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As you may or may not know my first book "The Keepers" was published by a press which was the brain child of Stephanie Taylor. Astraea also published my short story "The Mulligan Man", and will be publishing my second novel "Jamais Vu" in September. Needless to say, I've been overjoyed with the experience. Stephanie is an author, editor, and now operates her own publishing company. This isn't just any publishing company, but one based on the concept that romance can be sweet and that there is a market for great books with strong writing that leave out profanity and erotica. If you haven't read anything on Astraea's line-up you are missing out. Stephanie has an eye for talent and is a huge team player when it comes to helping her authors produce their best work. She let me ask her a few questions recently and I hope you enjoy getting to know her and Astraea Press' mission.
1. What made you want to step out on your own and create a publishing company?
Steph: I had been editing all genres, including erotica for longer than I really wanted to. Once I kept hearing that people were getting sick of erotica and wanted stories to go back to the actual STORY instead of focusing on the sex, I realized this was the kind of home I was looking for with my own writing. I don't write erotica and I don't write inspirational. Astraea was born after I decided that things all come full circle. Certainly, sex will always sell better, but I dare you to try one of our books and tell me what you think!
2. Astraea's guidelines for publishing are a bit of a diviation from the norm. Have you found readers have been receptive to the sweeter romances?
Steph: After being in business for only six months, Astraea has proved TEN FOLD that there is a market for sweeter romances. Sensuality isn't compromised and everyone has loved our books. We're close to operating in the black after only a few short months. How's that for receptive? ;o)
3. I love it! We knew it all along right? What has surprised you the most about the venture into the publishing world?
Steph: That everything everyone else before me has said is true. People always rush through their edits to submit; they don't have critique partners when they should, and some write just to write without really learning the "formula". Some would argue the formula is a bad thing, making books cookie cutter, but I assure you that the romance and fiction formula is there for a reason!
4. I agree. It takes time to learn, but really works when you listen and are receptive. How are you managing to juggle your family, home schooling, being a wife, mother, editor and all the responsibilities of the publication process?
Steph: That is the question of the day! ;o) I typically only work after my kids are in bed. We have strict bedtime schedules so I can get about four hours in before I go to sleep. So my work hours during the day are only sporadic because my family does come before work. I have also been blessed with a wonderful team of people who help me every day with the publication process and editing. It really does take a village and everyone from my husband, to a local friend to some online friends have helped me make Astraea what it is. We can only keep going forward.
5. You're also a writer. Have you found it difficult to fit in time to work on your own novels?
Steph: What writing?
6. Okay, Okay. I can totally understand. I just thought maybe you had the superwoman secret! What do you look for in a prospective writer?
Steph: I look for a good attitude, a good knowledge of punctuation and GMC (goal, motivation and conflict) and general story telling ability.
7. What is the one thing which will make a manuscript stand out and grab your attention?
Steph: GMC. If you've got that, you've got a great story. Period.
8. How do you deal with the various personalities you encounter while working with authors?
Steph: That can be challenging, but I try to remember that without these authors, I wouldn't have a business and without me, they might not have a publisher. We all make the world go 'round!
9. That's a refreshing attitude. We all need to lean on each other. Do you have any advice for prospective authors who would want to approach Astraea Press?
Steph: Know your publisher. We're the kind of publisher that takes the approach of 'better safe than sorry'. If the content is questionable, it won't fly with us. And for the love, don't put curse words in your story. They're not necessary and you won't hear a single complaint that someone is disappointed you didn't put them in.
10. Are there any particular genres you would like to see grow?
Steph: I'd love to see fantasy and sci-fi grow. Young adult is my favorite but e-books in that genre aren't as popular as print.
11. How do you feel about the authors creative control over their work?
Steph: It's extremely important and I THINK my authors would all say that I'm good about listening to their views. As long as their views don't compromise my morals and the mission I've set for Astraea, we can work on anything.
12. I can vouch for that. I've felt like you were totally open to my point of view. You win some, you lose some 🙂 What is the most important thing you have brought to the Astraea from your editing background?
Steph: Understanding. I have over 100 published novels under my belt, either my own or other publishers and I KNOW what its like to get a gruff editor or business owner. Basically, when I opened AP, I decided I wouldn't treat any of my authors any different than I wanted to be treated as an author. You'll have to ask them if I've succeeded. ;o)
13. Being an Astraea author I have to say mission accomplished. Is there anything else you'd like to share with the authors out there?
Steph: For some, it's a big leap to write sweet (heh, that rhymes), but it's not as compromising as people think it is. In fact, it's HARDER to write sweet and keep the story focused on NOT allowing your characters to tango. I dare everyone who reads this to write me something and see how it goes!
She's not kidding! Write something and send it over to her at email@example.com! If you get a contract you will enjoy the exprience. If you don't you will get valuable and sincere feedback. Hope you enjoyed Stephanie as much as I do!


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(Analysis) There has been a lot of content in different media outlets about how many homeowners are underwater – when the money that they still owe on their mortgage is more than their home's current market value. Less attention has been paid to a similar phenomenon among banks here in the US: when the money set aside to cover losses on bank loans is not enough to cover the bad loans.
The chart shows the percent of total bank assets that are held by banks whose money set aside to cover losses exceeds the total value of bad loans. It fell dramatically with the increase of bad loans during 2007-8, and it has a long way to go before it returns to levels reported before this time. As banks increasingly claim poor credit quality among loan applicants as a reason for denying approval on new loans, it is important to realize that the poor quality of their outstanding loans is most likely a real reason for credit tightening in the US. Poor lending decisions in the run-up to the financial crisis still determine financial decisions today, contributing to the ongoing poor economic performance in the US.
This poor situation among US banks is limiting the federal reserve's ability to influence the real economy. Policy analysts rightly identify that with interest rates currently at or near zero, there is much less room to stimulate the real economy through monetary policy. Left unsaid in much of the analysis about monetary policy is why near-zero interest rates are failing to stimulate an economy stuck in a weak recovery: the banks in the US are still underwater.
Workers and their families have a keen interest in making sure that banks can never again sink the whole economy by making risky loans for short-term gain. Labor and working families should closely follow the debates about financial regulation in order to make sure that there are no last-minute deals that favor the financial industry.

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Tempers flare as VCU holds off Saint Joseph's
NEW YORK -- St. Joseph's created some havoc of its own in the final minutes, cutting deep into what had once been a 17-point deficit before 25th-ranked Virginia Commonweathv held off the Hawks.
The teams battled through an intense game, with the second-seeded Rams, known for their infamous Havoc pressing defense, surviving a frenzied final two minutes for an 82-79 win Friday night at the Barclays Center.
"It's a hard-fought game," VCU coach Shaka Smart said after his team made its Atlantic 10 Tournament debut following 17 seasons in the Colonial Athletic Association. "Give St. Joe's a lot of credit, they really came at us."
Along the way to its trip to the semifinals, VCU watched a 15-point lead shrink to four in the final two minutes and Smart jawed with some of the Hawks, including volatile forward Halil Kanacevic. Kanacevic, infamous for flipping off the Villanova fans earlier this season, was called for a momentum-turning Flagrant-1 foul after throwing an elbow he later said was inadvertent midway through the second half -- a key stretch that helped the Rams turn what had been a single-digit lead to 17.
Kanacevic later labeled the call "horrible," "nonsense" and a "girl foul," ranting about the play that came with 11:22 to play in the game and VCU up 51-43.
The St. Joseph's women's team -- set to play Fordham in the A-10 women's title game Saturday night in Brooklyn -- might take exception to that last reference, which came at the end of a tension-filled night in which St. Joseph's ended a disappointing A-10 season.
Treveon Graham led VCU (25-7, 13-4 Atlantic 10) with 17 points. Troy Daniels had 14 points and Rob Bradenberg added 13 for the Rams, who will play the Temple-UMass winner at 4 p.m. Saturday. Briante Weber became the school's all-time steals leader after picking up six.
Carl Jones scored 29 points to lead St. Joseph's (18-13, 8-9) while passing the 1,800-point mark for his career. Langston Galloway, who sent the Hawks to the quarterfinals with two last-second free throws Thursday against Xavier, added 25 for St. Joseph's.
"I told them to play a full 40 (minutes) and, obviously, we did, playing to the last possession there," Hawks coach Phil Martelli said. "We didn't play well, but we played hard."
The Hawks were down 51-43 with 11:22 left in the second half when Kanacevic was called for elbowing Graham as Kanacevic drove to the basket. Kanacevic, who jawed with VCU earlier in the game and did a push-up after drawing a foul in the first half -- protested the call and was indignant after the game.
"I'm going to the basket, why would I try to elbow somebody? You know what I mean?" Kanacevic said, adding he had to be told later that he had made contact. "That's just nonsense. That's just somebody trying to make a call to make a call. It's crazy. There's plenty of contact going on down low that you let go, you're going to call something like that? That's a girl foul, you know what I mean? It's a horrible call. You don't call that.
"Nonetheless, we need to play better basketball, but those things change the play. ... They made that terrible call on me. That's bad. And the game was close at that point. That's pretty bad, you know what I mean? If you're gonna let us play, let us play. And a play like that, where the ref said it was unintentional -- he actually said it's unintentional -- and still called a flagrant. It's absurd, actually."
Technically, NCAA rules were amended a few years ago to remove the "intentional" foul language, because intent is not supposed to be considered. Rather the rule relates to "non-excessive contact with an opponent above the shoulders."
Martelli later said it was a tough swing for his team as a basket was waved off and, instead of trailing by six, the Hawks went down 10 when Graham hit his two free throws. "But," Martelli said, "it didn't stop us from playing and I tried not to dwell on it in my own head because I thought it was a hard game.
"I have nothing but praise for those guys," Martelli added of the refs.
"There was a little jawing out there," Smart said of his exchanges with the Hawks. "But there's nothing wrong with that. That's what happens. I like that. There were some guys talking trash to me before the game, I just smiled. I like that."
Daniels added a 3-pointer 12 seconds after Graham hit his free throws and Darius Theus added a layup a little more than a minute after that and VCU led 58-43 with 9:59 to play.
St. Joseph's threatened late with a 12-2 run, getting within 74-69 when Jones hit a 3-pointer with just under a minute left. Another 3 by Galloway got it to 80-76 with 9.1 seconds remaining, but a dunk by Weber capped the win for VCU, which hit 8 of 10 free throws in the final minute.
Papa Ndao hit a 3 for St. Joseph's at the buzzer.
"Coach just said, 'Just keep playing hard and just give it our all, fight to the end,' and that's what we did," Galloway said.
Trailing 33-23 at halftime, St. Joseph's started the second half on a 12-5 run to pull within 38-35 when Jones hit a 3-pointer with 16:58 remaining.
But the Rams scored on three straight 3-pointers to boost the lead back to 10.
NOTES: VCU's 12 steals gave it the school's single-season record with 382. Weber's six steals gave him 91 on the year, breaking the previous mark of 88 by Rolando Lamb. ... Only two other St. Joseph's players have reached the 1,800-point milestone. Jameer Nelson (2000-04) had 2,094 and Bernard Blunt (1990-95) had 1,985.


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The Lake Charles Police Department arrested a man Thursday morning after receiving more than 20 complaints that he "masturbated and exposed himself" to several female victims since Dec. 1.
The arrest of Trevis Syntel Barber, 34, of Lake Charles, was announced at a Thursday afternoon news conference.
After all the complaints, Police Chief Don Dixon said the department decided to set up an undercover sting operation to catch him.
Undercover officers were sent to the general area where most of the complaints originated - the Lake Charles Civic Center, Shell Beach Drive and Dr. Michael DeBakey Drive.
"During this undercover Investigation, Barber, exposed himself to, and masturbated in front of, an undercover female officer in the 1300 block of Common Street," said Lt. Richard Harrell, police spokesman. "Officers monitoring the situation attempted to make an arrest. Barber fled the scene in his vehicle and a vehicle pursuit ensued."
Barber then stopped in the area of Sixth Avenue and Fifth Street, got out of his vehicle, and fled on foot. After a brief foot pursuit, Barber was apprehended.
He was arrested on the charges of obscenity, aggravated flight from an officer and resisting arrest
Barber has two prior convictions for obscenity, Harrell said.
No bond has been set.
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App Of the Day - Dodol Launcher
Our today's app of the day is Dodol Launcher, if you remember we had reviewed Dodol's amazing locker as well before some time, today's it's time for Dodol Launcher. I have been using this launcher quite sometime and let me tell you this is better than many others. Those who don't know launcher is a home screen of your android device, so it's all about decorating your device at the same time increasing your efficiency and device's efficiency as well.
Now you will wonder so as to what makes it so good, let me tell you it has free theme shop, from where once you download launcher you can download free themes.
Also it has customization for the icons, say in specific theme you don't like some icon you can long press on it and it will ask you for the option of changing it.
There is default RAM cleaner on the main screen, so as to you don't need any other application of cleaning memory, Just click on the cleaner and it will clean up the RAM to optimize performance of your Droid!
You can quick access some applications on the click of a button, just like i float application....
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I recently came across a fascinating blog post, subsequently turned into a more fully developed e-book, from author Rachel Aaron, entitled "How I Went from Writing 2,000 Words a Day to 10,000 Words a Day." She attributes her leap in writing productivity to three things:
1. Knowledge - "Know what you're writing before you write it."
2. Time - Monitor your writing output to find the times when you are most productive (in her case, afternoons, writing at a cafe without WiFi).
3. Enthusiasm - Those boring scenes you can hardly bear to make yourself write? Skip them! If you can't stand to write them, the reader probably can't stand to read them.
These are all excellent pieces of advice. I, too, find that I write much more quickly and effectively: 1) when I'm later along in a book, so that I have a much better sense of what is going to happen next; 2) first thing in the day before I get sidelined with other distractions; and 3) when I'm writing something I love.
But my idea of a productive day is not a day spent writing 10,000 words, or even one spent writing 2,000 words. On a productive day I write 1,000 words. That's it. Usually I write considerably less. My self-imposed minimum is a handwritten page a day, and as my handwriting is extremely tiny and cramped, this usually translates into two typewritten pages a day, or about 500 words. These days, I'm on a writing roll, so I'm getting through a five or six page chapter every day. And of course, I only write for an hour a day (see this blog's title!), so if I wrote for a full day and could sustain this pace (which I greatly doubt), I'd write a lot more. But even if I wrote 1,000 words an hour, for eight straight hours a day (never gonna happen), I'd still only top out at 8,000 words, 2,000 short of Rachel Aaron's average.
Yet I can't make myself feel bad about this, not at all. At my current pace, this month I have written SEVENTEEN chapters of my novel-in-progress (the time travel cookie jar book). How much more than that do I want to write? At 1,000 words a day I can write a first draft of a 50,000 word manuscript (once I get some momentum) in less than two months. But none of my books for young readers are that long. My forthcoming Zero Tolerance, my longest book, came out to 44,000 words. My chapter books for third graders (like Kelsey Green, Reading Queen) are more like 15,000 words. This means that if I wrote as fast as Rachel Aaron I would finish an entire draft of a chapter book in A DAY AND A HALF!
That does seem awful fast, doesn't it?!
I want to live in the world of a book that I'm writing more fully than that. I want to inhabit the lives of my characters over a longer stretch of time. I want to have that wonderful experience of finding so many of the things that happen in the rest of my life making their way in some form into my story.
So I think Rachel Aaron's writing advice is brilliant, especially her third point about harnessing our own writing enthusiasm and giving ourselves permission to write only scenes that we love. But every writer is different, and I'm never going to write 10K words a day. Not even close.
And that's perfectly fine with me.
Tuesday, May 28, 2013
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My goal is 400 words a day, but I keep starting over. Darn kids just have to eat (-: Slow and steady, I'll get there.ReplyDelete
Thanks for the post!
Angela, my whole career has been based on slow-and-steady. My role model is Victorian novelist Anthony Trollope who said, "A small daily task, if it be really daily, will outdo the labors of a spasmodic Hercules."ReplyDelete
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First (and hopefully last! ha!) snow of 2011!! It is about 4 degrees outside, so it is COLD. We only stayed outside long enough to get some pictures and let Dex look around and then us parents made the executive decision to get back in the house. As you'll see in the last picture, Dex (and Dutch) were immediately ready to go back outside. Even though Dex's snotty nose was completely frozen. There were definitely tears when I tried to take his coat and shoes off...
And of course, once we got in the back yard, he wanted to go "wee" (swing).
This is where he sits when he's ready to go back out.


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Hayley celebrates Halloween in Franklin, TN
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Can you imagine Halloween without a fancy dressed Hayley? Not really, right? The lead Paramore singer spent this year's Halloween in Nashville, TN at the Movie Gang event held in Franklin. On Snapchat she's shared some spooky stories and she was also spotted by fans. Click HERE to see more photos and watch a video below.


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Monday, August 15, 2011
Bread Salad!
Some cubed old italian wheat bread
2 TBS melted butter mixed with 2 TBS EVOO
2 tsp parmesean
cut up tomatoes
sliced red onion
black olives
chopped up basil & parsley
2 TBS red wine vinegar
Put bread in a bowl and pour melted butter, olive oil, pepper and parmasean over it and mix around so all the bread is nicely coated. Pop in preheated toasted over or regular oven and cook till browned. Put tomatoes, onion, olives, basil, parsley, 2 TBS EVOO & red wine vinegar in bowl and mix around. When bread is done top tomato salad with it! ENJOY - the way the bread soaks up the yummy tomato juice and dressing is to die for!
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An historic car number plate, valued at £500,000, has gone missing and the hunt is on to find it.
A1 was the first London number plate and was registered in 1903.
The Retail Motor Industry Federation (RMI) wants to find it during 2003 - the 100th year of car registrations in the UK.
Its first owner was Earl Russell who sported the plate on a Napier car. Since then it has had a variety of owners, but in the last few years it has slipped from view.
Alistair Manson, of the RMI's cherished number dealers director, said today: "No-one knows exactly what has happened to A1.
"Its last known owner was Dunlop Holdings Ltd. Since the company was taken over by the BTR company, the registration seems to have fallen between the cracks, and disappeared.
He added: "If anyone knows what has happened to A1, they should get in contact with the Cherished Number Dealers Association (CNDA). Alternatively, they could bring it to the CNDA centenary rally at Woburn Abbey in Bedfordshire on May 18."


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Professor Harry Boyte speaks to Idasa about what kind of politics is needed in Africa. Here he suggests that globally, there is an enormous need for a different kind of politics. In the discussion, he examines two main streams of current dominant politics. The first is "mass politics" where citizens are "customers" of government, reflective of the marketisation of the world. He suggests this is a very thin approach to the human person and creates more "angry shoppers" than engaged citizens. The second approach is one of "sentimental citizenship" which involves models of voluntarism and service – in an of themselves not bad ideas, but as languages of change, they mask the important issues. Prof Boyte then goes on to speak about a public work approach to democracy, which encourages working practically across differences (age, rank, status, ethnicity, religion, partisanship) to accomplish community goals. Examples of this kind of approach can be found in deeply rooted African traditions of community work, where people have the space to organise themselves, innovate and develop their talents. A public work approach is different from the dominant models of politics, and speaks much more to deep democratisation. Professor Boyte goes on to talk about how this approach can be applied to other scenarios such as business or education. Finally, he talks about how to view the success of the recent world cup in South Africa within a framework of citizenship and democracy.
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Top PPC Blogs To Follow In 2016
Back in the early days of 1993, O'Reilly & Associates created the first commercial website. Twenty three years down the line, thousands of commercial websites span across the huge world of the internet. Such a massive increase in the number of commercial websites certainly calls for the utilization of the best digital marketing strategies so as to stay and flourish in this immensely competitive market. And when it goes down to marketing, investing in knowledge can work wonders. Certainly the top PPC blogs can give you a clearer idea of PPC.
PPC, or Pay Per Click, is primarily a digital marketing model, and if worked carefully, can generate a great traffic to your site. Knowledge about the latest developments and PPC strategies is a must to stay afloat in this competitive market. And, though there are a host of blogs that talk about PPC, we only want to provide you with the top PPC blogs. So, here we go.
Also Read: A Beginners Guide To A Successful PPC Campaign And AdWords
1. PPC Hero
Considered by many as one of the top PPC blogs out there, PPC Hero has become a gold standard among PPC blogs. From the very basic and fundamental concepts, to hugely sophisticated and complex strategies, PPC Hero has an answer to everything. A whopping 25.7k followers on Twitter lays testimony to the fact that PPC Hero is one of the top PPC blogs out there. From case studies to tips and tricks to experiments, PPC Hero provides its audience with a great source of resources that can propel their digital marketing plans in the right direction.
When gaining and sharing knowledge, one has to be fearless. And that's where PPC Hero scores over other blogs- it doesn't hold itself back in exploring new avenues for the fear of failure. That makes it even more promising, because you don't have to take risks yourself. One of the top PPC blogs, PPC Hero does that for you.
2. WordStream
Another PPC blog to follow in 2016, WordStream boasts of 60.4k Twitter followers. WordStream specializes in PPC and paid marketing strategies. WordStream is a great blog to find out data-centric and detailed posts on PPC strategies that will help you analyze the pitfalls of PPC and avert them. WordStream offers its followers with a wide range of strategies and data associated with content marketing, affiliate marketing and sales.
The best thing about WordStream is its treatment of PPC as a part in a bigger marketing mix. And the fact that you can analyze PPC pitfalls gives you a greater confidence in going about with your strategies without the fear of failure.
Having a count of around 148k followers on Twitter certainly tells you about the popularity of this blog. Specialising in the fields of SEO and PPC, the Search Engine Watch blog is one of the top PPC blogs of 2016. Though not entirely dedicated to PPC, still Search Engine Watch does enough justice to it by covering up PPC topics a few times every week. This blog also provides a great thought leadership on the topics of content marketing and SEO.
Though not as popular as the other mentioned blogs, Clix Marketing Blog with its 1600 odd Twitter followers, is a hidden gem among the PPC blogs. Full of actionable stuff, the Clix Marketing Blog provides various strategies for PPC burnout. This blog has been spearheading campaigns of digital advertising since the last ten years. Specialising in providing growth strategies, optimization solutions and solving problems, the Clix Marketing Blog has become expert in the field of PPC, social media adverts and display. A great source of knowledge for marketing enthusiasts, this blog certainly makes it to the list of the top PPC blogs to follow in 2016.
Authored by Brad Geddes, Certified Knowledge is a blog that is provides a comprehensive PPC insight. Certified Knowledge is membership-based, and is filled with details of various workshops and interviews of experts from the industry. In addition to the knowledge part, Certified Knowledge provides its followers with PPC tools, tools for beginners, video lessons from AdWords, advanced PPC strategies and much more. And the fact that Brad Geddes is the sole Google- approved trainer in teaching AdWords course helps in taking it to the list of top PPC blogs to follow in 2016.
PPC strategies have to be analyzed and undertaken so as to increase traffic to your website. But doing so requires a great deal of insight into the PPC world. And these blogs just work wonders to provide digital marketing enthusiasts with enough knowledge about the subject.


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Hey Dude,
I always believed that tears drip out of my eyes only when some dust or speck land into it but after reading this i am once again made to believe the actual reason why my eyes go wet. And the fact that you wont be reachable on +91 98864 00501 anymore make the eyes more damp.
I have been gifted with a emotionless, stern face and a thick tongue because of which i most of times fail to convey my feelings. And due to this the feeling stay in the heart and that's where they die. However, my only faithful mode of communication has been through writing. And here is what i feel about you and our best friends.
My life has always been directionless and i let the wind decide what i have to be and where if go, like in Forrest Gump. And the wind by chance dropped me in the lush green lawns of Perot just to help meet some of the most inspirational people in my life who are Vishnu, You, Divya and Tejas and some of the greatest friends in my life who are Puneeth, Sagar, Husna, Ambika, Vinay, Sridhar, Atif, Aparna and Kaushik.
With out you folks i would not have survived in Perot. My life in Perot has gone through all the seasons possible. Pleasant Spring was when i met you people :D . And raining it was during training. It was a warm summer when we used to hang out and talk useless talks during lunch ;). And Autumn was when most of you left Perot :(.
Among all the seasons Autumn was the hardest time ever :(. It was like a flower losing its petals. The petals that broke free were Vishnu, Divya, Tejas and you.
Vishnu has been my mentor, who keeps giving feedback that helped me introspect my thoughts and think out of the box. And when he left the feedback line was cut.
Next in line was divya. I got to know her through you and her sheer energy which overflowed affected me and strengthened me. Though we have not spoken more than 10 to 15 sentences face to face and 3 to 4 sentences over phone, her mere presence filled the space with some unknown force that i fully utilized. And when she left i was thrown away into vaccum.
The petal that i lost next is tejas, who was my other source of energy. Tejas's attitude and unique approach to life turned me into a new person whom i myself didn't recognize. He indirectly built, what people call, self confidence in me. Which is now depreciating in me.
And now it you, you were like my eyes and ears. And without you i am blind and deaf adding to the already existing property in me called dumbness. What more can i say now :(
Though the petals are lost, the plant has bared a fruit which i will cherish during my life time. And the only wish that i have is that the leafs and root in the plant remain intact and the tears and petals that were shed during the autumn help the plant grow and go through another new cycle.
With Tears in eyes,


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Blackberry, the brand synonymous with the businessman must-have line of mobile phones made its incredible rise to mainstream popularity a few years ago, only to fall after its hype plateaued and the increase in competition. Taking a year long hiatus in 2012, they went back to the drawing board for a new comeback – the Blackberry Z10.
Hardware Design
The Z10 sports a 4.2″ WXGA screen with a great pixel density of 355ppi, passing the 300ppi "retina display" threshold. However, it is not Corning's Gorilla Glass, which is actually pretty much a standard feature for all flagship phones, so that is slightly disappointing.
While this feature will be missed, it is good that the Blackberry Z10 has a notification light, a must-have since Blackberry is known to be the business phone. The Z10 took a unique take on its first full screen smartphone attempt. Firstly, it does not have any main button or captive buttons. While I do appreciate the fact that the buttons' absence makes the Z10 look much sleeker, I am not sure if it is worth the compromise on its usability.
Without a dedicated button of any sort to navigate and interact with the phone, users will have to interact with the Z10 in a way similar to the "Microsoft Surface" style of interacting with your device – in other words using the sides – sliding from the bottom up is not a natural way of navigating from an app to your home screen and from my experience, it does not always work, making you slide your thumb/finger repeatedly till the device captures your movement.
You may get used to the new way of navigation, but dedicated buttons are still more effective and efficient to use.
I love the detachable back, which is made from a rubberized material. It makes holding the phone a bliss, especially since with the 4.2″ screen, the Z10's dimension is quite near the ergonomic sweet-spot for one-handed use. Add that with the machined aluminium uni-body and the lightweight of 138g, the Z10 is comfortable from all angles and truly feels premium.
With a 1.5GHz dual-core processor with 2GB of RAM and an efficiently built OS, the user experience is smooth and fluid and thus complements the the BlackBerry Flow. Multi-tasking also runs smoothly, which is great as it may be one of the most heavily demanded features to deliver.
Battery Life
With only a 1,800mAh battery, the Blackberry Z10 was not made with games and videos in mind, as it will only last a full working day (9-5pm) if only use the Z10 for business tasks, such as email, stocks, and word documents. Another negative point must be made on how easily the Z10 overheats.
Remove the back cover reveals a battery that resembles one taken from a remote control car of the olden days, and it feels the same too. It took just one and a half races on Asphalt 7 to make the battery feel as though it was overheated (This is with mobile data, Bluetooth and other settings turned OFF).
The camera is easily accessible through an icon on the Z10's lock screen, which can be pressed and hold down for 2 seconds. Equipped with an 8MP F2.2 camera, the Z10 is a phone with a decent camera with a clean UI design.
Check out these pictures taken with default settings.
Though options are limited, the Z10 will be enough for the average user. To bring it up a level over entry level smartphones, the Z10 has Time Shift, a clever mode that takes a high-speed burst of ten images before allowing the user to choose the best one.
The real magic starts in group pictures. Each face is detected and can be swapped individually from one of the ten faces from the ten images taken. Everything else will add to the camera experience, such as scene modes, 5x digital zoom, a clean gallery app, and a simply Story Maker app that creates montage videos with minimal user effort.
Do check out CONNECT's extensive review of the Blackberry Z10's camera.
With the new OS 10, the feeling will be familiar, but Blackberry users will have to learn the ropes again.
As for the home screen, it will be familiar to all smartphone uses, of which the icon approach was used. While there was nothing new here, what was new is its Blackberry Hub, a centre of all the things that matter to a user.
*From left to right – Blackberry Hub, Multitasking tabs (instant resume), extended menu of Blackberry Hub Accessible from any app by sliding up then across to the right, the hub is one of the best solutions that I have seen in getting one's notifications, emails and other information that matters. If you just need a glance, sliding your finger up but not releasing it will also give a quick glance of all the notifications, truly a well thought process.
Another well thought feature is the keyboard. Its predictive text does not appear at the top of the keyboard, but rather a few probable words on top of the keys that would be the next letter in the word. With its accurate predictive text and perfectly spaced keys. Even without a QWERTY keyboard, typing is still great on the Z10.
However, in every product there is a "but" after its praise. For the Blackberry Z10, it is their app ecosystem. You will miss out a lot – and that's ALOT – compared to iPhone and Android users.
Wrapping It Up
In my books, the Blackberry Z10 is really a quality product that appreciates how people used to use their phones. If there is to be a picture that represents a phone that can be used with one hand, is durable, and does its primary job well – which in this day and age is not only to calls, sms and email but also social media integration, search capabilities and decent camera quality – the Z10 will fit that picture quite well.
In the current trend of the latest and greatest in advances in mobile technology, most often gimmicky, the Blackberry Z10 may be overlooked by the main stream consumer. However, there are still people who do not want to spend hours customizing their phones and are not willing to spend more on a product that has features that they may never be used. This is where the Z10 comes in.
It is a high-end smartphone that works great out the box, with a set-up process so easy that a Primary 3 student could do it. There is no nonsense from start to finish, and there is nothing to distract you from using the Z10. At the start of my review, I was highly sceptical about the Z10, its failure to help Blackberry was for me the nail on the coffin that the Z10 was a horrible product. And I already had knowledge of its poor battery and limited app store.
However, after using it for a week, I began to understand it. While unintentional, the Z10 is catered to a niche segment, a segment of consumers who appreciate true quality phones and do not care about third party apps to increase value to their phone.
If you are in that group, the Z10 will not disappoint. For more information, check out the official BlackBerry Z10 website. Be sure to allow check out the official BlackBerry Z10 demo site, where you can interact with a virtual Z10 as well as help with your setup!
Other Reviews
This section exists to acknowledge that fact that no matter how good a review is, it is definitely wise to seek other reviews and make your own judgement before making a purchase. Here are some other quality reviews of the BlackBerry Z10:
- Scott Hanselman – Review: The Blackberry Z10 – In the land of the blind, the one-eyed man is king
- The Verge – BlackBerry Z10 review: a new life, or life support?


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Imagine if there was a drink that gave you energy, helped you concentrate, aided in weight loss, increased your physical endurance and reduced your risk of cancer. Now imagine MATCHA. It's green, it's powdery and it's health benefits are un-MATCHA-ble.
Matcha is our new caffeine obsession, and if you've yet to try it; by the end of this post you'll be running to grab some. Matcha is the green tea leaf ground into a fine powder, which can then be added to water for teas, but can also be used in various recipes.
The difference between matcha and green tea is this – with matcha, you consume the whole green tea leaf (allowing you to consume all the benefits that come along with it), while green tea is just water infused by the leaf. Drinking one cup of matcha tea is equivalent to the benefits of drinking *10 cups* of green tea. They're also grown differently – matcha is ~shade grown~ meaning it's covered with cloths and then harvested, which increases the amount of chlorophyll, benefits and of course the ~taste~.
- it's packed with powerful antioxidants (specifically EGCg) which reduce the risk of disease and helps fight aging
- helps to boost metabolism and thermogenesis
- can increase your physical endurance up to 24%
- helps detoxify your body *naturally* because of the chlorophyll
- rich in fibre and vitamins
- enhances your mood and helps concentration
- helps to lower blood sugar and cholesterol
- it *may* contain lead, since it's grown in China, the soil may be contaminated, therefore growing into the plant – however this shouldn't stop you from drinking matcha. As a precaution doctors recommend you stick to no more than one cup a day!
Matcha only has 3 calories per gram, so you don't have to feel guilty about chugging it back. But get this – it can help burn fat up to four times, without putting any stress on the body (i.e., raised heart rate, blood pressure etc.)! It boosts your metabolism and thermogenesis (how fast your body burns calories) from a normal 8-10% up to 43%. It's also packed with fibre – which really helps your digestion and to get everything ~moving~.
Since matcha is a leaf, it's packed with chlorophyll which is what gives it that potent green colour. Chlorophyll is proven to be one of the most powerful detoxifiers, that can filter out heavy metals and dangerous chemicals from your body. And again – that fibre helps flush everything out to make your body feel healthier.
You can get matcha from most health food stores in a can, or from many tea stores such as David's Tea. Here are some of our favourites!
[Imperial Teavana Matcha, $44.95] [Morning Matcha, $35] [David's Tea Flavoured Matcha Packs, $18] [David's Tea Matcha Set, $35] [Full Leaf Matcha, $32.37]
A hint for Starbucks lovers: Order a "venti ice water with three scoops of matcha, shaken" for a cheap, refreshing mid-day boost. Most of the time this will only cost you 80 cents, but they're putting new rules in place so that you're charged 2.90. If you are charged more than this, just tell the barista to refer to page 17 of the pricing guide, where it specifies that "Matcha Waters" shall be charged as a custom iced tea. Although beware – Starbucks does mix their matcha with a bit of icing sugar!
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I have many treasured
friends. But it was morning.
In the afternoon, I complained,
having skipped either work
or my workout. I wonder about
my attitude like a narcissist; I
worry about never having had
the opportunity to slap someone
back. I should be joyous. I still am,
sometimes, however, I'm presently
stalling the completion of a question-
naire I've been asked to turn in before
a job interview that I have this afternoon.
Actually, I haven't even begun to fill out
the questionnaire, which is really just in
preparation for a "phone screen," something
that seems like a mandatory prerequisite to
an in-person interview these days (oh, how the
times, they change...)...so it's really just a pre-
interview for an interview that I have this afternoon.
But that's still an interview, right? Yet still I sit here,
still stalling. I don't even know why I'm mentioning this,
except it seems appropriate to include within a page of
couplets of certain lengths. Such as the ones on this 'page'....
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Another Halloween layout. I created this following a challenge at Scraptivity. The challenge was to create a layout following instructions given. I have to be honest, I wasn't prepared to glue anything down until I got to the end. It turned out pretty good...although it's not something I would generally create (i.e. the handwritten journalling).
Sunday, September 21, 2008
Saturday, September 20, 2008
I've been trying to make Christmas cards lately. Note the key word, "trying". I get all these great ideas, but they don't seem to work very well. So I gave up on cards for a little while and decided to finish the Halloween layout I've been working on. Thanks for looking.
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Tuesday, September 16, 2008
I took the day off today and had the entire day to myself, since both Hunter and Hope were at school. After doing dishes, washing the floors and doing some laundry I made these Christmas cards. I can't take credit for third card; it is a complete lift from a card I saw at Splitcoaststampers. Check out the original:
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Tuesday, September 9, 2008
Today I have a Halloween layout for you. It will be here before you know it. This layout is a picture of my son Hunter and his best friend Thomas on Halloween a few years ago. Hunter is dressed up as Superman and Thomas as Batman.
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Monday, September 8, 2008
Another Zoey Page
It's so fun creating pages about my niece Zoey. It's hard to believe that she's 6 months old already. She is pretty much just born in this picture. So adorable. I created this layout loosely based on a sketch I found on the Prima website. The only thing I would change is where I put the rub-ons for her name. I don't like how the "y" is on her beautiful face.
Patterned paper is Daisy Bucket Designs. Ribbon is Close to my Heart. Flowers are Prima. Jewels I found at Michaels. The flourishes are Quickutz. Rub-on letters are Making Memories.
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Friday, September 5, 2008
Check out this link on how to make four cards using one 6 x 6 sheet (plus coordinating cardstock).
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This shoot took place on the 18th of January. This was the shoot in which we had possession of the track and dolly. While this device has given some of our shots a professional-look, it cost us a great deal of time setting it up and moving it. Whether this cost was worth it, we will have to evaluate in editing.
We tackled all the tracking shots. In terms of the storyboard, these shots are dotted throughout the sequence. Unfortunately, due to the time we spent on setting the track up in places, we had to adapt one or two of these shots to become pans rather than tracks.
What went well
We got a lot of shots done in the last hour, after we had finished using the track. The framing of shots (in tracking shots too) appeared professional to us.
The track. The track was very costly in retrospective, as it encompassed a great deal of our time available to shoot. The terrain on which we were filming was a challenge to manage too, with the track failing to run smoothly throughout the shot. Another issue was continuity as part way through the shot we realized Dan was not wearing a hat like he was in the previous shoots, therefore we had to re-shoot much of what we had just done. Luckily, we had had some practice with the track by this point and knew the limitations of the specific locations making this relatively easy, if stressful to accomplish.


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My kids car won't start. It has been doing this thing where it will crank but not start, and they would jump it and it would be fine, but it started happening more and more often. Then today it died at an intersection and would start again at all. I have no idea, no money, and no one to call where they are in CA who I would even know rather to trust about what they would say is wrong with it. Any ideas???
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u need to replace ur alternator .....by now ir batteri it going to be ruin .. its not a brainer to replace the alternator its one off the esay parts to replace need pasiance do ....but replacing it should fix ur problem ifff in any case it dosent it going to be a cable some where doing contact with metal cousing the battery to draing but there i cant help u ... to test if is ur alternador turn on the car and unplog ur battery if it dies there u have it but iff it keeps runing ....well ur out off luck
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The Apres Surf sweater appeared in the Interweave Knits Summer 2008 issue and I loved it from the start. I found some Louet Gems in just the right shade of purple at Make 1 Yarns last year. It seemed like fate.
Never mind that it would be like knitting 5 or 6 pairs of lace socks.
To be honest, it wasn't a very difficult knit. It did require attention and so I took regular breaks to knit plain socks. The whole thing was knit on 2.75 mm needles since I found that using the recommended 3.25 mm needles gave me a sweater back that would fit my husband.
In the end, I knit this sweater over a two month period and I have to say it turned out quite well if I do say so. It's a bit snug but that's part of it's appeal.
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This is a miniature orange that came from a tree growing in a greenhouse at the Dallas Arboretum. On Friday I was part of a group that went on a private tour of the growing and staging areas there. The greenhouse with the orange trees had the most amazing flowery sweet scent to it.
Jimmy Turner led the tour. He's the horticulturalist in charge of the place, and I thought I would pass along three of his tips:
- The best containers for all over flowering are the kind sold at HangingBaskets.com. They far outperform coir in Texas heat. They are completely reusable.
- The best source for wire topiaries is Green Piece out of Canada. They are surprisingly inexpensive.
- Expanded shale is hands down the number one soil amendment for improving the clay soil in North Texas.


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Matthew Taylor of the Royal Society of Art posted an article on 'Manufacturing a new question?' Where he questions the the role of the RSA in manufacturing and commerce.
He points to the role of the RSA in enterprise (conflated with commerce) and the work of the RSA social enterprise network, their collaborative work with Prime promoting enterprise among older people and their Business Improvement Districts work. Interesting but limited.
Matthew rightly identifies that the correct point of departure for the RSA in such an arena is that of identifying the right project which he suggests is a 'need to find a niche which combines our interest in policy and ideas with practical innovation.'
Interestingly Matthew suggests that an area which might be worth investigating is that of encouraging more people involved in arts and crafts to expand into small scale manufacture using 'new technologies, not just the internet but other new applications, like 3D copiers.'
Consequently Matthew makes a call for a project in this area that he suggests be:
• coherent and engaging to the layperson
• innovative and distinct
• affordable (preferably externally fundable)
• capable of being piloted by the RSA (maybe working in partnership with others)
• with scope to engage RSA Fellows as partners
That Matthew suggests 3D copiers worries me – an odd term that suggests a lack of insight into 3D technologies but there is value in such approaches, distributed, local, accessible and networked.
It would be useful for the RSA to look at the Fab Lab initiative which originated at MIT (Gershenfeld), RazorLab, Institute of Making or organisations such as Ponoko and Shapeways where increasingly studios, designers and crafts persons run small businesses based on the production capabilities of the respective organisation coupled with the distribution capabilities of the internets.


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"Fear makes strangers of those who would be friends." -Shirley MacLaine
When I was young, for a long time, I kept my social circle small because it felt safe, comfortable and controllable. Throughout the years, however, I've learned that the best things in life are rarely either safe or small.
Only when we let our guards down can we let people touch us, stretch us, and change our lives for the better.
Of course there is always a chance that someone might disappoint, betray and hurt us. Whichever the case may be, we will never know who just might do that. We must be careful when building that tall secure wall around ourselves. We'll be blocking the potential pain but we'll also be blocking all the possibilities for success, love and happiness.
Remember that chances of living a great experience, or being hurt are exactly the same – 50/50. There is no way to live one and stop the other. In the end we learn that one teaches us to value the other. Chances have to be taken and risks are unavoidable.
"The difference between and ordinary and an extraordinary life is just the little 'extra'."
That acquaintance who you don't fully understand may be someone who is dealing with the same exact struggles you face, just waiting to receive and give support. That stranger who has different beliefs may have an entirely different way but the exact same will. That someone who speaks or act different form what you are used to might have something new to teach that might enhance your life. Maybe they have something to learn and you are the only person who can teach it.
Stop for a second, pay attention, and be there to reach out if necessary, sometimes all that someone needs, before completely drowning into oblivion, is a hand to hold on to.
The world has become a fast pace madness, where all is inspired by an obsessive need for instant satisfaction, uncontrollable individualism, senseless selfishness and the all-consuming 'what's in for me' attitude.
Don't let today's misconceived ideas distract you from the real point in life: it is giving, loving, respecting, listening, sharing and accepting each other that makes you a better person, a better soul, a better human being and in consequence a better and healthier world worth to live in. Satisfaction is knowingly and consciously completing a work the best way we can, not because you are being paid to, but because you can, even if nothing comes back to you or no one notices it. It is loving and being compassionate towards others that one finds a purpose and happiness in life. The riches and powerful find that they are at their happiest and rewarding places when they are helping, assisting and sharing their fortunes, success and knowledge with others rather than shopping or showing off.
We really aren't all that different, and if we choose to, we can touch and be touched by countless people all throughout our lives.
Sometimes we get hurt and find ourselves shutting down people around us. It is a basic human reaction to protect ourselves – self-preservation. Just remember how good it feels when someones hugs you for a while and says 'I love you', how joyful it is when you laugh out loud with a dear friend, when you roll down the car windows and sing along from the top of your lungs, how it feels to dance alone in the house just being happy to be alive. Give that hug, that 'I love you', that joy back to someone else and help them to feel happy for being alive to.
Nothing creates more possibilities like the choice to open up to them.
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HAGERSTOWN — The Hagerstown Suns learned a tough lesson on Wednesday.
Mark it down somewhere. It doesn't matter how you start. It's how you finished.
Hagerstown saw a fantastic beginning turn into a sour finish as the Suns rallied in the ninth to force extra innings, only to allow two runs in the 10th in a devastating 5-3 loss to Hickory before 1,109 fans at Municipal Stadium.
The Suns scored two runs without the benefit of a hit in the ninth to stay alive, only to give back the runs with a pair of miscues in the 10th.
The loss seriously damaged the Suns' chances of a first-half championship in the South Atlantic League's Northern Division. Hagerstown (40-25) fell to 2 1/2 games behind division-leading Greensboro (43-23) with four games remaining. Greensboro defeated Kannapolis 13-2 to enhance its advantage.
The Suns came back from a 3-1 deficit with two runs in the bottom of the ninth by going to the bench. Pinch hitter Caleb Ramsey hit for catcher Jeremy Mayo and drew a leadoff walk off Hickory reliever Jose Mavare, who followed by walking pinch hitter Brett Newsome.
Billy Burns put the Suns in motion with a sacrifice bunt down the third-base line that Hickory catcher Jorge Alfaro threw down the first-base line to score Ramsey from second. Brian Goodwin hit a fielders' choice grounder to second to score the tying run.
The high of the comeback didn't last long for the Suns as Hickory scored two in the top of the 10th.
With one out, reliever Aaron Barrett came on and allowed a one-out single to Alfaro, who took second on a balk before Chris Grayson walked. Gomez scored on a passed ball by catcher Cole Leonida, who had just entered the game in the 10th for Mayo. Jhonny Gomez followed with a two-out RBI single to add the insurance run.
Phil Klein came on for Hickory in the the 10th to earn his third save and secure the win for Mavare (2-2).
The Suns grabbed a 1-0 lead in the first inning off Hickory starter Victor Payano with one swing of the bat.
Jason Martinson launched a two-out shot to right for a wind-aided home run, his 10th of the season and his league-leading 63rd RBI.
The final flurry tarnished an outstanding start for Kylin Turnbull, who went from on top to looking up in the snap of the fingers. The Crawdads turned the game in their favor with two runs in the seventh to put a less-than-favorable end to Turnbull's night.
Jordan Akins hit a one-out single to left and moved to second when Gomez walked, bringing manager Brian Daubach out of the dugout.
Daubach elected to stay with Turnbull to protect the lead, but Luis Sardinas tied the game on the first pitch after the meeting with an RBI single to left. It was Turnbull's last pitch as he was lifted in favor of Colin Bates.
Turnbull cruised through the first six innings of what was his longest outing of the season. He held the Crawdads scoreless on four hits with three walks on four strikeouts. He lost it all in the first third of the seventh inning.
Hickory's two-run rally ended its run of 21 1/3 scoreless innings in the three-game series. The Crawdads were blanked 9-0 on Monday and 4-0 on Tuesday in a rain-shortened game before going 6 1/3 scoreless innings on Wednesday.
Alfaro gave Hickory a 3-1 lead in the eighth with a towering leadoff home run to left off Suns reliever Wilson Eusebio.


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Why can't I just overcome that fear?
Its too embarrassing and disappointing.
Wish I could do better and have more guts.
I never felt so fearful before in my entire life but its actually just something that I could do by just closing my eyes.
All I need is just one more step and the huge courage to take that step.
Just one more step.


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Stop a minute and take a look at your companies brochure. Is it a simple single concept? Does it try to tell everything about your business?
Does it tell and list everything you offer or do? Why? Everyone does it that way! Really. Ever noticed in a Doctors office that they have many brochures and each offers advice on a single problem or health condition.
The correct way to present a problem and offer a solution is to do it one thing at a time. You don't ever want to bury your audience with more than one topic. Remember K.I.S.S? Keep it Simple Stupid or as some folks say Keep It Stupid Simple.
You have a restaurant and you want to have new people try out your lunch or dinner servings. Your competition may think the best way is to print up a mini menu and had those out. That gives them EVERYTHING and the prices. Do they care you serve coffee and soda? Do they care that like all other restaurants in the area you have 16 kinds of chicken? Just a list of fare that goes on and on, boring plus!
You are much better served taking that same space and telling them that you have the best, most mouth watering pies west of the Mississippi. Finish with when and where and you have a very effective advertisement. Never forget the a "Picture is Worth a Thousands Words!"
The next week your new ad covers your large piece southern fried chicken made from your great grandmothers secret family receipt, served with locally grown fresh vegetables. Images are everything in these ads.
Does it work for your local garage? Sure it does. Just the facts ma'am… Stay with why your cars needs frequent oil changes and then offer your best solution and at a great price.
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This post is a follow-up to yesterday's post, where I talked about my four-month journey creating www.themathfacts.com.
As a third grade 1:1 teacher (meaning that I have a class set of computers available for use whenever needed), I believe that technology can do amazing things in the classroom. Math, however, might be the one subject most capable of being dramatically improved by technology.
Looking at the ways most teachers currently have students practice their math facts, let's be honest: they're usually not all that fun. Flash cards and worksheets are every child's nightmare. Online practice sites like xtramath.org are also boring and force students to march forward in a lockstep fashion (xtramath's introductory video for students, shockingly, even talks openly about how their site won't really be all that fun after a while). Game sites like multiplication.com, mathplayground.com, and abcya.com are a bit more fun, but they often don't use student time very effectively (more time can often be spent playing the game than solving actual math problems), and they never track student progress over time.
The math site for kids that does the best job providing trackable, specific data is ixl.com, but that site doesn't focus much of its attention on the basic facts; once you've worked on them once (and beaten that level), there's no incentive on that site to continue to work on the facts to get better.
As a result, many teachers still rely on the old fashioned paper/pencil timed test.
This is a niche that I believe can better be filled by technology. The basic math facts — with their clear right answers — can be easily and instantly graded online. Student progress can be tracked over time, and differentiated testing options can be more easily provided by a computer than by a teacher frantically passing out a variety of papers. Technology can allow students to receive virtual awards and be honored for both their effort and their progress. Technology can also allow students to practice their facts both at home and at school, with a teacher able to easily view all of their students' work at a glance.
This is my goal behind creating www.themathfacts.com: to let technology take care of what it's good at (such as automatically checking right/wrong answers and tracking that data over time), thus freeing teachers up to do what they do best (such as conferencing with students, leading class discussions, and analyzing student writing).
So please consider yourself invited: join themathfacts.com today and let technology take care of tracking your students' math fact progress for you, so that you can be free to truly teach.


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MonDay - KosongSembilanKosongSembilanDuaPuluhTigaBelas - monday morning...even when i'm not working, it's still kind of a dreaded day. maybe because it's the first day of the week, perhaps? anyways...wanna talk about a weird nightmarish dream i had last night. as usual...i never remember how the dream started. but the thing i can remember most was...there's a house/chalet. there were people in my dreams...can't remember them at all, except for my wife. so this so called house/chalet, is kinda haunted i guess...because in that dream, i always have this feeling that something is watching us. and there were times where i thought i saw something like a spirit...or ghost...apparition. looked like a woman. can't make out the face though (thank god...). to me the scariest part was, when i was riding the motorbike with my wife...trying to get out of that place...when suddenly i saw something flew past by us and suddenly my vision went fade to black...i went blind in that dream!. i panicked...called out to my wife, and she didn't answer...try to feel her behind me with my hands...she's gone!. after that, i felt someone, or something in front of me...and then i woke up...and i think it was four to five in the morning...and i had trouble going back to sleep.
now i'm kinda sleepy...demmit, why must i had that kind of dreams...?
-stixx, fixxing out...-
Sunday, September 8, 2013
Weird Nightmarish Dream
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Orthodontist Trip!
So we went to the Orthodontist and it went great! We got different braces this time though. We had invisaligns but because we had a really bad over bite we needed the rubber bands so we had to go back to metal braces. Our mouths are sore but we will take pics after we eat some ice cream :) !!
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We are sorry we haven't been on here in a while but here are some updates: Our human Jay has started a new series on our Youtube channel called Notes From the Human. She gives advice to fellow humans on how to care for and play with your dolls. We also have our fairly new Facebook page and Rhianna is entered into the Little Miss Playthings competition! I wish her the best of luck!! We did go to the American Girl Place recently and there are pics of what we bought down below. Thats all for now!! Talk to you Later!!
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Hello everyone!! We had a fantastic weekend!! We went to the American girl boutique and bistro and got some new stuff! (we will post pics later!) We are a little anxious because we have an orthodontist appointment tomorrow :( we have made so many new friends on Facebook and we love all of them!! That's all for now!!
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New York (CNN)Bernie Sanders may not want to go after Hillary Clinton directly, but his presidential campaign has shown over the last two days that it is are more than happy to punch back against the world of pro-Clinton super PACs.
Sanders tweeted Wednesday that his campaign will "stand with @MoveOn against attacks by David Brock, head of HRC super PAC."
The tweet linked to an MSNBC story on how Brock, the head of a number of pro-Clinton PACs and longtime Clinton operative, wrote in his new book that Move On's efforts to draft liberal Sen. Elizabeth Warren to run for president were "cynical" and "misguided."
In "Killing the Messenger," Brock writes that Move On "rather cynically see the opportunity to build their e-mail lists and make some money by backing 'a more progressive alternative' against Hillary Clinton."
For much of 2014, MoveOn and a coalition of other liberal organization were trying to draft Warren to run for president. While the movement failed to get Warren in the race -- she has emphatically said a number of times she won't run -- it provided fodder for Republicans to call out Clinton for not being liberal enough for the Democratic Party.
This is not the first time Sanders has hit back against pro-Clinton super PAC attacks.
Earlier this week, Correct the Record -- a pro-Clinton super PAC that works on messaging and research -- sent an email to the Huffington Post that linked Sanders to Hugo Chavez, the late leader of Venezuela, and Jeremy Corbyn, the new United Kingdom Labour leader. The email was intended to be off-the-record, but the publication published a story on Monday, reporting that they received the email "without any agreement that it would be off the record."
In response, Sanders campaign sent two fundraising emails about the negative attacks against them.
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Okpala named first-team All-Region; Roenicke and Johnson merit honorable mention
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Managing Exchange 2013 With DSC
Part 1 - Introducing xExchange
Part 2 - The QuickStart Template
Part 3 - Automating Mount Point Setup and Maintenance for AutoReseed
Part 4 - Using a DSC Pull Server to Deploy the xExchange Module
Part 5 - Installing Exchange Using DSC
Installing Exchange Using DSC
Hey Everyone. Sorry for the lack of updates in this blog series lately. We've been busy working on a major update to the xExchange module, which includes the ability to install Exchange, as well as to automate Jetstress (separate blog post coming soon). As a reminder, you can download the latest version of xExchange from the PowerShell Gallery here.
For this post, I'll be talking about using Desired State Configuration to automate the installation of Exchange 2013 with the new xExchInstall resource. I'll cover how to use the resource, why the resource does what it does, and how to monitor and troubleshoot the resource.
The xExchInstall Resource
The xExchInstall resource is relatively simple to configure, as it only contains three parameters, all of which are required (see this article for help installing Exchange using unattended mode):
Path: This is the full path to setup.exe in the Exchange 2013 setup directory.
Arguments: These are the command line arguments to pass into setup.exe. They are used the same as if you were calling setup.exe from the Command Prompt.
Credential: These are the credentials used to perform the installation.
Here's a simple example of how to use the resource:
xExchInstall InstallExchange { Path = "C:\Binaries\E15CU7\Setup.exe" Arguments = "/mode:Install /role:Mailbox,ClientAccess /Iacceptexchangeserverlicenseterms" Credential = $Creds }
Using the resource like this would be equivalent to going in the Exchange setup directory with Command Prompt, and running:
setup /mode:Install /role:Mailbox,ClientAccess /Iacceptexchangeserverlicenseterms"
Using xExchInstall In A Script
For this example, I'm using a slightly modified version of the InstallExchange example which ships with xExchange (as of v18.104.22.168). This is located in the xExchange module folder underneath Examples\InstallExchange.
Configuration InstallExchange { param ( [PSCredential]$Creds ) Import-DscResource -Module xExchange Import-DscResource -Module xPendingReboot Node $AllNodes.NodeName { LocalConfigurationManager { CertificateId = $Node.Thumbprint } xPendingReboot BeforeExchangeInstall { Name = "BeforeExchangeInstall" } xExchInstall InstallExchange { Path = "C:\Binaries\E15CU7\Setup.exe" Arguments = "/mode:Install /role:Mailbox,ClientAccess /Iacceptexchangeserverlicenseterms" Credential = $Creds DependsOn = '[xPendingReboot]BeforeExchangeInstall' } xPendingReboot AfterExchangeInstall { Name = "AfterExchangeInstall" DependsOn = '[xExchInstall]InstallExchange' } } }
The only thing to really note here is that I chose to use the xPendingReboot module/resource (download here) to see if reboots are pending both before and after the installation of Exchange. The one before the installation isn't necessarily required, but can help the Exchange installation process to run more smoothly. I definitely recommend using the xPendingReboot after the install, as a reboot is almost always required after applying an Exchange 2013 Cumulative Update. If you want to use the same xPendingReboot resources in your script, you will need to make sure to download xPendingReboot and put in in the C:\Program Files\WindowsPowerShell\Modules directory.
Script Execution Behavior
When the script is successfully executed, the xExchInstall resource will behave in one of two different ways. Either it will proceed all the way through, and won't require a reboot until after Exchange is installed (see Behavior 2), or it will want to reboot the server before Exchange setup has even begun (Behavior 1). These behaviors are independent from reboots that may be caused by the xPendingReboot resources.
Behavior 1
The first behavior I'll describe is the most common behavior I've seen so far. This is the behavior that people running Windows Management Framework 4 should see (WMF5 is NOT CURRENTLY SUPPORTED with Exchange 2013). When you execute the script in Verbose mode, you'll see Verbose output similar to the following:
[[xExchInstall]InstallExchange] Entering function 'Test-TargetResource'. Notable parameters: Arguments = '/mode:Install /role:Mailbox,ClientAccess /Iacceptexchangeserverlicenseterms', Path = 'C:\Binaries\E15CU7\Setup.exe'
[[xExchInstall]InstallExchange] Exchange is either not installed, or a previous install only partially completed.
[[xExchInstall]InstallExchange] in 1.7030 seconds.
[[xExchInstall]InstallExchange] Entering function 'Set-TargetResource'. Notable parameters: Arguments = '/mode:Install /role:Mailbox,ClientAccess /Iacceptexchangeserverlicenseterms', Path = 'C:\Binaries\E15CU7\Setup.exe'
[[xExchInstall]InstallExchange] Value 'UpdatedConfig' missing from registry key HKLM:\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\WSMAN. Running: winrm i restore winrm/config
[[xExchInstall]InstallExchange] Machine needs to be rebooted before Exchange setup can proceed
[[xExchInstall]InstallExchange] in 1.8030 seconds.
What's happening here is that xExchInstall has detected that certain WSMan registry keys are not present, has decided to configure WSMan using the command 'winrm i restore winrm/config', and is waiting for a reboot to occur before starting the install. Once the machine has been rebooted, the installation should begin automatically.
The reason this pre-configuration of WinRM occurs is to prevent an issue which can occur later in Exchange setup. During setup, Exchange checks for the presence of a few registry keys to determine if WinRM is configured correctly. If any of those keys are missing, setup runs 'winrm i restore winrm/config', then attempts to restart the WinRM service. Because a DSC configuration is actively running, the stop of the WinRM service fails, which then causes Exchange setup to fail. To pre-empt this condition, xExchInstall looks for these registry keys itself, and if they're missing or not configured, runs the above winrm command before Exchange setup has a chance to try.
Here's a full screenshot of this behavior:
Behavior 2
The less common behavior is for xExchInstall to go through the whole setup process, and not require a reboot at all (the xPendingReboot resource may still force a reboot after setup has completed). This would occur if you manually ran 'winrm i restore winrm/config' prior to the install, or possibly if you had WMF5 installed (again, WMF5 is NOT CURRENTLY SUPPORTED with Exchange 2013).
With this behavior, xExchInstall will launch Setup.exe (which then launches ExSetup.exe), and then will report to the screen every minute that setup is still running until it has completed:
Monitoring Install Progress
If you are installing Exchange using a DSC pull server, or if you experience Behavior 1 from above, it can be difficult to tell exactly what is happening with the xExchInstall resource. The following are different approaches you can use to determine if Exchange setup is running, and if it has encountered any issues.
Look for the ExSetup.exe Process
One way to determine if setup is running is to log on to the machine where Exchange is being installed, and look for the ExSetup.exe process in Task Manager:
You could also use the Get-Process cmdlet to inspect whether the ExSetup.exe process exists on a remote machine:
Look in the Exchange Setup Logs
As with troubleshooting any Exchange Setup issue, another place you can look is the C:\ExchangeSetupLogs folder. In ExchangeSetup.log, you can see the exact status of the install, and determine whether it is currently running, or whether it failed or succeeded.
Use the xDscDiagnostics Module
Another way to determine what xExchInstall is doing is to use the xDscDiagnostics module (download here). This blog does a great job explaining how to use the module.
After downloading and installing the module, the first thing you'll want to do is enable Analytic logging using the Update-xDscEventLogStatus cmdlet. This must be done prior to running the script to install Exchange:
After you've started the script containing xExchInstall, use Get-xDscOperation to find the appropriate SequenceId (for me it was always Id 1):
Once you've located the correct SequenceId, use Trace-xDscOperation to see all events:
You can use the .Message property of the Trace-xDscOperation output variable to make it easier to see the Verbose output that was logged:
After you're done troubleshooting, make sure to turn logging back off:


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The new year has started in a grey, wet and grisly way here in south of Sweden, and I can not say how happy I am to escape to the sunshine, beaches and tapas of the Canary island Tenerife for a week tomorrow. For those of you who need other kind of comfort I share this recipe for miniature heart shaped hazelnut Victoria sandwich cakes. They have very little sugar and are almost healthy and a definitely a guilt free desert or treat on any gloomy, or for that matter sunny day.
The hazelnut flour gives them a nutty touch that goes very well with the cream and the vanilla, and makes them a bit more exciting then the regular sponge cake that is commonly used for Victoria sponge cakes.
In Sweden we have a cake called "gräddtårta" or cream cake, that is very similar to a Victoria sponge cake, but it usually has cream on the outside as well. It is traditionally eaten in the summer, for children's birthday parties or for midsummer or graduations. The soft sponge, the fluffy cream and the sweet and a little bit sour raspberries brings me back to sunny summer days with the smell of green grass and a warm sothing brezze in the air. That is something that can be nice to dream away to at times like these.
On thing that confuses me is if the right name for this cake is Victoria sponge or Victoria sandwich cake? Both versions are used in recipes online. Anyone who can clear it out?
Also, does anyone know if there is any rules for whether you should put the cream or the jam on to the cake first, in a similar way that there is with the scones in Cornwall and Devon? I found it more practical to put the cream first…
From the research I have done about the cake I have found out that it was part of the very first tea time, or after noon tea rituals! The tradition is said to be invented by a Dutchess of Bedford; Anna Maria Russell, who was one of the ladies-in-waiting for Queen Victoria at the time. She would get a craving in the afternoons, and came up with the idea that small cakes should be eaten together with tea. Soon the tradition had spread across the country. The small cakes filled with cream and jam was said to be Queen Victorias favorites, and therefor got named after her.
Mini hazelnut vicotoría sponge/sandwich cakes
1,5 dl spelt flour
1, 5 dl hazelnut flour or ground hazelnuts
1 tsp baking powder
75 gram butter
2 eggs
½ decilitre sugar
½ tsp vanilla powder
1 pinch of salt
1 decilitre of frozen raspberries (or fresh in the summer
Whipped cream
Icing sugar or vanilla powder to dust over the cakes
Heat the oven to 180 c.
Melt the butter and leave to cool. Mix the flours, the salt, vanilla and baking powder in a bowl. Beat the sugar and the eggs to a fluffy consistency. Fold the flour mix in to the egg mix and pour in the butter. Steer everything well.
Butter some small baking trays (heart shapes if you have) and line them with hazelnut flour. Pour mixture in to the trays, about 1 cm from the edge (the cakes will rise a lot)
Bake for 15-20 minutes until golden brown and a skewer comes out dry.
Leave the cakes to cool and cut them in half.
Mash the raspberries together, add some sugar if you want it sweater.
Spread the cream and then the raspberries evenly on the lover half of the cakes. Place the other half on top. Dust some icing sugar or vanilla powder over the cake.
I am admitting this recipe to the Tea Time Treats challenge, hosted by Lavender and Lovage and The Hedgecombers, that this month has the theme eggs.