader, April 2007
Parrots and pelicans – Polestar Writers' Journal, December 2006
300 degree days – Quadrant, November 2005
The Tea and Sugar Train – Dimension6, the speculative fiction magazine by Coeur de Lion Publishing, 2019.


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Sirsi Corporation has announced the availability of its library user interface, the Sirsi Enterprise Portal Solution featuring Sirsi Rooms 2.0. Based on industry-standard portal technologies, the Sirsi Enterprise Portal Solution is similar to popular Internet search interfaces--through which libraries manage and present the information, resources, and services they offer today. As such, the Sirsi Enterprise Portal Solution is an information management platform designed to bring together a library's various interfaces to create a unified online presence that makes it easy for information seekers to discover content and services, including books in library collections, licensed resources, ILL tools, virtual reference services, RSS feeds, digital archives, calendars, general library information, and more. Sirsi Rooms 2.0 is a context management technology designed to provide librarians with a means of gathering professionally organized and contextualized information according to subject areas and then presenting that content in virtual spaces called "Rooms." The Sirsi Enterprise Portal Solution and Sirsi Rooms 2.0 will be available in August 2005.
The Sirsi Enterprise Portal Solution and Sirsi Rooms 2.0 is designed to make it easier to discover knowledge, as information seekers have a single interface to all library resources available online. Library staff can benefit from easier maintenance and creation of information portals through a single interface, which can function as the library's online catalog, Web site, and more. The Sirsi Enterprise Portal Solution offers the following features to libraries and their users for streamlined access to information resources: OPAC and Web site functionality for an easy-to-navigate search environment; Sirsi SingleSearch federated search tool; RSS feed capabilities for all searchable sources; Reading Room for information about book clubs as well as interesting reading for children, young people, and adults; online calendar for promoting library and local events; My Library/My Room customization functionality for users; Admin Editing tool to modify colors, logos, and some content modules; "Audiences," intended to provide targeted information for common audiences (kids, español, business, etc.).


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One of the many reasons why technology research and analyst firms such as Forrester, Gartner, IDC, Spend Matters, PayStream Advisors and Aberdeen are so valuable is that they undergo intensive research across all vendors in a particular space. The process involves in depth technical questionnaires, briefings, demonstrations and reference checks over the course of several months for all of the companies they deem relevant to, in our case, eProcurement and Procure-to-Pay solutions.
BirchStreet participates in all of these reports, and the results are fascinating. A majority of our competitors operate horizontally, while BirchStreet specializes in hospitality and multi-locational enterprises, often with a food and beverage component. BirchStreet's solution P2P solution that fits everyone as we are one of the only software providers that offers both a direct and an indirect goods purchasing platform. In a recent report on eProcurement, the analysts recognize that standalone solutions or "specialist vendors" are trending upwards as businesses are looking for best-in-class functionality, not a generalist approach. Supply chain processes are often very complex, so analysts are seeing a shift in replacing existing system with vertical specific and functionality specific solutions. As a specialist vendor, BirchStreet has witnessed this growth and has been able to capitalize on this trend for hotels, management companies, restaurants, casinos, clubs, stadiums, convention centers, airports, food manufacturing and other similar business structures.
Another trend that continues to grow in the eProcurement space are SaaS business models. BirchStreet was established as a cloud based SaaS solution from its inception. The reason SaaS has been so successful is that it allows for flexibility and scalability. Having access anytime, anywhere is a huge plus for companies, especially as mobility has changed the landscape of how companies conduct business. Growth in the SaaS eProcurement solution sector continues to grow as this business model proves to be moving the needle for both vendors and buyers.
Walking hand in hand with eProcurement, the Accounts Payable eInvoicing market continues to grow for both buyers and suppliers. AP eInvoicing and OCR processes are helping companies gain efficiency, boost touchless invoice rates and reduce cycle counts and errors. All of this cuts costs. The rate of supplier adoption of eInvoicing is still slower than that of buyers, but this continues to increase as they see their customers changing their processes. BirchStreet has seen that eInvoicing can cut invoice processing costs by 60% with its customers (which depends on their before and after states).
Spend analysis is another growing trend that BirchStreet predicts will be mandatory criteria for all businesses in the next few years. Procure-to-pay automation with the right reporting tools can give valuable business intelligence to all levels of the business. When customers can categorize their data, they can identify saving opportunities and raise compliance levels. Analysts are seeing this trend increase across all vendors that they conduct their research.
For more information about BirchStreet or best practices, please email us at firstname.lastname@example.com or visit www.birchsteet.com to schedule a demo.


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LAKEVIEW — Beer fans may not be able to enter the new Lakeview pub and brewery, DryHop, until March, but the ambitious brewers behind it aren't letting that stop them from introducing their beer to the city.
DryHop, which was supposed to open this fall, has been making up for long city permit wait times by collaborating with other local breweries to introduce new recipes. On Tuesday, owner Greg Shuff and head brewer Brant Dubovick will debut "Jonny Quest Thinks We're Sellouts," a collaboration with Ravenswood brewery Begyle Brewing Co. at three different bars, with a fourth bar hosting it the week after.
The beer is a citrusy, black IPA with low bitterness, Dubovick said. It's the fifth beer collaboration DryHop has released but the first one to be released in kegs to bars. Previously, DryHop created beers with places such as Hamburger Mary's in Andersonville and Haymarket Pub & Brewery in the West Loop that were sold only in those breweries for a few weeks.
"These are the sort of things you can expect us to be doing," Shuff said.
Lakeview residents hoping to get a sneak peek of Jonny Quest have to move fast. The beer will only be available for about a week since each bar will only stock one keg of it, Shuff said. You can find it at:
- Floyd's Pub, 1944 N. Oakley St. in Bucktown, starting Tuesday, Dec. 11
- Fountainhead, 1970 W. Montrose Ave. in Lincoln Square, starting Tuesday, Dec. 11
- Atlas Brewing, 2747 N. Lincoln Ave. in Lincoln Park, starting Wednesday, Dec. 12
- Northdown Cafe and Taproom, 3244 N. Lincoln Ave. in North Center, starting Tuesday, Dec. 18
Shuff and Dubovick will be at Northdown on Dec. 18 to talk about the beer and give out DryHop merchndise.
If you miss out on Jonny Quest, wait a couple of weeks; Dubovick will be debuting a chocolate milk stout with Hamburger Mary's by New Year's. The collaborations will keep coming until March, they said.
DryHop will be located at 3155 N. Broadway St. It will sell beer in oxygen-free growlers for people who want to bring the beer home and food by chef Pete Repak, a Charlie Trotters alum.
Editor's note: DryHop amended the release dates for Jonny Quest at various bars. The article has been updated to reflect changes.


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DOWN THE YUKON-Page 6
About the only presence of human existence in the Flats is Fort Yukon, a small village of about 500 people and the largest city on the Alaskan portion of the Yukon river. This is also the only portion of the river which briefly crosses above the arctic circle so I set up my tripod and snapped a picture of me beside this obvious tourist sign that someone set up just for folks like me!
From my journal (June 16th;Day-28)..."Somewhere today I crossed the imaginary line called the arctic circle. No, I wasn't notified by an electrical shock, nor did the lush green vegetation bear any drastic changes from one side of the line to the other. The map just simply said that I'd crossed a dotted line with the words "arctic circle on it, so I guess that I can say that I've been there now."
This is the village of Beaver and it is very typical of all the small settlements that I would find on the rivers edge on to the Bering Sea. They consist mostly of Indians and fishing is the dominant industry by far. Their only link to the "outside" world is provided by the short bush airplane strips, although there is usually a short network of gravel roads in the direct vicinity of each village. I never saw a barge while I was on the Yukon, but the locals assured me that that is how their cars and trucks got there.
This was the official United States Post Office for Beaver, Alaska... a small log room attached to the rear of the only store that I could find in town. In most of the fishing villages the post office was located inside the town store where I could mail my letters, then stock up on expensive fresh fruit, eggs, chocolate, and whatever else that my eyes desired!
The Alaska pipeline is the longest above ground pipeline in the world and considered an engineering feat. It stretches the north/south length of Alaska from Prudhoe Bay to Valdez, carrying crude oil from the North Slope. It is above ground because the ground just one foot deep stays permanently frozen. There are heating stations about every 15 miles to keep the oil flowing.
From my journal (June 19th;Day-31)..."Around the next bend there was the trans-Alaska oil pipeline; faint sketches of silver pipe scattered on the hill like the mangled fragments of an exploded Boeing 747.
"At the base of the combined bridge/pipeline over the river I stopped to get out for a closer look. At the top of the bank was a pumping and heating station which was surrounded by barbed wire and FBI warning signs. Across the road was a huge base station like something out of the future and then almost as suddenly as I had arrived a helicopter lifted off from near the base station and headed straight toward me, then circled overhead!
"I then felt like I was living in a page of George Orwell's "1984" classic when suddenly I heard a loud speaker voice saying, "Would the person at the base of the bridge please leave immediately!". I then saw the moving arm of a camera following me from above so I then waved in a cooperative mannner and headed straight for my kayak, then I heard a "Thank you" from the speaker as I drifted away. Just as quickly as I had entered this noisy and confusing zone, I had also left it far behind into the vast wilderness that this truely was."
After around 1,200 miles I came to the town of Tanana and pulled my kayak up to where I saw the biggest building on shore; The Alaska Commercial Company as seen in the above photo. I enjoyed studying all the fine merchandise in the store then striking up a lively conversation with the owner. He even bragged about his prices being the lowest in town with eggs at $2.29/dozen. A pear, an apple, or an orange were priced at $1.00/each... your choice. Like all the villages on the Yukon, most everything comes in by airplane and the prices reflect such. In this desolate wilderness fresh fruit was a bargain at any price to me!
Many of the Indians made their living from fishing for salmon migrating back upstream. This is one of the fishwheels along the rivers side which was propelled by the current and scooped up huge fish, then dumped them in a basket attached to the side of this "ferris-wheel" type devise. It was truely amazing to watch!
On this part of the Yukon the salmon season was in full steam. Everywhere could be seen racks of the precious red meat drying in the sun. On several occasions I bought zip-lock bags of the meat and it was one of the most delecatable treats of my voyage!
This is the post office in Ruby, Alaska. I especially liked the bird hotel on the roof!
I didn't have many clothes so I had to wash them as often as possible, taking advantage of the sunny days for drying them on the deck of my kayak as I paddled down river!
This is one of the last photos that I took on my trip down the Yukon, just before Marshall, Alaska where I decided to end my trip, only about 30 miles from the Bering Sea. Here the river had become more of an "Ocean" than a river, with very constant headwinds from the sea and a very wide expanse of water. It had become a struggle just to make a miles distance so I hired a pilot to fly me out of the bush thus ending one of the most memorable summers of my life. I will definitely be back again some day!
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I think most of us wish our life could be a bit more simple. We go from one thing to another with so much to do in between. We struggle to keep up with our schedules. We struggle to keep everything running smoothly. We think we have a good amount of money saved and then the transmission in our vehicle goes out. We think we can finally start being more active and we have more health issues. We think that we are about to get that promotion and we get a new boss.
Nothing just seems to go as planned.
As humans we want life to be simpler and easier, but as Christians we can see that there's a larger plan.
I know that Abraham never had plans of starting over at age 75.
I know that Job never planned to lose everything and have to start over with nothing.
I'm sure that Paul never planned on being a preacher of the Gospel when he was persecuting Christians.
We can think we have stuff figured out and planned out and have simplified our lives...but here comes a new challenge, a new crisis, a new complication to our simple plan. How do we handle this?
I could write for hours on this subject, but it comes down to one main solution...we learn to trust God more than we do ourselves. Life will continue to throw us curveballs. Life will continue to mess up our plans which seemed so perfect. Life will continue to rain on our parade. But if we have total trust in God we can make it through. If we simply trust in ourselves we will continually struggled with fear and doubt and anxiety.
These kinds of blogs or posts come from what I'm going through. I want my life to just be simpler. I want fewer complications, fewer snags, and more easy sailing. I want to make a plan, I want it to come together smoothly, and I want to be in control of everything. I want to feel like I've got this.
But I don't. I don't have this. There's very little I can control. If I continue to trust in myself I will spiral down into a big mushy ball of anxiety, sucking my thumb in the corner in the fetal position. I continue need to learn to trust God. He's got a bigger picture. He's trying to teach me something. It all seems very complicated to me, but He's got this.
The complexity of life will always puzzle us, but having faith and trust in God sure simplifies it a bit.


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Tuesday, December 15, 2009
Monday, December 14, 2009
A December To Remember
NO PEEKING! Another oldie dug up from the archives! The ribbon was heated slightly to create the unique curl.
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Sunday, December 13, 2009
A December To Remember
No Peeking! Here is another oldie but goodie!
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Saturday, December 12, 2009
A December To Remember
No Peeking! This stamp set is just the ticket to create fun cards and tags for the Holidays! Do you already have this treasure? Get it out quick and get stamping!
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Friday, December 11, 2009
A December To Remember
A hot chocolate Snow Cone!! The perfect little treat to warm up friends made extra special when handmade by you! Do you have a fun winter treat to share? Send your picture for the blog today and you will be entered into a drawing for a FREE Around The Block Stamp Set!
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Thursday, December 10, 2009
A December To Remember
Do you recognize the snow flake in the wreath? It is from Snow Friends! Liquid Glass creates the "berries" and a little sprinkle of Prisma Glitter finishes it off!
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Wednesday, December 9, 2009
A December To Remember
Snowman Poop!! Make the children in class giggle with delight when they get your snowman poop treats!! This little guy on the topper came from Snow Friends! Click on the link to order this set today!
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Tuesday, December 8, 2009
A December To Remember
Snow Friends are Snoow cute on these adorable Snow Kisses treats! Stamp some up today for the little friends in your life!
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Monday, December 7, 2009
A December To Remember
Magical Season brings classical Santa to life! These cards are quick and easy especially with CTMH Background and Texture Duos from our paper packs!
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Sunday, December 6, 2009
A December To Remember
Magical Season! Stay clean this holiday season with festive soap you have decorated yourself! These soaps were creative using Magical Season stamped on tissue paper then coated with a thin layer of wax.
Get your own Magical Season Stamp set on my web site!
Get your own Magical Season Stamp set on my web site!
Saturday, December 5, 2009
A December To Remember
Looking for a fun favor or treat? How about creating glazed pecans and package them up pretty!
Cinnamon Glazed Pecans
Beat 2 egg whites til stiff, stir in 1 lb pecans, add 3/4 C sugar, and 2 tsp cinnamon. Bake 1 hour, 200 degrees stirring every 15 minutes!
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Friday, December 4, 2009
December to Remember
All Decked Out is a super fun stamp set! So many Snowman options! You can order yours today on my web site or perhaps you already have this gem in your stash! Create something fun and email me a picture today! I will enter you in a drawing for the FREE Around The Block Stamp Set!
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Thursday, December 3, 2009
December To Remember
Wednesday, December 2, 2009
December To Remember
Do you have the Snow Friends Stamp Set? Dig it out and make some frames! Super fast and easy gifts without pinching pennies!
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Tuesday, December 1, 2009
CLEARANCE SALE Starts on Wed., Dec. 3rd
@ 11:00 am Eastern
Savings of 50-80%
Savings of 50-80%
CTMH is running it's clearance sale just in time for you to SAVE BIG for the holidays...that's why they're calling it the December "Holiday Heyday" Sale.
The Details:
Sale starts Dec 2nd at 11:00am EST and runs through Dec 17th or while supplies last.
Clearance items may not be combined with regular-priced items in a single shopping cart. This means that ONLY items from the special clearance section can put purchased together.
Clearance items are not eligible for the Stamp of the Month.
Quantities limited to five per item to proivde a smooth shopping experience for all customers.
Serious shipping savings too! Orders of $100 ship for a flat rate of $5.00 - wow! Under $100, shipping is weight-based - so cool!
This is a great way to get all the scrapbookers and cardmakers on your holiday gift list wonderful presents they'll love at super prices. Happy Shopping!!!
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Preview the list and keep it handy - when you're ordering. It contains the list of everything in the sale.
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Z9990 Key to My Heart Paper Pack $5.00
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I want to share your fabulous creations on my blog! Send me artwork to share this month and I will enter you in a drawing for Around The Block Stamp set! FREE!! Have fun stamping!!
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December To Remember!
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December Stamp Of The Month
Notice The Details! Yes! December Stamp of the Month is finally here! The perfect set to add details to all your special scrapbooking pages and cards!
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Part of our 'HARE' collection, this melamine tray is perfect for a mug of tea and a biscuit…or two! A delicious gift for anyone who's collecting our Solemn Hare range of products. Created with love… to bring nature to your table.
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Our small trays are 20cm x 15cm, they are British made and very hard wearing melamine.
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In chemistry, a racemic mixture, or racemate, is one that has equal amounts of left- and right-handed enantiomers of a chiral molecule. The first known racemic mixture was "racemic acid," which Louis Pasteur found to be a mixture of the two enantiomeric isomers of tartaric acid.
A racemate is optically inactive, meaning that there is no net rotation of plane-polarized light. Although the two enantiomers rotate plane-polarized light in opposite directions, because they are present in equal amounts, the rotations cancel.
In contrast to the two pure enantiomers, which have identical physical properties except for the direction of rotation of plane-polarized light, a racemate often has different properties from either of the pure enantiomers. Different melting points and solubilities are very common, but different boiling points are also possible.
Pharmaceuticals may be available as a racemate or as the pure enantiomer, which might have different potencies.
There are four ways in which a racemate can crystallize, three of which H. W. B. Roozeboom had distinguished by 1899:
The separation of a racemate into its components, the pure enantiomers, is called a chiral resolution. There are various methods, including crystallization, chromatography, and the use of enzymes. The first successful resolution of a racemate was performed by Louis Pasteur, who manually separated the crystals of a conglomerate.
Without a chiral influence (for example a chiral catalyst, solvent or starting material), a chemical reaction that makes a chiral product will always yield a racemate. That can make the synthesis of a racemate cheaper and easier than making the pure enantiomer, because it does not require special conditions. This fact also leads to the question of how biological homochirality evolved on a presumably racemic primordial earth.
The reagents of, and the reactions that produce, racemic mixtures are said to be "not stereospecific" or "not stereoselective," for their indecision in a particular stereoisomerism.
Some drug molecules are chiral, and the enantiomers have different effects on biological entities. They can be sold as one enantiomer or as a racemic mixture. Examples include thalidomide, ibuprofen, and salbutamol. Adderall is a mixture of several different amphetamine enantiomers. A single amphetamine dose combines the neutral sulfate salts of dextroamphetamine and amphetamine, with the dextro isomer of amphetamine saccharate and D/L-amphetamine aspartate monohydrate. The prescription analgesic tramadol is also a racemate.
In some cases (e.g., ibuprofen and thalidomide), the enantiomers are interconverted in vivo. This means that preparing a pure enantiomer for medication is largely pointless. However sometimes samples containing pure enantiomers may be made and sold at a higher cost in cases where the use specifically requires one isomer (e.g for a stereospecific reagent).
In cases like salbutamol and thalidomide, the inactive isomer may be harmful.
Methamphetamine is available by prescription under the brand name Desoxyn. The active component of Desoxyn is dextromethamphetamine hydrochloride. This is the right-hand isomer of methamphetamine. The left-handed isomer of methamphetamine, levomethamphetamine, is an OTC drug that is less centrally-acting and more peripherally-acting.
In the chemical name, a D/L- prefix indicates that both the levo & dextro isomers are contained in the product to some unspecified degree. Whereas a DL- prefix with no slash mark indicates that both levo & dextro isomers of the molecule are present in an equal 1:1 ratio, with 50% of each.


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This is my friend Millie. She grew up in Chicago and now lives in Western Pennsylvania, and is a good family friend. Her husband Gary was friends with my dad, and they played golf together with my brother and cousin Kevin. His wife Christine is actually Gary's niece. Guess that makes us family.
Millie is fun and makes me laugh with her cute sayings, and how she has a voting outfit complete with beads and a scarf to show her patriotism. She's a talented piano player, and blew my breath away the first time I heard her play! She loves to play cards, and we often play one called Scat, where she always wins all my quarters.
Anyway, I stayed with her this fall when I bought my investment house in Ambridge, and my mom and I will be staying with her again in January as I finish rehabbing the house so I can sell it in the spring, and although I hate when the weather is freezing ( I live in Houston), I'm really looking forward to seeing Millie again.
She's very blunt and just says whatever she's thinking, and sometimes when she tells people things they don't like, such as your kids are acting like brats (she once said told me this, though it was true), they stop talking to her. It makes me sad that she will be alone on Christmas. And today's Light the World theme is that "Jesus visited the lonely, and so can you," but since I can't visit her, I'll call and let her know we love and miss her.


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Hi! I'm Abbie. I believe it's my mission in life to help individuals and organizations get focused on their marketing goals, plan for growth, and figure out how to best use their authentic voice to match their products or services with their audiences' needs and desires. I've been called a "Marketing Maven" and a "Social Media Guru", but I prefer to think of myself as a "social media scrapbooker" with a focus on helping business owners, artists, speakers, authors, and organizations build brand visibility and tell their stories on social media channels.
I'm a tree-hugging, art-loving Mom from Portland, Maine with a background in Psychology and Criminology and professional experience in both nonprofit and corporate sectors. I have an intense passion for organization, storytelling, communications, and helping others feel empowered to reach their goals through the use of social media.
Since launching my social media business in 2014, I've had the pleasure of speaking to hundreds of listening ears about the power of social media, the fear we face around marketing and telling our stories, and how to use the tools of the social media trade (such as LinkedIn, Facebook, Twitter, YouTube, Instagram, and Pinterest).
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The Univision MasterCard is one of the best prepaid debit cards available. Usually, we do not recommend that you get a prepaid debit card, because they have a number of hidden fees and charges. However, the Univision MasterCard has very few fees, and those that it does have are easy to understand. If you don't have a checking account at a bank, the Univision MasterCard is one of your best options.
Advantages of a prepaid debit card
Let's start with the advantages that both prepaid debit cards and regular debit cards have over cash and credit cards. If you lose your card, you will receive a refund from your bank or the prepaid card issuer, so it's safer than carrying around cash. And unlike a credit card, you don't need a credit check or credit history, and you can't spend money you don't have. For someone who doesn't have a bank account, prepaid debit cards can bring convenience and security. However, if you are willing, we generally recommend that you open a checking account with a bank, since these tend to have fewer fees.
The Univision MasterCard, in particular, has some advantages over other prepaid debit cards. You receive free direct deposit, so your employer can transfer your wages directly onto the card at no additional charge. You can use the card anywhere that you'd use a debit or credit card, make bill payments online, by phone or in person, and withdraw from in-network ATMs, also at no cost. The major fee is the $9.95 monthly maintenance fee, though there are optional charges like out-of-network ATM withdrawals.
Most other prepaid debit cards charge high hidden fees, like a $2 ATM withdrawal fee, a $10 enrollment fee, or even a $0.50 fee every time you use the card. The Walmart MoneyCard, one of the cheapest prepaid debit cards, costs on average $21 a month. More expensive cards like the NetSpend Pay-as-you-Go can cost over $40 a month. The Univision MasterCard is one of the best prepaid debit cards, especially if you need direct deposit.
Univision MasterCard compared to checking accounts
Because the monthly fee is the only one you're likely to incur, we think that the Univision MasterCard can actually be cheaper than some checking accounts. Chase's checking account has a $10 monthly fee unless your average daily balance is over $1,500, while TD's monthly fee is $14 unless you have at least $100 at all times. The Univision MasterCard is significantly cheaper than both of those.
However, there are some less expensive options: Free checking accounts abound, and you can even earn interest or rewards on some of them. So while the Univision Prepaid is better than many other cards out there, it's hardly the best.


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The case of a normal-weight woman who rapidly became obese after receiving a fecal transplant from an overweight relative has raised new concern over the screening of donated stool.
The patient, who underwent the novel procedure to treat a recurring bacterial infection in her intestines, has gained more than 40 pounds since the transplant and continues to gain weight, according to a case report published Wednesday in the journal Open Forum Infectious Diseases.
The patient has been unable to shed the unwanted weight through diet or exercise, according to her doctors.
"This case serves as a note of caution when considering the use of non-ideal donors for fecal microbiota transplant (FMT), and we recommend selecting non-overweight donors," wrote the paper's authors, Dr. Neha Alang, an internist at Rhode Island's Newport Hospital; and Dr. Colleen Kelly, a gastroenterologist at the Warren Alpert Medical School of Brown University.
It remains unclear exactly what caused the dramatic weight gain. However, the physicians note that studies conducted on mice show that lean mice can become fatter if they receive fecal microbes from overweight mice.
"We're questioning whether there was something in the fecal transplant, where some of those 'good' bacteria we transferred may have had an impact on her metabolism in a negative way," Kelly said in a prepared statement.
Viewed for many years as a fringe medical treatment with a high "snicker factor," fecal transplants have recently shown promise in fighting Clostridium difficile infections.
So called C. diff infections cause swelling of the intestines, diarrhea and abdominal pain. They often occur when the microbes that naturally inhabit the gut are killed by antibiotics and invading C. difficile bacteria move in and take over.
By collecting stool from a healthy donor and placing it within the intestines of a patient, "good" bacteria are reintroduced to the gut and help to restore microbial order.
In the case of the then-32-year-old Rhode Island patient, doctors treated her C. diff infection with five courses of antibiotics, only to see the infection flare up again after each treatment.
Ultimately, she elected to have a fecal transplant.
"As per the patient's request, her 16-year-old daughter was chosen as the stool donor," the doctors wrote. "At the time of FMT, her daughter's weight was about 140 pounds, but it increased later to 170 pounds."
The patient weighed 136 pounds at the time of the transplant, according to authors, and her infection was cured by the procedure.
However, 16 months later she had gained 34 pounds, raising her body mass index, or BMI, from 26 to 33. "She weighed 170 pounds and had become obese," the doctors wrote. "She has continued to gain weight despite efforts to diet and exercise and at 36 months post-FMT her weight was 177 pounds (BMI 34.5)."
The doctors speculate on a variety of potential causes of the weight gain, including the effects of antibiotic treatment, stress caused by the illness, and the disappearance of the infection.
Yet based on the fact that the woman was not overweight prior to the procedure, as well as the animal studies, the researchers said it was now their policy to use only non-obese donors for FMT.
In an editorial that accompanied the paper, doctors at Massachusetts General Hospital wrote that genetics probably played a role in the woman's weight gain.
However, they said the case underscored the need to carefully vet stool donors on the basis of BMI and other health indicators.
Even though some patients might be more open to receiving stool from a family member, this could lead to a number of complications, the editorial says.
"The published case report raises many questions about the selection of FMT donors," wrote Drs. Ana Weil and Elizabeth Hohmann.
"FMT has not been studied in large-scale controlled trials, and we have much to learn about the effects of this treatment beyond the intended restoration of a diverse microbiota," they wrote.
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Snibston Discovery Park, Coalville, Leics
The interactive science display, where you can do experiments, and the scientific adventure playground are real highlights. On one visit, we looked at planets to help with my older daughter's GCSE. It clearly worked as she got A* for her science!
Carol Hambling
Portland Basin Museum, Ashton-under-Lyne, Greater Manchester
My children each have their favourite activity. Currently, Josh, 3, likes the push-button transport through the ages display, and Abbie, 7, likes to operate the model canal. I think the main reason they like to visit is the way they are treated as important visitors in their own right. They are happy to approach staff with their questions and know they won't be ignored.
Ruth Pearce
Quarry Bank Mill, Styal, Cheshire
The guided tours are superlative, with costumed actors. The children were encouraged to use slates in the school, and wear smocks in the apprentice house. The history of a dull old factory was brought back to life for children in the 21st century in the best of ways.
Paul Foulkes-Arellano
Boat Museum, Ellesmere Port, Wirral
Lots of traditionally decorated narrow boats that children can climb in and out of and the history of the canal system told in an accessible way. Outdoor and indoor picnic facilities, and a trip on a narrow boat. They have also decorated three lock-keeper's cottages in the style of three different times.
Miriam Pennington
Dulwich Picture Gallery, London
Old Masters and small children aren't a natural combination. But my daughter went on a visit and didn't stop talking about the fun she'd had paiting a portrait, and about the dead bodies (the coffins bearing the remains of the founders of the gallery are in a mausoleum next to the paintings). In the summer holiday sessions, the grounds heave with young children enjoying the arts and crafts in the open air while their mothers relax in the sunshine.
Anna Bonavia
Horniman Museum, London
The staff are extremely welcoming. I am one of many mums whose toddler lets off steam running around the stuffed animals. My young son loves the small aquarium and music gallery with listening consoles and interactive room, where you can play some of the unusual instru ments in the museum. Outside, the grounds are landscaped and there are goats, rabbits and deer.
Alison Quemby
Coventry Transport Museum
A visit starts with the friendly staff in reception and free entry, and culminates with a ride simulating the vehicle that holds the world land speed record, Thrust SSC, which is in the museum. Children can wander between old motorbikes and cars, wartime vehicles, toy cars and even bicycles. There is also a computer screen where children can design their own vehicle.
Stewart Smith
Burrell Collection, Glasgow
It has the most amazing range of pictures and objects, from ancient Egypt to early 20th century. As well as the usual quiz and treasure hunt, it has blow-up copies of famous works printed on a surface that lets children add their own details, getting to know the picture really well. Or children can dress up and sit in a chair opposite a mirror set in a large gilt frame to view a "portrait" of themselves in period costume.
Gillian and Christopher Wightwick
St Barbe Museum, Lymington, Hampshire
The interactives have boats to drive and fish to catch, and low-level drawers containing objects to handle and hats to wear; there are puzzles, quizzes and child-friendly labels to encourage kids to really look at paintings. Once there was Fantastic Fashions, an exhibition by a local secondary school, in one gallery; and David Hockney's Grimm's Fairy Tales in the other. How many other kids can claim to have been exhibited alongside an internationally renowned artist?
Pam Perry
National Coal Mining Museum for England, Wakefield, West Yorks
The museum was actually a working mine, maintained so future generations can see how life was in the olden days. After we'd each been issued with a lamp, hard hat and a tag with a number on it exactly as a miner would, we were taken down the mine in a cage. Our guide explained how children as young as six would have to go with their parents down the mine for perhaps 12 hours a day. This was a real eye-opener for the children in our group.
Mrs A Addison
Museum in the Park, Stratford, Gloucs
We took our five-year-old grandson, Tom, who was given a pencil, clipboard and a picture trail of interesting things that could be seen. Each item was ticked off as it was found, so Tom began looking for the colour of a ribbon in a picture, a sheep that could be sat on, a wooden horse. At the end, he was delighted to get a sticker for finding all the items.
Peter Godfrey
Techniquest Science Discovery Centre, Cardiff Bay
The only museum I have been to that amuses, entertains and stimulates all my children at the same time. The giftshop is stocked with child-sized gifts at child-sized prices and is considerately placed. You are not made to feel obliged to buy by being forced through it.
Diane Howells
Hollytrees Museum, Colchester, Essex
I loved the day when I went so much that I want to go back again. We got shown around every room and we got to handle all sorts of old-fashioned things. There were even old toys to play with.
Holly Abigail Croft, aged 7
Whitchurch Silk Mill, Hampshire
It's the last working silk weaving watermill in England. The children have flaps to lift, fabric swatches to sort, materials to weave. There's a good cafe, and ducks to feed on the river Test.
Mindy Noble
London Transport Museum
It has a fantastic public transport collection which people can get really close to. There's a fun bus for the under fives, a talking taxi you can sit in, a 1938 tube train you sit in, trams and buses you get on, a Tube train simulator to drive and actors from different historical periods you can chat to, such as a Victorian passenger. Also, a free cloakroom with space for buggies.
Sophie Perkins
Haslemere Museum, Surrey
I am nine years old and I think that Haslemere Museum is great because the staff are really friendly. All the activities are fun, especially the Tudor workshop because we were allowed to go in the stocks, and Maggie (one of my favourite helpers) had made some pretend rotten fruit to throw. One of my favourite things is Arthur the brown bear. Last year, he went away on holiday to have his fur renewed and he looks great.
Holly Miller
Bristol City Museum and Art Gallery
The building is a rambling monster, but the scale and the materials - patterned floors, imposing staircases, polished brass stair rail - are great for children to explore. Turn a corner and another treasure is spotted, a Gypsy caravan or an Assyrian relief... toddler steps and quiz sheets are always available, there's a loo for changing nappies. If you are on the mailing list for openings, the invitation always says "Children Welcome" and drinks and snacks are provided for them, too.
Rosemary Silvester
National Portrait Gallery, London
They have a really good backpack full of interesting activities. I enjoyed trying on the beards so that I looked like one of the pictures of older men. People seemed happy to let me sit on the ground doing a "can you find"?
Kirsten Greenwood, nearly 8
Wheal Martyn Museum of the Clay Country, Cornwall
On the historic trail, not only are children allowed to touch, they are encouraged to try on wooden-soled clogs or a safety helmet, feel the weight of the hand tools and stand in the cab of a 100-year-old steam locomotive. You get entry for a whole year with your ticket.
Ian Kestle
Discover, London
There's lots of activities like step on the dot, fly the lollipopter, pull the rope and get to the bread. I can make a video or record a story. There is a beautiful garden filled with lots of pretty flowers. There is a story-maker to help you create stories.
Malik Fields
My top five - Mark Taylor
Almond Valley Heritage Trust, Livingston
The history of the shale oil industry is not the most obvious one to excite children, but using imagination and resourcefulness, the topic is explained and the kids entertained.
Gallery of Modern Art, Glasgow
So much modern art takes itself so seriously that it alienates kids. In true Glasgow style, the approach is irreverent and fun.
Horniman Museum, London
Cool collections of ethnography, natural history and musical instruments, and great opportunities to handle and learn from all sorts of objects.
Thinktank, Birmingham
The industrial collections of Birmingham presented in a modern way in an excellent new building.
Hackney Museum, London
The diverse culture and history of Hackney is in such a good environment that some children come along of their own volition after school.
· Mark Taylor is the director of the Museum Association.


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Today's data from the Bureau of Economic Analysis tell the same old story.
National GDP is dropping and personal incomes are dropping along with it. These are troubled times.
But wait! There's more! Corporate profits are on the rise.
Source: BEA: GDP, personal income, corporate profits as percent.
Are corporate profits a leading indicator of a turnaround? Or the next chapter (same old chapter) of winners and losers in the new economy. Real people struggle while corporate chieftains laugh all the way to the bank.
By the way: Maybe check out my new novel, 2044. The problem isn't Big Brother. It's Big Brother, Inc.


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How do you manage multi-organisational projects across Europe?
Cancer Research UK needed an online collaboration tool which required minimum engineering costs. It also needed to be accessible to people of different backgrounds, who could take advantage of Projectplace's transparency."We needed an intuitive and reliable mechanism to support coordination and the development of deliverables as part of an EU project that includes 9 partners, including CRUK, 6 other universities throughout Europe and 2 commercial partners. We also needed a cross-platform tool with minimum maintenance requirements and which would appeal to a diverse community of users including academics, researchers, software engineers and project managers," says Dan Grecu, Engineering Coordinator for a research project funded by the European Commission under the Sixth Framework Programme in Information Society Technologies. His role is to coordinate the efforts of the project partners to transition theoretical argumentation models into generic software components and real-life applications.
Cancer Research UK began using Projectplace three years ago, primarily as a document repository. They used our version management control to avoid duplication issues."Projectplace was mainly used for document management and for sharing applications that were developed as part of the project. It has been an extremely versatile resource for developing documents that required input from multiple project partners, and the versioning functions were particularly useful in this context," comments Dan Grecu, "but, in this case, the project's objective is to develop argumentation models and technologies."Projectplace made the collaboration tasks for the development of project deliverables transparent. We also enabled Cancer Research UK to focus on project issues of primary concern and easily bring together a diverse project community working on a variety of computing platforms."Projectplace has allowed us to maintain a high level of shared project awareness and has given us the confidence that the reasons for which we subscribed to this tool were reliably fulfilled," continues Dan, "everybody found Projectplace very intuitive and the use of on-line documentation and help functions was sufficient to support both regular users and administrators in their tasks."
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School board OKs Dukes' deal
Marshall County's school board on Monday night approved director Roy Dukes' contract, postponed hiring another maintenance worker, and rejected a fund-raising request.
While the meeting started with recognition of the county's three high schools' valedictorians and salutatorians, and the only senior with perfect attendance since kindergarten, the voting session concluded substantive business.
* Barbara Kennedy called for approval of Dukes' contract with an addition to the agreement that the position of assistant director would be abolished.
"We can't continue to fund all these positions," Kennedy said. "I think this is a step in the right direction."
Kristen Gold agreed: "Eliminating this position would not put someone out of a job. The responsibilities could be re-assigned to other individuals."
Others disagreed.
"It's setting him up for failure," exclaimed Ann Tears, while Craig Michael called it "totally inappropriate" to expect one individual to do two jobs.
Kennedy eventually withdrew her motion. Another motion, to accept the contract as written, was made by Curt Denton and seconded by Michael.
After some discussion of Dukes' salary, a roll-call vote was taken, and the board unanimously approved Dukes' contract, to loud applause from the audience that had packed into the boardroom.
"We're going to do the best that we can to save money," Dukes said. "We'll work together to solve problems."
* Randy Perryman, maintenance committee chairman, told the board that the maintenance department wanted to hire three temporary workers to paint over the summer, and an additional full-time person with HVAC certification.
"We did not vote on that," clarified Denton. "It's not a recommendation -- we discussed it."
"I have some real issues with hiring an additional person," said Michael, citing "significant budget challenges."
Denton reported that in Hickman County a four-man department was maintaining eight school buildings. Here the maintenance department has 10 men, and supervisor Sheldon Davis told the committee he could not do without any of them, even if they stopped working on the County buildings.
Denton moved to postpone hiring anyone until Dukes met with Roger Murphree, and this motion was carried 8-1. (The preliminary meeting to start seeking efficiencies in the maintenance and transportation departments is set for today.)
* The Kool Kats Relay for Life team asked the board's permission for a fund-raiser at Westhills and Oak Grove Elementary schools. Their letter said the group want to put American Cancer Society Coin Canisters in the classrooms from April 19-30.
"As you look at it, it's against our policy," Dukes said.
Policy 6.701 states, "Fundraising activities ... shall be for the purpose of supplementing
funds for established school programs and not for supplanting funds which are the responsibility of the public."
"We just discussed this at the last policy meeting," Gold said. "The committee recommends to keep the policy the same, so it seems like we wouldn't be approving it."
"It's a very worthy cause," said Perryman. "It promotes good citizenship. I think our policy is wrong in some cases."
"We'll have trouble if we say 'yes' to one and 'no' to the next," Kennedy pointed out. "I don't see how we can responsibly deny our own policy."
"The whole issue of fund-raising needs refinement," said Michael. "We need to discuss it in a work session."
The motion to deny the Relay for Life fundraiser was carried 8-1, with Perryman the lone dissenter.
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Call to order at 7:00 pm with the following members present: Dale Bacon, Ryan Hoops, Tom Merritt, and Steve Laliberte. Jim Grisim arrived at 7:22pm.
Motion (Hoops/Merritt) Move to approve agenda. Motion carried.
Motion (Hoops/Merritt) Move to approve the minutes of August 28, 2013. Motion carried.
Treasurers Report:
A new profit and loss statement was presented by Tom Merritt. We now have a balance sheet. We will begin tracking the levy shortfall.
Motion to approve report (Grisim / Bacon), Motion carried.
Harvester is out of the lake.
Motion (Merritt/Grisim) To move ahead with the harvester repair, contract with Aspen for in October/November, not to exceed $3000.00. Motion carried.
Motion (Tom / Jim ) Order the track needed for the harvester, not to exceed $4,000.00.
Motion carried.
Aquatic Plant Survey:
Reviewed requirements for next study.
Levy Meeting and Annual Report:
Reviewed the annual report. Dale will move ahead on creating the package.
Other Items
New resident welcome packet – good idea. Pave the path from the sidewalk to Birch Lake Blvd S. Dale will contact Mark Birch, city administrator.
Motion (Grisim/Hoops) Move to adjourn. Motion Carried.
Meeting adjourned at 8:07pm.
Upcoming meeting
City Council Levy meeting – October 22, 2013
Board meeting November 7, 2013


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The 32 year-old singer tells a sold-out crowd at Las Vegas' Planet Hollywood, "my boyfriend cheated on me."
Late last week news broke that Britney Spears had split from her boyfriend David Lucado after dating for over a year. In case anyone is wondering why, the 32 year-old singer explained all during her 'Piece Of Me' residency show at Las Vegas' Planet Hollywood on Sunday night (Aug 31st).
Spears confirmed ex-boyfriend David Lucado cheated on her
Ever since Spears made the announcement by posting on Twitter "Ahhhh the single life!" there has been much speculation that the reason behind the couple's separation was due to Lucado's infidelity. Surprisingly, she confirmed to the 5,000 attendees that this was true.
"Well, by now everyone knows my boyfriend cheated on me," she said, according to MTV.com. "But the best part of breaking up is going on first dates. OMG, OMG, I need a hot guy. Where are the hot guys here tonight?"
More: Producer William Orbit Attempts To Defend Britney Spears' Pre Auto-Tune 'Alien'
Moments later, the 'Toxic' singer picked out a male individual from the crowd who happened to be celebrity blogger Perez Hilton. As her backup dancers grabbed Hilton onstage, he was placed in outfit of leather and chains, and Spears quickly began singing "Freakshow" while Hilton was being walked like a dog.
"@britneyspears just made me her bitch - literally! Hope @Rihanna doesn't get jealous! It was like the Circus tour opening 2.0. #PieceOfMe," he tweeted after the show.
More: Britney Spears Offered $12 Million To Extend Vegas Residency Till Xmas 2016
Lucado met Britney through a mutual friend while working at law firm, and only last November (2013) she publically admitted that she was "in love" with him because he was "just a simple man. I adore him, he's really funny and he's really passionate. I love the fact that anything he's involved in he's passionate about and it's contagious."
How time changes!
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The cameo-driven, "Mission: Impossible 2"-spoofing, movie-within-a-movie, pre-title sequence of "Austin Powers in Goldmember" is the...
Freshly graduated from jail bait status, Britney Spears wastes no time getting down to her...


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My name is Christopher Nolan. I directed Memento, The Dark Knight and, you know, other films. If you could just eat the cookie I've enclosed before reading the rest of this letter. Yes, that's it. Goodnight.
You're storming out of Blip Toys' headquarters in Minnetonka after laying it down that you won't stocking-stuff a single Squinkie until the board kicks back a cool million to the injured reindeer recovery fund. Suddenly, a red sack is thrown over your head and you're shoved into the cab of a snow plow. A kidnapper forces you to gulp down extremely potent eggnog. They've taken Frosty the Snowman, too, and he whispers that Mrs. Claus is behind it all. You lose consciousness to the patter of your elf bodyguards pelting the windows with candy canes….
You're at the foot of an iceberg, looking up at a gingerbread fortress. A team of Saint Bernards pulls your sled to the top, while you dodge fruitcakes from dive-bombing reindeer. You sneak in through the chimney and head straight to the cupboard, where you've always known Mrs. Claus hides her secret liqueurs. Yes, beneath an art-deco brandy bottle shaped like a knight standing on a film reel, there is a single envelope. You rip it open:
Wake up. You're back in your workshop.
Chris Nolan
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