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In trying to decide on a topic for today's post, I put up a plea for topic ideas on Twitter. I actually got some really great ideas—oddly enough it appears that someone suggesting to me to write about why Amazon is stripping rankings is how #amazonfail started yesterday on Twitter—and am going to save some of them for future use (I always say that and then forget to check my "future use" file when it's time. But I will remember next time. I'm sure). Since it's Easter Sunday (yes, I'm a procrastinator, but in my defense I've been traveling/visiting family for the past week) I needed a topic that didn't take amazing powers of critical thinking. I got a fantastic recommendation from author Jill Myles who mentioned that it's always interesting to know what genres are/aren't selling well.
I suppose publishers don't always like to talk about what genres are or aren't selling well because we're afraid that authors will take that as a signal to only write and submit a few particular genres, and not to write others. As a publisher of a variety of romance genres, as well as fantasy, science fiction, urban fantasy all with romantic elements, we especially don't want this to happen. Or maybe publishers are afraid it shows weakness to say something doesn't sell as well as something else? I suppose. But I also think that authors sometimes feel that this is a topic shrouded in secrecy so let's bring it out in the open and chat about it.
First, I'm going to talk about Samhain in particular and epublishing very in general. It's important to note that what I say is from our particular experience only and can't necessarily be taken as gospel for the industry as a whole. I know you're all savvy enough for that to be stating the obvious, but I do like my disclaimers and just can't seem to quit them.
Erotic Romance: We'll start with the obvious. For the purpose of this post, I'm going to put all of erotic romance together and say it sells very well for us. I think it's clear that in the past 5 years it has sold quite well for many digital publishers, as evidenced by the number of new erotic romance epublishers that spring up monthly, by the traditional publishers' search for erotic romance books and authors and subsequent flooding of the market, and by the emergence of sexier sex scenes and greater sexual tension even in non-erotic romances.
Still, I can hear you out there saying to yourself "sure, but exactly what KINDS of erotic romance sell well?" Okay, I'll let you in on the secret…it depends. If you're going to pin me down, I'll say ménages (and more) are usually hot sellers as long as we're talking about the male/female/male or more males and one female trope. Also selling well are erotic m/m, and erotic romance with BDSM. However, "straight" m/f erotic romances will also fly off our figurative shelves in the hands of a skillful author such as Lorelei James or Maya Banks, who combines high sexual tension with engaging characters and plot. Actually, you can pretty much just say this about any genre I talk about today. Anything I say about a genre not selling well can be negated by the right author, the right promotion, the right story and the right planetary alignments.
But what about erotica? Erotica, which is most definitely NOT the same as erotic romance and is a different genre, doesn't sell as well. Maybe because, while readers enjoy some spicy sensuality in their reading, they want to know it will all turn out happily in the end and there's no guarantee of that in erotica?
Moving on from all that sexin', let's talk about other genres within romance. Our trends still show that paranormal romance is a hot seller. Readers are still interested in reading about vampires, but there is even greater interest in different shifters: werewolves, cats, dragons and all the variety of unusual shifters you can find. Other forms of paranormal like demons, succubus, angels, etc also continue to do well and unique concepts are eagerly scooped up by readers.
Several genres are a hit and a miss in for us in digital at this time including inspirational, some historical periods (pretty much anything happening after 1900), and books—even erotic romance—featuring female/female as a central theme. Even if it's female/female/male. Despite some readers asking us why we don't publish more f/f, many authors don't write it and readers, at least ours, aren't buying it. It continues to be very much a niche genre, and a much, much smaller niche genre than male/male books.
Despite a number of readers saying they want more contemporaries that are non-romance, non-suspense, non-paranormal, those readers also don't always show their buying power. An author can do well in those genres with good promotion, backlist or a well-known name, but sometimes even that isn't enough to make a fantastic contemporary sell. It can be frustrating for both author and editor!
What am I missing? Futuristic romances do pretty well for us. Many of the editors are huge fans of the genre and we're always wishing for more submissions in this genre (send to email@example.com thanks ) but it's definitely a specialized one to write due to the world building needed. On the other hand, time travel submissions seem to always be around and they rarely sell well. And it's not something we often get a request for, from readers.
Two genres/themes that readers are always requesting more of and that sell well are interracial and male/male books. Books labeled in these areas seem to fly off our figurative shelves.
I made this point above but I want to highlight it again: everything I'm saying here can vary according to author, writing style, writing skill (yes, some authors are more skilled than others. I'm sorry, maybe you didn't expect me to say it, but there it is, the elephant in every corner), promotional efforts (no, I'm sorry the books don't sell themselves and yes you do need promo—from yourself, your publisher—in the form of reviews and word of mouth even—and from your readers), and even name brand/backlist.
Backlist is something I talk about often in conjunction with sales, but I think some authors might underestimate the power of it. I'm going to use Samhain's romantic suspense author Linda Winfree as an example. Her first book with Samhain had numbers lower than she and her editor expected, and which I know her editor hoped would be higher because she was so impressed with Linda's writing and storytelling. But as Linda published each successive book in her series, not only did her new release numbers go up as word of mouth spread among readers about her books, but her backlist books also saw increased numbers of sales with each new release. This is something that, watching the sales numbers on My Bookstore and More, I see quite often with a variety of authors in a variety of genres. I hate to say it but…"Build it and they will come" applies here.
So there you go, some of the genres demystified. Tell me what I missed or what you'd like to know more of. Questions are welcome!
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Wow, great breakdown! That's really interesting to hear all the stuff that IS selling and stuff that is not selling as well.
I find it interesting that Time Travel does not seem to sell well (in NY or in epub) but so many authors trying to break in write it. I know I've written a time travel (or three, koff koff).
Thanks for the blog post. Very informative.
So true about time travel, Jill. I keep thinking it will come back around – especially with the popularity of The Time Traveler's Wife – but I know a lot more people interested in writing it than reading it.
Angie, what are your thoughts on the possibilities for sweet romance in epublishing? I know currently it's very hit or miss, but at one time I felt epub could be a great haven for it. Now I wonder if readers have either adapted to reading the sex or are getting their fix from the Debbie-Macomber-style contemporaries and the few other authors keeping it alive in NY. Do you think that readership will ever find its way to epublishing?
Thanks, Angie, for bringing this out in the open. Why should it be a secret?? It's a good field to discuss.
Thanks for the break down. I am not in the buying majority with m/m or menages, preferring m/f relationships; and therefore, I would not feel comfortable writing them, even if that is what is selling.
Some writers may try to aim for what's popular, but I think many will continue to write the voices in their heads. Kind of like parents telling their college age kid what major has a large earning potential, and in the end, the kid usually ends up majoring in what he likes doing.
You did a wonderful job of demystifying the genres and their selling potential. Thanks for the detailed explanations.
I have a question about time-travel.
Most of what I see in the time-travel genre is women going back to the past, which often, to me, reads like a catchy excuse for a historical.
Is that just what gets published or is there a balance of men and women coming forward to the present?
Or men and women going from the now to the future?
"Time travel" is so broad a term for the possible permutations.
I really appreciated reading this thoughtful article and it does help in deciding what my next writing project will be. I can write the plot I want, mixed in with a little of a strong seller or genre.
Why not write what readers want to read? It's kind of like that sayng myy mother told me, "It's just as easy to fall in love with a rich man as a poor man."
Everything I love to write doesn't sell well. Why am I not surprised? Le sigh. So, I'll wait around for a few years until my genres are hot again. It's bound to happen.
Hey Angie, I know you're on the road so I may not get a response, but maybe you could say what YOU think is the difference between futuristic and sci fi. Just curious.
Awesome breakdown and I'm also one who has seen my backlist move the more I keep at it.
@Lindsey I think epublishing can be a great haven for sweet romances but I think that it's more difficult when sold in conjunction with erotic romance/erotica. For it to do well, I think it needs its own site and a targeted marketing campaign. Its not the type of genre that will sell well immediately out the gate, though, on a dedicated publisher/site, so there needs to be an understanding that it will be something that builds over time.
@Venus most time travel that I see, at least, is going back to historical. I think I can pretty safely say that we'd all be a lot more excited to see some time travel to the future because that would also put it in the category of futuristic. So you're right in that I should have really clarified time travel further to time travel to the past, and with the further caveat that unless it's some really unique time travel (to the future, or to an ALTERNATE past/world).
@Melissa Blue but keep in mind, everything I say is not meant to be taken as an absolute. There are always exceptions and I could name some for each thing I said didn't sell well!
@Jennifer I am still on the road, though currently in a hotel room in Wisconsin Dells waiting for the water park to open! Romantic comedy is a tough genre, very much hit and a miss. I've often thought that might be because comedy in itself is a very subjective thing.
Great article, thanks!
I'll definitely link to this when I next blog about the potential for science fiction romance/futuristic romance in ebooks, and Samhain in particular.
Mainstream print publishing is not the only game in town, and right now that market is insanely tight. I hope aspiring authors will seriously consider the epublishing option. Otherwise, I may never get to read their stories, wahh!
I have to say I don't think I've seen this all broken down quite so well.
However, my question is what is the difference between Paranormal Romance and Urban Fantasy?
Is it that the P.R. has more sex in it, and the Urban Fantasy has a hard-ass female as protagonist?
Could you clear this up for me? I'm writing a book that I'd thought would fit under the "Urban Fantasy" genre, but when you drew the lines on your blog, I'm questioning that perhaps I'm doing a Paranormal Romance, in which the woman is involved with at least 2 vampires and one shifter. I really don't know where this one fits, now.
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Hi ya, it's me again. Takes me a while to figure out where I found this blog. I'm unable to find any answer to my original question:
What is the difference between Paranormal Romance and Urban Fantasy?
I had hoped this question would have been answered by someone by this time, but I know traveling and whatnot, you are busy.
Perhaps I'll check in another week on this.
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The European Foundation for the Care of Newborn Infants (EFCNI) as first pan-European organization and interactive network to represent the interests of preterm and newborn infants, and their families, welcomes the release of the collaborative global action report "Born Too Soon ". Well-organized, effective and targeted pre-conceptional, maternal and newborn care makes a lifelong difference to preterm infants and their families. A healthy start at birth lays the foundation for the good health throughout an individual's life. In partnership with the Global Alliances, March of Dimes and other organizations worldwide, EFCNI looks forward to reducing the severe toll of prematurity in all countries. As prematurity poses a serious and growing threat to the health and well-being of the future European population, one of EFCNI's major aims is to raise awareness for preterm birth in society. EFCNI commits itself to make maternal and newborn health a policy priority in Europe by the year 2020.
Flour Fortification Initiative
Iron and folic acid are commonly added to wheat and maize flours in the milling process, and the foods subsequently made with fortified flour provide more of these nutrients to consumers. Several studies indicate an association between maternal iron deficiency anemia in early pregnancy and a greater risk of preterm delivery (1). Insufficient folic acid before conception and very early in a pregnancy can lead to neural tube defects, and such serious birth defects are one cause of preterm deliveries (2).
This March of Dimes report clearly states the health risks associated with preterm deliveries. The Flour Fortification Initiative joins the March of Dimes as partners to work together towards smarter, stronger, healthier babies delivered at full term.
The GAVI Alliance
GAVI commits to accelerating the reach of vaccines that directly benefit the health of mothers, newborns and children in the world's poorest countries.
Building on the success of recent efforts to control measles, GAVI will help developing countries to advance the control and elimination of rubella and congenital rubella syndrome. By 2015, over 700 million children will be immunised through campaigns and routine immunisation with combined measles-rubella vaccine. Rubella vaccines alone will avert an estimated 140,000 deaths and will protect hundreds of thousands of babies against severe birth defects from congenital rubella syndrome, and help to prevent still births and miscarriages caused by rubella infection.
To accelerate the successes of maternal neonatal tetanus elimination, GAVI helped UNICEF support 33 countries in reaching more than 40 million women with two doses of MNT vaccines.
GAVI will continue to support countries to strengthen the delivery of quality immunisation services, bringing life-saving vaccines to mothers and children as part of integrated MNCH services.
The Global Alliance for Clean Cookstoves at the UN Foundation
While the link between exposure to cookstove smoke and a wide range of health problems such as pneumonia, chronic obstructive pulmonary disease, and lung cancer is well established – causing around 2 million deaths per year—the current body of evidence linking cookstoves with adverse pregnancy outcomes is compelling but somewhat limited. As part of its commitment to Every Woman Every Child, the Global Alliance for Clean Cookstoves, hosted by the UN Foundation, will provide up to US$ 800,000 in funding over the next two years towards research that fills key gaps in the existing evidence on the link between the use of traditional cookstoves and child survival. These will specifically focus on adverse pregnancy outcomes, including low birth weight, pre-term birth, and birth defects; and/or severe respiratory illness, including pneumonia, in children under-five years of age. Results will hopefully identify a new category of interventions aimed at reducing premature births worldwide.
Global Alliance to Prevent Prematurity and Stillbirth (GAPPS)*
Global Alliance to Prevent Prematurity and Stillbirth commits to leading global efforts to discover the causes and mechanisms of preterm birth and stillbirth. Research leadership includes stewardship of the Preventing Preterm Birth initiative, a Grand Challenges in Global Health from the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation; operating the GAPPS Repository of maternal and newborn samples for researchers of pregnancy and newborn health; and guidance on research harmonization. Additionally, GAPPS commits to expanding collaborative efforts to demonstrate the critical need for strategic investments in pregnancy and post-birth scientific research where large health gains can be achieved through the development of new, low-cost, high-impact innovations and developing a global advocacy campaign to promote the need for research and catalyze funding for it. GAPPS will work to make every birth a healthy birth.
Home for Premature Babies (HPB)
By uniting 400,000 families, the Home for Premature Babies (HPB)—China's largest association of parents and families affected by a preterm birth and established in 2005—has entered a phase of rapid development. In addition to our current work on awareness raising and providing rehabilitation service for preterm infants, we are planning to achieve the following goals within 3 to 5 year's time: 1) double our membership; 2) create and publish a monthly magazine on premature infants, 3) establish a medical tele-consultation system, 4) develop and implement a continuing education program for pediatricians, and 5) establish a branch of HPB in every province in China.
International Pediatric Association*
The 177 national and regional pediatric societies of the International Pediatric Association (IPA) are committed to help reduce the incidence of preterm delivery. We support healthiest possible neonatal, child and adolescent health for every future parent with every aspect of our practice and policy contributions. We support the healthiest possible motherhood through planning, available health services, pregnancies that are supported by the entire community and safe delivery for mother and baby.
We will feature the publication
Born Too Soon: A Global Action Report on Preterm Birth
on the IPA website and in the organizational newsletter, encouraging national pediatric societies to feature this topic in their educational meetings and policy discussions.
The Japan International Cooperation Agency (JICA)
The Japan International Cooperation Agency (JICA) commits to support the
Global Strategy for Women's and Children's Health
through the capacity development of partner countries in enhancing their health service delivery for maternal, newborn and child health care.
JICA will contribute to achieving the goals expressed in Japan's
Global Health Policy 2011-2015
, which commits to saving approximately 11.3 million children's lives and 430,000 maternal lives in cooperation with other donors. JICA will support partner countries in building and strengthening systems that provide a comprehensive "Continuum of Care for Maternal and Child Health".
Every year, JICA implements technical cooperation and grant aid projects for MNCH at the level of 3 billion and 3-16 billion Japanese yen respectively, and will initiate concessional loans to help support partner countries to achieve MNCH-related MDGs. JICA will endeavor to make a change on MNCH through the integrated management of the three modalities of assistance.
The Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health
The Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health is committed to strengthening evidence on the extent and causes of preterm births globally and to developing culturally and economically appropriate interventions to reduce the burden of premature birth around the world. We also commit to working with governments and their partners on the translation of evidence into effective policies and programs. We aim to achieve measurable results of our efforts by 2015.
Kinshasa School of Public Health, DRC*
Preterm birth remains a major public health problem in the Democratic Republic of Congo as in other developing countries. According to a study conducted in the Maniema Province in 2006, the low birth rate was 164 per 1000 live births at Kipaka Area.
In the year 2011, the General Referral Hospital of Kinshasa had 314 pre-term deliveries out of 1,170.
It is not surprisingly then that the Kinshasa School of Public Health with its partner, the University of North Carolina, has joined the Global Alliance to Prevent Prematurity and Stillbirth (GAPPS) and has submitted a proposal aimed to prevent preterm birth.
The goal of this initiative is to encourage scientific studies that eventually will lead to or refine preventive interventions for preterm birth and still birth related to preterm birth, primarily in developing world settings.
The March of Dimes
The March of Dimes commits to continuing its Prematurity Campaign through 2020, working to reduce the preterm birth rate in the United States to 9.6% or less, and helping to build a global constituency to reduce the toll of death and disability caused by preterm birth worldwide. The March of Dimes Prematurity Campaign devotes approximately $20 million annually to: 1) funding for biomedical research, and transdisciplinary research aimed at delineating the multi-factorial causes of premature birth; 2) collaboration with state governments, hospitals, and lower-income country partners to enhance the quality and accessibility of prenatal and newborn care; 3) provider education and consumer awareness campaigns to identify and reduce risk of prematurity, and provide guidance and comfort to parents of premature babies. The March of Dimes joined with parent groups to create and promote World Prematurity Day, November 17, to build a constituency for further action, including the recommendations in Born too Soon.
Paediatrics and Child Health, College of Medicine, University of Malawi
The College of Medicine in the paediatric department is committed to improving the care of newborns in Malawi. Specific efforts are being made to help premature babies with respiratory distress by introducing appropriate technologies, and enhancing the Kangaroo Mother Care through teaching and outreach.
Peking University Center of Medical Genetics (PUCMG)*
The mission of the Peking University Center of Medical Genetics (PUCMG) is to promote healthcare in order to improve the quality of life in China. The Preterm Clinical Research Consortium of PUCMG estimated the rate of preterm birth in China to be 5.5% in 2011. PUCMG will continue to work closely with global, regional and Chinese national and local communities—including governmental agencies, medical professionals, academic investigators, industrial partners and parent groups—to raise public awareness of the toll of preterm birth in China. We will continue existing programs, including youth and preconceptional interventions, directed to reducing the rate or preterm birth and associated mortality and disability in China. PUCMG will also conduct studies to explore the etiology and pathogenesis of preterm birth in China in order to provide evidence-based, novel strategies for prevention, intervention and care. Within 3 years, PUCMG will have completed a prospective cohort study identifying major risk factors for preterm birth in the Chinese populations.
The Partnership for Maternal, Newborn & Child Health
The Partnership for Maternal, Newborn & Child Health (PMNCH) commits to raising greater attention for the significant contribution of preterm birth to neonatal and child mortality, creating greater visibility, resources and partner engagement in this important aspect of reaching Millennium Development Goal 4, which calls for reducing under-five child mortality by two-thirds by 2015.
Specifically, PMNCH commits to:
Develop a knowledge summary on preterm birth to accompany the May 2012 launch and dissemination of Born Too Soon: The Global Action Report, with wide distribution to PMNCH members and through other advocacy channels, including web and listserv publication;
Through the Innovation Working Group of the Every Woman Every Child Effort and its private sector constituency , support the development of preterm private sector commitments linked to the publication of the final report of the Commission on Life-Saving Commodities for Women and Children, due in September 2012;
Promote widespread engagement of its membership in World Prematurity Day, November 17, to further increase popular and political attention to this important issue;
From 2013, track progress on the implementation of the preterm commitments published in Born Too Soon. Findings will be communicated in an annual report by PMNCH every year through 2015. This PMCH report will be submitted to the independent Expert Review Group for its own annual progress report on the results and resources related to the Global Strategy and on progress in the implementation of the recommendations of the final report of the Commission on Information and Accountability for Women's and Children's Health (2011).
reterm Birth International Collaborative (PREBIC)
Preterm Birth International Collaborative (PREBIC) supports prematurity prevention programs by organizing workshops for scientists, clinicians and other health care professionals around the globe aimed to build consortiums of investigators. These consortiums identify knowledge gaps in various areas of preterm birth research and develop protocols and scientific studies to fill the knowledge gaps. PREBIC organizes satellite scientific symposiums in association with major Obstetrics and Perinatal Congresses to educate professionals in the field on various aspects of preterm birth research. PREBIC has also set up facilities to conduct high throughout "OMICS' research and build network of investigators to conduct organized research to better understand preterm birth and for global prevention of preterm birth.
Save the Children
As a technical leader for newborn health, Save the Children commits to working with the poorest families in the highest burden countries to increase access to proven newborn care interventions critical to achieving MDG-4 since over 40% of under-5 child deaths occur in the first month of life. Basic newborn care, especially for those "born too soon", makes the difference between life and death. Yet societal norms often accept newborn death as inevitable. We commit to working with partners to make preventable newborn deaths unacceptable. Through partnerships with governments, civil society, professional organizations, corporations and the UN system, Save the Children will continue to advance implementation of maternal and newborn services, enabling frontline health workers and empowering families to provide the care that every newborn needs. We will promote increased and equitable access for high-impact interventions for preterm babies including antenatal corticosteroids to strengthen premature babies' lungs, Kangaroo Mother Care, neonatal resuscitation, improved cord care using chlorhexidine, breastfeeding support and effective treatment of neonatal infections.
The Government of Sweden/Sida
This report puts important attention to an area within the continuum of maternal and newborn health care. Knowledge and interventions to prevent prematurity is a neglected area in many countries of the world; especially in low income countries. For Sweden and Sida the reduction of newborn morbidity and mortality remains a high priority. We are committed to reducing the incidence of prematurity and to do so mainly through support to capacity building of a competent midwifery workforce. An educated and professional midwife provides a number of important prerequisites for preventing pre-term births as well as identifying and caring for the pre-term baby. As part of the global movement to reduce MNC mortality Sida will work to increase awareness of the role midwives can play and improve education and working conditions to allow midwives to play a significant role in the prevention of premature birth and competent care for the pre-term baby.
Government of the U.K./DFID
The UK welcomes the publication of "Born Too Soon: The Global Action Report for Preterm Birth", highlighting the impact of pre-term birth on newborn and under five mortality. We agree there is an urgent need for more action to prevent and manage pre-term births. We urge all our partners to increase their efforts to achieve the aims of the UN Secretary-General's Global Strategy for Women's and Children's Health.
The UK has set out clear plans to help improve the health of women and young children in many of the poorest countries. We will help save the lives of at least 250,000 newborn babies and 50,000 women during pregnancy and childbirth by 2015. All the UK's commitments to improve the lives of women and children can be found in "UK AID: Changing lives, delivering results", at
UNICEF is committed to ensuring the healthy survival and development of all children, particularly the most vulnerable and disadvantaged. Specifically UNICEF commits to:
support global advocacy efforts to increase awareness and action to prevent and care for preterm births.
Support governments to implement and scale up preterm and newborn care interventions especially for the poorest families.
Strengthen community programs for the prevention of preterm births and care of new borns to improve equitable access to services for the most disadvantaged mothers and babies.
Work with WHO to support [Member States] to strengthen the availability and quality of data on preterm births and provide updated analyses of global preterm birth levels and trends every three to five years.
Advance the procurement and supply of essential
medicines and commodities that relate to preterm births, neonatal illnesses and deaths.
University of the Philippines Manila
Born too Soon is a timely reminder to all stakeholders that prematurity must be the
concern of all.
We stand committed to continue our research and advocacy work on
models for preconception care
. The current project will produce
counseling modules for different settings
counseling at the workplace, peer counseling
(targeting high school and college students) and
counseling at the community
(urban and rural). The project is being piloted city-wide in Lipa City, Batangas, Philippines in cooperation with the Local Government of Lipa City.
The modules will be turned over to the Department of Health for replication in other parts of the country.
This project is funded by the Department of Health Philippines, Institute of Human Genetics- National institutes of Health and the March of Dimes Foundation, USA.
The University of Texas Medical Branch
UTMB and the Department of Obstetrics & Gynecology, Maternal-Fetal Medicine Division, is one of the premier educational institutions in the United States serving a high-risk pregnancy population. The institution is committed to research and educational programs that for decades have been in the forefront of prematurity-prevention initiatives. The Obstetrics & Gynecology Department's Perinatal Research Division studies preterm-birth risk factors, pathophysiology, pathways, and designs prevention strategies. In addition, the division is dedicated to understanding causes and consequences of fetal programming due to preterm birth.
Government of the U.S.A/USAID
The United Stated Agency for International Development (USAID) is fully committed to saving newborn lives as part of a comprehensive maternal, newborn, and child health program through its investments in the U.S. Global Health Initiative. USAID has worked closely with Governments, UN Agencies, civil society organizations, professional associations, and the private sector to support efforts to generate evidence on high-impact newborn interventions and service delivery approaches, sparked the development of game-changing innovations to reduce maternal and neonatal mortality, supported the update of global guidelines and policies, worked with Governments to introduce them at the country level, increasingly engaged the private sector to be part of the solution, and built global public-private alliances to harness the resources and creativity of diverse organizations. USAID will continue to use these effective and inclusive approaches to support selected high-impact and affordable interventions that can prevent and manage complications associated with preterm birth as part of an integrated newborn and child health program with the aim of ending preventable child death.
Women Deliver
Women Deliver commits to making family planning one of three themes of its international conference, Women Deliver 2013, May 28-30, 2013 in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia. Spacing births through voluntary family planning is a key intervention to reduce the risk of preterm births. The global conference will explore solutions on how to reduce unmet need for family planning by 100 million women by 2015 and 215 million women, by 2020. To encourage sharing of lessons learned and successes, Women Deliver commits to developing a track for its global conference on newborn health.
The World Health Organization
The World Health Organization is committed to reducing the health problems and lives lost as a result of preterm birth. Specifically, we will work with Member States to strengthen the availability and quality of data on preterm births. We will provide updated analyses of global preterm birth levels and trends every three to five years. We will work with partners around the world to conduct research into the causes of preterm birth, and test effectiveness and delivery approaches for interventions to prevent preterm birth and treat babies that are born preterm. We will regularly update clinical guidelines for the care of preterm babies, including "kangaroo mother care" (the baby is carried by the mother, with skin-to-skin contact), feeding babies with low birth weight, treating infections and respiratory problems, and home-based follow-up care. And we will develop tools to improve health workers' skills and assess the quality of care provided to preterm babies.
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2 new True Temper shafts highlight fall shaft offerings
True Temper unveiled two new steel shafts that I thought needed some additional explanation, aside from the normal marketing material you will see.
First up is the Multi-Step Lite, which is new from the standpoint it will be a normal catalog item. If you are a shaft aficionado, you might have seen or heard of this shaft before as this shaft had been formerly available to original equipment manufacturers. This is the shaft that will replace the popular Dynalite, which will soon be retired. It will be in the same cut weight range for the R and S flex (105g) and feature the same low bend point.
If the step pattern looks familiar, the shaft will be reminiscent of the Apollo Shadow, but a lighter weight version. For clubmakers who have relied on Dynalite as their "go-to" shaft might want to think about transitioning to the True Temper Multi-Step Lite now.
The True Temper GS-95 will be the new breed of lighter weight steel shafts on the market. The "95" in True Temper's GS-95 denotes the cut weight of the shaft. By comparison, Dynamic Gold is @ 115g and mainstay lightweight designs like TT Lite and
Dynalite have been in the 105g range. Several of next year's major name brand clubs with come equipped with shafts in the 95g weight range as their stock offerings, but at least the GS-95 will be much more affordable and widely available than the high performance Nippon NS950 or the KBS Tour 90 shafts.
The parallel tip True Temper GS-95 shaft will be available in discrete lengths. What we mean about that is instead of purchasing a master shaft that can be successfully tip trimmed per club you will buy a specific raw length for each head just like a taper tip shaft. Here is a chart that will help choose the right shaft. Just like taper tip shafts, the GS-95 will be butt trimmed only.
Raw Length Club #
40" 3 iron
39.5" 4 iron
39" 5 iron
38.5" 6 iron
38" 7 iron
37.5" 8 iron
37" 9 iron
36.5" Wedges
The reason why the GS-95 shafts are available in discrete lengths is the fact these are a "constant mass" design. This is a fancy way of saying the shaft each raw length shaft weighs the same. In normal parallel tip shafts, the shafts become increasingly lighter the short the shaft becomes, meaning the wedge shaft can be much lighter that the harder to hit long iron shafts. In a constant mass design, if the cut shaft weight for a #3 iron is 95g, so are the wedges, which help with distance control in the scoring clubs where you need it most.
Using EI curves to evaluate the stiffness distribution along the length of the shaft, True Temper has what it calls Quad Zone Profiling, a design feature used to section the shaft into four distinct zones. From there, the True Temper engineers where able to specifically target specific regions of the shaft for flexibility and wall thickness to optimize performance.
Energy Inertia (E.I.) Curves, or a three-point bending test is a way of measuring the load or the stiffness distribution of a golf shaft from the tip to butt more accurately than a deflection boards or frequency analyzer. Here is an example of an EI Curve on the GS-95 S-flex 3-iron shaft.
I did have a chance to test the GS-95 out on the range and the course too. I didn't quite realize the added height, especially in comparison to the much lighter GS-75. But that might had to be due to the head I tested it with. The shaft was still being manufactured I received a taper tipped version for testing purposes since the parallel version wasn't available at that time. Since you never want to put a taper tip shaft in a parallel bore, I had to use an older model I had in reserve with the appropriate hosel size. I will tell you this heads today are waaaaaay better than they were 10 years ago.
So are these new shafts. For being as light as what it was, the GS-95 was very stable, not sloppy or whippy that many might associate with a high launching shaft, yet did not have a harsh feel. The GS-95 has a balance point biased toward the tip meaning that you can achieve normal swingweights without having to make the club longer or adding additional tip weights.
There was a nice separation between the R and S flex as shown in our Dynamic Shaft Fitting Index (DSFI) ranges. The R-flex in our system would be for those golfers with a 69-79 mph swing speed range and the S-flex 75-87 mph range.
I hope that gives you a little more information about the two new offerings from True Temper.
True Temper GS95 Shaft $18.15 each
True Temper Multi-Step Lite Shaft $5.45 each
3 Comments on Quick Hits: True Temper's New GS-95 & Multi-Step Lite Shafts
About calling EI "Energy Inertia"…
It has nothing to do with energy and little to do with what clubfitters thing of as intertia. It would be better called "Elasticity Interia", though even there "inertia" means something completely different from what you probably think.
Actually, EI means "E times I" where E and I are separate quantities that engineers deal with all the time.
"E" is the modulus of elasticity of the material, a measure of how flexible the bulk steel (or carbon composite) is.
"I" is a measure of stiffness of the cross section of the shaft. The only think it has to do with "inertia" is that the formula for computing it is very similar to the formula for moment of inertia.
And "EI" is "E" multiplied by "I", nothing more and nothing less.
For more on what EI means and how it is measured, see my article at .
Jeff: Just curious, is the Multi-Step Lite similar to the TT Release from a few years ago?


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Just shortly after Edward left in New Moon, Bella ends up pregnant with his daughter. She starts freaking out wondering how to tell Charlie when Jacob comes over; he already went through the transformation before Edward left. He freaks when Bella tells him and goes and tells Charlie about everything about the Cullens and the myths there in Forks just as Victoria is about attack Bella. Charlie lets himself get bitten instead of Bella shortly after Jake ran off. Bella sits with him for three days. After months have gone by, Bella gave birth to her daughter. Charlie has gained control of his thirst. Bella though everything was going perfectly fine until someone from her past, who was supposed to be dead comes back to Forks. That person is James. James ends up kidnapping for a few weeks, but over the last few months she has gotten some training with Charlie how to defend herself. She manages to chain him and she ends up pregnant again. As she gets home, she gets an invitation in the mail; she got invited to Edward's and Tanya's wedding. She's still human.
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Bella looked at Edward."You need to stay with Nessie, Edward."
Edward-I looked at her, "Charlie could...alright. But I'll be checking on you." I kissed her forehead then her lips lightly.
Bella kissed him back and shook her head."You know he won't let that."She gave James a glare before turning back to Edward.
Edward-"I don't care, I'll check on you." I looked into her eyes, "I want to make sure you'll be safe and will be okay."
Bella placed a hand on his cheek."Edward, you know he'll make sure you can't find me."
Edward-"Don't worry about that." I whispered and kept her close to me. "I won't let anything bad happen to you or the baby."
Bella rested her head on his chest."I know Edward."
Edward-I rocked her lightly and quietly hummed her the lullaby I written for her a while back before I left.
Bella sighed and closed her eyes a bit.
James raised an eyebrow still handing out his hand."Time to go."
Edward-"I love you." I whispered
Bella sighed and kissed him."I love you too." She looked at James and took his hand."You better not hurt them."
James chuckled."Of I won't."
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2013 REBRAND 100 > notable
Enterprise Rebrand
Country Base: Taiwan (R.O.C.)
Industry/Sector/Keywords: Consumer Goods, Services, Technology Products, Computer Accessories, Manufacturing
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Industry Setting
NavJack produces premium Apple accessories. With three decades of experience in precision manufacturing, the company excels at working with speciality materials such as carbon-fiber and glass-fiber. The companys technical craftsmanship is evident in every accessory made.
Because of the advanced technology and high-quality materials needed to manufacture NavJack accessories, NavJacks products are sold at higher prices, with some almost double the price of the competition. Unfortunately, NavJacks original identity looked too much like the competitions, and it failed to position the brands products as being worthy of a higher price tag. NavJack also faced skeptical distributors who remained unconvinced of the value of the accessories, and, hence, only a few distributors were willing to carry the brands products.
To help NavJack better communicate its positioning as a unique, upscale brand with a tradition of technical craftsmanship, a strategy project was first undertaken to unearth the brands core valuethe art of engineering. The old identity was subsequently replaced with an identity that captured the superior craftsmanship of Navjack accessories. A stylized signature was also introduced as the new NavJack logo, and a new sloganSculpted Essentialssuggesting a sculptors ceaseless pursuit of perfection, further reinforced an artistic connection.
Launched in late 2010, the rebrand captured NavJacks artistic and engineering essence and provided the brand with a fresh start. Distribution increased from three countries to twenty countries within a year, and their premium positioning was confirmed with the inclusion of the NavJack iPad Corium case in the exclusive gift bag of both the Grammy Awards and the Academy Awards in 2011. At US$115, the premium iPad case is one of the most expensive iPad cases sold in the US market.
Client: NavJack - www.navjack.com
President: Jack Chen
Brand Manager: Kelly Chen
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Breakup girl to the rescue! : a superhero's guide to love, and lack thereof
Harris, Lynn.
Adult Nonfiction HQ801 .H3294 2000
Harris, Lynn.
Adult Nonfiction HQ801 .H3294 2000
Summary: Breakup Girl is the only superhero whose mission it is to fight crimes of the heart, stop dating indignities, and help you get your stuff back. No matter where you are in a relationship, Breakup Girl to the Rescue guides you through that big, messy thing called love. Lynn Harris uses her knowing voice and generous humor -- with real letters sent to her hugely popular Web site, BreakupGirl.com -- to ease readers through either side of a breakup, the dating life, and the rough spots of relationships. Topics include Dropping the Bomb, Relapses vs. Reunions, From Friends to Lovers, How to Lose Your Baggage, and The Curse of The Nice Guy.
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Friday 14 to Sunday 16 November 2014
The 19th Aldeburgh Documentary Festival took place from 15 to 17 November 2013 and was an overwhelming, astonishing success in front of capacity crowds
|Truly buzzing, exuberant atmosphere throughout the weekend stimulated by exciting, illuminating screenings, discussions and debates of the highest calibre and quality for visitors from town and region, and from as far afield as Paris, bodes well for next year's 20th Anniversary edition.
The screening and masterclass sessions made for extraordinary capacity crowds throughout the weekend in numbers exceeding by far the festival team's boldest hopes.
|Inspiring: Simon Schama
|SIMON SCHAMA opened proceedings with truly inspiring session BREAKING BREAD WITH THE DEAD, providing insight into conceiving and making relevant and riveting programmes that bring history to life.
THE HUMAN SCALE offered illuminating glimpses into the future life in global gigacities.
|THE HUMAN SCALE Panel from left to right: architect Sir Michael Hopkins, Marc Vlessing, Roger Graef, Ricky Burdett
The mesmerising NORMA PERCY in conversation with ROGER GRAEF took us up as close and personal as never before with powerful political leaders of the 20th and 21st century and was awarded the Festival's LIFETIME ACHIEVEMENT AWARD, followed by an enchanting evening with KAKUMA'S KIDS from Beccles-based filmmaker ROSS CARWELL, and the beguiling RAFEA SOLAR MAMA, a charming Bedouin lady who quite literally empowered her desert community, with the BBC Storyville's NICK FRASER providing the context in conversation with journaliste extraordinaire MARY ANN SIEGHART.
Brilliant: Norma Percy in conversation with Roger Graef
The Festival came to a glorious end on Sunday with the hard-hitting DIRTY WARS, an eye-opening investigation of America's global covert wars. South African arms trade author ANDREW FEINSTEIN and filmmaker OLLY LAMBERT (winner of major awards for his Syria films) alongside ex-military man and Arab specialist RUPERT WISE followed the screening with a tight live debate session of a quality the like of which had never before been witnessed by Aldeburgh audiences.
The Aldeburgh Documentary Festival 2013 was bookended by two wonderful, insightful and absolutely packed masterclass sessions by OLLY LAMBERT and NICK FRASER.
|Lifetime Achievement Award for Norma Percy - left to right: Artistic Director Diana Quick, Molly Dineen, Norma Percy, Roger Graef
The ALDEBURGH DOCUMENTARY FESTIVAL 2013 takes place from Friday 15th to Sunday 17th November 2013.
SIMON SCHAMA, veteran maker of more than forty films will open the Festival on Friday night in conversation with NICK FRASER from the BBC's flagship documentary strand 'Storyville'.
On Saturday morning we present THE HUMAN SCALE which looks at how we live in modern cities. Our guests include local resident and pre-eminent architect SIR MICHAEL HOPKINS, world renowned specialist on urbanism RICKY BURDETT, acclaimed filmmaker and author ROGER GRAEF, and panel chair MARC VLESSING whose company Pocket has recently been commissioned by the Mayor of London to develop a substantial ten year programme of starter homes for the capital.
On Saturday afternoon our old friend ROGER GRAEF will introduce us to the distinguished career of fellow American NORMA PERCY. Every significant story seems to have its 'Percy film 'from 'End of Empire' to 'Endgame in Ireland'. Her work has been called 'The Gold Standard of Documentary Making'.
On Saturday night MARY ANN SIEGHART will grill NICK FRASER on his own glittering 'Storyville' career, and we will screen the wonderful RAFEA: SOLAR MAMA which follows women from around the world learning how to quite literally empower their small communities. The film will make you smile and cry and warm the cockles of your heart. Lovely short film KAKUMA'S KIDS by Beccles-based producers Carwell Casswell is the fitting prologue for this evening.
Sunday morning is again given over to a film dealing with a subject matter of wide international concern. This year we turn our attention to the question of interventions in other nations' conflicts. DIRTY WARS looks at a US Covert Operations unit, formed as a clandestine part of the so called 'war on terror'. It is a huge subject, and our Debate panel includes ANDREW FEINSTEIN, author of the bestselling book The Shadow World: Inside the Global Arms Trade, and filmmaker OLLY LAMBERT whose 'Syria: Across The Lines' was shown earlier this year on Channel 4.
Two excellent masterclasses bookend this year's Festival. OLLY LAMBERT discusses the 'Art of the Interview' – how do you ask the questions that will unlock the subject and the person? Producer NICK FRASER will be interrogated on the issue of why documentaries matter. And of course we will be presenting the Aldeburgh DocFest Lifetime Achievement Award.
Do come and join us, ask questions and have your say in the Q&A's that complete each session. Your participation makes the Aldeburgh Documentary Festival such a lively and intimate event, not least with a view to our regular monthly 'Aldeburgh Doc' screenings and next year's celebration of the Festival's 20th Anniversary!
Join us where 'global meets local' in a hugely enjoyable and memorable way. We very much look forward to seeing you for the weekend!


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Beer drinking and fast food go together like baseball and peanuts—if you have one, you absolutely crave the other.
That's why Fells Point has needed a place like Hungry Andy's for a long time. Whether it's before or after your night in the neighborhood gin mills, you can stoke up with mounds of fries and pit sandwiches, or burgers, or wings, or barbecue, or massive breakfast sandwiches served on sub rolls. And that's just the first page of the menu.Or a salad. We tried Andy's version of a caprese salad, only since Andy's is a carryout for unapologetic carnivores, crisp bacon took the place of mozzarella along with the tomato and basil.
The tomatoes were ripe, the basil was fresh and green, and the bacon was delicious, smoky and crisp, even after sitting atop the salad for the ten-minute drive back to the office from Fells Point. The balsamic vinaigrette dressing came on the side. "The bacon was definitely the high point," said Chad, "but it was a good salad all the way around."
After the salads, which are good and made fresh, there is absolutely nothing on the menu that is good for you, and that's as it should be. And the fresh-cut fries are worth a couple of years off your life.
The crab fries ($2.83) are cooked crisp and liberally dusted with Old Bay. Delicious. The sweet potato fries ($3.30) were a little soggy after the ride, but they were good. A little extra time in the fryer and a little Old Bay would make them awesome. The regular fries were fine too. Traditionalists will like them.
Also available are some real barfly essentials: chili fries, chili and cheese fries, gravy fries, gravy and Cheez Whiz fries, you name it, all needful things after a hard night out.
The chicken wings ($6.84 for eight, $9.20 for 12, and so on) were fine. Flavors available are mild, hot, Old Bay, honey teriyaki, honey mustard, sweet BBQ, garlic butter, extra hot and charbroiled. We ordered the extra hot, and they were indeed quite hot. The wings come with celery and blue cheese or ranch dressing.
The Dagwood pita wrap ($6.84) is an enormous serving of pit beef, pit turkey and ham stuffed in a pita with lettuce, tomatoes, green peppers, cheese and mayo. Mayo on a pita, you say? It works here, honestly it does.
The pit turkey sandwich ($5.90) comes on a white or wheat kaiser roll, your choice, with a nice sharp barbecue sauce, plenty of horseradish, onion and mayo. The turkey is real, not rolled, and dry rubbed with plenty of pepper and other spices. It's very good.
We did not try the array of Philly cheese steaks, with or without Whiz, but judging by the menu they're authentic–lettuce, tomato, fried onion and mayo are by request only. Purists will order only the meat and the Whiz, and that's how it should be.
Also available are ribs, fried chicken and a full complement of burgers, even a DIY burger where you can choose your toppings from egg, ham, turkey, bacon, cream cheese, jalapeños, onion rings, musbrooms and homemade barbecue.
Hungry Andy's, 629 S. Broadway near Aliceanna, is open Sundays through Wednesdays, 11 a.m.-10 p.m., and Thursdays through Saturdays, 11 a.m.-"later." We're guessing that has something to do with bar-closing time.
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Quartz Composer is a free application from Apple which allows you to render graphics using a visual programming language. You can get it by installing the Xcode suite from your Snow Leopard install CD, or you can download the Xcode suite here (free to Apple Developer members, $5 otherwise). Since Quartz Composer is only for Macs, the information on this page only applies to Mac users.
Here's a video overview showing how to use Synapse to make visuals in Quartz Composer. You may want to view it in full-screen or on YouTube for higher resolution.
The "Synapse Kinect" plugin, found on the Download page, allows you to get the depth image from Synapse into Quartz Composer.
If you want to receive joint positions and events in Quartz, they are sent via OSC. Quartz has a built-in OSC Receiver object, but I recommend using qcOSC as it tends to be overall more reliable. It can be found on the Download page.
For some reason, qcOSC can't receive messages sent directly from the Synapse app, it causes a crash. For that reason, I use a Max application as a passthrough to send the OSC messages to Quartz. Run the "quartz_passthrough" application included in the example Quartz project, and set the qcOSC object that you drop into your Quartz project to listen to port 12348. When running my example application, however, you should run "quartz_passthrough_plus" to get all the extra bells and whistles.


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For the past few weeks I've been noticing more and more how the some bloggers here use this site to cry about their class.
This place is a wealth of information, but it seems like it is turning into the QQ corner.
Why do most of you have to throw in QQ's in your stories?
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Whether you are getting nerfed or not, why keep leaning this site towards a shaman and warlock QQ constantly?
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It was the first day of what was to be a wondrous bowhunt in South Africa's Eastern Cape. I had returned to hunt with my friends, owner/PH Andrew Renton and PH Marius Potgieter of Kei River Safaris ((http://www.keiriverhuntingsafaris.co.za/; Tel: 027 43 831 2024; Andrew mobile; 027 82 651 4005; Fax 027 43 831 2024), for the second time. Last time it was a plains game hunt extraordinaire. This time it would be the same, but with a bit of a twist. This time, we'd target Cape buffalo with the bow.
Kei River Safaris is my kind of operation. It's small and specializes in personal service. Andrew and Marius have hunted their area all their lives, and both are extremely accomplished both as hunters themselves and as PH's. The lodge, food, and equipment are all 5-star, and bets of all, you get all this at a reasonable price. Andrew specializes in offering hunts catering to the hard-working American hunter, the man that cannot spend five figures on a hunt but wants a $4,000-$5000-bracket hunt in which he can collect a mixed bag of high-quality plains game with no limitations on horn length or record book score, which in most other instances would mean he would have to pay much more in terms of trophy fees. On top of that, Big 5 hunts are available, too, though that ratchets up the cost. They also prefer to hunt in the "walk & stalk" style, which suits me perfectly, though you can hunt from blinds as well if you choose. Andrew has incredible connections with local landowners and game ranchers, so locating top-end animals for clients is not a dream, but a reality. Marius hunting philosophy sums it up best: "Good is not good enough." They want the very best for their clients, and it shows.
Here's why I chose South Africa for my buffalo bow hunt. Decades ago I killed several buffalo with a rifle in Botswana and Zimbabwe, so I know the drill. Today, however, that hunting is out of my league, price-wise. In South Africa, the cost for a buffalo hunt depends on the size of the bull taken. A representative 33-35 inch buff with hard bosses will run about $10,-000. Compare and contrast this with buffalo hunts in other southern Africa countries, which almost always include daily rates, minimum hunt days, and a trophy fees. For example, a typical Zimbabwe buffalo hunt today – the most economical available outside South Africa – will run about $900/day, with a 10 day minimum, plus a trophy fee of about $4000. Add on to that the added expense of getting there (Much more than getting to the Eastern Cape), a 2 percent government levee on both daily rates and trophy fees, the need for malaria and yellow fever vaccinations, and more. And the fact of the matter is, success is not guaranteed. Andrew sells his buffalo on a 3-day all-inclusive package that can be done both separately or added onto the standard plains game package.
OK, first things first. I knew this had been done before, many times, but still I was a bit nervous. By the time I reached the Cape I had already heard of 3 people getting stomped by buff in southern Africa this year, and as Marius warned me as we began our stalk, "It doesn't take much for this kind of thing to go from way cool to nightmare, so pay attention." That would not be a problem!
Months before I left I set up my equipment. After speaking with people who had done this as well as both Andrew and Marius I chose an 80 lb. Hoyt RKT -- with no small measure of help from Hoyt's Kevin Wilkey and Jeremy Eldredge. For arrows I went with Easton Full Metal Jacket Dangerous Game arrows. I shoot 28 ½-inch arrows, and the 250 size shafts weigh 17.2 grains/inch. By adding a 9 grain X Nock, 75 grain Brass X HIT Break Off insert, and four-inch fletches, total raw arrow weight is a tick over 600 grains. Since buffalo can only be hunted with a single forged, two-bladed head that has its cutting edge beginning at the tip, I went with 200-grain Phantom SS two-blade broadheads with .040-inch resharpenable main blades. My total arrow weight was 816.2 grains. The bow lobbed them off at just 218 fps, but in this game it is all about the momentum provided by a big shaft for deep penetration. The initial K.E. value was 86.15 ft./lbs. -- which I hoped would be plenty!
When we found the animals, the bull we wanted was the ideal candidate. He was an old warrior who did not like to be around other buffalo. When they got too close to him he'd fight them, and they didn't want any of that. So mid-morning there he was, contentedly alone and feeding along the side of a steep ridge. Marius and I, together with another PH and tracker (and two very large backup rifles!), circled to get the wind right, then climbed carefully above him. It may have been possible to close the gap over the hill that separated us through the thigh-high brush, but Marius wisely chose to let him come to us.
It took seemingly forever, but soon the bull was just inside a thorn tree I had ranged at 20 yards. The crest of the hill and tall brush hid us, and I let him walk slightly past until he gave a very slight quartering-away shot. What happened next astounded me.
The shaft struck the bull perfectly behind the front shoulder. He took two steps forward, then turned and gave us that "You owe me money!" buffalo look so aptly described by Robert Ruark decades ago. When his nose came up I thought, "Here he comes!" Instead, he dropped his head, wobbled slightly, and rolled over, graveyard dead. He had not traveled 5 yards after the hit! The arrow had penetrated to the fletching; when the bull rolled you could see it sticking out the other side.
Are you kidding me?! What a tremendous beginning to what proved to be a superb hunting trip. Later in the week Marius -- who holds both the current Safari Club International bowhunting record book No. 1 and No. 6 Cape bushbuck, slid me close enough to arrow a bushbuck of my own that will go No. 6 in the book. The day before, Andrew, Marius and I killed a blesbok that ties the current SCI No. 1! Add to that a nice Cape kudu taken from a blind after five days of stalking to under 40 yards of monster bulls each day without being able to seal the deal due to incredibly thick cover and swirling winds, and I could not have been happier.
Next year's hunt has already been planned. I want one of those big kudu bulls, and another shot at bushbuck. They may not be big in size, but they are as challenging as any Coues deer I have ever tried to arrow, and that's good enough for me.
I can't wait!


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Commercial Cereal Dispenser
Commercial cereal dispensers have come into use during the past few years as a good way to serve dry cereal. I personally like to see these in hotels or motels where I stay because it means that I have a choice not only of muffins or other breakfast foods, but also of cereal as well. There are frequently several different commercial cereal dispensers in one place to allow for a choice of two or more kinds of cereal.
If you have a business or organization that serves breakfast to people, I would consider a commercial cereal dispenser to be a real asset. It can be useful for hotels/motels, bed and breakfasts, daycare, schools, conferences, restaurants and several other places as well.Here are some Commercial Cereal Dispensers for your consideration:
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