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Author Sara Shepard spent some of her elementary school years in State College, she told the BookFestPA crowd gathered to hear her speak on Saturday at State College Presbyterian Church. Shepard is author of the "Pretty Little Liars" YA series (now six published books) as well as 2 books intended for adults, "The Visibles"(2009) and "Everything We Ever Wanted" (2011).
I am sorry to say I left my camera/phone in my car while hurrying toward this event, attempting free street parking several blocks away ... SO, I did not get a photo that day of the ebullient Shepard, neatly dressed in a fashionable kelly green sleeveless dress accessorized by a chunky brown bead necklace, her long straight light brown hair cut with bangs worn down, despite the 95-degree heat outside. The photos I use here are borrowed from the Internet.
Clearly Shepard is practiced at telling her story to groups. She appeared to be quite comfortable in the pulpit, as it were, talking animatedly about her work and how she came to be a novelist. There were maybe 70 of us in the audience.
"Writing books was always what I wanted to do as a kid," she said. When she was halfway through her Master of Fine Arts program at Brooklyn College, Shepard said she "got in touch with" Alloy Entertainment, which produces books for teens and pre-teens.
"I crashed their Christmas party and begged them to give me any writing job they had," Shepard said with a wry smile. "They needed ghostwriters."
The job, though it paid nothing - as entry-level publishing jobs are know to do - turned out to be a really "great way to write a book," Shepard said. For Alloy, she wrote three books in a series of six about samurai girls."They were not my characters, not my plot."
At the time Shepard also had a day job. "As a writer, you just don't think you're going to have a job doing this," she said.
Growing up, she was a big fan of the spooky TV series "Twin Peaks," which was an inspiration for the "Pretty Little Liars" series.
But years later now, with several novels under her belt, Shepard has made it to full-time novelist.
Shepard noted that writing about what you know is always advisable ... however, she added, "I never had a stalker named 'A' or a stalker at all (as in the PLL series); I never had a car accident and then forgot who did it to me. But I have a lot in common with these characters. The characters were all sort of based on my life ... though I never had an affair with a teacher!"
She said sometimes it's hard to plot the PLL series books, to keep it all straight. The series started out as doing 8 chapters on spec, which turned into four books, which turned into 8, then 12, and is up to 14 - where Shepard says she will stop. She's writing "The Lying Game" along with the "Pretty Little Liars" books.
"'The Lying Game' is more about class than "Pretty Little Liars," Shepard said. The live twin who takes over a dead twin's body was a foster child, and the dead twin was rich and popular," the author said. "The Lying Game" is set in Arizona, where Shepard lived until recently returning to the Philadelphia area.
"Writing YA is something I did not plan to do, but sort of fell into it and I'm really happy to do it," Shepard said, noting her two adult books haven't gained as much acclaim.
During a brief Q&A period, Shepard said if the had to pick a favorite PLL character, it would be Hanna. She said her favorite authors include Wally Lamb, Margaret Atwood, Alice Hoffman and Jeffrey Eugenides. As a teen, she liked Lois Duncan and V.C. Andrews. "I tend to like books with young characters," Shepard said.
Asked how she names her characters, Shepard said she tends to choose names she has no connection to. But once, she used the name Ezra Fitz for a character. That name belongs to a schoolmate at Corl Street Elementary in State College. In her book, Fitz is a teacher who sleeps with a student, Aria. The real Fitz contacted her after the book was published and luckily was flattered to be included, though there was no behavioral connection to the real Fitz, who is also a writer, and the fictional Fitz, Shepard laughed.
She advised those who want to write books to a living to "move to New York!" for the connections.
She added: "You really need to read a lot and find someone who will read it and constructively criticize your work. Have a thick skin if you're trying to get published, because you're going to get rejected A LOT. Don't pay attention to reviews. Network, go to conferences. Get an agent who works for you.
"If you just love to (write) anyway, you're halfway there."
Shepard's books:
The "Pretty Little Liars" series includes:
- Pretty Little Liars (October 3, 2006).
- Flawless (March 7, 2007).
- Perfect (August 21, 2007).
- Unbelievable (May 27, 2008).
- Wicked (November 25, 2008).
- Killer (June 30, 2009).
- Heartless (January 19, 2010).
- Wanted (June 8, 2010).
- Twisted (July 5, 2011).
- Ruthless (December 6, 2011).
- Stunning (June 5, 2012).
- Burned (December 2, 2012).
- Pretty Little Liars: Pretty Little Secrets (January 3, 2012).
Her subsequent YA series, "The Lying Game":
- The Lying Game (December 7, 2010).
- Never Have I Ever (August 2, 2011).
- Two Truths and A Lie (February 7, 2012).
- Hide and Seek (July 31, 2012).
- Cross My Heart, Hope To Die (February 5, 2013)
Both YA series are now popular TV series on ABC Family.
"I don't have very much to say about the shows," Shepard said. "A lot of people were mad about the girls who were cast because they didn't look like the girls on the covers ... but it didn't matter to me."
About the author
Sara Shepard graduated from Downingtown West High School in 1995 (she's younger than I am!) and got her undergraduate degree from New York University. She got her MFA at Brooklyn College and now lives outside Philadelphia with her husband and dogs. She says she lives in suburban Philadelphia, on the Main Line, though she did not offer a town. Perhaps I'll run into her in Ardmore or Wayne sometime!
Learn more about Shepard on her website.
Next up: Tawni O'Dell's keynote presentation at BookFestPA.


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Imagine this: you're in charge of a large private foundation with a mission to serve the health needs of the people of your state. Your staff and board have made careful and informed decisions about grants to nonprofit organizations and state programs that advance the health of the people of your state. And, because the foundation is large, political leaders are acutely aware of your efforts and of the value of the endowment you oversee.
Within this context, imagine that the Governor of your state, in a series of letters and press releases, attempts to undercut your authority and pressure you into directing fully 80 percent of your annual grantmaking budget to support underfunded state programs, implying he, rather than the private foundation's leaders, is a better steward of the private foundation's assets.
The Governor of Missouri, Matt Blunt, made such an attempt this spring. Calling the Missouri Foundation for Health's endowment "taxpayer assets," Blunt requested that the foundation fund, for 10 years, state programs that the Governor himself recommended. His reasoning? These are "taxpayer assets" because the foundation and the nonprofit organization, whose conversion resulted in the foundation's creation, benefited from years of tax benefits in Missouri. Under the Governor's logic, the assets of any Missouri nonprofit organization would be at risk.
Fortunately, the Foundation's CEO, Dr. James Kimmey, and its board of directors refused to bend to the Governor's pressure. But Governor Blunt's misunderstanding, or perhaps intentional mischaracterization, of the Foundation's endowment represents the latest example in an alarming trend at the intersection of charities and politics.
- In New York, a political deal between the Governor and a union leader unfairly redirected 95 percent of a nonprofit health insurer's assets into a fund to support pay raises for members of the state's largest labor union.
- In Kentucky's 2003 gubernatorial race, the Republican Governors Association claimed in an advertisement, without any substantiating evidence, that the Democratic candidate, Attorney General Ben Chandler, had acted improperly by creating a private foundation with the assets preserved in the conversion of a large health insurance company. Although the ad's claims were debunked, it ran frequently and may have been instrumental in Chandler's defeat that year.
As spiraling health costs take their toll on state budgets, it is possible that the Blunt approach, seeing private foundation assets as "taxpayer assets," may be attempted elsewhere, whether through legislation or executive fiat. Have you seen any such entanglement between politics and private foundations in your state? Heard about any problematic legislation, or other threatening state action, that could tie the hands of nonprofit or foundation leaders?
Scott Benbow is a philanthropy specialist in San Francisco. Since graduating from Columbia Law School, he has practiced law in the United States and in three other countries.


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The KR package added a few styling cues that are instantly recognizable, including the twin-snorkel hood that reaches almost to the nose of the car. It's rumored that this hood alone costs $20,000 to replace, but that's understandable since it's 100% carbon-fiber and includes trick twist-lock hood pins. It also helps explain the KR's staggering $82,000 original sticker price, making this one some kind of insane bargain with an asking price under $45K. With just 3457 original miles, it's definitely in collector-grade condition, used just enough to keep it healthy but obviously never a daily driver or even in inclement weather. The paint is nasty, sinister black and neatly invisible satin black stripes on this particular KR suggest that it's a particularly brutal example. A few badges remind everyone that this is something special, but for many, the big horsepower means that it's OK to be brash, bold, and in-your-face.
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The heart of the KR is an upgraded 5.4 liter supercharged V8. With an extra 40 horsepower, it sat neatly at the top of the Shelby food chain. It's still built by the guys at SVT who put their personal signature on each engine they build, but thanks to a little more boost, a cold air intake, and a few ECM tweaks it's an entirely different animal than the standard GT500 motor. The suspension is augmented with unique spring rates, dampers, stabilizer bars, and strut tower brace, and the result was so good, it became the foundation of the next-generation GT500. 3.73 gears mean it runs like a scalded cat, yet the overdrive gears in the transmission ensure that it doesn't get nuts on the highway. Polished forged alloy wheels are fitted with custom-made 255/45/18 front and 285/40/18 rear Goodyear Eagle F1 Supercar radials created just for these cars.
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Building a block around a few fairy tales in February was a great way to fit in a bunch of seemingly unrelated activities we have not given much time to this year. Chief among them was form drawing and handwriting. I have wanted to incorporate form drawing into our lessons since coming to Waldorf 3 years ago. I have read all the books. I have watched all the videos. I have reams of paper with form after form drawn on them. But for some reason, when I tried to do it with the boys, it never seemed natural and it never seemed right. I started this current year with a 2 week block of form drawing, and I think we continued it for maybe two Mondays after that. Then . . . nothing. No forms. No progression. No handwriting improvement. No etheric body strengthening. Nothing.
For some reason, something clicked for me this past month. It started with this post by Mrs. Mallard over at Ducks in the Pond. In hearing her describe how she uses sleep in conjunction with form drawing made a lot of sense to me. I could finally visualize a rhythm of exactly how this could work. Instead of isolating it as something separate, I incorporated a variety of forms directly into our main lesson work. Jude's favorite was the five-pointed star, a form we worked with in his numbers block back in the fall. Both boys were struggling with the progression of the star on paper, so I remembered that walking the form is another approach. We constructed a big 5 pointed star with yarn and set candles at each point to hold the points in place. (These are the days you hope the neighbors don't come knocking or peeking in the schoolroom window! Because, really, how does one explain having one's children walking around what is essentially a lighted pentagram?) This turned out to be a beautiful, reverent lesson around one of my favorite fairy tales, "The Wise Hare."
Another highlight was one day when I gave Vincent a particular form, and after drawing it, he told me he had made up a form of his own. I will admit, I didn't have high hopes, as he didn't seem to especially enjoy form drawing. He surprised me. It was beautiful: a lovely curvy, running form that was particularly stunning when intertwined and done in two colors. Sometimes we teach them, sometimes they teach us.
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The Assistive Technology Clinic began in 1994 as a service dedicated to improving the quality of life for people with neurological and neurodegenerative conditions through rehabilitation and technology. Housed on the premises of Sunnybrook Health Sciences Centre and the Baycrest Brain Health Centre, the mandate of ATC is to provide innovative medical, physio, occupational and speech therapy programs and combine them with state of the art technologies.
Today, ATC is separately incorporated from our host hospitals and prides itself on operating under the principles of social entrepreneurship. ATC is partially funded by the Ontario Ministry of Health , has contracts with multiple public institutions and has been awarded specific grants to provide care to ALS, MS, Parkinsons and Stroke patients. Although we are grant funded for these 4 medical programs, ATC will see people with all manner of neurological conditions and no one is turned away.
Our clinical teams are comprised of physicians, nurses, occupational and physical therapists, speech language pathologists, dietitians, therapy support staff, social services, biomedical engineers and computer technologists. Our award winning teams see over 4000 patients per year and provide interventions in the areas of: specialized medicine and rehabilitation, spasticity management, gait and balance, seating and mobility, augmentative and alternative communication, computer aids, wearable robotics, and environmental controls.
ATC has formalized linkages with the University of Toronto and the University of New Brunswick, has developed collaborative partnerships for research and development of new technologies, has embarked on A number of research studies and our staff have presented at numerous international conferences and published a number of papers in peer reviewed journals.
ATC is fully accredited by the Assistive Devices Program (ADP) of the Ontario Ministry of Health and Long Term Care and is able to provide our clients with the benefit of ADP funding where applicable.
As a result of the extraordinary interventions provided by ATC, and our client centred philosophy, awareness of the needs and possibilities for the neurologically disabled has grown. Consequently the demand for our services has increased and we are always on the lookout for new grant and revenue generating opportunities to meet the needs of the people we serve and provide each and every one of them with the right tools and technology to improve and maintain their quality of life.
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The Assistive Technology Clinic is fully accredited by the Assistive Devices Program (ADP) of the Ontario Ministry of Health and Long-Term Care and is able to provide our clients with the benefit of ADP funding where applicable. The clinical team is comprised of physicians, nurses, occupational therapists, physical therapists, Speech-Language pathologists, communicative disorders assistants and computer technologists.
The Assistive Technology Clinic serves people who suffer from the consequences of neurological and complex musculoskeletal disorders. Housed on the premises of Sunnybrook Health Sciences Centre and the Baycrest Brain Health Center, ATC provides an innovative out patient service where people with chronic diseases are assessed, treated and managed within the framework of a single multi-disciplinary clinic, and where best evidence and clinical research are intimately linked with each step of the process.
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Matthew (Matt) Olson, 43, of Aurora, CO passed away on April 4, 2017 after a tenacious battle with pancreatic insufficiency.
Matt was born March 22, 1974 in Columbia, SC. After 15 months, he and his twin sister were adopted by Hal and Dot Olson. He moved with his family to Aurora when he was 2 years old. He was active in youth soccer and basketball as a child before finding his passion as a long distance runner. Among his accomplishments was winning the Georgetown to Idaho Springs Half Marathon for his age division at age 14. He graduated from Gateway High School in Aurora, CO in 1992 where he competed in cross country and track. He then went on to attend the University of Southern Colorado, Pueblo, CO and the University of Northern Colorado, Greeley, CO where he majored in journalism. He was subsequently employed as a reporter with the Greeley Tribune, Gillette News-Record (Wyoming), Aurora Sentinel, and Denver Post.
Matt was an avid reader, talented writer, loving son, faithful husband, loving father, adventurous brother, and loyal friend. He loved sports—especially the Denver Broncos, Golden State Warriors, Chicago Cubs, and shared a deep affection with his father and brother for Florida State football. He especially enjoyed traveling with his Dad and brother to cheer FSU to victories over Notre Dame, University of Colorado, and Oklahoma State University.
He also co-authored a book with a friend entitled Guilty Until Proven Innocent that detailed the plights of teachers who were wrongly accused of criminal activities. He was featured by Tattered Cover as a local author at one of their book signing events. The book was subsequently adopted by several colleges as a textbook for education majors.
Matt was a dedicated Christian and loved any opportunity to serve his church as an acolyte, reader, and usher. He enjoyed debate on any subject whether it was over sports, politics or his Lutheran faith.
He loved food of any kind and lots of coffee. He looked forward to holidays and special occasions with his family and friends. He and his daughter had a special bond together with their fondness for sushi. Matt also enjoyed the time with his wife and daughter attending or watching movies—especially the Star Wars and Marvel superhero collections, traveling to Disneyland, and spending time in the mountains. He was a proud father who pushed himself to coach his daughter's soccer team during his final year of life.
Matt is survived by his wife, Kelly, daughter Grace, his parents, Hal and Dot Olson of Aurora, Colorado; sister Meredith (Michael) Hopaczylo of Mesa, AZ; and brother, Josh (Leslie) Olson of Minneapolis, MN. He is also survived by many aunts, uncles, cousins, and 3 nephews—Jaryn, Beck and Lane. He will also be missed by his faithful pet and companion, "K.C.".
The family would like to thank the caring nursing staff at Aspen Care Center, his hospice nurse, Vicki, and the Suncrest Hospice team for all their support to Matt and his family during his final months.
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GLENDALE — Six candidates vying for two City Council seats in the April 5 election discussed their plans during a forum Thursday to reform the budget, stimulate business and repair race relations in the city.
Candidates Rafi Manoukian, Mike Mohill, Chahe Keuroghelian and Garen Mailyan are challenging incumbents Dave Weaver and John Drayman in the election, which so far has seen a relatively quiet campaign season.
"People overseas are voting with their lives. I ask you to vote with your heart," Manoukian told members of the Women's Civic League of Glendale at Thursday's candidate forum.


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The 2017 CAUL Repositories Community Event is scheduled alongside #OR2017 - more details to come. 25 September 2016
Monday 21 - Tuesday 22 November 2016
Cullen Room, Holme Building (building code A09), Science Road, The University of Sydney
Eduroam (normal wi-fi access will also be available)
See speakers' bios for Twitter handles - linked from the program page.
An optional conference dinner will be held at Forest Lodge, located at 117 Arundel St, Forest Lodge. A three course dinner plus first drink (house wine, beer, soft drink) will cost approximately $49 per person. It is 1.1km from the conference venue and takes approximately 14 minutes to walk, or 5 minutes by taxi.
$150 (including GST, confirmed) which includes meeting catering, and drinks & nibbles on the first day. Optional conference dinner is $49.
There is a guaranteed place for each CAUL/CONZUL institution until October 17.
Registrations are now closed. Please contact the CAUL Office if you have any questions.
Please note: After October 17, the first person from each institution will be confirmed; second and later registrations will be allocated in order of receipt.
Invoices for the registration fee will then be sent to the email indicated on the registration form.
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A police chief who bared her breast in a drunken scandal dubbed "Boobgate" will today discover if she keeps her £109,000-a-year job.
Assistant Chief Constable Rebekah Sutcliffe told Superintendent Sarah Jackson that her "credibility was zero" after she had a "boob job" and berated her as a "laughing stock" who would be judged professionally "on the size of her tits" during the drunken tirade.
She then went on to pull down the front of her dress to expose her left breast to her Greater Manchester Police (GMP) colleague and say: "Look at these, look at these, these are the breasts of someone who has had three children.
"They are ugly but I don't feel the need to pump myself full of silicone to get self-esteem."
A disciplinary panel earlier found Sutcliffe to have breached the standards of professional behaviour relating to respect and courtesy and discreditable conduct, but recommended she should not be sacked, following a gross misconduct hearing late last year.
Today, the hearing will sit again to determine what disciplinary action will be imposed.
The disciplinary panel consisting of chair Rachel Crasnow QC, Her Majesty's Chief Inspector of Constabulary Sir Tom Winsor and independent member Alastair Cannon found her gross misconduct had taken Ms Sutcliffe to "the very precipice of dismissal"
But they recommended to GMP Deputy Chief Constable Ian Pilling that she should receive a final written warning. Pilling is not bound by their recommendation and his decision is final.
Sutcliffe, 47, admitted misconduct in failing to treat Jackson with respect or courtesy and that she abused her position and authority.
She also acknowledged that her actions discredited the police service.
However, she had denied it amounted to gross misconduct.
Sutcliffe, who was the most senior female Greater Manchester Police officer at the time, verbally attacked her younger subordinate following a gala dinner at the national senior women in policing conference last May.
The haranguing in the early hours of May 6 at Manchester's Hilton Hotel concluded when Sutcliffe told her colleague she was no longer going to support a further promotion for her.
Jackson, who was appointed by Sutcliffe as a temporary superintendent in a secondment role, later said she was "shocked, mortified, embarrassed and ashamed" at the comments made by her superior.
Jackson, who has since transferred to Cumbria Constabulary, had suffered "great anxiety from the night itself and since".
The hearing is scheduled for 10am at GMP headquarters.


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Bahl sells 275,000 TV18 shares to Network 18 Fincap
MUMBAI: Network 18 Fincap Pvt Ltd (previously known as SGA Finance and Management Services Private Limited) has acquired 275,000 equity shares from the promoter Television Eighteen India Ltd (TV18), Raghav Bahl for Rs 183.1 million.
So far, Bhal has transferred 1,275,000 shares to Network 18 Fincap for an approximate amount of Rs 800 million in less than a months' time.
For the record, he sold 200,000 shares at Rs 609 on 18 August, followed by 300,000 equity shares at Rs 601 on 14 August, 300,000 shares at Rs 640 on 4 August and 200,000 at Rs 650.25 on 3 August to Network 18 Fincap.
The transaction was executed by way of block deal on the stock exchange, TV18 said. "Pursuant to the sanction to the scheme of arrangement by the Hon'ble High Court of Judicature at Delhi, Network 18 Fincap Pvt Ltd has acquired 2,75,000 shares from Bahl," a statement TV18 posted on the BSE declared.


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Take a scenic drive out to Kamas during July to visit my gallery show at Artique. The wonderful gallery featuring local artists is open every weekend, Thursday through Sunday, from 11:00 a.m. until 6:00 p.m.
Artique will be featuring over 50 different images, with a highlight on my new barn series – iconic rural and desert scenes from across America framed in beautiful hand-crafted barnwood frames made in Utah. The gallery will also include a wide range of outdoor and landscape images in sizes ranging from 5×7 mats up to large framed display prints. We'll also have Park City notecards and more.
It's a perfect stop on the way out to the High Uintahs on the Mirror Lake Highway, or just cruising through the rural countryside of eastern Summit County.
283 North Main Street
Kamas, Utah
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Open Thursday through Sunday
11:00 a.m. to 6:00 p.m.


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Large Variety of Reports!
"I would recommend this system to anyone that wants to automate their AML research. The system is fairly easy to use and has a large variety of pre-made report options. Therefore you do not have to build all reports from scratch."
– Samantha Sill, Sturdy Savings Bank, Stone Harbor, NJ


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Comic fans irritated by Marvel Comics' initial decision not to reprint "Ultimate Spider-Man" #1 should prepare for more heartburn. Although the company eventually relented, Marvel president Bill Jemas said Tuesday that the appearance of "Ultimate Spider-Man" #1 as an online reprint was the shape of things to come for future under-ordered hot titles.
"With respect to 'Ultimate Spider-Man,' we found ourselves in a situation half by accident, half on purpose," Jemas said in a lunchtime phone press conference. "What we ended up doing with USM was advertising and promoting this book … as much as we've advertised and promoted any book in recent memory."
When retailers underestimated demand and under-ordered the first issue, "we made the decision [to print] as many books as we had orders for, plus a few thousand more, and not go back for more. … And we'd give the people who supported us the benefit of having something of a collector's item."
In an industry where many blame the collector (and speculator) mentality for the crash of the early 1990s, Jemas thinks that collectors are the way to get Marvel back on top.
"We know that if store owners feel a book will become collectible, they'll order more of it," he said.
As for the conventional wisdom that speculators purchasing multiple variants of comics with enhanced covers and all the rest created the conditions for the dramatic collapse of sales, readership and the loss of comic shops across the United States, Jemas isn't having any of it: "That was the excuse.
"If I were the publisher during the period of the crash," his response to what happened would be that, "Gee, Marvel bought a distribution house … and our books stink. … I could say that, and the next morning I could go back and be a fry cook at Burger King. Or I could say that there was a speculative market, and the customers left.
"Everybody looked for the excuse that saved their jobs for a while. … We have to realize the excuse was the excuse, but we have to realize the problem is the problem."
Marvel's new appointed editor-in-chief Joe Quesada is working on improving the quality and accessibility of the line, Jemas said, while he looks for other ways to improve the company's health.
"Collectibility, which makes the market explode, is not a detriment. Was collectibility a detriment to Pokemon? To baseball? To Beanie Babies?" he said. "Collectiblity is an asset, not a detriment. … When you make a mistake, say you make a mistake, not give an excuse."
And recent history shows that the collector mentality can still bring customers into comic shops.
"I do think that when 12 year olds hear about comics that are worth $20 and $30 that you can get in comic shops for $2 and $3, they'll come into comic shops, just as they did for Pokemon."
Limited reprints will bolster the collectibility of individual hot issues, while Marvel.com will provide online reprints of those comics for readers who missed the issues in the meantime.
"We've gone ahead and created what we're calling Marvel.Comics," Jemas said, calling the current first dozen pages of "Ultimate Spider-Man" #1 on the site right now a "prototype." "We think that's a reasonable compromise when a book sells out, and we can hold off [until] we can have a substantial paperback."
Look for the next 11 pages to go up on the site by Friday, barring any technical problems, he said.
As for other near-term Web ventures, Jemas said "there are a lot of other projects that, in the fullness of time, will come to fruition on Marvel.com," including animation and games. "But for right now, we think the best use of our resources is to get comic book stories out to comic book fans."
And, except perhaps for online reprints, it'll all be free.
"My flip reaction is that we'll charge for this when they start charging for radio. … There will be more than enough advertising revenue to make this viable for Marvel on an ongoing basis. … The minute we start charging for this we start talking to ourselves."
One thing fans won't be seeing soon is Marvel's return to "mature reader" comics in the tradition of their 1980s Epic line. The launch of the mature readers line, which was to have had a strong online component, has been delayed while Quesada and company work on getting a stronger group of titles together. And, given the spotty track record the Epic line had, "Epic" "isn't even the strongest contender" for the new line's name.
Do look for Marvel's free e-mail service, offered through
And while not wanting to make any absolute predictions about what the next Marvel.Comics reprint will be, Jemas said that "Babylon 5" television series creator J. Michael Straczynski's first issue of "Amazing Spider-Man" would likely qualify.
"When a book sells out at retail, and the paperback is six to eight months away, Marvel ought to … make it available online right away," Jemas said.


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R' Avrohom HaKohen Pam, Rosh Yeshiva of Mesivta Torah Vodaath, gives the following advice on distribution of tzedakah : "After all is said and done, every person is drawn to certain individuals and institutions which, for some reason, seem to grab his heart. This is how it should be. A person must follow his heart in his service of Hashem.
"This concept is explained at length by the Netziv of Volozhin, in his commentary Haamek Davar [Numbers 15:41], who observes: in Koheles, King Solomon says "Follow the path of your heart and the sight of your eyes" [Ecclesiastes 11:9] - meaning that the service of Hashem is highly individualized and no two people are alike. One person is immersed in painstaking toil in the study of Torah all day long, while another puts tremendous effort into prayer and supplication, and yet a third person throws himself heart and soul into acts of charity and kindness.
All of them are sincerely dedicated to glorifying the Name of G-d, each in his singular way. Even in the quest for Torah knowledge, no two scholars are alike; each has a unique methodology and approach to his studies. Likewise, in the pursuit of mitzvos, everyone has a preference for certain good deeds over others. And in the practice of philanthropy, no two benefactors follow the same path.
"Therefore, if a person comes to ask for advice "What area of Divine service should I emphasize?" the only answer is to paraphrase the words of King Solomon - "Follow the path of your heart" - if your heart is attracted to a certain mitzvah, it is because your celestial soul has recognized this as the mitzvah which is bonded to the root and essence of your being."
Source: Rabbi Avrohom Chaim Feuer


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Welcome to a new post with Paper Smooche's latest release! I just love everything about it! For this post I have played with the Beautiful In stitches set. I wanted to create a country style rustic card and used very subtle colors:
Here is where you'll find the Paper Smooches online store!
I also share my cards and watercolors here: My Instagram and in my Paper Smooches PINTEREST FOLDER
Have a great day, hugs, Karin


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THE SECRET TO HAPPINESS (according to something I just read on the Internet) -- IS VEGETABLES! I guess you have to actually eat them in order to truly be happy, but we're going to draw and paint them, too.
For these exercises, work "from life", if possible. Visit your local market, grocery store, or farmer's market, and fill your cart or basket with lots of interesting colors and shapes.
Now, try a few, or all, of these exercises/studies -- either in your sketchbook, or on scrap pieces of watercolor paper:
1) PUMPKIN with SCARF -- Set up a pumpkin, with a patterned scarf draped around the base of it. Start with a wet-in-wet underpainting (use warm colors). When that's dry, draw the pumpkin and scarf.
Draw a "frame" behind the pumpkin, and paint a transparent wash over this background shape. Paint the pumpkin and the scarf, adding some darks in the stem, and some cobalt blue washes for the shadows. . .
2) A BUNCH OF CELERY -- In your sketchbook, draw a bunch of celery, in pencil -- add shading. Draw two different views of the celery, on the same page. . .
3) BELL PEPPERS with DARK BACKGROUND -- Draw and paint 1 or 2 colorful bell peppers. Add a horizontal line for a tabletop, and paint the background dark. . . not black, but dark. . .
4) PEPPERS ON A PLATE -- Put several different kinds of peppers on a plate. Draw a bird's-eye-view of the peppers -- a contour drawing in ink. Do a wet-in-wet painting for the color. (You can either do the painting first, and then add the ink contour drawing; or draw it in ink first, and then add the color.)
5) CARROTS -- Set a bunch of carrots, with the greens still attached, on a piece of white paper on a table. Draw and paint the carrots, adding light blue shadows . . .
6) EAR OF CORN -- Do a contour drawing, in pencil, of an ear of corn -- either fresh, or use Indian corn. . .
7) WARM PEPPERS/COOL BACKGROUND -- Set up 2 or 3 colorful peppers on a tabletop, with or without a tablecloth. Draw and paint the peppers with bright, warm colors. Paint the background with cool colors. . .
8) STILL LIFE IN KITCHEN -- Set up a simple still life in your kitchen, with salad ingredients. Do a contour drawing in pencil, and then paint a value study, with Burnt Sienna (or Quin Burnt Orange). . .
9) PATTERNED GOURDS -- Are gourds considered vegetables? Probably not, unless they're squashes? Well, for our purposes, they are vegetables. Find some gourds or squashes, with interesting patterns or stripes. Draw and paint a few small color studies. . .
10) STILL LIFE WITH PEPPER -- Set up a simple still life that includes one bell pepper in the foreground. Draw the still life with pencil -- adding shading to the pepper, only. . .
Are you happy yet? If not, you may just have to cut up those veggies, throw them into a pot, with a little broth, herbs & spices, and salt & pepper, and turn them into soup. . .


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I previously mentioned this a precursor to this story here about what is supposed to be the "world's oldest Quran." In that post I talked about the origins and difficulty of choosing and authenticating scriptures. Let's now take a look at the difficulty of dating texts.
This article reports that the text in Birmingham (UK)dates between 568 and 645 CE(AD)while Mohammad himself lived about the same time. This leads to the statement: "Islamic scholars believe Muhammad lived between 570 and 632AD, meaning the text was compiled either before the Prophet's birth or during his childhood."
Here are my problems with the claim that this text predates the Quran and that it means something radical for Islam.
1. Carbon dating is not particularly reliable as a sole means of dating. Only the parchment itself was tested, not the ink. However, lots of things can contaminate a carbon sample such as oils from handling even if that handling took place centuries ago, dust from storage, ancient book marks, and easily made errors.
2. Even Islamic tradition mentioned in the article states that the Quran was finalized in 650 from previously circulated materials. If the text does date from the life time of Mohammad, there is no reason to assume that it was written in the first half of the given time frame. The statement that it had to predate Mohammad or have been written in his early childhood only follows if the text was not written in the second half of the window. It could easily be an early version that was written by the followers of Mohammad during his life time.
3. Even if it was written before Mohammad was old enough to have shaped it, that is not surprising. Many of the stories of the Quran have versions in a well known book called the Torah, or the Books of Moses, of the first five books of the Old Testament. The preexistence of these traditions is not in question by even the most conservative Islamic scholars.
4. The idea that Mohammad may have built on a frame work of tradition that already existed, but was not very old during his life time, is fascinating; but is by no means proven by a single text.
We need far more information to make even the beginnings of a hypothesis. We need things like:
-carbon testing on the ink, verified in double blind studies from at least 3 labs.
-linguistic and textual analysis to compare the writings to others within 100 years of the time frame given either direction. Does it use words not in use in Mohammad's time? Does it use scripts that would be odd in his era? Is the wording for particular things similar to the descriptions of those things in other documents we can date?
- release of the full scanned text to be peer reviewed and the person making these claims needs to back away from the discussion until further study can be done.
Remember, anything to do with Religion gets attention, especially hints that the official story might be wrong. Attention, in the academic world among others, means money.
Always, always, be suspect of religious claims.


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4 Pennsylvanians indicted in $4M jewelry store robbery in Delaware
WILMINGTON, Del. — Federal prosecutors said Friday that four men arrested in the theft of a $2 million ruby from a Delaware jewelry store are tied to a ring that committed several similar smash-and-grab heists in Pennsylvania and New Jersey.
A December indictment unsealed Thursday in Delaware details allegations about the theft ring. A superseding indictment was filed and final arrest made that same day in connection with the Pennsylvania and New Jersey robberies.
Delaware prosecutors said the suspects, none of whom was arrested in Delaware, are all Pennsylvania men with no ties to Delaware but a history of crime, including serving time for armed robbery.
"These are essentially professional armed robbers," U.S. Attorney Charles Oberly III said.


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Saturday, September 27, 2008
The Fat Cats need Pin Money
Man, is this one timely or what !? Show me the money ! . . 700 billion ( for starters ). Will work for food . . caviar, martinis, pheasant under glass, roasted cornish hens, escargot, lobster, king crab legs . . etc.
Tuesday, September 23, 2008
Meet Mr. Wisdom
New Harvard Business Review cartoon
This drawing appeared on page 99 of the October 2008 issue. They devoted a half page to it . . and that's always nice.
Monday, September 22, 2008
for the fifties . .
I'm so broke, I even get nostalgic for the
twenties, tens and fives. "
Robert Orben
Cartoon of the Day
Sunday, September 21, 2008
He can only make use of such
opportunities as they occur. "
A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to The New Yorker
It's available, at Amazon, Barnes & Noble and everywhere, if your bookstore doesn't have it on the shelf, they'll order it.
The ISBN# ( Softback ) is 978-1-4257-7797-5
The ISBN# ( Hardback ) is 978-1-4257-7802-6
The hardback is 20.00 U.S. currency
The book is 6x9, 107 pages, filled with my best cartoons from the top magazines ! A laugh a page !
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You can order from me, autographed if you want, no charge.
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Wednesday, September 17, 2008
You Tube, You Tuba . . Samo-Samo
Tuesday, September 16, 2008
Monday, September 15, 2008
Easyriders Magazine Cartoon
I always liked this cartoon . . the pollsters always have a question that goes something like this . . . especially when it's election time.
Sunday, September 14, 2008
Eating on the cheap
Harvard Business Review Cartoon
I always enjoyed the full-page cartoons they USED to do in The New Yorker and of course you still see in Playboy. Actually, as for the New Yorker, there isn't as much need for they would not be appreciated to print a huge cartoon of so many ugly drawings they use now . . in fact, many of the new wave of cartoonists should have their work printed even smaller, as far as many people are concerned. SIZE in this case matters, because it's a visual thing . . remember, many of these ugly, amateurish drawings are produced by WRITERS attempting to draw.
In my opinion, writers should write, and continue to hone their skill.
cartoonists should cartoon and continue to hone THEIR skills to become as good as they can be. The same for nuclear scientists, shoemakers, shirtmakers, skiers, skaters.
Of course it's okay to try your hand in other fields that interest you, but, man, once you see that you're wasting your time, MOVE ON . .
for God's sake . . there is nothing wrong with failing at something new .
At least you TRIED . . Now get the HELL out of the way . . You wonder, is it the fault of this poor sap which keeps producing CRAP or is it the fault of the EDITORS buying and publishing this CRAP ?
No need to mention names . . as George Carlin used to say . . " You ugly people know who you are ! "
Saturday, September 13, 2008
Harvard Business Review Cartoon
The editors will choose cartoons which are related to a book which they are reviewing. In this case, the book is titled " How to write a business plan " by William A. Sahlman. Teresa Burns Parkhurst and Rod Rossi are also featured cartoonists.
Cartoon of the Month
Friday, September 12, 2008
Chuckle of the day
Robert Orben
Wednesday, September 10, 2008
Wisdom ( Write this one down )
a successful person and others
is not a lack of strength,
not a lack of knowledge,
but rather a lack of will. "
Sunday, September 7, 2008
Cartoon of the Day
a new idea, never regains its
original dimensions. "
to those who are afraid of it. "
Friday, September 5, 2008
as long as courage ' coaches ' ambition.
The habit of persistence is the
habit of victory. "
Three Cartoon Editors
These are the 3 mystery editors who are responsible for choosing the final few cartoons out of thousands that pour in every week over the transom that are picked unanimously and which end up appearing in this famous magazine week after week after week.
The leak is out . . this is the first picture that will finally quell the rumors . . who are these men ? Larry, Curly and Mo ? What about Shemp ?
The names will remain silent till we check this unnamed and unsubstantiated crap.
Thursday, September 4, 2008
footnote to Plato's Dialogues. "
Tuesday, September 2, 2008
Wisdom ( Write this one down )
not worth living. "


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Greetings and Good Day,
"When night is young, it shines bright and clear.
The other is smaller, but for the best sailor.
In a smaller orbit it goes around, and leads the ships of Sidon on their voyages." Phaenomena 200 BC – Aratos
Considering latest events in the European continent, starting from the UK referendum to exit the EU, up to the Italian Banks crisis, and the German exports need to stable growth, one can assess that the European Republic as suggested by http://www.neweasterneurope.eu/interviews/2068-europe-needs-to-transcend-the-nation-state , is the most important political project in our modern times. In truth while uniting so many different languages and interests, will have ups and downs for sure, it is understood that ramifications also will entail several major topics, such as refugees and the alarming trend of violent actions disturbing the peaceful administration of civil affairs in the continent.
There is no doubt that to acquire more leverage the European Republic, it has to become a source of sustain for each pensioner in the next 30 years. This can unfold by converging all pensioners' salaries to be paid by one Sovereign European Fund, while all new born infants will receive cash back from another Republican fund.
So is it wiser to break down history in different eras or can it unfolds in an unraveling continuum?
Is there a link between old human civilizations spread on different continents? Definitely there is a continuum and the link is PAX PHOENICIA, where humanity metamorphosed always in different forms, Chinese, Egyptian, Indian, Sumeri, Kanaanite (think about King Hiram, King David and the Patriach of Jerusalem Elia ), Greek, Roman, Dutch, Portuguese, British, Russian, American, etc…
Whenever we wish to elaborate on the recent coup in Turkey, and to position it in the connections with the European Republic, http://nationalinterest.org/feature/turkeys-failed-coup-what-happened-whos-behind-it-what-17015 , we can only hope that a new liberal constitution with checks and balances will come up. Here Mr. Erdogan need to realize that his government spurred division, and that his role need to be ended the sooner the best, or else this will represent a likely scenario of division and conflict, where two Turkey's ( East and West) will unfold along a line from Trabzon to Anamur and a successive confederation will require a lot of diplomatic work, http://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2016-07-19/sectarian-tension-builds-in-turkey-as-erdogan-crackdown-widens .
Teutonic shifts can be at the horizon, yet analyzing some points; we get back to the continuum of the PAX PHOENICIA.
From the succession to Putin, where Mr. Kerry needs to add frequency to his visits to Moscow to entice the establishment to pick up a successor, preferably Mrs Budget Tatiana Golikov, to the decision of the financial masters of the universe to hike the FED interest rate to prepare for the next and upcoming economic crisis, links abound.
So why we don't get involved in international architecture and think about the Arc of Gas stretching from Algeria to Turkish Riviera, call it the Republic of Carthage with depth extending east , up to Pakistan, which covers a major importance as source of energy to the Republic of Europe, getting older in the next 30 years.
AWWWW, here comes Turkish instability that will factor into the dissolution of the strategic duet Riyadh/Tehran, ceding importance to the Republic of Carthage, where two elected "despots" such as Bibi Netanyahu and Raja Tayyeb Erdogan are effectively dismantling the civil administration of their respective states. The first by strengthening racism and religious divide, while the latter is following the path of Ian Bremer, who used to be the US representative in Iraq, in dismantling state bureaucrats from military to civil servants, increasing the intellectual divide between Kemalists who opposed the Serves convention and Erdoganists lobbying for a Turkish strategic shine or stream if we want.
How this will affect Lebanon?
As Lebanese citizen I am concerned that any delay in Lebanese reforms and general elections as per the electoral law of the Lebanese opposition version, https://thinkingdiceblog.wordpress.com/2016/06/22/the-electoral-law-for-lebanon-by-the-lebanese-opposition will force the interplay of the inevitability of a third Lebanese war, especially in presence of a US /Russo cooperation vis a' vis the Syria crisis.
If it is true that until now Hezbollah had an advantage in the formula of loss and benefit, entangled in the Syrian conflict and simultaneously sponsoring Lebanese presidential vacuum, it is also true that from today the time factor in the vacuum, is not anymore in Hezbollah's favor and advantage. Lest will become the political mantra of the party of God.
So as we are already in the tunnel of Bretton Woods, do we need to sort out new mechanism to manage the global affairs, as suggested here https://thinkingdiceblog.wordpress.com/2016/06/28/pinot-roots-and-magnolia-movement/ ?
While we will figure many things out, the South China Sea will continue to be a Chinese illegal requirement of regional power projection, the same as Russian circumvention of Armenia in its trade to the Indian Subcontinent will be a geopolitical requirement. http://www.jamestown.org/single/?tx_ttnews%5Btt_news%5D=45647&tx_ttnews%5BbackPid%5D=7&cHash=314beddbad1fe3dbb2805de0d5f07ee6#.V48zmBLeJVc
Therefore it is less a matter of Liberal democracy, Kleptocracy, Theocracy, Authoritarianism, or totalitarianism, all coexisting under the same rule of the PAX PHOENICIA, still running in continuum.
"Take a breath, Rest your head, Close your eyes, you are right" Don't be so Shy Lyrics, Imany
Thank You,


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Mission Statement of the Global Studies Department
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The mission of the Department of Global Studies is to provide students with a cutting-edge education that enables them to understand and operate in a "global environment".
In conjunction with its International Studies Program (ISP), the department's multidisciplinary faculty seeks to develop the knowledge and skills students required for a career in an ever-globalizing world.
Merging Anthropology, Economics, History, Modern Languages and Political Science, introduces students to the complex web of international relations forged between sovereign nations, while also paying close attention to supra-national trends such as the globalization of culture, the formation of Non-Governmental Organizations, Multinational Corporations, the migrations of people and labor, and the growth and development of political, social, and religious movements.
It is the goal of Global Studies to help produce well-rounded, highly educated citizens mindful and responsive to the global issues, trends, and relationships that will shape human societies in the 21st Century.
Additionally, and through the ISP, the departments seeks to build the critical skills in reading, writing, and language that will prepare students for study beyond the two-year level.
Such a course of study can pave the way for a B.A. or Graduate Degree in Anthropology, Law, Business, History, Economics, Linguistics, or open the door to employment in International Relations, Humanitarian Organizations, Teaching, Consulting, Intelligence-gathering, Foreign Policy, or the range of public and private sector jobs that develop as the institutional and territorial divisions between peoples and nations shrink.
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Wednesday, 22 January 2014
21 comments:
- Anonymous22 January 2014 at 23:41
Good to read, among all the love for Guinness. Now, about that high fluoride content...ReplyDelete
It's all devious planning behind the curtain.ReplyDelete
- Anonymous24 January 2014 at 15:36
Bob "Stinkfoot" Dylan: "Even I'm more interesting than him, hmmm?"ReplyDelete
Radha: "PENG!"
Bill: "Is there a difference between piss and bullshit?"
Danny: "There certainly is, but is it of any value to talk about it? That is the question."
- Anonymous24 January 2014 at 15:54
Bill: "Using one of the strongest drugs ever and not getting "IT", what could that possibly mean, Anja?"ReplyDelete
Anja: "Is this a serious question, Bill?"
Bill: "No. I just want you to answer. Killing motherfuckers bore be too much. I hope you don't mind, Babe."
Anja: "I don't mind, honey. It means: NO SOUL! What so ever! Broke! Nothing there!"
- Anonymous24 January 2014 at 16:07
Anja: "Finally, Thomas, I worked my ass off for you. But...nothing is coming around. You are empty. No soul. Not cute at all. No response. You are not getting it. And when I say I worked my ass off I mean I AND I!!! Not just a little me that is chatting about "truth"-shit. Literally, Thomas, you have no pool to fall in, when you die. You are denied by every sampradaya. Do you know what that means? It means when you leave this physical form you become toilet-paper or pampers. But...at least...it is some form with a proper function. Very wellcome indeed."ReplyDelete
Bill: "Hari Om Tat Sat!"
- Anonymous26 January 2014 at 04:40
Shiva: "Get that stinking body out of the house!"ReplyDelete
G. Anja: "Hurry up! It's smelly! The worms are crawling out of it already!"
Ladys: "Let's burn it!"
Lords: "What a coward!"
Chorus: "Coward is a too small word!"
- Anonymous26 January 2014 at 06:30
Durga-Ma: "SHIVA! Leave this crazy fucker alone! He's just messing around!"ReplyDelete
Maha-Kali: "SHIVA! Don't dance with strangers! Nobody knows him!"
Chorus: "SWAMI! Don't be stupid! He's a waste of time! No style...no joke...no poke!"
Durga-Ma: "Why wasting time on someone who can not see...can not hear...can not love?"
Maha-Kali: "We are shouting from up above!"
Chorus: "Too slow...can not grow...no funky-show...only words...BORING...and deluded!"
- Anonymous26 January 2014 at 11:54
Arthur Schopenhauer: "Friedrich! Nietzsche! You wanna fuck Thomas Sheridan?"ReplyDelete
Friedrich Nietzsche: "I'm gay, but I don't fuck shit, dude! I'm a greek hero!"
Arthur Schopenhauer: "Good boy!"
Friedrich Nietzsche: "Thank you, dad!"
Arthur Schopenhauer: "De nada, son."
- Anonymous26 January 2014 at 11:59
Most wicked woman ever: "You wanna fuck Thomas Sheridan, honey?"ReplyDelete
Most lovely woman ever: "Are you crazy! He is not even gay! So WTF are you talking about?"
Most wicked woman ever: "I was just asking."
- Anonymous26 January 2014 at 12:03
Bill: "How does a guy with no dick fuck, Anja?"ReplyDelete
Anja: "With his mind?"
- Anonymous26 January 2014 at 12:06
Anja: "What does a guy with no dick do, Bill?"ReplyDelete
Bill: "Becoming a heavy-metal thing that thinks it's an artist?"
- Anonymous26 January 2014 at 12:10
Anja: "Who is more wicked, me or Adolf Hitler, Baby?"ReplyDelete
Bill: "Depends on what you are fighting for, Honey!"
- Anonymous26 January 2014 at 12:16
Shiva: "What would you do? You and Thomas Sheridan on a tiny island. No other man around?"ReplyDelete
Anja: "I'd kill that fucker instantely and feed the fish with his flesh. That is what I call grace and mercy."
- Anonymous26 January 2014 at 12:22
Bill: "You are a very nasty nazi-bitch, honey!"ReplyDelete
Anja: "Am I?"
Bill: "Nazi meaning: No-Amen-Zero-Illumination, n-a-z-i, you know?"
Anja: "Interesting definition, Babe!"
- Anonymous26 January 2014 at 12:28
Anja: "Some say you are not really dead, Bill. Is that true?"ReplyDelete
Bill: "I don't know. What do you think?"
Anja: "Can a hard and strong dick lie, Bill?"
Bill: "Can he?"
Anja: "Would he?"
Bill: "Why should he?"
- Anonymous26 January 2014 at 12:33
Bill: "Your diagnosis, Dr. A.?"ReplyDelete
Dr. A.: "Ejaculatio preacox, Bill."
Bill: "Sure?"
Dr. A.: "No...to be sure I have to fuck him, but I'm not into fucking with inmaturity."
- Anonymous26 January 2014 at 12:40
Bill: "Should I fuck him, Dr. A.? It may help."ReplyDelete
Dr. A.: "But you already did. And? Did it help?"
Bill: "NO! And I hated it! It was...please...let's not talk about it."
Dr. A.: "Should we go to get us a new cigar, Baby?"
Bill: "Always a good idea. Flesh or cuban?"
Dr. A.: "Cuban. Flesh we have already, don't we?"
Bill: "I pretty much think so!!!"
- Anonymous26 January 2014 at 13:42
G. Anja/Shiva/Bill/Durga: "Let me make it as plain as possible, Thomas. Everybody who is in the "truth-business" and is still watching TV, listening to the radio, reading news-papers is...without ANY exeption DELUDED and does not know anything at all regarding Truth.ReplyDelete
You are a slave without recognizing it. I know it by the mere fact that you still do mainstream media stuff, Thomas. WE...the divine most high...the HOLY-SPIRIT...don't do that! Regular people, who do mainstream media, are not as wicked and deluded as you are. Because they are innocent regarding that issue. They are not in the "truth-business" so it does not matter. They do just what they are supposed to do.
But you, Thomas, are fucked. In the most unpleasant way one can possibly imagine. And there is nothing...absolutely nothing that can save you from now on!
Not even yourself...not yourself anyway...who are you anyway...you have no Self...
- Anonymous26 January 2014 at 14:00
G. Anja: "This is a message for SHIVA only! Not for you, Thomas. You are done!ReplyDelete
Shiva, please come to Hamburg, Germany, if you can manage it. You can live in my appartement. I have a nice room for you and for you only. You come to Cafe Gloria, Bellealliance Straße / Lindenallee. You sit there and wait for me. I know who you are and how you look like. I go there every day so I will see you, if you sit at a window seat.
Hari Om Tat Sat.
- Anonymous26 January 2014 at 14:14
G. Anja: "This is a message for Shiva only! Not for you Thomas. Shiva! I receive your messages via the holy-spirit every day very clearly. I do know your code. I do know your language and your signals in the holy-spirit. I know you what to come to me. I know you are longing for me. You are talking to me every day via the holy-spirit.ReplyDelete
You may not know your signals yourself...you may not know what kind of signals you send, but I know them by now. Every (fucking) single one! I want you as much to be close to me as you want to be close to me, Shiva. Come to Hamburg.
You made it that far...now it is not too difficult to come here. And I have no problems to make myself known. They know me already. And they know they can not beat me...they can not stop me...they can not fool me...and they can not manipulate me. They try but...by now they know it's impossible.
So...come here, Shiva, if you can...if you want to...if you can manage it. Only directed by the holy-spirit. If you are pure...we will meet soon.
what in the world????ReplyDelete


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A few weeks ago I attended a baby shower. The church was decorated adorably (pink, purple and zebra print) to celebrate the impending arrival of a little baby girl. Twenty women arrived with yummy treats to share. The gift table was full to overflowing and we played the traditional baby shower games. It was a fun afternoon. But, the thing that made it special to me was the fact that, for most of the women in attendance, the mom-to be was a complete stranger.
My friend, Karen, had created an afternoon full of love and celebration for someone that we hardly knew. She invited and women came! They came to love on an unwed mama, down on her luck, who is set to deliver a sweet babe in a few weeks. I can't think of a better way to illustrate Christ's love. This mama to be was showered with not just practical gifts but with love, acceptance and grace.
On my way home from the shower, I tearfully recalled when a life was growing inside of me and I did not experience that same love, acceptance or grace. I was sixteen and alone. No one to throw a baby shower for the little boy in my tummy and not many who supported the decision I made when I walked out of the abortion clinic with my pregnancy still intact.
In this election season, the words "pro-life" get thrown around a lot and what people seem to really mean when they say it is that they are "anti-abortion". Friends, there is a major difference between being pro-life and being anti-abortion. The day I sat in a clinic, wrestling with the reproductive options presented, I had walked right past people holding picket signs. Their passion and vigor went basically unnoticed by a girl whose mind was already full of swirling thoughts. Their position did not influence my decision in the slightest. And, when I walked out, not a single one of them offered to pray with me or ask me if I was ok. Little did they know they were missing out on an opportunity to pour love and acceptance into a girl who had made a decision to give her child life but was still wondering if it was the right one.
But, my salvation story is rooted in the love and acceptance of two sweet women I met when that same baby was a toddler, who threw open their hearts and their church to love on teen moms. Being pro-life is so much more than trying to convince people that abortion is wrong. A true pro-life stance requires much more than ideology. Coming alongside a mom who is struggling to figure out how she is going to raise a baby alone is being pro-life. Pro-life is loving on the mom who is heartbroken with the regret of a past abortion. Supporting the rights of the disabled is pro-life. Becoming a foster parent is pro-life. Pro-life is not a political position. It is a value, exemplified in the actions of a person committed to walking alongside the hurting and the broken and honoring all life.
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1 Granny Smith and 1 Red Delicious apple, julienned
3 egg yolks
4 oz. walnut oil
4 oz. créme fraiche
4 oz. plain yogurt
1-1/2 oz. fresh lemon juice
Salt and white pepper to taste
1/8 tsp. chopped black truffle
Micro greens or baby lettuce
Candied walnuts
Whisk the yolks and walnut oil together to form a mayonnaise. Fold in créme fraiche and yogurt. Add the lemon juice and season with salt and white pepper. Fold in apples. Add the truffles and serve on a bed of baby lettuce or micro greens. Garnish with chopped candied walnuts.


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[BD Review] 'Crave' Is A Simple Mind Scramble
I have moments, almost constantly, where I wonder if I have said something out loud…or just inside my head. Take this idea, amplify it, throw it into a psychological thriller, and Crave is what you get.
Aiden is a soft spoken crime scene photographer that has these types of moments. However, Aiden sometimes goes beyond blurting out a few words and ends up having full blown hallucinations. So, his range goes from yelling at an old lady in a supermarket (who keeps bumping him with her cart) to shooting up hoodlums on the train who are harassing a young woman. It is a nice set up for a film, especially when you add in his lust for a neighbor, who happens to have a verbally abusive boyfriend she needs to be saved from.
Afterall, Aiden wants to be a better person, simply, and step up when the situation calls for it. This is where Crave teeters between an epic mind scramble and a tragic love story. The path, for the entire 113 minutes, is never truly clear. The character does have moments where, after a hallucination – or what appears to be one, turns to the camera and speaks – letting the audience know if it was reality or not. Yet, along with this clarity there is much mayhem. The line is very much jumbled and we are left wondering if Aiden is just completely mad or not. There is never a full Fight Club-esque payoff.
This is more than likely the exact purpose of Crave. While it works for the most part, the fact that the film runs almost two hours long seems to keep it from reaching its fullest potential. Despite an intriguing plot of how normal people experience this type of psychosis on a regular basis, too many questionable, long winded moments kept Crave from being completely relatable to me, personally. In addition, characters like policeman Pete (Ron Perlman) and abusive boyfriend Ravi (Edward Furlong) struggle to find their footing within the story. Their characters do have a place within Aiden's life – one being a mentor and the other an antagonist. But since the movie itself is fully set around Aiden and his actions, their characters lacked the beneficial screen time that could have made their 'pivotal' moments stand out.
Overall, Crave is a very well made film. Editing, sound, acting – all is sound, and even with the runtime and glitchy clarity, as a whole, the movie is different. With similarities to movies like Fight Club or that episode of X-Files where Mulder and Scully are having hallucinations as result of being devoured by that giant mushroom, Crave simply stands out. Even without a mind-blowing payoff, the trippy fantasy sequences are definitely something that fans of this genre should watch.


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Why RT is wrong on cancer and millionaire's paracetamol
Free prescriptions (regardless of income) are available to English millionaires who are aged 60 or over, and those who suffer from some long term illnesses such as epilepsy or diabetes, and those who are pregnant or have been pregnant during the past 12 months.
Cancer is an emotive subject; it is probably the disease that frightens many of us most. When Andrew states that patients are being deprived of cancer drugs because millionaires are getting free paracetamol in Wales, he makes an emotive point. An emotive point that is frankly immoral. To gain enough money to give just one patient a course of Avistin, his fabled Welsh millionaire would have to give up one hundred and fifty thousand courses of free prescription paracetamol. The cost of the 24 cancer drugs that Andrew RT wants to provided on the NHS in Wales would cost as much as 1380 Trillion boxes of paracetamol. Andrew's millionaire mate must have one hell of a headache!
If the drugs that Andrew RT Davies was complaining about cured cancer, I would have sympathy for his argument, but they don't. The drugs extend life for between 3 and 5 months, months that will be lived suffering from cancer rather than living with cancer, at a cost estimated by the Scottish Government in 2006 of between £24k and £93k per patient for the drugs alone (the prolonged palliative care will add to the cost).
If my doctor tells me tomorrow that I am going to die before next Christmas I can see no justification in spending £93K+ in keeping me alive until next Easter.
To expect hundreds of ill people in Wales to fork out £7.50 a script for drugs that will make them better, in order to finance my terminal illness for an extra two months of a drug comatosed life would be selfishly sick.
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And lets remember that the cost of collecting the prescription charges would nearly cancel out the money raised. IIRC the Tories in Wales were suggesting that only higher earners should pay and that the charge should be about £2, which further underlines that they are playing emotive politics with health.ReplyDelete
- BetterWales05/10/2011, 10:17
But a least by forking out it would help cut untold levels of waste.ReplyDelete
Why the level of waste in Wales is no greater than that of England who charge £7.50 a time.ReplyDelete
- BetterWales05/10/2011, 14:34
And there speaks a man who has clearly never had to pay for anything in his life.ReplyDelete
BetterWales, try trolling elsewhereReplyDelete
Members of the Royal Collage of Nursing are not, unfortunately, amongst those who have clearly never had to pay for anything in their lives. But the RCN agrees with Cibwr, prescription waste costs in England where charges exist are at about the same level as prescription waste levels in non charging Wales.ReplyDelete
- Anonymous06/10/2011, 09:51
The rate of items being prescribed is rising faster in England than in Wales, despite them having to pay. BetterWales is indeed an anti-Welsh troll.ReplyDelete
- Anonymous07/10/2011, 07:48
I think free prescriptions must stay, however GP,s should not be quite so blasé on the amounts they prescribe. When my aunt died there were 3 large bags of unopened dressings, paracetamol and other drugs that had to be binned many were out of date. Do GP's really need to prescribe over the counter remedies? The money would go further with a little more common sense.ReplyDelete


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I use powder generally but pencils are great for on the go IMO :)ReplyDelete
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Do show my blog some love too :)
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4 comments:
- Jessicat said...
so, you know I love your photos, dah. But now you have wowed me with your amazing locks. Your gorge. And also what is it you are wearing in the last photos?
- March 18, 2011 at 7:37 AM
- misma andrews said...
hello - sorry for the late reply...the cape is from a costume shop, which im going to start using all the time because you can just get lost finding the most amazing things in there.
this cape was actually hilarious...very highschool play. but in black and white it looks very owl like.
hehe also yes. my hair. is the longest it's ever been! it needs to cut as it grows more split ends daily xx
- March 22, 2011 at 7:25 PM
- Jessicat said...
I'm in a similar situation with my hair, i dont think its been so long since i was 11. I've never had to deal with split ends. Is the red cape from a costume shop too? Because I made three almost identical to it from these red velvet curtains we found at the back of our house. Now us three who wear them look like we are in a cult. Pretty ideal if you ask me.
- March 23, 2011 at 9:32 AM
- Kayla said...
that green dress is a dream on you!
- April 12, 2011 at 6:31 PM


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