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Three linked novellas explore the private worlds of three men—a farmer struggling after his father's suicide, a single dad trying to control his overweight daughter, and a mentally disabled man in love with a married woman intent on using him.
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THE NEW VALLEYNovellas
Grove PressCopyright © 2009 Josh Weil
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Ridge Weather...........................1Stillman Wing...........................83Sarverville Remains.....................189
Chapter OneRIDGE WEATHER
It was the hay bales that did it. The men and women who knew Osby least, who nodded at him from passing trucks or said "Hey" while scanning cans of soup in the Mic-or-Mac, they might not have seen the change come over him. But the few who knew him a little better would have noticed Osby's usual quietness grown heavier, that he stuffed his hands in his sweatshirt pocket a little more often. They would have chalked it up to him missing his father, figured it for nothing more than a rebalancing of the weight of a life that suddenly contained one instead of two people. They would have been wrong.
The truth was, it didn't even make sense to Osby. How could rolls of old dead grass scare him so? What was the sense behind it being that-the sight of those wasted bales on that wasted government land-that finally dug from him his tears? But it was the bales. And afterwards, he had known only that it was going to get worse.
In those weeks, as the memory of old Cortland Caudill receded to the horizons of peoples' minds, even those passing Osby in the supermarket aisles would have felt the sadness still hanging off him. Though it probably would have seemed pretty normal to them. In a place like Eads County, people sometimes get like Osby did. They're scattered all over the valley, hidden from each other by the old ridges and thick woods, by log walls of age-sunk cabins, new ranch-house brick, by paint-peeling clapboard and trailer home siding so thin the propane bill is twice what it should be, never mind the electricity for the glowing space heaters that struggle in each room.
The First Congregational Church of Harts Run had always looked pretty to Osby. Some early mornings, when he was out on Route 33 before the sun had scaled the ridge, he would round the bend and see the church way up ahead, perched at the top of the hill as if God had put the limestone there as a plinth. Once in a long while-it had happened just a few times in all his thirty-eight years-the sun would rise exactly as Osby came barreling around the corner, and the church would light up right before his eyes. Times like that, he would take a sip of coffee, turn the radio down so it blended with the rumble of the Sierra's engine, and imagine it was his headlights, and not the sun, that pulled the church out of the half-dark. He liked to pretend that if he hadn't come along just then, the church would have stayed dim all day. That, as much as anything else, was why he chose to hold the funeral there.
The day of the service, it was warm for January in the hills. When Osby arrived at the church, about an hour before everyone else, he swung open the truck door and held out a hand, palm up in the air, gazing at the sky, testing the sun like most people would rain. Thirty-eight, thirty-nine, he thought to himself. If it kept up like this, the pastures would stay clear of snow; he'd save on hay. He wondered if the ground up at the family cemetery would have thawed a little if he'd waited a day on the funeral. Not much, he decided. It was always colder on Bowmans Ridge. Even on those fall days, years ago, when he was a kid and they used to go up there for picnics. Earlier that morning, breaking up the frozen topsoil with a pickax, the memory had come to him: his father, shivering as he walked beneath the old apple tree, over dry leaves between the graves, searching for a good patch of sunlight in which to spread the blanket.
Now, Osby switched on the radio and sat in the truck cab, waiting for the DJ to hand over the weather report. Every autumn, as far back as he could remember-five years old? four?-he would climb the apple tree, shimmy out on the twisted limbs, and shake down a fast thumping of fruit. From twenty feet up, he would watch his father wander below, stooping to pick up the few good ones, carrying them back to Osby's mother. She would sit in the sun, soft and edgeless in a thick, lilac sweater, her knees drawn to her chest, gazing over the valley. His father would crouch next to her, peeling an apple with his pocketknife. He would hand her slices. She would reach up and take them from his fingers.
The year before she died, his mother was too weak from the chemotherapy to handle the rough ride up to Bowmans Ridge. So it was just Osby and his father standing by the truck, the breeze between them making noise in the leaves. After a while, his father strode to the tree, yanked an apple off, came back. Osby listened to him chew and watched the furious movement of his jaw. Halfway through the apple, Cortland snapped open his pocketknife and cut off a slice. Carefully, Osby took it from the offered palm. They looked out at the valley. Osby was twelve.
In the truck cab, the DJ blared on. Glad of the noise, Osby shook his head, smiled a little. What a strange man his father had been.
Forty-one degrees and sunny, according to the radio.
Osby grinned. He'd figured out long ago it was about three degrees cooler up in the hills. He glanced around the empty parking lot, as if looking for someone who might congratulate him. There weren't even any tires grinding up the gravel yet.
The church never did get more than half full, but the minister gave as good a sermon as could have been expected. Some of it was pure bull-how Cortland had stayed by his wife to the end; how to his last days he had never questioned God's will. Some of it was half-right-how Osby's father had worked all his life to make the farm prosperous; he had never meddled in business that wasn't his; he had single-handedly raised his son into a fine man. And some of it was dead on-how Cortland Caudill had loved his cows.
Osby figured he couldn't have done much better. His father had not been a communicative man. He wasn't a bad man, not even a bad father. He wasn't mean to anyone; he just wasn't especially nice to anyone, either. Outside, melted snow dripped off the church eves. It sounded like spring. Osby felt he ought to miss his father, but he didn't, not really. Neither, he guessed, did the others in the church. His father hadn't really cared to make many friends.
Osby looked around at the thirty-odd people, most of them his father's age. They looked peaceful. The minister didn't mention the one thing that would have made everybody uneasy, didn't even acknowledge it with any special condolences to Osby. So there wasn't much to be upset about in the room. Swaths of sunlight streamed through the windows, warm like only strong sun through glass on a winter's afternoon can be. Inside, Osby guessed, it was a comfortable sixty-nine, seventy degrees.
At the end, the minister asked if anyone wanted to say something, and the whole roomful of people looked at Osby. He wished they'd go back to sitting happily in the sunlight. The minister shut the Bible very quietly and smiled right at him. Osby smiled back, but felt just afterwards that it was the wrong thing to do. He glanced at Carl and, sitting at Carl's side, Lynne and their two boys further down the pew. Carl scratched his newly trimmed beard, jowls shaking, and flicked a glance back at Osby. It was a look Osby knew: the worry that came over his friend when Carl realized Osby was going to say something.
Osby wasn't considered the smartest man in Eads County. But then no one, not even Carl, knew him well enough to realize that he wasn't all that far from it either. His problem was that people could hear only what he said, and not what he thought. His words almost always came out saying something other than what he had intended; and, even when he did get them right, they were usually the last thought of a sequence. Without anyone knowing the process he'd taken to get there, what he finally got to rarely made much sense. Over the years, it had worn him down, so now he seldom said very much of anything to anybody.
Slowly, Osby stood up, taking as long about it as he could, letting the pew's groans and creaks fill the silence. He stood there for a moment, looking at his cracked, red hands pressed against the edge of the pew in front of him. He tried to think of what his father would have liked him to say, tried to think of what Cortland Caudill would have said himself, and then, failing at that, Osby just tried to remember something good about his dad. The thing that came to him wasn't one memory, but a series of them: his father trying out names for the new calves while clanking around under the dump truck, or while picking through clothes at the church donations store in Ripplemead, or ruining their hunting by calling out potential calf-christenings-"Woodrow?" "Lloyd?" "Skeeter?"-from his tree stand to Osby's. Years and years of it, from as far back as Osby could remember. He knew there were other things that made his father happy, but he couldn't recall them.
"Well," he finally said, "Dad thought an awful lot of his beef. Once he give a calf its name, that's what he called it. Heifers, cows, bulls, named them all like they was dairy cows. Never knowed anyone else to do that. I don't believe he once named a calf the same, neither. Not in all his years." It wasn't until after he said it that Osby realized just how incredible that was. "We got some cows been calfin' eight, nine years. I guess they'll miss him." He thought his father would have liked to leave it at that, but it seemed wrong, so Osby said, "I guess we all will."
At the muddy jeep trail up to Bowmans Ridge, they slid the casket out of the hearse and lifted it into Osby's pickup. Anyone with a car left it at the side of 247 and piled into the trucks. The wind was blowing up at the Caudill cemetery, and it was colder, like Osby had known it would be. They didn't take long getting Cortland in the ground. Everyone was glad to get back in the trucks and drive, caravan style, into Pembroke for a late lunch at the Buttercup.
By the time they were done and driving back, the day was on its way out and Osby was starting to feel the letdown that hits after an event, just because it's over. His tie crammed in his shirt pocket and lumpy against his chest, he drove behind Carl, a few other trucks and cars following him, rising and dropping over swells.
As they neared Harts Run, the vehicles turned off onto side roads, one by one, leaving dust where the gravel spilled out onto 33. As he passed by Alva's store, the last car behind him pulled over at the pumps. The road, suddenly empty in his rearview mirror, seemed to lengthen behind him. A few miles later, the taillights on Carl's truck glowed and his friend's thick arm jutted out the driver's side window, hand casually open. Osby raised a couple fingers off his steering wheel and watched the mud-freckled Ford turn off onto 288. Nothing in his windshield now but the wide valley and the long black line of asphalt cutting through it. Well, Osby thought, that's that.
Before going home, he decided to check on each of the five small herds they ran. In his head, he corrected himself: the herds I run. He wound along through lingering patches of sunlight and the sudden, cold shadows behind the hills, starting with the herd furthest from home, the field his dad-now he-rented from Sheldon Ballard alongside the government land. The ground was freezing up again, and the truck rocked and bumped over the pasture. Spread out below the hill, the cattle turned toward the engine noise all at once, the way a flock of birds rises in unison at some imperceptible signal. Osby got out and bunched his thick neck a little further into his collar. It was going cold, fast. The sunlight was at its deepest orange, just before it went red. It always looked to Osby like it should be at its warmest then, and it seemed to him a major flaw, a failing of someone's, somewhere, that the light contained no heat at all. He watched the cows as the shadows crept out of the swales and covered the herd. He had just shy of a quarter of his beef pastured in this field: twenty-eight reddish-brown cows, four of them already calved. Mostly Angus-Lemosine, some with a little Hereford in them. No heifers; the heifers were in the two fields closest to the house so he could keep an eye on them. He and his father bred all their bulls and they ran them regular. They had a two-year-old Black Angus in with this bunch. At the fringes of the herd, Osby spotted a new dropped calf suckling from its mother. She was a good cow, had given them eight or nine calves-those wide Lemosine hips-and now he tried to remember what his father would have called her. The name didn't come to him. He scanned the rest of the herd, looking for signs of compaction, foot evil, making sure all the calves were there. A few of the cows were showing bags beneath their tails and he watched them negotiate their legs under swollen bellies. One or two looked as if they might drop their calves anytime, but they were old pros. The swath of hay he'd rolled out that morning was still catching the sun at the top of the hill. Everything looked fine. Everything looked the same.
By the time he got home, it was fully dark. The moon hadn't yet risen. There were no lights on in his house. He drifted past the driveway, wishing there was one more pasture to check on or something he had to do in town. Maybe he'd drive over to Carl's place, just to say hello; it had been years since they'd sat on Carl's back porch, drinking beer and throwing sticks for his bird dogs. As he rounded the bend, his headlights sucked the Old House's mailbox out of the night. It had collapsed against the giant chestnut stump and the letters his grandmother had carefully painted were half gone; they read he Ca ills, now. He braked, his ribs suddenly feeling too small for all the stuff that had to fit in his chest. Slowly, he turned onto the dirt. A few feet up, he stopped. The truck idled under him. Grass and weeds had grown between the tire tracks and last spring's rains had gouged the driveway. Up the hill, beyond the reach of the headlights, the Old House stood blackly against the stars, a hole in the sky. His home, the newer house he and his dad had lived in, had been built nearly a century ago, but the original family place, the Old House, was twice that age, the walls in its living room still made of logs from the homesteaders' one-room cabin. After his grandmother died, his father used the house for storage: bags of fertilizer, car batteries, cattle medicines.
Osby flicked on his brights. The windows that still had glass flared. He hadn't been in there since the day he found his father. He could make out the glinting shape of Cortland's pickup, parked at the top of the driveway. The front door to the house was still open. He'd forgotten to shut it. Or the ambulance guys had. Or the cops. They had come, looked things over. There wasn't much guessing to do. Osby asked them not to clean it up, said he wanted to do it himself. It would help him seal the thing shut, he said, put a cap on it. When the neighbors offered to take care of things, he told them he'd already scrubbed and swept and burned what had to be burned. Truth was, he hadn't touched a thing in there. The idea of going back in made his bowels go watery.
The truck sputtered, and he gave it a little gas, shook a cigarette out of a pack of Winstons, and sat, smoking. He knew he ought to go up there and close that door.
When Osby's mother died, his father hadn't let anyone help them take the body to the funeral home. They had wrapped her in the sheets and carried her downstairs, his father holding her under her arms, Osby clutching her cold ankles. She had smelled like old cabbage. Her body sagged, heavy as wet sand. His thin twelve-year-old forearms strained and he struggled to keep his fingers locked around her legs. Halfway down the stairs, he dropped her. Her heels thwacked the hard wood step, and he had thought how much that would hurt if she was alive. Outside, they hoisted her into the pickup and drove into town. His father hadn't even let people gather in the house after the funeral. He had refused the casseroles and cakes they brought.
The next Saturday, Osby had helped him with an excavating job and they had sat in the bulldozer's shovel, out of the cold wind, passing a thermos of steaming coffee between each other. "Ain't going to have 'em walking all over our place," Osby's father had said. "Big show." And a week later, in the kitchen, digging shotgun pellets out of a rabbit with the tip of a knife: "When I go, I don't want no noise about it. Don't want the whole of 'em traipsing around, tearing up the driveway, snooping around the Old House. Just dig a hole and dump me in."
When he'd finished the cigarette, Osby rolled down his window, tossed out the butt, shoved down on the clutch, and put the truck in first. Behind the Old House, Bowmans Ridge, solid and black, smothered the bottom edge of the sky. After a while, his left calf muscle started to shake. He shifted into reverse, backed up onto the road, and drove home.


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Kombucha Drink Recipes
Kombucha is a microbiological food. It helps regenerate the bowel flora and is excellent for wellbeing.
Kombucha is a popular health promoting beverage and natural folk remedy made by fermenting tea. Kombucha is a colony or culture of yeast and other microorganisms embedded in a pure cellulose "pancake." When the "pancake" is grown in a blend of tea and sugar, it transforms the liquid into a refreshingly lightly sparkling, sweet and sour drink with a fruity fragrance full of health giving acids and nutrients. The Kombucha culture feeds on the sugar and, in exchange, produces other valuable substances which change into the drink: glucuronic acid, glucon acid, lactic acid, vitamins, amino acids, antibiotic substances.
Kombucha tea has about 0.5% to 1% alcohol as do some fruit juices such as apple juice. Harold Tietze in his book KOMBUCHA, THE MIRACLE FUNGUS observes that Muslims and Buddhists drink it without concern. "Recovered alcoholics do not have to fear the small amounts of alcohol." The Salvation Army is using Kombucha to help alcoholics.
Kombucha tea isn't something you can buy in a bottle or a bag. You need to brew up a batch of kombucha starter culture and grow your own.
The health benefits of kombucha tea are many, and the taste is distinctively tart. The final product is lightly carbonated too. If you're interested in trying some, be prepared to do a little work and to wait for the finished product.
Kombucha Tea Recipe
- 4 – 6 Tea bags (at least 2 are black)
- 4 litres ( 140 fl oz) Pure water, rain or spring
- 300 grams (10 oz) White Sugar
- 1 Kombucha tea fungus
- 400 ml (1 3/4 cup//14 fl oz) Kombucha tea (mother tea), from your last brew or obtained with the mushroom / fungus – If you don't have enough mother liquid
Boil the water in a stainless steel pot, add sugar, turn off heat and stir sugar until dissolved. Add teabags and let soak for 10 to 15 minutes. Remove tea bags and allow to cool. Strain (not necessary) and pour into fermenting jar. Add the fungus and mother tea to the jar. Cover and leave for one week in a place free from contaminants such as mould, cooking fats etc.
Recipes for Kombucha Tea with Pawpaw (Papaya)
- 100 grams (3.5 oz) Paw paw leaves and flowers
- 4 litres (140 fl oz) Pure water, rain or spring
- 300 grams (10 oz) White sugar
- 2 Green tea bags
- 4 Black tea bags
- 1 Kombucha tea mushroom
- 400 ml (1 3/4cup / 14 fl oz) Kombucha tea (mother tea), from your last brew or obtained with the fungus. If you don't have enough mother liquid
Cut, clean and chop the stalks off the papaya leaves and flowers. Place in pot, bring to the boil then reduce to a simmer and cook for 1/2 hour. Let cool, strain and bring to the boil again, add sugar, turn off heat and stir sugar until dissolved. Add teabags and let soak for 10 to 15 minutes. Remove tea bags and allow to cool. Strain (not necessary) and pour into fermenting jar. Add the fungus and mother tea to the jar. Cover and leave for one week in a place free from contaminants such as mould, cooking fats etc.
The following quantities are for one litre.
- 5 tablespoons = 1/3 cup
- 3-5 tablespoons of white sugar.
- 1 – 2 teaspoons black tea (organic).
- 1 – 2 teaspoons green tea (organic).
- 1 teaspoon elderflower tea (optional).
- 1 tablespoon papaya leaf tea (optional).
- 1 litre water (Grander water).
- 100 mls of Kombucha tea, (as an acidic starter).
- 1 piece of Kombucha plant. (about 4 inches in diameter.)
Add the sugar to a glass bowl, dangle the tea bags over the side, then pour on boiling water. Use the tea bags to stir the liquid and dissolve the sugar. Leave the tea bags to steep until the tea has cooled. If you are using loose tea then steep the tea in a teapot, then mix with the sugar and boiled water in a bowl. Some herbs such as papaya leaf will need simmering in boiling water for 2 hours. Strain the herbs through muslin cloth.
When the tea has cooled to below 25C, mix in the Kombucha tea, then float the Kombucha plant on the surface. Cover the bowl with a tea towel held in place with an elastic band and leave it where it won't be disturbed for 2 – 4 weeks at 20-25C. The longer you ferment the kombucha the less sweet and the more acidic it will become. The Kombucha tea is ready when a new mushroom has covered the surface and all of the sugar has been digested. When the kombucha is ready, scoop the tea out the bowl with a small jug and transfer to bottles. Discard the sediment. Refrigerate the kombucha before drinking. Store unused kombucha mushrooms covered with kombucha tea in a jar in the refrigerator.
Honey Kombucha Recipe
- 1. Two cups of starter tea
- 2. 3 quarts of water
- 3. 1 cup of Liquid Honey
- 4. 1/2 cup of sugar
Boil water for 5 to 10 minutes and remove from heat. Using a cooking thermometer monitor the temperature. When the temperature has fallen below 150 degrees F. add the cup of honey (or 1.5 cups to speed fermentation) and stir until the honey is dissolved. Allow the mixture to cool to room temperature. Once the tea reaches room temperature you can pour off the mixture (leaving the sediment on the bottom behind).
Kombucha Banana Strawberry Smoothie Recipe
- 10 ounces orange juice
- 4 ounces Kombucha tea.
- One piece of fresh Kombucha colony (sized to palate)
- 5-6 large fresh strawberries
- 1-2 large banana
Blend all ingredients at high speed in your blender until smooth.

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Modern Blackness: Nationalism, Globalization, and the Politics of Culture in Jamaica (Latin America Otherwise)
Thomas combines historical research with fieldwork she conducted in Jamaica between 1993 and 2003. Drawing on her research in a rural hillside community just outside Kingston, she looks at how Jamaicans interpreted and reproduced or transformed on the local level nationalist policies and popular ideologies about progress. With detailed descriptions of daily life in Jamaica set against a backdrop of postcolonial nation-building and neoliberal globalization, Modern Blackness is an important examination of the competing identities that mobilize Jamaicans locally and represent them internationally.
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Women Golfers Should Use a Driver
Why Women Need a Driver in the Bag
This is a very important subject for me. Women using a DRIVER!!!!! I am tired of hearing that women should NOT be using a driver. This is CRAZY!!! If you get the proper driver, everyone should be using a driver, no matter what sex you are.
Don't Use the Wrong Equipment
Most women should not be using men's clubs. It is very common to use your husbands hand me downs, but unfortunately the clubs will be too heavy and the shaft will be too stiff. They will also most likely be too long. This will result in lots of bad habits and usually these habits will make you not enjoy the game as mush as you should.
Buying Golf Equipment
- Try before you Buy – hit the clubs to see proper ball flight.
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- Head – look for head style and lie angle.
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Why Custom fit?
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Myth – "I am not good enough to be club fit. I could use any equipment and it wouldn't work".
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LEGAZPI CITY, Aug. 17 (PNA) — As the restiveness of Mt. Mayon continues to intensify due to magma buildup, Albay Governor Joey Salceda has ordered an inventory of school classrooms that could be used as evacuation camps of tens of thousands of Albayanos should the volcano explode.
Salceda's directive to local government units came two days after the Philippine Institute of Volcanology and Seismology raised the alert warning status of Mt. Mayon from Level 1 to Level 2 due to the abnormal activities of the volcano.
The governor wants local officials across the province to assess the classrooms, water, toilet facilities — including solid and liquid waste disposal system, communal kitchen, medical station with provision for normal spontaneous delivery, breast-feeding corner and recreational space to ensure the comfortable condition of the evacuees in times of natural calamity.
He also reactivated the health emergency teams (HETs) to be dispatched to the different local government units to be affected by the Mayon volcano eruption.
The HETs are composed of rapid health assessment team, medical team, SPEED team, mental health and psychosocialteam, nutrition team, and health promotion team and water, sanitation and hygiene (WASH) team.
He also alerted the ALbay HEMS emergency officers on duty at the Albay Operation Center at this early so that all disaster responders will be in place before the possible hazardous explosion of Mayon volcano.
Ed Laguerta, Phivolcs resident volcanologist, reported increasing volcanic gas emissions and slight but persistent swelling due to the intrusion of magma beneath the volcano while sulfur dioxide emission posts an average of 850 tons per day, higher than the normal 500 tons per day, for the past two months now. (PNA)


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Did that headline sound a little dirty? Can you blame us?
Because, in case you missed it the first time, Chris Hemsworth is running around Australia in a skintight wetsuit. We're looking at a set of triceps so distracting they're making us ferget how to spel.
So what wuz the occayshun?
Does there need to be one?
The Thor star—and new dad!—took to the waves east of Sydney, having touched down in his native country just a few hours earlier for reasons that really don't matter in the least.
Well, OK, those reasons are probably very important to all six fans of Snow White and the Huntsman. Hemsworth reportedly was in his home country not only to surf, but also to promote the new flick.
By way of background, we hear that Chris' wife, Elsa Pataky, and new daughter, India Rose Hemsworth, are in London at the moment, meaning that the Aussie star missed his first Father's Day with the baby.
Not that we're complaining. Nawt. Attt. Alllll.


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If you sell to consumers online, you're probably already struggling to keep up with the status of U.S. sales taxes on e-commerce---not only individual states' efforts to tax remote sellers through so-called Amazon taxes, but also the Congressional push to authorize and standardize such taxes. (The Marketplace Fairness Act passed the Senate a year ago and is going nowhere in the House.) But what if some of your buyers are overseas and you're selling digital goods and services? Then you need to read this guest post by Rick Minor on the European VAT and changes that kick in come January 1. Rick, former Tax Counsel of AOL Europe in Luxembourg, is the principal author of VAT on Electronically Supplied Services to EU Consumers: A Practical Compliance Guide for Cross-Border Suppliers of Digital Goods and Services
European VAT And Changes In 2015: What US Businesses Need to Know Now About VAT On Digital Goods And Services Sold Into The EU Consumer Market.
By Rick Minor
"It has been suggested that particularly the high-profile operators, which occupy a considerable part of the market, wish to be seen to be tax-compliant, notably for reputational reasons." (OECD Report, para. 196, March 24, 2014).
Digital downloads and services sold to European retail consumers are taxed at VAT (value added tax) rates of up to 27%. That makes the digital retail economy a significant source of tax revenue. Consumers don't really notice the applicable VAT rate on their digital purchases because the VAT amount is included in the retail price. As of January 1, 2015, there will be significant changes to the European VAT rules on sales of digital goods and services to retail consumers in Europe. These changes increase the VAT compliance burdens on all sellers, wherever those sellers are located. Here is a list of 10 things US suppliers need to know about collecting the VAT due on digital goods and services sold into the EU consumer market.
1. Since 2003, VAT is due on any and all sales of digital goods and services to retail consumers in Europe.
VAT law in place since 2003 requires a US business that is not tax resident in the EU (a nonresident seller) to collect and pay VAT on all digital goods and services sold in the EU consumer market. The VAT is due at the VAT rate of the European country in which the consumer is located. This is typically the country where that consumer resides. Before any sales in Europe take place, the nonresident seller is obliged to be properly registered for VAT. This means registering for VAT in each European country in which the seller expects to have consumers, or to make a one-time election for a simplified registration and filing procedure to meet its European compliance obligation. Despite having been in place since 2003, there seems to be very little public awareness of this important European VAT obligation for US sellers.
2. There are no de minimis exceptions to the VAT registration requirement for nonresident sellers.
The nonresident seller's obligation to file VAT returns and pay VAT due arises with the very first Euro the nonresident seller earns on sales of its digital goods and services in the EU consumer market. There are no exceptions to these VAT obligations, no de minimis thresholds related to sales revenue or transaction volumes.
3. Digital Goods and Services are broadly defined for VAT purposes.
Virtually all goods and services which can be purchased and downloaded by retail consumers on the web are within the scope of the VAT rules. Excluded from the VAT scope of digital goods and services are defined categories each for telecommunication services and broadcasting services. These two categories are subject to similar VAT rules but for simplicity have been kept separate from the digital goods and services VAT category. Physical goods that are ordered online and then delivered cross border to the consumer through the conventional delivery methods are not considered digital services and are subject to a different set of VAT rules. These rules largely exempt from VAT small value consumer items sold in the EU by nonresident sellers.
4. VAT rates in the EU are high, and sellers must consider the rate impact when setting the retail price of digital goods and services for the European market.
The amount of VAT due on the sale is included in the retail price offered by the digital supplier. Underlying a single retail price offered to consumers across Europe, for example, €1, is a standard VAT rate which can vary between 15 and 27%, depending on the rate set by the country in which the consumer is located. The VAT is due at the full standard rate irrespective of the profit margin, if any, the seller earns on the transaction (margin = retail price less VAT due less cost of goods or services sold). This is why it is so important for a nonresident seller of price sensitive digital goods and services to factor in the different VAT rates across the European market when pricing its digital goods and services. If at least a notional for VAT is not included in the seller's retail price calculation, a subsequent assessment for VAT not paid can wipe out any profit on the transaction if not create a significant loss position for the seller. Sellers will need sophisticated and expensive billing systems for a number of VAT compliance reasons, for example, for sourcing every single European sales transaction to the country of the consumer in order to collect the proper VAT due to each country across the European market.
5. US groups can no longer avoid VAT compliance complexity by setting up sales subsidiaries in low VAT rate jurisdictions like Luxembourg.
Prior to 2015, a US business could set up an e-commerce supply platform in Europe and take advantage of the one business, one VAT rate for digital consumer sales across Europe. This rule will be repealed and replaced by a rule which taxes the sale of digital services at the VAT rate of the country in which the consumer is located. This place of consumption rule of taxation is the same rule to which nonresident sellers are subject today. The 2015 change adapts the place of consumption as the taxation rule for all sellers, wherever located. This VAT change will have no impact on the corporate tax rate competition between European countries, however.
6. A simplified VAT filing option will be available to all sellers of digital goods and services in 2015.


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Sams Teach Yourself Drupal in 24 Hours helps you get up to speed with Drupal quickly. Whether you're starting from scratch or working to fill in some gaps in your Drupal knowledge, you'll find descriptions, examples, and Try It Yourself numbered steps to walk you through working with Drupal.
This book introduces you to Drupal and to major components ranging from the basics (overall design, themes, administration, security, and the like) as well as modules that are distributed with Drupal itself along with contributed modules that enhance your site. Each chapter is focused on a single task so that you can jump around according to your needs.
The emphasis is on what your site does: Drupal and the modules are there to help you and your end-users achieve your goals. For example, Polls, Comments, Discussions, and Feed Aggregators all are ways to enrich your site with contributed content, and they're covered together in a single chapter (10). Some functionality comprises a number of modules working together such as Content Construction Kit -- CCK (chapter 7) and e-commerce (Ubercart - chapter 16). In some important areas such as CCK, you'll find previews of where Drupal 7 may be going.
One of Drupal's main attractions for many people is its ability to automate site creation and maintenance. You'll see how to use views and view arguments to create dynamic views that take care of themselves as content is added to your site as well as how to use taxonomy not just to categorize information but to enable users to retrieve it speedily.
Throughout, there's an emphasis on why: polls are a doorway into interaction with users, when should you enable comments and when should you channel feedback into a discussion forum, and more.
There's even a final chapter with a roadmap to some common CSS theme modifications.
The book's author, Jesse Feiler, is a consultant, author, and speaker specializing in new technologies for small business and nonprofits. In 1999, he wrote Database-Driven Web Sites, one of the first books to propound the then-radical notion that the power of the web and databases could be combined so that it would not be necessary to hand-craft every web page from custom-written HTML. His recent work includes not only Drupal but also apps (both for Facebook and iPhone), Bento, and volunteer work with community organizations that are turning to Drupal to help them fulfill their missions. He can be reached at North Country Consulting.
PC World Staff Pick
Spotted this in Kensington High Street PC World, London - not only the first Drupal book I've ever spotted in there but a staff pick.
Well done - the more Drupal books on physical shop bookshelves, the more awareness!
Stan x
steep learning curve
The part of title "in 24 hours" might misdirect readers since drupal has an extremely steep learning curve.
There has always been a
There has always been a misunderstanding of the "in 24 hours" series of books. It does not mean that one learns in 24 hours. They offer 24 one hour lessons that can be taken at the learner's own pace.
The learning curve on Drupal depends on what you want to do with Drupal. A basic blogger using a stock theme could learn it in one hour.
I'm a big fan of Drupal.
I'm a big fan of Drupal. After beating my head against a brick wall trying to get Joomla to do just as I wanted, Drupal is a breath of fresh air. A module I wrote for Joomla involving creating several new tables, and hand-coding all the forms could be created with CCK and Views and just a handful of lines of custom code dropped into the Views .tpl files. The documentation of the API is excellent, and in return for relatively little time invested, it permits completely custom built solutions.
However... it is daft to suggest that it doesn't have a steep learning curve. I'm afraid that anyone who wanted a blog and only had an hour to learn it (or 24 even), would be far better served by Word Press, or even by Joomla - who have a vast collection of very presentable templates. [People do understand that SAMS 'In 24 Hours' series does mean that after working through their books you'll have only a scant knowledge of a given subject - they make great introductions though.]
I think that Drupal should be unashamed of not being a 'solution out of a box'. It doesn't compete well in that world. As the base on which to build exactly the website you want - it's unbeatable.
Thats a stretch of the word
Thats a stretch of the word "misunderstanding". I would call is misleading. There is deception in the name.
Yes, but while it might be
Yes, but while it might be more accurate, "Teach Yourself a Basic Working Knowledge of Drupal in 24 Non-Consecutive Hours" isn't quite as catchy a title...
Calling it misleading or
Calling it misleading or deceptive is also stretching things too far. I know this as someone who has used the Sams series books a lot. It says clearly on the front and back cover, '24 proven one-hour lessons'. That's exactly what they are and where the '24 hours' comes from. It's not SAMS' fault that people misunderstand it as 'being able to learn in 24 hours'.
Perhaps, but the fact that
Perhaps, but the fact that they have been doing these en masse for over a decade should be enough cover for the gripes of those who purchase a book in this series without reading the description.
Some folks prefer the "boil this down to 24 key elements" requirement.
I agree but the varying time
I agree but the varying time needed to learn Drupal is dependent on just what you are trying to do but I don't buy this nonsense about the 24 hours explanation. The publishing company knows full well what "learn in 24 hours" on a frontcover means to a potential book buyer and they are deliberately misleading readers on a whole host of programming languages and software applications by using it.
I have to take issue with the 'misleading' comments
Oy. We're still making a mountain out of a mole hill.
If you cannot read the cover of the book to see the clear subtitle of "24 Proven One-hour Lessons" and you cannot recognize that no one would ever be expected to do any sort of reading or training over 24 consecutive hours - - - - then you are not likely a potential book buyer. It would be a miracle that you could read and have the sense to navigate to a bookseller. There is nothing misleading.
When we bill clients for 40 hours on a project, do the clients think we were working for 40 consecutive hours?
I also have a book called "Using Drupal" with a squirrel on the cover but I cannot find any squirrel that is smart enough to use Drupal. Believe me, I've looked.
Why don't we discuss the content of a book instead of judging the cover? I think there is some metaphor behind that concept.
"24 hour books"
I've used two of the Sams books so far to teach myself the basics of AJAX and Dreamweaver. Although it does not happen in 24 hours, I would have to say that the authors have laid it out in easy to understand terms, given numerous examples and often provided "do it yourself" ish exercises. I would recommend these books to others (although, these are some of the first books on web design I have read.)
i agree with you
in just 24 hours , i don;t think so that some one learn drupal properly
Without insulting your own
Without insulting your own learning capability, my non-technical spouse learned all she needs to know about Drupal in 6 hours.
To claim that it would take an average user longer than 24 hours to learn is an insult to the many developers of Drupal.
It's crap.
I am new to drupal. I bought this book like 3 days ago, and I am frustrated as heck with it. It is poorly written and confusing. I think there are alot of errors as well. For instance, page 121- "ImageCache consists of a variety of presets, which are actions that are invoked as needed for image fields. When you go to Administer, Site Building, ImageCache, you see the list of your presets and can add new ones, as shown in Figure 7.14. "
The book has images that show presets and implies they are already present upon Imagecache installation. There are NO presets. I'm sittin here pullin my hair out to find them or figure out if I installed Imagecache wrong or what. Turns out it doesn't come with presets.
There are other instances in the book that are equally as frustrating. And the images in the book are also too small. It should have been sold with a magnifying glass.
I'm also fed up with the constant comparison between Drupal 6 and 7 - which isn't even stable yet or offered on the Drupal.org homepage for download.
I just bought this book this
I just bought this book this morning, but having read the review from pf008 I'm not sure if I've wasted my money.
I'll give an independent review in a couple of days. Good to see the Drupal profile spreading though - this is the first Drupal book I've seen.
Not to take away from SAMS, but the book that helped me see the light was "Oreilly's, Using Drupal".
sorry, you might enjoy the
sorry, you might enjoy the book, I just found alot if it kind of vague as well. The author also assumes you know how to go about installing apache, sql, php, etc and configuring everything to get drupal installed. He neglects to mention modules that are necessary to download or enable for the other modules you download to function. Let me know if you get imagecache to work (hour 7) because it's saving the cached images to the wrong folder. I could go on but I think I'll go pick up Drupal for Dummies or just keep reading stuff on the internet and watching videos lol
The problem for someone who is new to Drupal right now.
I'm a freelance illustrator/designer fresh out of school who's committed to becoming a jack of all trades for the sake of independence and self promotion. For example, I continue to teach myself as much as I can about design, printing, color separation, etc. so that I don't have to rely on large publishing companies or designers to put my art in a book and publish it. I can do it myself.
This applies to the web as well. I'm not a master web designer but I have tried to keep my web design skills current enough to keep my web presence from being laughable without requiring me to pay a designer money I don't have for a task I feel that I really should be able to handle myself.
Some time ago I learned that with enough knowledge of PHP and MYSQL one could run a dynamic database driven site, adding content through custom forms. I thought that if I could pull this off the resulting site would come off as slicker than snot making me look super professional and thus inspiring more prospective clients. I always intended to learn this stuff. I even built a home server from scratch, experimented with LINUX and got APACHE up and serving my goofy little website. The next step was to start from scratch with PHP and MYSQL but I found myself spending so much time not making art that I couldn't help but question the wisdom of distracting myself from my primary craft with a technology that I only ever intended to use for self promotion.
I let the idea go for a while until recently when I heard of Joomla. Through researching Joomla I learned the term CMS and that there are many open source CMS. I set my eye on Drupal. It seems like it'll give me the functionality that I've always wanted. I've been trying to get into it for a little while but now with the release of Alpha 7 I'm kind of stumped.
I understand that 7 is going to be way more user friendly. I'm hearing things like WYSIWYG editing, CCK-esque fields, awesomeness, etc. Should I, as a newbie, mess around with Drupal 6 while waiting for a completed 7? Should I wait for 7? Is 7 going to be so different that the time I spend learning 6 is just going to be wasted when 7 comes? Should I play with Alpha 7 without documentation?
Is buying books like "Sams Teach Yourself Drupal in 24 Hours" (which seems pretty good) going to be completely useless when Drupal 7 is complete?
These are questions that I, due to a lack of knowledge and experience, simply can't answer for myself. It's exciting to hear about all the great stuff happening with Drupal. But it's worrisome to think that the Drupal books I want to buy might become doorstops very shortly.
plasticfrank ... i think it
plasticfrank ... i think it would definitely benefit you if you go through one the drupal books that teaches drupal 6 ... It will definitely help you and give you a very good understanding on how drupal functions by the time you migrate to drupal 7.
Drupal 7 is still in alpha mode .. It would probably take a lot of time for the final version to be released until then you get your hands dirty with Drupal 6 .. learn how the two most important modules CCK & Views work .. the learning curve is high so its take time to understand how to get what you want .. Also since you already good in designing you could also learn the Theming and designing system of drupal 6. Once you master most of it ... it would then be easy to play with drupal 7
To me end of the day its like knowing how to use win xp and then migrating to windows 7 ..
I think I'll take your advice. I'm interested in this book in particular because the lessons seem to be broken up into small, easily digestible chunks. 'Drupal 6 Site Blueprints' also seems like a good fit for me to help me understand how to apply Drupal once I'm more familar.
Nearly word for word my story.
Funny, you practically described my situation, only instead of a professional designer, I am a professional translator/linguist.
Even though it's fare from perfect, I find Jesse's book useful, it helps me expand my general knowledge and familiarity with Drupal's concepts and ways of doing things. It reinforces my knowledge of Drupal obtained from other sources.
Its illustrations are hard to see because of poor quality and small size, as many people noted before me, but some of his textual tips, advice and conclusions are very valuable. Even for a beginner like myself. That's why I am marking them for future reference, like I did when reading 'Using Drupal'.
Technical books become doorstops after a product's next version is released only if you memorize (or follow) them step-by-step, without thinking. However, if they helped you to study the core idea of the subject, or taught you where to look for answers, they served their purpose.
Some books are a proverbial "fish", and some are the "net". This one is definitely a 'net'.
That's a lengthy writing.
You might want to abbreviate your story to a question or two for others to help you find your way.
I have not red this book yet
I have not red this book yet ..but will definitely give it a go ... I think its the only book that talks about panels which i havent yet explored. Also since it has 24 1 hour chapters i could either skip some and do the ones that are just interesting . Helps in refreshing your knowledge
But for any newbie venturing into drupal Oreilly's, Using Drupal is the book to go ..
I started off with Building.Powerful.and.Robust.Websites_with.Drupal6 by David Mercer ..after exploring Drupal 6 myself using the drupal.org support forums which to my opinion is too much for a complete starter to begin ..you end up spending more time searching and finding the right solution ..(multiple solutions to one issue in the documentation) so i ended up with the David Mercer book .. The book is good for a complete newbie who know nothing about drupal (hasnt explored the support forums as well)..it helps you from installation to configuring the basic drupal 6 offerings at a very slow pace ..for this reason i abandoned it and jumped to Oreilly's Using Drupal which assumes you have a very basic knowledge of drupal (not necessarily though). At present its the best book out there and i could recommend any beginner to start of with this book and then venture out into different books of your choice .
Learning Curves
For most Drupal neophytes what needs to be understood is that Drupal has several different points along its learning curve. This is how I split it up for my classes:
Content Providers: These are people who simply want to contribute content to a site that has already been installed and configured. If this is the case, it could be completely plausible to learn how to contribute content in 24 hours (or 24 one-hour lessons) or less.
Site Builders: This is for people who want to be able to control the functionality a Drupal site uses. If there is a bit of understanding or experience with configuring plug-ins or modules that other web applications such as Joomla, phpBB3, or WordPress use - the 24 hour statement may also be accurate.
Site Engineers: These are people who want to be able to create or improve upon Drupal program functionality, create themes, and/or administer the actual Drupal back-end. 24 hours, even 24 one-hour lessons, is probably a stretch here - even for those users who come in with a good working knowledge of php, HTML/CSS, and/or MySQL or Postgres.
Drupal's biggest advantage is its extensibility. To be as extensible as it is, it must be complex - the more user-friendly we try to make it at the front end, the deeper and more complicated the programming must be on the back end.
My advice is, as with any technology book, know what your goals are before you commit to a purchase. If possible, preview the book first - check it out at a library or view an excerpt from Amazon if available. This way, you won't be dissatisfied and further frustrated in your Drupal endeavors.
Thanks for the flow of
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Charming Friendly Room + Wi-Fi
Size13 m²
Floor No.7(with elevator)
- Family/child friendly
- Internet/WiFi
- Elevator in building
- Lockable room
- Towels
- Breakfast
Accommodation summary
|RUE ALBERT SOREL, 75014 PARIS, France
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Ideal for a stay in the capital of tourism, this comfortable room in a building in pure Art Deco style overlooks a pretty park and has wooden floors.
The room is also equipped with the necessary for breakfast with coffee maker, kettle, and other ingredients breakfast (coffee, tea). The bathroom is shared with another room. Travelers can rent both rooms if they are available, all while providing a suite of 26 m². They have both a common and independent from the owners' apartment located on the same floor entrance.
Wimdu link for the second chamber:
Your hosts will welcome you with a drink in their artist's studio or on their terrace overlooking the time of the Eiffel Tower. They will give you their good restaurants in addition to the tourist information available in the room.
The main tourist attractions are within a 5 minute walk Subway (M4 Porte d'Orléans), tramway (T3), bus (lines 28, 38, 68). Line M13 subway is two tram stations (T3), which stops at the foot of the building, as well as two "and Autolib 'Velib stations.
The Catacombs of Paris, both fascinating and mysterious are four minutes by subway. Many shops and restaurants are also nearby.
A metro, tram and bus stops are just steps away, so it is easy to move around the city. The Louvre Museum is 20 minutes away by metro, Notre-Dame cathedral in 15 minutes, and Saint-Germain-des-Prés just 10 minutes.
Many shops at the foot of the building: restaurants, breweries, bakeries, pharmacies, press ...
The 14th arrondissement offers very active cultural life (theaters, cinemas and historical monuments) in an institution among the greenest of Paris (Parc Montsouris, the Cité Internationale and places at the foot of the island), with sports facilities (stadiums, swimming pools ) relatives. Two parking spaces are located within less than 300 meters.
Terms of lease:
- Welcome by the host,
- Minimum stay: 2 nights
- Arrival of visitors from 13.00 / Departure before 11:00
- Required for breakfast (coffee maker, kettle, teapot and ingredients) available.
- Provision of linen (bed linen and towels)
- Non-smoking room with entrance and independent bathroom apartment hosts,
- Non-smoking room,
- Do not walk in shoes with high heels (respect for neighbors)
- Possible fridge to store a picnic Access,
- Possible provision of a cot and a high chair.
House rulesA €100 cash security deposit is required.
No smoking.
A high chair and cot are available on request.
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|On arrangement
|Check-out before
|Cancellation Policy
Reviews for this host's other properties
Emmanuel ist ein charmanter, liebenswerter und sehr gebildeter Gastgeber, der uns viele gute Tipps geben und unserer Reise zu etwas ganz Besonderem verhelfen konnte. Das Zimmer ist hell und freundlich und in dem herrlichem Bett haben wir fantastisch geschlafen. Insgesamt ein wunderbares Flair und wir kommen sehr gerne wieder!
Recomendable 100%, nuestra estación fue perfecta, habitaciones amplias, luminosas, y con todo tipo de detalles, limpieza de 10, el barrio muy agradable y lleno de servicios, la parada de tranvía y metro a dos minutos de la casa. y lo mejor los anfitriones, EMMANUEL & BEATRICE, nos informaron de todo, nos trataron como si fuésemos de su familia, un casa muy acogedora.
Repetiremos seguro en Septiembre.
Paris ist immer eine Reise wert, insbesondere wenn man so nette Vermieter in einem äußerst charmanten Appartement findet. Es ist alles vorhanden, was einen Kurzurlaub so angenehm macht und vom anonymen Hotel unterscheidet. Wir haben ruhig und bestens geschlafen. Emmanuel gibt hilfreiche Tipps vor der Anreise ebenso wie während des Aufenthalts. Wir haben uns rundum wohl gefühlt und werden bestimmt wiederkommen.
Excellent accueil. Logement très confortable et bien situé pour tous déplacements.
Emmanuel is a very friendly host, I was pleased to meet him.
The room light with a good bed and a view over Paris.
The separate toilet is partly from the time of the building (1930) with and old tile floor, I love old architectural details. The separate shower is new.
Do you want to know if I go back? The answer is YES!!
Emmanuel & Beatrice were perfect hosts! When we come back to Paris we will definitely stay with them again!
The room is bigger than it seems in the pictures. The bed is very comfortable, also the bathroom is very clean and nice.
We got good recommendations for sightseeing and enjoying Paris!
Thanks a lot again!
Emmanuel war ein sehr liebenswürdiger Gastgeber, der sich sehr gekümmert hat und viele Tipps für die Erkundung von Paris geben konnte. Die Wohnung liegt in unmittelbarer Nähe zur Metro, sodass alle interessanten Plätze schnell erreichbar waren. Der Eiffelturm war gut vom Fenster aus zu sehen. Einen Stern Abzug gibt es dafür, dass wir Bad/WC mit einem anderen Zimmer teilen mussten. Im Übrigen jederzeit weiterzuempfehlen!
Pleased, friendly, uncomplicated and nice
The booking was easy and the contact to Emanuele and Beatrice very, very pleased, uncomplicated and helpful - from the beginning until the end. Also the check in and the checkout was also much uncomplicated. At most we spoke with Emanuele: He is a very patient and open minded person.
The rooms are clean tidy and sleekly and offered enough space for two persons. The bathroom is modern and included a very nice shower. The toilet is separate and a bit older. But it´s also clean, with a window and there's everything you need.
The windows in the bedroom are completed with roller blinds to make the night darker . The interior is antic and very nice. And also for showering you will get all thinks you need and more.
The next Metro station is reachable in a few minutes and there it is also a very fast connection to the RER (Regional Train.) Near the apartment was a supermarket, Bakery's and little Shops, where we could buy foods and drinks until late in the evening.
All in all we had a very good stay there, very nice communications with our hosts and the other guests and would thoroughly recommend the apartment. Thanks!
Really good room, very clean and a really great view from the room over Paris. Emmanuel and Beatrice are very helpful and very pleasant.
We look forward to a return visit.
It's the second time I stay with Emmanuel and Beatrice, at it has been as perfect as the first one.
The room is cozy, stylish and comfortable, and the host incredibly sweet and helpful.
The bathroom is kept extremely clean on a daily basis.
It is only ten minutes away from the metro, and the line reaches directly the "Ile de la Cite".
The only flaw could be that if you come home late at night by metro, the streets from the station to the house are pretty much desert... but apart from that you can't ask for a better place at this price.
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Want an excuse to have an outdoor adventure? Well, to be honest, you really don't need an excuse—if anything, you probably need a reason not to get out there instead! Whether you're looking for a reason or an excuse, though, it is now here in the form of National Get Outdoors Day.
Saturday, June 11 is this year's National Get Outdoors Day, and you can partake in some amazing outdoor adventures at a local state or national park. Here are just some of specific events that you can enjoy with your loved ones!
Upper Kern Cleanup, California
The Sequoia Recreation, which is a division of the California Land Management within the U.S. Forest Service, meets every year on the second weekend of June (this year, they'll be meeting on June 11) to join together and clean the Upper Kern area. The Kern River is a valuable resource as a clean and safe waterway, and volunteers work relentlessly each year to ensure that its remains as such.
Learn more information here.
Get Outdoors Family Fishing Picnic, Pennsylvania
Bring your whole family out for a relaxing fishing trip on Sunday, June 12 at the Tussey Mountain Pond. They'll provide the tackle for anyone who wants to join in on this idyllic Sunday afternoon. So bring your rods and see what you can hook!
Learn more information here.
Loop Lake Shelbyville Bike Ride, Illinois
If you're searching for an end of spring bike-venture, then look no further than Loop Lake Shelbyville ride! There are three options for cyclists of all levels: a short 22-mile ride, a medium length 46-miles, and a longer 65-mile trek. So whether this is your first time around the lake, so to speak, or you're a seasoned bike tourer, this is a great way to get outside and enjoy yourself!
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Get Outdoors Adventure Awaits Expo, Washington
Looking to try a new outdoor activity? Then look no further than the National Get Outdoors Day Outdoor Expo at Millersylvania State Park on June 11! It's a fun day for the whole family, filled with prizes, demos, kid activities, and the chance to learn about (or even try!) a new outdoor activity. It's the perfect place to be if you're looking to fill your summer up with outdoor fun.
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This is just a sample of all the many parks that will be holding events this weekend for National Get Outdoors Day. You can find more participating areas here. And before you go, don't forget to make sure you download your state's Pocket Ranger® mobile app so you can make the best of your adventure. Happy travels!


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Take stance. Deep breath. Raise bow. Hold for count of one...two....three.....curse as shoulder flames into pain, necessitating lowering of bow. Repeat.
"Heth. Stop that, or I'll set the Warden on you. Get that sling back on." Faramir strolled by with a smile on his face, his feet leaving footprints in the still dewy grass. He crossed the garden to where the White Lady of Rohan sat on a bench beneath some trees. Her pale face turned up to him, and she moved over obligingly enough to make room for him on the bench.
"Just trying to get fit, my lord," I called over to him. "Before the end of the world and all."
"I said you had to be on your feet in a week, Heth, and you're there already," he called back. "Don't overdo it." His head tilted to one side, he began to converse with the Lady Eowyn. Another sunny morning in the gardens of the Houses of Healing had begun.
Three mornings ago, after he'd left me in my bed, Faramir had come out to the gardens, only to be greeted by the Warden and the Lady Éowyn. She'd had some complaint about the window in her room, or some such business. And my Captain, who'd seen enough of the horrors of war in the last few years to sicken several men, had taken one look at her pale and perfect loveliness and fallen hard. Now he spent his days in the gardens with her, walking and talking, pouring out his heart to her in a way that would have vanquished any other woman in an hour's time.
But the Lady Éowyn of Rohan was no easy conquest. I supposed I should have been grateful for that, and about half of the time I was. The other half I spent offended that she was spurning something which I so greatly desired. Not that she rejected Faramir completely. No, she seemed happy in his company, and addressed him as 'friend'. But I could tell that though he was biding his time patiently, he was hoping that eventually she would turn to him for something more than friendship.
I am a petty enough person that to see him in that position pleased me a little bit. Not that I would ever have truly wished him pain. But a little discomfort, some small suffering, just a tiny piece of the heartache that was growing in me day by day-those he could endure without distressing me overmuch. For I knew now that I would be forsworn in the end. Since he had given his heart to another, I would have to break my promise to Mablung. Never could I speak to him-not if the Dark Lord himself was beating down the walls and the world ending indeed.
I laid my bow on the bench, and picked up the leather roll that contained my fletching supplies. Fletching was something I could do when I tired of walking or reading, and it did not stress my shoulder overmuch if I was careful. Of course, it took three times as long as usual, but time was a commodity I had plenty of at the moment. I had almost finished repairing my old arrows, and was about to begin on a supply of new shafts. A casual glance across the garden showed that the happy couple were now walking about, deep in conversation. Faramir was smiling, which had happened more and more often over the last three days, and I was truly glad to see it, even if I deplored the cause of it. I could not hear what they were speaking of, nor did I try. He still checked upon the progress of his wounded Rangers every day, but now that I was upon my feet, and usually out in the gardens, he had ceased visiting my room, and there were no more confidences.
Our relationship was currently that of Steward and Captain, and it was easiest upon me if it remained so.
A servant in the livery of the Tower entered the garden as I finished stripping the old feathers off of the shaft. He went directly to Faramir, and spoke with him briefly, after which Faramir bowed to the Lady Éowyn and departed with him . I returned to my work. After a time, there came a sound of approaching footsteps, and a white skirt moved into view. I looked up, and found the White Lady looking down at me.
Her hair was the proverbial river of gold, and unbound, fell past her hips. Her face was perfect, a sculpture in white marble. Her form was lithe and pleasing. I had a couple of inches on her in height and reach, but she looked like she might be faster on her feet when at her full strength, and probably tricky with it. I was reasonably sure that I could hit harder than she did. It would be interesting to spar with her, should the occasion arise. I had never thought to have the opportunity to fight another woman warrior.
"Princess." I made to rise, but she forestalled me with a wave of her hand. "May I sit?" she asked. Her voice was low for a woman, throaty, with a slow, rolling sort of accent to it.
"Please do." I slid my equipment over, and myself with it, and she seated herself gracefully. Her eyes were the ice blue of a winter's sky, and there was baffled puzzlement in them as she looked upon me. There was a mirror in the hall of the House, and I knew what she was seeing-a slightly mannish young woman with old hair and eyes, a huge purple bruise blooming over the right side of her face, and a line of tiny, neat stitches marching across her right cheek. At least the swelling had finally gone down, and I could chew with only a minimum of care.
"Captain Hethlin, isn't it? I heard that right? You are a captain?"
I smiled. "Only a very recent one, by the Steward's grace, my rank yet to be proven in the field."
"But he did give you the rank."
"Aye, lady. Though in truth, in time of peace it would have taken me far longer to achieve it. There's a bit of a captain shortage in Minas Tirith at present."
"But you think that even in peace time, without such a ...shortage, you would have become a captain?"
"Eventually, yes." She digested this for a moment.
"How old are you?" My, but we were getting personal quickly. Perhaps it was the way of the Rohirrim. I decided to respond in kind.
"Twenty-one. How old are you?"
"Twenty-four. How long have you been a soldier?"
"I've been with the Rangers of Ithilien for three years now. How long have you been a Rider of Rohan?"
"Less than a month. How does your family feel about you being a soldier?"
"My family is dead. How does yours feel?"
"I had to ride in secret. My uncle, Thčoden King, is dead, and did not know that I rode with him. My brother, Čomer King, had little opportunity to speak with me ere he left for the Black Gate. If he returns, his wrath may well fall upon me yet."
"My lady, if he returns from the Black Gate, and I do hope he does, I think he will be so relieved at being spared, and so joyful at seeing you again, that the only thing that will fall upon you will be his loving embrace."
"Mayhap you are right. I certainly hope it is so. Three years, you say? I did not know the Gondorrim had a tradition of shield maidens."
"We don't, really. Though there were ruling Queens in Numenor, long ago. Some of them may have led men into battle. My situation is a little unique."
"But of course. You have the Lord Faramir's... favor."
It took a moment for that to sink in. Tricky indeed. A shot under the shield, and no mistake. Feathers and arrows flew everywhere, as I suddenly found myself on my feet with no recollection of how I'd gotten there, looming over the Lady of Rohan and snarling.
"I am NOT a captain because I have the Lord Faramir's favor, whatever you mean by that, Princess! I'm a captain because I can put an arrow in the eye of a Mumak at a hundred yards! I'm a captain because in the last three years, I've killed more orcs and Haradrim than you have hairs on your pretty, golden head! I'm a captain because I rode under the shadow of the Black Riders and did not quail, and because I took down a mounted champion of Harad on foot, and armed with nothing but a knife! Get thee healed, my lady, and I will as well, and then we will send for our swords, and I will show you why it is I am a captain!"
She did not quail, though her eyes widened at bit. Her glanced met mine, blue steel crossing grey, and after a moment, she nodded, as if satisfied about something.
"Peace, captain! That was ill-done of me. I beg your pardon. Forgive me if you can. I am out of sorts with fear for my brother, and the Riders, and...all the others that went forth. To have no word like this...it is enough to drive one mad."
"Indeed." I took a deep breath, and then another, and another yet. I was not, it seemed, temperamentally suited for a diplomatic career. "You are forgiven, lady." It was not a gracious pardon. After a moment, I bent down, and began to retrieve my scattered fletching supplies. She slid off the bench and began to help me. I glared at her, but she persisted. We both of us had only one good arm apiece, and the fletches had drifted everywhere, so it took a while.
"In truth, I would like to cross swords with you, but in friendly rivalry," she said after a time.
"The same thought had occurred to me as well," I admitted grudgingly. "You'd probably win, though-I'm better with a bow than a sword. I do mostly foot and horse archery-though I did pick up a bit of mounted sword skill here recently on the Pelennor."
"Ah-so you like horses, then?" she asked eagerly. Two hours later, we were both kneeling on the ground in front of the bench, and I was showing Eowyn how to fletch arrows. During that time we had discussed the ride of the Rohirrim to aid the City, the retreat from Osgiliath, Great Horses We Had Known, her family, my family, and Gríma Wormtongue (who, I agreed wholeheartedly, just needed killing). It was probably just as well that there were no men present during the Gríma discussion-it devolved into a gruesome numbering of the ways two women with reasonable martial skills could wreak vengeance upon a lower life form masquerading as a man.
"My lady," I said during the pause in conversation that happened when we had finally slashed and minced him to our mutual satisfaction. "I would speak plainly if I may. I apologize in advance if I offend you-I am a stranger to the ways of courts."
"Your manners would play well enough at Edoras," she replied. "In truth, I find your bluntness refreshing. So many of these Gondorrim talk in circles, afraid of giving offense, and never coming at what they truly wish to speak of. So speak your piece."
"My lady, I can be no child's mother, so I will be no man's wife. Nor his whore. Your way is open, should you wish it so. I am not standing in your path."
"To the Steward, do you mean?" She frowned thoughtfully.
"Aye. He is my commander, and, I like to think, my friend. But there is naught else between us."
"But you wish that there were." Her look was questioning, but not unkind.
"Aye." I bowed my head. "By all the Valar, I do. But I do not wish him to know-it would do nothing but upset him, and spoil what little we do have. You will not tell him?"
"He will not hear of it from me," promised Éowyn, now wrapping her cord around the arrow shaft with intense concentration. There was silence for a time, then she said, "The Lord Faramir is a gentle lord, and a good man. But I love another."
Well! That was the best news I'd heard in a month of Sundays, as the irrepressible Master Gamgee would have said. But I endeavored to hide my glee under a more appropriate show of sympathy.
"Is he at the Black Gate?"
"He is the commander of the Armies of the West. It is the Lord Aragorn of whom I speak."
"The King? But why is this a problem?" I was baffled. "Surely the Lady of Rohan is a suitable consort for the King of Gondor. I would think that his counselors would urge him to wed you."
"Aragorn does not return my affections. He respects me as a woman of rank, and would prefer that I contain myself within the bounds of friendship," Eowyn said softly, and my sympathy deepened and became real. For such a proud one to have humbled herself so, and been rejected-how horrible that must have been for her.
"You wonder what you did wrong, what it is that you lack, don't you? You can't understand how you can feel so much for him, and he not feel it in return." She looked at me in utter understanding, and nodded.
"I rode with Théoden King because I sought an honorable death in battle after Lord Aragorn's rejection, and it was not granted me. I am still alive, and he who was the cause of my grief in the first place is the one who drew me back from death. And now it is to do all over again."
"Seek death in battle, you mean? Well, you'll get your chance soon enough, if the Captains fail."
"As will you, Ranger captain. Will you be glad of it when it comes, since you may not have the man of your choice?" I shook my head.
"No. I don't deny that it hurts-Gods, how it hurts sometimes! But there's too much I haven't done, and haven't seen. I haven't been to the North, where my family came from. I haven't seen the Misty Mountains. There are lots of nice horses I haven't ridden yet!" She chuckled at that. "And I have friends, good friends besides him. They would be hurt if I didn't fight as hard as I could for as long as I could." I finally got up off of my knees, gathered the fletching into my lap, and sat on the bench once more. Eowyn followed me.
"Also, honor constrains me if nothing else would. Lord Faramir drew me from a river once and saved my life, and I discharged my debt to him on the field of the Pelennor. But the sons of Elrond-to them my debt has not been paid. Elrohir nearly killed himself seeking me in the Grey Lands. Elrohir himself! I don't know if I can make you understand what that means. I am Dunedan, and his uncle was the father of our whole race! And he risked himself for me! No, my life is not my own to spend. Or rather, it lies upon me to spend it as dearly as I can."
She looked upon me with wonder. "You are stronger than I, Hethlin. I don't know if there is a word for how strong you are."
"Oh, pfffffft! I have my weak moments, believe you me! Many of them quite recent, thank you!" I looked up, and saw Faramir returning.
"Ah, here comes Lord Faramir now. I wonder what the errand was that drew him from your side, Lady."
"Lord Húrin had somewhat he wished to confer with him about."
"Matters of defense then. Well, if it concerns me, I'll hear about it soon enough."
He approached us, and bowed to Éowyn. "Lady. Captain. How well you both look, and how nice it is that you are getting along so famously. I rather thought you would, you know."
Éowyn and I looked at each other, smiled, and let that pass. She held up her arrow for Faramir's perusal.
"I have fletched an arrow this day, my lord. And Hethlin says not even the Wise can tell where it would land once it left the bow! Though I have my suspicions." She pantomimed it leaving her, then flying around behind her, and striking her in the rump. He laughed, a smitten twinkle in his eyes, and took the arrow for inspection. I felt a sudden chill run down my spine, and shivered.
Love her if you must, my lord, I thought as I watched them, but see her true. See her clear. She is fair beyond reckoning, and sorrowful as well, but she is not like your mother. Hers is not so gentle a soul. She claims to love another, and I cannot think she would give her heart for an idle fancy, nor take it back easily. And she is death-wished as well. I shuddered again, for the Powers that overlook a battlefield are drawn to the death-wished, and tend to grant their desires-often with ill effect on those nearest them.
If you lessen her, make her the lady fair who needs your rescue, you trammel her as surely as your father did Finduilas. But she is not Finduilas. She will not die pining for the sea breezes of Dol Amroth. If she feels herself trapped, she will claw her way out of it. And the Valar protect anyone who gets in her way.
"My lord, the healers are setting lunch on the table. I'm going to go in, and confer with Lorend on the duty roster this afternoon." Faramir nodded absently, still intent on Éowyn. She looked up at me and smiled.
"I have enjoyed conversing with you, captain. We must do it again. I'm sure I could use at least one more fletching lesson before I become a master!"
"Oh, at least, lady!" I bowed to them both, and went in, thinking how much easier it would have been if I could just have hated her.


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Horford, Irving Lead Celtics Past Bucks 96-89Al Horford had 27 points and nine rebounds, and the Boston Celtics beat the Milwaukee Bucks 96-89 on Thursday night.
Bucks Fend Off Late Celtics Rally In 103-100 winThe Milwaukee Bucks knocked the Boston Celtics out of first place in the Eastern Conference with a 103-100 victory on Wednesday night.
Celtics Earn Overtime Victory Against BucksIsaiah Thomas scored 37 points and Jae Crowder added 20 as the Boston Celtics hand the Milwaukee Bucks a 112-108 overtime loss.
Zeller Scores 26, Celtics Beat Bucks 124-109The Celtics, continuing their quest to finish third in the Eastern Conference, set up a Saturday night showdown with the Hawks in Atlanta by hammering the Milwaukee Bucks 124-109.
Thomas Scores 27, Celtics Beat Bucks 112-107Leading wire-to-wire, the Boston Celtics held off a fourth-quarter Milwaukee charge and captured their ninth consecutive home game, a 112-107 win over the Bucks on Thursday night.
Celtics Beat Bucks 99-83A 16-0 third-quarter run propelled the Boston Celtics to an easy 99-83 victory over the Milwaukee Bucks Tuesday night at the BMO Harris Bradley Center.
Celtics Fall To Bucks 96-93 In MilwaukeeThe Boston Celtics three-game winning streak came to an end Saturday night, losing 96-93 to the Milwaukee Bucks in Milwaukee.
Green Leads Celtics Past Bucks 102-86Jeff Green scored 29 points and the Celtics beat the Bucks 102-86 Monday night.
Bucks Rally For 105-98 Win In Celtics Home OpenerThe Bucks rallied from a 22-point third-quarter deficit to beat the Boston Celtics 105-98 on Friday night.
NBA Playoff ScheduleConference Finals have arrived. See the official schedule of games, scores and seedings.


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If you are brooding about investing in your future prosperity by joining a multilevel selling business you could have been doing a lot of research online about which MLM firms you may like to join. By looking at MLM rankings this will give you an idea about why the pinnacle of MLM corporations are where they are .
Don't simply use a list that ranks MLM firms to make your final call ; there are a number of other things you need to consider.
How long has the MLM Company been around?
You should be looking to find an MLM company which has been around for 5 to 10 years. Firms pop up and vanish speedily in the MLM arena. They start up and then fail quickly for a number of reasons, frequently they're underfunded and don't have enough capital to speculate in coaching and advertising, their products won't be "evergreen", or the management is inexpert. Analogous products may be available everywhere, or they might be too expensive.
MLM prelaunch opportunities have made many millionaires, they have also created lots more bankruptcies so if you have no experience at MLM, don't under any circumstances think about getting in on an MLM start-up.
Product Rankings in the MLM Industry
One of the first things you should look at is the MLM company's products. If you're a person wanting to get into the MLM industry you probably don't want to promote cosmetics!
If you market and promote a product you have absolute trust in you will be far more successful in your business. It's not possible to promote a product to a prospect effectively if you aren't satisfied yourself it's a good product. Find a product that you're going to be happy to promote and be positive about.
Mary Kay and Amway are always at the very top of the MLM marketing corporations top 10 lists and this is for a very good reason, the individuals that promote these products love them and the men and women that purchase them love them too. Regular repeat orders are usually a bonus, but if you are not prepared to demonstrate certain products to potential clients in their houses, then you need to avoid promoting those products.
You've probably heard about the great quality of Spoiled Chef products. The best way to market kitchen gizmos is to give demonstrations ; so again, if that sure is a situation you do not need to be in move on.
MLMrankings.com gives heaps of info about MLM companies. You'll probably notice that the majority of the top MLM corporations have products that appeal to ladies household goods, cosmetics, cleaning products and clothes. There are numerous excellent MLM firms the person can join.
When you're on MLMRankings.com note the way that firms are moving inside those rankings, if the company is declining over numerous weeks it's best to find out why.
Compensation plans are also MLM ranking important. These compensation plans can have some of the most complex names and can be very hard to understand. Ask what they mean, and if you still cannot understand what folks are letting you know about the compensatory plan then promote products you purchase it's likely best you do not join the company. We're talking about your monetary future here so push on. This is your future business so it's vital that you find out everything before you take that initial step, do your due groundwork and keep a watch on the MLM rankings.


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HIGH POINT, N.C. (AP) — A High Point police officer escaped serious injury in a weekend wreck.
Police say Officer A. Dykes may have fallen asleep when his patrol car hit a guard rail and caught fire around 6:15 a.m. Saturday.
Capt. Jason Henderson said Dykes was near the end of his shift that had started at 8 p.m. Friday. He was treated and released from High Point Regional Hospital for a hand injury.
Police say Dykes was not in pursuit of anyone at the time of the crash and appears to have fallen asleep at the wheel.
No one else was hurt.


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Android Phones
Verizon Wireless brings back the BOGO offer on the DROID and DROID Eris
February 17, 2010 | by Robert Nelson
Android Phones, Carriers, HTC, Motorola, Verizon
Once again, the buy-one-get-one offers have returned on Android handsets at Verizon Wireless. Effective immediately those interested will be able to purchase either a Motorola DROID or an HTC DROID Eris and get a second for free.
The one nice part with this latest BOGO offering is that you are able to get a DROID (or the Eris) for free, well free as long as you purchase the first. This is compared to the last BOGO offer which only allowed you to get the Eris for free.
Price wise, expect to drop $199.99 for the Motorola DROID and $79.99 for the HTC DROID Eris. And all handsets will requires a 2-year agreement.
Finally, while these Verizon BOGO offers are nice, I cannot help but point out that you can usually get a better deal at other retailers such as Amazon or Wirefly.
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Nexus Integrity Management is a turnkey provider of technical, material, and construction services for cathodic protection and pipeline integrity solutions. Services include groundbed design, installation, repair, and pipeline monitoring. Nexus offers engineering solutions and field surveys for pipeline integrity under all forms of ECDA (External Corrosion Direct Assessment). Nexus provides service to pipeline companies & refineries with assets both onshore and offshore.
Nexus delivers a service where quality of work coupled with on-job efficiency is the highest priority. Nexus has assembled a team with extensive customer relationships and extensive experience in the pipeline service industry. Nexus' field operations are extremely mobile and provide Nexus the capability of completing work on a customer's timeline need basis.
Nexus is able to offer clients the most advanced and efficient long-term results for any cathodic protection requirements. Utilizing vast industry experience, Nexus can accomplish this through assurance of rigorous engineering and design techniques, progressive research, and accurate application of a broad range of products and services directed at maintaining piping, equipment, and infrastructure in various industries and environments throughout the country.


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One thing that most people don't like about Sundays is knowing they have to get up early the next morning to go to work. That is probably why some small business owners choose to be closed on Mondays. Mondays tend to depress some individuals.
According to the following studies, citrus, bagels, and dark chocolate might be an option to lift that Sunday-evening and Monday depressed feeling. Previous studies have shown that antioxidants in fruits and vegetables and omega-3 fatty acids in fish are associated with lower risk of depression. Folate, a B vitamin found in dark green vegetables like spinach, beans and citrus affects neurotransmitters that impact mood. In a new study in the Archives of Internal Medicine, people who for a year followed a very-low-carbohydrate diet—which allowed only 20 to 40 grams of carbs daily, about the amount in just 1⁄2 cup of rice plus one piece of bread—experienced more depression, anxiety and anger than those assigned to a low-fat, high-carb diet that focused on low-fat dairy, whole grains, fruit and beans.
Foods can affect how you feel. Eating the right foods can help your moods, and eating the wrong foods can make you feel worse. There is another thing, however, that a person can get to help prevent or overcome depression. It's called faith – like Abraham in the Bible had.
Abraham traveled to a new country. He left the comforts of home, relatives, and friends and began the journey with his wife, Sarah, and his nephew named Lot. Abraham was about 75 years old, older than the age most people retire in the USA. Abraham "staggered not at the promise of God through unbelief; but was strong in faith, giving glory to God" (Romans 4:20).
Try fighting the Monday blues with a mixture of good foods like mentioned in the studies above and faith like Abraham had. Since it's Sunday evening, I invite you to take a few minutes to watch this video that I happened to come across today. It made me smile, and I hope it makes you smile, too.
Share something good with someone tomorrow, and make them smile on a Monday!