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About Sedona Soul Painter WendyByrd Smith
Wendybyrd lives outside of beautiful Sedona, Arizona, in a lush green belt along Oak Creek river. She is a passionate organic gardener, dedicated to her husband, Scott, their two dogs, and a tribe of feral cats. Wendy's also passionate about mentoring other artists and inspiring them to let go.
Inspiration comes to her through star gazing, mountain climbing, and prospecting for rare gems and gold. For relaxation, she loves to browse through antique shops and flea markets, looking for treasures. You can also find her in any good book store, drinking espresso, and reading southwest mystery novels.
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In March 2014 I was diagnosed with bowel cancer. Some fairly major surgery resulted in the successful removal of the tumour, and I then had to undergo six months of chemotherapy. I am fine now and continue to get the all clear from the medics, and am well and truly back in the saddle having resumed my work and travels.
Throughout this ordeal that Belinda, Bethany and I went through together, I sent out regular updates to folk in various parts of the world who had committed themselves to ongoing prayer for us. As well as reports on medical progress, these updates also contained numerous revelations, thoughts and musings concerning what the Lord was teaching me each step of the way. Those who received these updates and journal-type observations have told us what a blessing they were, and so we have decided to make them available to a wider audience.
We pray these writings are a blessing to those who read them, and especially to any who have cancer themselves, or who are helping a loved one to go through it.
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/Avant-garde, Free jazz, Ambient, Chamber music, Noise, Drone, Experimentalism, Electro-acoustic, Abstract/
Comment: this set of 11 pieces comprises an interesting array of experiments with sounds extending from electro-acoustic drum, cello and accordion driven endeavors and disquieted free jazz-alike dashes to more abstract, clear-cut noise tissues and sublime, slightly fading drones and glacial and even ghastly electronica (or are they rough blues rock propulsions actually?) sections. And those noise infiltrated signals of the steam ship are really epic in one track. In a word, the whole is very tight and intense worth to be listened and discovered.


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12. Shirley Temple
Shirley Temple was born in 1928 in
California. She was a very cute little girl. She had blond curly hair and
dimples in her cheeks. But she was also a good actress, singer, and dancer.
By age three, Shirley was making movies
and soon became a famous movie star. When she was six, she made some big
movies. By the time she was eight, she was making $500,000 a year. The people
who made the movies called her "Little Miss Miracle."
In the 1930s, life was difficult in the
United States. Many people did not have jobs. But thousands of poor people paid
money to go to the movies to watch Shirley Temple. People felt happy when she
sang and danced. Mothers wanted their daughters to have curly hair like Shirley
Temple. Little girls played with Shirley Temple dolls.
Everybody loved little Shirley. People
sent her gifts. On her eighth birthday she got 1,000 cakes. Her fans sent her
5,000 letters a week. But her mother did not spoil her. Little Shirley only got
$4.25 a week and had to eat her spinach.
When Shirley Temple grew up, she did
not make any more movies. She got married to Charles Black and had two
children. In the 1960s, Shirley Temple Black went into politics. In 1974, she
was U.S. ambassador to Ghana, a country in Africa. Then in 1989 she was U.S.
ambassador to Czechoslovakia.


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A game ender is a unit which when built effectively ends the game. This is generally due to the fact that all game enders are so insanely powerful they have no real countermeasures. This is of course balanced by their immense costs. Most of them are experimental units.
Examples EditMavor - An artillery piece with near infinite range, exceptional accuracy and extreme damage. While the Mavor does not excel at laying waste to entire bases, the fact that its shots go through shields, and are powerful enough to destroy almost any building in one shot is enough to end the game. It can be used to strategically destroy every opposing enemy power generator, mass extractor, or any other strategic building type. Destroying SMDs to pave the way for nuclear attacks in addition to the Mavor is not a bad idea at all. Firing at the enemy ACU is also very effective Yolona Oss - Fires a massive nuke requiring two anti nukes to stop, with a very fast nuke build time. The real power of this weapon doesn't come from its obscene damage (1,000,001), but from both its fire rate, one nuke every minute, and from their price, almost free, compared to a conventional Nuke Launcher, where it takes eight minutes to fire, and the nuke costs as much as an experimental unit. It could be countered if the enemy was prepared, although it will wear them down over time. The opponent has to build eight anti nukes working full time to meet the Yolona Oss' production, which unless they are an Aeon player who already has multiple Paragons will most likely crash their economy. Paragon - Near Infinite resources. Once this is built, you can start mass producing experimental units. Salvation - The only non-experimental game ender. A very long range artillery installation, which allies extreme DPS and damage radius. Can flatten entire bases quickly, or destroy any ground forces (including experimental units), approaching it. Scathis - The only mobile game ender. It achieved its game-ender status in Forged Alliance, gaining the range equivalent to a Mavor. It is not nearly as accurate as a Mavor, but fires far more rapidly, its shots have a wide area of effect, and it can move from place to place if needed.
Notes Edit
Whilst these units are effective game enders, there are many other ways to end a game, such as several nuke launchers, firing at one area. Or several T3 artillery. Although if you can afford these without your opponent countering, you could have won in several other ways by time everything is ready. To put things in perspective, if you have enough resources to build one of the units above, you could also have built about 20 Monkeylords,18 Fatboys, 15 Ythothas or 15 Galactic Colossi. In addition, one Mavor is equal in price to exactly 6.66 Dukes in energy, 3.33 in mass and time, and has just over half as much HP; a similar relationship exists with other factions' T3 Heavy artillery versus their game enders, which does almost the same job while being tougher and far less expensive. In other words, you could have built two or three heavy artillery which would have done the same job (albeit with less range, power, and rate of fire except seraphim) for far, far less cost in every way. Tier 3 Nukes are also very capable as they are extremely destructive, though they can be countered by enemy SMDs whereas Game-ending Artillery (and in most cases T3 arty as well) have no feasible defensive counter and the Yolona Oss is much less vulnerable to anti-nukes.
Really, the only reason you would build these is if there is a massive stalemate that even numerous nukes and T3 artillery can't break, which is highly unlikely in the first place.
Trivia Edit
According to the optional in-game restriction, a game ender is classified as either a Tech 3 Strategic Missile Launcher or Artillery Installation. In other words, Experimental and other units (Strategic Missile Submarines) can still be used should a player choose to enable this restriction.


text: Formerly the home of Boston attorney Lloyd Makepeace, this Bracketed Queen Anne has unusual architectural detailing. It features twin parlors; stained-glass windows; oak, beech, chestnut and cherry woodwork; and, floors of oak parquet, birds-eye maple, and tiger oak. This property was highlighted in the Boston Globe, Women's Day, Old House Journal, and the Malden Evening News and was restored in the early 1980s by Carol and Richard Sarabia. Richard was the founder and first President of the Malden Victorian Society.


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The James L. Maher Center provides a broad range of participant services developed over the years as a natural outgrowth of our fundamental mission to provide support and opportunities to individuals with developmental disabilities.
Our focus is always concern for and respect for our participants as individuals. Our programs are designed to help each participant to become more independent and productive and to integrate more fully into their local communities.
To ensure that each participant progresses in the areas in which their needs dictate, we customize our residential, vocational/educational and therapeutic services to support the specific needs of that individual, always with appropriately trained staff and ongoing monitoring.
The Maher Center reaches out to adults with developmental disabilities, no matter what challenges they face throughout their lives, including those experiencing the added complications of aging, such as Alzheimer's disease.
Our employment program was among the first in Rhode island to offer meaningful employment to people with developmental disabilities. This program has grown and expanded over the years and as a result, many participants become productive citizens and taxpayers, rather than being a tax burden.


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Are you excited to get the new Minecraft for Xbox and PS4? It's going to be released next month, as the developers say. The fans may enjoy a lot of new features, a lot of details in the game to make it even better that it was before, as the players find out thanks to the screenshots released. We have some informations about Minecraft for Xbox from Microsoft Studios, a partner of the game.
This version of the game will run at 1080p/60FPS, the same with PS4 version, as the lead producer for Minecraft informs. The worlds will be bigger, around 36 times larger than the previous editions, with amazing graphics, and a game that could be transfered from their Xbox 360 to the next-gen version.
The producers of Minecraft come with something new for the ones who want to live their experience beyond Xbox or PC, for those who want to have the game "in their pockets". So that's why they created "Minecraft: Pocket Edition", available from July 10. Among the features that will be included on the Pocket Edition we find:
– Caves
– New biomes from the PC version, including mesas, jungles, swamps and extreme hills
– New blocks and items including Monster Eggs and huge mushroom blocks
– Wolves
– New flowers
– New mobs, including the spooky endermen and less spooky Mooshrooms
– Infinite worlds
– Abandoned mineshafts, villages and many other places to discover
– A brand-new "interaction" button
– Lakes, vines and monster rooms
– The problem with bugs fixed
While the pocket edition is released, the PC version is getting well, as they fixed some bugs, such as:
– Statistics doesn't resize / Buttons missing after resize
– Player can be pushed around by mobs while on horseback
– Horse tries to breed with another horse that is not yet in Love mode
– When the disk is put in jukebox the name does not appear


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|by Bruno Flexer, Author of:
Dragon Over Washington for Kindle, Dragon Over Washington Paperback
The Fire At The Gates
Automatic Rebellion
UK Amazon: Bruno Flexer's Works
Weapons of Fantasy and Science Fiction - The dragon and the magical ring - Part 2
Finally, a brave young man set out to defeat the dragon. Since the only known way to defeat that great serpent was by the magical ring, the young man headed to the east, where the magicians said that wise men there might know something about the whereabouts of the ring.
After traveling for a few years, the young man met an eastern magician and told him about the dragon and the ring of Solomon. The magician told him that no man knows where the ring is today but he will open for the young man a source of knowledge that does not come from man and the magician brewed a potion that enabled the young man to understand the language of all birds. Since birds were everywhere, seeing everything, it was conceivable that they might help the young man with his quest to kill the dragon.
Indeed, not much time passed before the young man overheard two birds talking about the monstrous dragon and the ring. The birds said that a witch held the ring and from them the young man learned where he may meet the witch, near a magical pool in the forest.
The young man met the witch and she fell in love with his good looks. She invited him to her enchanted palace and showed him all the wonders of her home. The young man took care to conceal his quest and the fact he needed the magical ring to kill the great dragon. Finally, the witch showed the young man her greatest treasure – the magical ring. She showed him how he could use the ring to lift great weights, become invisible and change his form to a bird.
The young man asked the witch to try the ring on and he turned invisible, moved away and then turned into a bird and escaped from the witch, leaving her crying in her enchanted palace. The young man visited the eastern magician and the magician studied the secret writings on the ring and told the young man how he might defeat the dragon.
The young man returned home but a short time later the dragon started approaching the kingdom. The king, as is customarily done in science fiction and fantasy works, promised his daughter's hand in marriage and probably a large part of his kingdom to any who would defeat the dragon and the young man set forth to do battle, armed with the magical ring and the instructions from the eastern magician.


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The sixth issue: "A rose is a rose is a rose is a rose", inspired by Gertrude Stein's quote, is a dedication to femininity and friendships. Chapters are chronicled by months, based on the cycle of the moon.
Contributors: angela garcia, asun gonzalez, shilpa gupta, tsering tashi gyalthang, hao jie, li-ling hsu, catalina leon, liliane phung, sita raiter, alba roberts, gerald roberts, cristina rodriguez, and jennifer shaffer
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Friday, June 06, 2008
Cell Phones: Not Just for Calling Anymore
In America, the best technology rarely wins the consumer heart. Our homes and offices are filled with inferior technology that does one thing really well: it works.
That's not necessarily the case in Japan, where manufactures and retailers are struggling with a population that increasingly wants the latest -- and most complex -- cell phone for the very same reason that Americans have flocked to the iPhone: personal brand identity.
Neat-looking gadgets are also a core aspect of one's identity. Daiji Hirata, chief financial officer of News2u Corporation and creator of Japan's first wireless LAN, admits to changing handsets more often than is probably necessary.
The prevailing thought is that Americans are looking for easy-to-use handsets, but Nokia is betting that we're more like Japanese consumers. The Swedish company is developing a series of all-in-one handsets that will be all-purpose devices that are, according to the San Jose Mercury News, more Swiss army knife than cell phone.
The complexities of cell phones, though, could also lead to as-yet-determined applications. Scientists secretly used GPS chips in phones to track 100,000 people, building a comprehensive map about their activities.
Clearly we'd rather not be tracked -- particularly anonymously -- but the idea that emerging handsets could offer location-based services is intriguing (for instance, I get my Borders coupons sent to my phone; however to use them I have to save the text messages. I'd rather get them when I'm within a 1/4 mile from a Borders' store.)
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The Gathering Place Dedication Weekend
Introducing The Pfeifers
Years later the torch was passed on to Don Pfeifer, who traveled throughout the country, sharing the message of the Gospel, preaching at churches, crusades, campmeetings and wherever the opportunity was presented. In 1979, when his daughter, Candy, decided to leave college and form a musical group with several of her long-time friends, her father was supportive and encouraging, even allowing the group to accompany him on crusades. That group, known at the time as The Believers, eventually became the group that today is collectively known as The Pfeifers.
Over the years, the ministry of The Pfeifers has evolved and experienced change; however, God's anointing and blessings still remain. The Pfeifers of today include Don Pfeifer's oldest son, John, long-time friend, Mary Jane Carter, who has been with the group for the past 24 years, and Candy, an original member. The group travels in excess of 150 days each year, sharing the message of the Gospel in song in churches, concert halls, auditoriums and arenas.
We are thankful for our family heritage, and we are equally thankful for the blessings God continues to bestow upon us. Our sincere prayer is that our lives and the ministry we have been entrusted with will glorify Christ. Our desire is that we will always show care and compassion to others and continually reach out to the lost. The Christian life is not a spectator sport, and we are thankful God has allowed us to serve Him together.
We invite you to serve Him with us...step into this site, look around and stay as long as you like. We hope you will be blessed and encouraged to keep "fighting on!"
Serving Him Together!
John, Candy, Mary Jane and Zach
The Pfeifers
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If you want your students to start thinking more outside the box, this fun mystery word ESL game can get them there while also building their vocabulary based on a particular theme or topic that you are covering in your class.
Student Level: Beginner, Intermediate, AdvancedKids, Adults
Mystery Word ESL Game Preparation:
You could prepare a few vocabulary concepts for this game before class. On the other hand, simply improvise and think of a few concepts in class as you go. The idea of the game is relatively simple so not much preparation is required at all.
Mystery Word ESL Game Guidelines:
To start the activity, draw a circle on the board with a question mark at the center of it.
Next, extend a number of lines from the circle so that it looks like a bug with four legs. At the end of each "leg," put a word at the end that relates to the mystery word in the center. Add more legs with words for more hints depending on the students' levels if you wish. Though, four word hints should be enough for most classes.
Use a simple example to start with so that everyone understands what to do. For instance, for the first "bug" you could put the words "toothbrush," "mirror," "shower," and "shampoo" at the end of each leg. Elicit the answer "bathroom" from the class so they get the aim of the activity.
Do another example that is more difficult so that they can get other ideas for what to do for the exercise.
After modeling the task, arrange the class into teams and have them all think of three to five different "mystery word bugs" with the words at the end of the "legs." You can have them create more if time allows.
Encourage them to think of funny and entertaining ones based on your lesson's theme. This will engage them more in the activity. Set a time limit for completion and monitor them as they create their "bugs." Help any group that needs some suggestions for words etc.
Put the team names on the board to award points for the groups that guess the correct answers.
The first group goes first. Have them call out the four word hints at the end of each "leg." The first team that shouts out the correct answer from the hints gets a point.
All of the following groups take turns calling out their word hints until everyone has finished. Complete the next rounds until all of the groups have finished with their last words.
Add up the points on the board and award the winning group of the mystery word game with a prize.
Follow-Up ESL Activities:
For follow-up activities, you could practice using the words in either a discussion exercise, like the 4 Corners Speaking Activity, or in a related writing activity based on any of the different themes that the students came up with.


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The career change starts today. I'm going from the IT industry to the financial services industry. Many people are asking why I would make the change, and, especially, why go into financial services now.
First, why leave IT. To be honest, I was never a true "techie." I went to work for a startup application development company in 2000 when it was cool to do so. From there I started a software company because I thought that software application would be a good one. We migrated that company from IT management software to IT services because the business model was better. I never learned programming, I didn't learn how to configure a router or install a server. I was the running attempting to run the business. I was determining strategy, marketing, business development, partners, service offerings, employees, benefits, etc.
I decided to get out of the business partly because it was not my calling – I liked the business model, but I was never crazy about running a business where I knew I would never fully understand the services we offered.
I took quite a while to find a new profession, job, career, place to work. I first thought I would be a small business consultant. However, between the falling economy and the hurricane in Texas, spending on small business consulting seems to have fallen.
I decided to take a look at what I liked and did not like about running my business. I loved the business development aspect more than anything. I enjoyed getting to network, meet new people, identify issues they might have with their business that I can help. I enjoyed the opportunity to build trust by finding someone in my network that might be able to provide some assistance also.
In the midst of all this soul searching, the economy was hurting and the market falling. I had just purchased a house, and was going threw some financial budgeting issues while attempting to reconcile the credit cards, insurance, bank accounts, savings accounts, investment accounts, etc. that my wife and I both maintained.
I realized I could really use someone to help me make sense of my financial future. I wanted to know how much to save, invest, and spend. How much life and disability insurance I should have? How do certain accounts affect my taxes?
Admittedly, I always a skeptical view of the industry. There were life insurance salesmen, whom I would avoid at all costs. Then there were stock brokers who were trying to get me to make more trades.
However, the more I talked to people I TRUSTED in the business, the more I realized they were doing the same things that I ENJOYED about my business. They were meeting new people, and providing much needed solutions, advice, and guidance that impact people's lives immensely. I even have a financial background – it was my major in college, and I spent my first 4 years in financial roles. Why wasn't I pursuing this career?
So I started trying to find my way in, even during a downturn in the market. I interviewed with several companies. Some I liked, some liked me. I decided on a place to call home based on the people on my team, the management, the perception of the organization, and the mix of products and services available. I will probably steer more toward investments than insurance, but I know insurance is a HUGE part of managing and protecting one's family and wealth.
I am excited to start, not only a new job, but a new career. I am looking forward to helping without being pushy. I want to make certain my clients know I am always being mindful of their best interests. I can't wait to learn the ins and outs of the products and services. Any advice will be welcome.
I'll be attempting to document my growth, as regulations allow. If you'd like to talk, email, meet, chat, etc., please feel free to contact me.


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Lately, even Brad DeLong has jumped on the trash Robert Fisk
bandwagon. Every time I go to read a Robert Fisk dispatch, I expect to
howl with outrage. Fisk, after all, has a reputation among many as
everything from an al-Qaeda sympathizer, to a hater of the United
States and the United Kingdom. To some people, he's an antisemite, and
to others he's the archetypical Westerner, seeing Arabs as noble
savages. And yet when I read a Robert Fisk article, I never find
outrage rising up my esophogus. I don't always agree with everything I
read, in terms of analysis or sensibility, but I appreciate him for
what he is.
I'm not going to dissuade those people who find Robert Fisk utterly
revolting, that would be impossible, and boring as well. There's no
question that Fisk is relentlessly negative, and that he never gives
America the benefit of the doubt or a shred of credit, even when we
deserve it. Fisk's problems are well known, the issue is that his
merits are often ignored.
I'm always disarmed by what a good writer Robert Fisk is. I'd go so far as to say that the best writer of any journalist I've ever read, at least among those who operate under the deadlines that he does. His erudition, ability to weave
the fabric of history into his pieces, and descriptive powers
amaze. For that reason alone, Fisk is impossible to dismiss.
Equally impressive to me, though, is the fact that Robert Fisk has been working the Middle East beat since before Saddam Hussein took power in Iraq. If Fisk is cynical about the prospects for peace in
the Middle East and seems world weary, it's because he's earned
it. After all, he's been showing up on the scenes of human tragedy for almost as
long as I've been alive, and telling the story as he sees it.
It shocks me to see people assume that Fisk is a liar when his reporting is limited almost exclusively to first hand accounts. If you read nothing but weblogs, you might be surprised to learn that Fisk is probably the UK's best regarded foreign correspondent. Nearly all of the arguments against the facts he reports are based on the fact that the arguer is in disbelief, rather than materially disproving things he's written. He often makes claims that fall apart when they are placed within a larger context, but that's an outgrowth of simply reporting what he sees first hand. When he says the Americans aren't at a particular place, it's because he went there and they weren't there, not because the Iraqi information minister told him so or because he heard it in a Centcom briefing.
One of the best things about the coverage of the Gulf War (Cont.) has
been the dispatches from embedded journalists. Even though they
operate under (reasonable) constraints, most of the important stories to emerge
during the conflict have been reported by people on the front lines
alongside US troops. That's been a refreshing change considering that
most newspapers tend to report on things that were said at press
conferences or provided on a not for attribution basis by people looking to advance their agenda. Fisk is
operating on his own in Baghdad during this war (and doesn't seem to
be sucking up to the Saddamites a la Peter Arnett), and that's hardly
a surprise. The guy seems to have no fear in going wherever the story
is and telling what he sees.
I wouldn't recommend reading Robert Fisk as your sole source of news of the Middle East — I wouldn't recommend reading any one writer or publication for all your news on anything. However, I feel like he always has something to add. If nothing else, you're getting a well written a first hand account of something that's happening on the ground where the news is happening. Fisk also provides a counterweight to the triumphalism that all too often pervades some other media outlets. Maybe Fisk's perspective is too much for some people to withstand, I can understand that, but that doesn't make him a bad journalist, nor does it make him a liar. If the only thing you know about Fisk is what you read in certain weblogs, I urge you to read a few articles he's written on your own. Chances are he's not what you think he is.


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The David Darby sage has reached its next stage. His home has been foreclosed on and the new owner will have to deal with Darby's unwillingness to leave the property. David Darby has been challenging the taxation powers of his county for some time now and managed to build up a significant back log in taxes owed. He has been trying to argue that the 1878 Constitution is the official Washington State Constitution and that the 1889 version was never really officially adopted. I have shown how he appears to be somewhat confused about what happened. Unfortunate to find out that he has gambled it all, and for nothing.
The county's treasurer's office sold the property for $63,099. David Darby, who hadn't paid taxes on his Amboy property since 2008, owed the county nearly $23,000. If the sale goes through, the treasurer's office expects to recoup Darby's unpaid taxes from the new owner, along with other fees associated with the auction. The property has a total taxable value of $154,712.
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McManus denies Donegal as semi-final thriller ends all square
Donegal and Monaghan will meet in a replay after Saturday night's Ulster Senior Championship semi-final ended level at Kingspan Breffni Park.
Donegal 1-11
Monaghan 0-14
In a hugely exciting encounter, Donegal got themselves in front in the closing stages of the game when Odhran MacNiallais scored their goal.
For much of the second half, Monaghan held the lead.
The sides had been level at half time, 0-6 to 0-6.
But Monaghan held the upperhand after the break with Conor McManus scoring eight points.
Three of those scores came from late frees, including one deep into six minutes of injury time. Earlier in the half, Donegal were reduced to 14 men when Martin McElhinney was shown a black card, followed by a red card.
Donegal's minor team won the curtain-raiser against Monaghan. They were victorious in their semi-final on a scoreline of 3-15 to 2-12. Donegal will meet Derry in the Ulster Final.


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How to guide: Getting the most from Instagram stories
When you think of Instagram what do you automatically think of? Pictures of holidays, food, daily travels and brand ambassadors promoting beauty products and clothing ranges, right? Well, this is where you're wrong! Instagram can be great, when used properly, for your business, and I'm going to tell you how…
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The Importance Of Engagement
As a business in the modern world, you are very fortunate. You have access to social media and can use it to aid your company in ways that were not previously available to you. Social media is an excellent way to generate engagement. However, not everyone is aware of what 'engagement' is, and why it is so important for business. We're going to be looking at why the participation for a business is as important as you suspect it might be. More →
Tagging Etiquette – To Tag Or Not To Tag?
When it comes to using social media as a business, tagging people and organisations can be a great way to gain coverage and to generate a bigger audience for your product or service. There are many advantages to tagging an influential individual or group, but the art of tagging should also be considered with great care and wisdom. We're going to be looking at tagging etiquette, and when the right time to tag someone in a post truly is.
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How To Integrate Influencers Into Your Social Media Campaigns
When it comes to social media campaigns, we all want them to be the most engaging and responsive they can be, to fully maximise the levels of interest people show in your brand or service. Therefore, some people choose to try and accomplish this by using what is called an 'influencer'. But what is an influencer, and how do you integrate them into your social media campaigns?
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Facebook Live – How To Use BeLive TV
As Facebook has grown and progressed as a site, the concept of live streaming videos to the world became integrated into the features of the site. When paired with software called BeLive TV, the potential for a two way dialogue with the audience and the person live streaming is then possible. We're taking a look at how the process happens, and how you can pair the two together.
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Social Media Campaigns – How to Create New Ideas
In the age of the internet, there are many different ways that companies can advertise themselves or their service. One way that people do this is to launch a social media campaign. However, not everyone is aware of what a social media campaign is, and how to create new campaign ideas in the first place. We're taking a look at what a social media campaign is, and also how to find new campaign ideas to help your campaign effectively.
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Fake News on Social Media – The Rise of the Phenomenon
The internet is a great place for people to stay up to date with current events and affairs. With the BBC and other news providers, all having a presence on social media, finding out what is going on in the world is not a difficult task. However, there have been more and more reports recently of 'fake news' which circulates the web and can often give people very wrong ideas about individuals or companies. We're taking a look at the fake news, and why it is, in fact, a very dangerous and damaging thing to be out on the web at all.
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How to market your business more effectively on Facebook
Worldwide, there are over 1.94 billion monthly active Facebook users for March 2017 (Facebook MAUs) which is an 18 percent increase year over year. (Source: Facebook 5/3/17).
What this means for you: In case you had any lingering doubts, statistically, Facebook is too big to ignore.
Snap Map – The Benefits and the Concerns.
Snap Map – The Benefits and the Concerns.
Have you discovered the new snapchat update – Snap map?
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OVU Strategic Plan - 2016-20
OVU seeks to be an authentic Christian university that provides an environment based on an authentic Christian worldview where individuals have opportunities to develop the mind in order to gain the capacities they need to be the person God wants them to be and to accomplish the purpose for which God created them.
At Ohio Valley University, we seek to transform lives in a Christ-centered academic community that integrates higher learning, biblical faith, and service to God and humanity.
Joined Jesus to fix a broken world.
The OVU Strategic Plan is a model of how we intend to live out the University's purpose and mission. And once completed, OVU will have "Joined Jesus to fix a broken world."
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Patel KG, Sabini RC. Safety of Osteopathic Cranial Manipulative Medicine as an Adjunct to Conventional Postconcussion Symptom Management: A Pilot Study. J Am Osteopath Assoc 2018;118(6):403–409. doi: 10.7556/jaoa.2018.061.
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Osteopathic cranial manipulative medicine is not a well-established adjunct to conventional treatment for patients with postconcussion symptoms.
To determine whether adjunctive osteopathic cranial manipulative medicine is safe for patients with concussion when accompanied by conventional treatments.
Prospective observational pilot study.
Outpatient concussion clinic.
Patients who sustained a concussion were prospectively recruited from an outpatient concussion clinic by a neuropsychologist specialized in concussion. All participants were identified to have a cranial dysfunction.
Each eligible participant received 1 session of the osteopathic cranial manipulative medicine vault hold technique.
Main Outcome Measures:
Self-reported adverse events during or after 1 session of the osteopathic cranial manipulative medicine procedure and improvement in concussion symptoms at return to follow-up.
None of the 9 participants reported adverse events during or immediately after receiving osteopathic cranial manipulative medicine. Five of the 7 participants who returned for follow-up demonstrated improvement in their overall concussion symptoms based on the Post-Concussion Symptom Scale scores.
Osteopathic cranial manipulative medicine was considered a safe adjunctive treatment option to improve concussion-related symptoms and recovery.
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The RONA shortlists: Liz Harris on A Bargain Struck
Richard Lee
Liz Harris is shortlisted for the Romantic Historical Novel Prize. See the other shortlisted historical titles for the Romantic Novel of The Year. The winner will be announced on Monday 17th March 2014.
A Bargain Struck, the story of a second generation homesteading family, is set in Wyoming 1887.
In my debut novel, The Road Back, published the year before, I had told the story of a girl brought up in a house filled with grief in 1950s London, and the story of a boy brought up in a small village in the Buddhist part of Ladakh, an Indian province north of the Himalayas. I had loved researching Ladakh and learning about the ways in which the Ladahki survived in the harshest of conditions, and I was keen to write another novel which gave me the same opportunity to explore the way people in which people lived at a different period, in a very different environment.
Whilst thinking about what to do, I heard a Radio 4 programme about mail-order brides from Russia. This struck a chord with me. When I lived in California some years ago, I studied American history so I knew that mail-order brides were prevalent in Wyoming in the 1880s, and this had always seemed to me a concept full of historical and emotional potential.
My interest alive and burning, I went back to my history books, looking specifically at the history of Wyoming. The moment that I read about the situation in 1887, I knew that I'd discovered the year in which to set my story, and I started to focus my research on that period.
To my surprise, I found that while there was much written about the 1850s and 1870s – the pioneer days, and their covered wagons – there was little about the late 1880s, a time when the Indian troubles were virtually a thing of the past, and the railroad had come. In the end, in order to find out what I needed to know to recreate with accuracy the life of a family at that time, I went to Wyoming.
The thrill of walking where my characters walked, breathing the air they breathed and learning firsthand about their lives, was something that will always stay with me.
Readers have commented that they felt as if they were living in the house with Ellen and Connor, and were eavesdropping on private conversations. That I seem to have managed to make Ellen, Connor and Bridget step off the page is probably the thing of which I'm most proud.
History and romance, or romance and history?
History and Romance. Definitely in that order.
The history is the most important thing. My stories grow out of the history of the time and place, rather than being a story imposed upon an historical background.
1887 was a transitional year in the history of Wyoming, marking as it did the end of the open range, and this determined the characterisation. One of the ways in which I tried to bring the history to life was by creating characters who embodied the changes that were taking place in society, thus informing the reader in a natural, non-didactic way.
The American West was a period when settlers struggled to make a living out of a difficult environment. Inevitably, there was a division of labour: there was a man's work and a woman's work. For the family to function as a productive unit, the man and woman had to work in harmony. Extreme emotional language in expressing one's feelings could threaten that essential harmony. Not surprisingly, therefore, the letters between the men and women of the period, who were to live long lives together in the most adverse of circumstances, display a complete lack of strong sentiment.
One of my challenges in writing A Bargain Struck, which is both historical and romantic, was to depict a developing love with a complete absence of the terminology of romance that is often employed to convey those emotions in contemporary romantic fiction.
Inspiration, the future, the greats.
I would find it difficult to single out any one writer as I feel that I've learnt so much from everything I've read, and I know that those many novelists whose books I've devoured will have influenced me without me realising it.
If I had to single out one author, it would be Jane Austen. I very much admire the way in which she allows her characters to condemn themselves every time that they open their mouths. There is no need for Jane Austen to step forward in her own persona, as does George Eliot, for example, and direct the reader as to the way in which he or she should regard the character.
When I look at the past and think back to historical romantic novelists such as Mary Stewart, I feel a twinge of envy for the freedom they had. The emphasis today is to start amid the action so as to hook the reader from the outset. We live in a fast-paced environment, where there is always something happening, and that is reflected on the page.
This stricture didn't exist in the past. Novelists were allowed to set the scene, introduce the characters at their own pace and give them time to grow. By the time that the action began, the reader knew the characters, was interested in them and felt for them and wanted to follow their adventures.
However, we now live the world of rapidly developing technology, with something new every few seconds, and with everything happening at greater speed, and as writers of historical romance, the challenge that faces us today is to tread the difficult path between the expectations of the modern reader and our desire to depict an authentic historical past.
Quick questions
Cathie Earnshaw or Elizabeth Bennett? Definitely Elizabeth Bennett. I have never liked Wuthering Heights, but have always loved Pride and Prejudice.
Shabby chic or National Trust? National Trust.
Jamie Fraser or the Scarlet Pimpernel? I am about to start reading Cross Stitch, so can't yet comment on Jamie Fraser, but I loved The Scarlet Pimpernel, which set my imagination on fire when I read it as a child.
Call the Midwife or Downton Abbey? If I can stick to the first series only, Downton Abbey.
Dinner with… Tony Robinson or Dan Snow? Definitely Dan Snow.
Movie or theatre? Equally, if that's allowed. I adore the theatre and go into London to go to the theatre once a month on average, but I also go regularly to the cinema. I love stories, whether they come to me in books, or from the stage or on film. If I had to choose a favourite of the three, it would be to find my stories in the pages of a book. I have yet to see a production of a book – TV, film or theatre – which is better than the novel.
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The Oilfield and "Desert", which is its current name, are whole separate maps. The new Desert map is being added in the update.
The oil fields are desert but im talking about combat zones like baghdad or damascus , the heart of urban tank combat
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Ana Loves: My Internet Marketing Rolodex
Tools (or lack thereof) won't make or break your business.
And they won't make you more money.
But they WILL make your online money making efforts more effective and efficient.
The following list of tools is what I used and/or still do to power Traffic Generation Café.
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That's where Traffic Generation Café is currently hosted.
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Thesis Theme
I love Thesis for its built-in SEO capabilities (you don't need any SEO plugins when running on Thesis), incredible customization potential, the ease of customization even if you don't know any code (I customized my first one myself), and incredible support and knowledge base.
Traffic Generation Café currently runs on Thesis.
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IM Graphic Designs
Meet Ian Belanger, the creator of my current stunning design. He is the power behind all things technical at TGC.
The wisdom to outsource the time-intensive tasks that I have no training for (like website design) came after much frustration, sleepless nights, and emergency Hostgator calls.
When you reach your boiling point, give Ian a call. He'll give you your sanity back.
Contact Ian for your next web design
Thesis Awesome
If custom design is not quite in your budget just yet (I've been there before), then getting a customizable "skin" (a template, in other words) is the next best thing.
I like Hesham Zebida's (FamousBloggers.net) Thesis Awesome because his skins are designed with conversion in mind – whether it's list building, affiliate marketing, or product/service sales.
See what Thesis Awesome can do for you
List Building
The only autoresponder I'd consider.
Aweber offers a $1 trial month for all new customers. You'll have access to all features a paid account is entitled to: unlimited lists, email campaigns, automatic follow-ups, broadcasts, and many, many more.
If after 30 days you don't like them, just let them know and Aweber will give you your $1 back. Guaranteed.
DO check out Aweber for only $1 now
My list building plugin of choice.
There are certainly plenty of them on the market these days and I've tested a few.
WPSubscribers is the one I am sticking with.
Market Samurai
The BEST KEYWORD RESEARCH TOOL I've ever used, bar none.
Goes way beyond simple keyword research with competition research, rank tracking, domain research, and more.
Get your MarketSamurai Download here
I love, love, love this internet marketing tool.
You know how different rank checkers ask you for the keywords you'd LIKE to rank for and then tell you where you are ranking for them?
Well, SEMRush checks the first 20 spots across Google to tell YOU what you are currently ranking for. This is priceless.
You can learn about different keywords you didn't even know you were ranking for.
It also tells you which keywords bring the most traffic to your blog, so you can quickly tell which ones you need to push up in the rankings to bring even more search engine traffic.
Take a look at my SEMRush Review to learn more about the tool.
Start tracking your competition with SEMRush.com
Affiliate Marketing
Thirsty Affiliates Plugin
This plugin converts any keywords on your blog into money-making affiliate links, creates professional redirects, adds NoFollow (NEVER forget to do it!), opens links in new windows, AND you can easily insert banners already linked to the product site with your aff link with a simple click.
Also check out my post about the best Affiliate Marketing Programs and how to find/choose them.
Download your own ThirstyAffiliates here
Social Media
Tweet Adder
This is the very tool that allows me to follow thousands of targeted users on autopilot per day, thus making Twitter my largest referral traffic source.
Here is my Tweet Adder review.
Update: Tweet Adder, along with many other Twitter tools, had to make adjustments to their automation options. Learn more about the changes in my Best Twitter Tools to Get More Twitter Followers [Tweet Adder Alternatives] post.
And now you can get 20% off Tweet Adder on me; just follow this link to Tweet Adder website and enter the following discount code at checkout:
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Screen recording and a whole lot more. Used by most pro video marketers and yours truly.
ScreenFlow makes editing video easy, so I can focus on creatively telling my story and not the tech side of things.
Start using ScreenFlow today
Bamboo Pen Tablet
Turns my computer into a virtual canvas, allowing me to create digital artwork with the touch of a pen.I use it to draw on the slides while recording the screen with ScreenFlow; turns boring "I've seen it all before" videos into interactive gems.
Spruce up your videos with Bamboo Pen Tablet
Marketing Courses
Blog Post Promotion: the Ultimate Guide
by Kristi Hines – this is an ebook that is packed with actionable advice on how to promote your blog.
Kristi Hines of Kikolani.com is certainly the best expert in the field and she doesn't hold anything back as she shares how she promotes her blog, contest entries, etc.
Start promoting your blog with Kristi Hines
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There is no such thing as a Silver Bullet.
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Evangelist Dea Warford to speak at Living Word Fellowship
Evangelist Dea Warford of Corona, Calif., is ministering at Living Word Fellowship 6 p.m. today and Saturday and 10 a.m. Sunday.
The church is located at 824 Pba'ul (DarkBrush), in the Gardnerville Ranchos. The white cross on top of the church can be seen from the intersection of Long Valley and Dresslerville Roads.
Warford has ministered in all 50 states and foreign countries, pioneered four churches, has been a frequent camp speaker and made appearances on college campuses, radio and television.
According to his website, http://www.evangelistdeawarford.org, Warford was headed for a career in the Ku Klux Klan and was being groomed by his uncle, Charles Lynch, then considered the best preacher in the Klan, and the "most dangerous man in America" by the U.S. House subcommittee on unAmerican activities.
"At one time, Dea's goal in life was to be Imperial Wizard of the KKK," the website stated. "But God had a better plan for his life. How he turned from the Klan to Christ is an amazing and unusual testimony, which he gives during the crusade."
Warford's motto is "Expect a miracle. Your life will never be the same."
"Through this ministry, many have testified of receiving a miracle of healing; from heart problems to sleep apnea, from arthritis to asthma, and from decades of chronic pain to drug addictions," Pastor Gene Holman of Living Word Fellowship said. "With prophetic words and humorous and interesting messages full of stories from Dea's own personal life, Dea's ministry makes it fun to be in church."
Child care provided. For more information, call Holman at 265-3235.


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By Suzanne Sparrow Watson
Our visit to Ireland made clear why Irish eyes are smiling – friendly people, a pint of Guinness and perhaps a tot of Jameson's gives the world a roseate hue. We experienced all of that during the second part of our trip which focused on knitting – a passion we all share to the point of needing a 12-step program. After our evening at the Celtic Whiskey Lounge and Sheehan's Pub we sobered up the next morning for our class with Carol Feller. As I wrote in my previous post, Carol Feller and Kieran Foley (more on him in a moment) are the equivalent of playing golf with Rory McElroy or Padraig Harrington. I should note here that the Killarney Park Hotel was truly one of the finest hotels I've ever visited. They are five star not only for their accommodations and food, but for their outstanding service. On the morning of our class they provided us with a cozy room with a wood-burning fireplace and brought coffee for our enjoyment – all free of charge. Carol spent more than three hours with us and was not only informative, but charming as well. It seems to be an Irish trait. Most of us have been knitting for decades but Carol provided us with some new tips and techniques, proving that you CAN teach an old dog new tricks. Some of our group had pre-ordered yarn from her while others said they would abstain. After three hours with Carol everyone ordered mounds of yarn. So much for willpower.
The following day we climbed into Jack's van and embarked on a tour of the Dingle Peninsula. The scenery, like everything else we'd seen in Ireland, was spectacular. The little town of Dingle is touristy and quaint at the same time. It was here we experienced more Irish hospitality. One member of our group stumbled and skinned her knee so we sought out first aid materials. The local pharmacist didn't just sell us the bandage and antibiotic ointment, she took it upon herself to clean and dress the wound herself. Heck, I can barely get the staff at my local Walgreens to point me to the bandaid aisle. The waters surrounding the peninsula are crystal clear and the hillsides verdant, as one would expect in Ireland. We had the opportunity to stop and pet some newly-minted lambs but, cute as they were, we declined. I was struck by the many historical churches that remain along the route. One is the Gallarus Oratory, a simple dry-stone structure built in the 12th century that has remained waterproof and in near-perfect condition to the present day.
Just as interesting is the Kilmaekeder Church, built in the mid-12th century on the grounds of a previous structure built in 636. A stone from that period still sits on the alter. The church grounds are filled with gravestones, some ancient and some rather recent (in fact one poor sod hadn't actually been buried 6 feet under yet as the family was waiting for the headstone). There were tributes to Irishmen killed by the English during The Uprising as well as markers for whole families that included listings of those who went to America and were lost at sea. Once back in Killarney we traipsed over to dinner at the Ross Hotel's Lane Café Bar. The service was slow but the food was delicious. I'd recommend it if you're not in a hurry.
The following day was our "marathon" day to Dublin. The kind people at the hotel had a bag of pastries and fruit waiting for us as we left for the train station at 6:10 a.m. The train service to and from Dublin was wonderful – clean, fast, and quiet. Once in Dublin we headed for The Constant Knitter shop where we had a private trunk show with designer Kieran Foley. Again, he was as kind and generous a person as one could hope to meet. Are there any crabby people in Ireland???? Kieran brought out an array of his designs which are so complicated and intricate that I'd only contemplate starting one prior to entering the insane asylum. Each piece is reminiscent of an Oriental carpet or fine piece of fabric. We left him inspired to "up our game".
After buying scads of yarn we we went in search of a great spot for lunch…and beer. We ventured up to the Temple Bar area of Dublin (the featured picture this week) which is a hopping place, full of tourists and locals alike. There is no end to the dining possibilities but we chose Boxty, which received rave reviews on Trip Advisor. Once we were sated with Smithwicks lager and fish and chips we ventured to This Is Knit yarn shop. The store is elegant in design and content, located in the Powerscourt Townhouse building, a former mansion that has been transformed into a fabulous shopping center with a central atrium and boutique shops. We bought more yarn, despite our resolve to be on a "yarn diet". From there we walked 40 minutes back to the train station for our return to Killarney. When we dragged into the hotel at 8:30 p.m. we were greeted by hotel staff inquiring about our day and asking us about what we saw in Dublin. I'm not sure they are used to anyone making Dublin into a "day trip".
Morning came too soon when we once again traveled in Jack's van to Kinsale and Cork. Kinsale is a darling seaside village, filled with cute shops and an outdoor market. We could have spent several days there. We ambled in and out of the stores, buying knick knacks and two people bought beautiful leather purses fashioned by a local designer. We relied on Trip Advisor again and ate lunch at Fishy Fishy, where we continued our quest of the perfect pairing of lager and fish and chips. Next we headed to Cork to visit Hedgehog Fibers. Hedgehog is a very popular yarn, more so in the States than in Ireland. In fact, we learned from all our Irish knitting contacts that the Irish like to spend money on food and drink, but not on yarn. We bought MORE yarn (by now we were contemplating buying extra luggage) and then headed out to the Jameson Whiskey Distillery. We decided to go for broke, splurging on the premium whiskey tasting. It turned out to be a wise decision. We were taken to a private room where a young woman gave us the particulars of each whiskey we sampled. I was tempted to chug one down but she instructed me that I needed to savor the banana, oak, berry, vanilla, honey, etc. Geez, it all just tasted like whiskey to me. I don't think I'm sophisticated enough to taste premium whiskey. As we finished up she kind of chuckled and said, "I've worked here four years and have never had an all-woman group before." So…I guess we broke the glass ceiling for whiskey tasting!
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A little while back I noticed that a Peruvian restaurant opened up near me, Rustics's Chicken: Rotisserie & Peruvian Cuisine. My mom was visiting and I decided it was the perfect opportunity to try something new.
The restaurant is small but clean and the staff was friendly. The menu was extensive with sections for appetizers, chicken dishes, beef dishes, seafood selection, and desserts. Prices ranged from $5.95 to $20.00. We tried the following:
Appetizer: Causa de Pollo: A friend explained this dish to me, so I knew I had to try it. The dish was made with yellow potato, hot pepper, lime juice, and chicken. It was very tasty, with a touch of heat and lots of flavor.
Main dishes
Aguadito de Pollo: This chicken and cilantro soup was bursting with flavor. It was beautifully presented and pipping hot. The price of the dish was $8.95 but this is a full meal and the serving size was generous.
Chaufa de Carne: This dish is fried rice with beef, green onions and eggs. The meat was well seasoned and this dish, like the other dishes was so full of flavor. It was served fresh and hot. The serving size was a generous portion of rice and plenty of beef.
Having never tasted Peruvian food before, I had no point of reference as to what to try, what is traditional, and how things should taste. For me, I'm a fan of everything I tried and want to try more of the menu. All dishes were served fresh and hot. The service was wonderful and it was well priced. I would recommend the restaurant and will definitely go back.


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Best wishes, Melinda > -----Original Message----- > From: fantasai [mailto:firstname.lastname@example.com] > Sent: Thursday, March 29, 2007 5:05 PM > To: firstname.lastname@example.com; Grant, Melinda > Subject: [CSS3 Page] Comments on CSS3 Paged Media (I) > > Introduction > ------------ > > # A signature is a group of pages printed on a sheet, which, > # when folded and trimmed like a book, appear in their proper > # sequence; > > "signature" should be in <dfn> OK > Page Boxes: the @page Rule > -------------------------- > > # The properties of a page box are determined by properties > # established within the page context, which is the rule set > # of the @page rule. > > s/established/declared/ > -- also link this to > http://www.w3.org/TR/CSS21/syndata.html#declaration OK > s/rule set/declaration block/ > -- also link this to http://www.w3.org/TR/CSS21/syndata.html#x14 OK > Page Terminology and the Page Model > ----------------------------------- > > # A user agent may not be aware of this area or how it varies > # from printing device to printing device. > > s/may not be aware/may be unaware/ -er, ok > # Printing devices MAY adjust the layout of the document > # so that content is not lost. > > If a UA is aware of the non-printable area restriction, is > it allowed to make the adjustment before sending the page > to the printer? Yes. The sentence should actually state, "User agents MAY adjust the layout of the document so that content is not lost." I'll make that change. > # A user agent may not be aware of this are ... Content outside > # the page box. > > This text is repeated twice: in the non-printable area definition > and again in the printable area definition. Reworded to minimize redundancy between the two definitions. > # Unlike other boxes, the margins of the page box are subdivided > # into margin boxes. > > This repeats an earlier statement in the previous section. The terminology section is currently misplaced. Once it's moved, I think the redundancy will be less noticeable and more valuable. I've reworded this occurrence to: "Running headers and footers can be put into margin boxes." > > # In the simplest case, the page box is congruent with the page > # sheet. > > Which page box is congruent with the page sheet? Its margin box, > border box, padding box, or content box? Well, as with other boxes, the margin box is congruent with the box's edge... So the page's margin box is congruent with the page box's edge... But we're not talking about any of those boxes here, we're defining a new term, the 'page box'. Is that confusing/not clear? > # The page area acts as a container for all the boxes laid out > # within a given page box. > > This statement is repeated from the previous section. Same disclaimer about moving the Terminology section. > # Margin box > > I would add to the beginning of this definition the following: > "Margin boxes are rectangular regions within the page margin." > The current definition only says what they are used for, not > what they are. Also, this definition duplicates content from the > previous section. Thanks, text added. > # page margin / page border / page padding > > These terms are not defined anywhere. No. Once the page box is defined and the box model derivation given, aren't margins, border, padding already defined by the box model? Would it really add clarity to say that the page margin is the margin (link to http://www.w3.org/Style/Group/css2-src/box.html#box-dimensions) for the page box (link to page box dfn)? Or what else would you like to see added here? > Page Types > ---------- > > # Some of these depend upon factors such as the major writing > # direction and the media type that are not specified by this > # module. > > s/ that/, which/ I've reworded the sentence to: "Some of these depend upon factors not specified by this module, such as the major writing direction and the media type. > > Also, you might want to pick a more precise term than media type. > It has at least two other technical meanings that are associated > with CSS and (X)HTML documents. Yes. The problem is 'media type' is widely and consistently used within the print industry. Sentence re-reworded to: "Many of these depend upon factors not specified by this module, such as the major writing direction and the properties of the print media to be used." Actually, I think this section should focus on layout or go away. The terms should be added to the previous Terminology section. The discussion of variability of page layout could maybe be moved to the section on "Positioning the page box on the sheet". > # page orientation > > I would add to the definition that the page orientation can be > either landscape or portrait. Added "This specification defines page orientations of 'portrait' and 'landscape'." (Reverse-portrait and reverse-landscape terms are also commonly used, but CSS3 Page doesn't use them.) > > # Duplex printing uses one page box... > > s/uses/prints/ OK > # Binding Edge treatment > > s/treatment// OK > # It is up to the UA to determine whether the left page or the > # right page of a pair of facing pages is the earlier one of > # the sequence. > ... > # Page layouts for documents using a left-to-right major writing > # direction have the earlier of the facing pages on the left. > ... > # Whether the first page of a document is ':left' or ':right' > # depends on the major writing direction of the document and is > # outside the scope of this document. > > These three sentences are contradictory. (The last one was taken > from a different section, "Left, right and first pages") First and third sentences removed. > > # The major writing direction for the document is determined by > # the UA. If the UA supports the 'direction' property from CSS2 > # or the CSS 3 Text Module it MUST determine it using the value > # of that property on the root element. > > I think we need to be a bit more specific here, since in vertical > text the 'direction' property is irrelevant for determining page > order: the block progression direction is used instead. So > If text is laid out horizontally, > the major writing direction is the same as the inline > progression > direction (determined by 'direction'). > If text is laid out vertically, > the major writing direction is the same as the block > progression > direction (determined by a new property from CSS3 Text Layout) Great! I renamed 'major writing direction' to 'page progression' to be more consistent with 'block-progression'; I suppose we could need to add a 'page-progression property some day. I've reworked the pertinent text a bit, and added the above. Check out the next version and see if it addresses your concerns. > # Rules for the left page can be specified using the ':left' page > selector. > # Rules for the right page can be specified using the ':right' page > selector. > # Rules for the first page can be specified using the ':first' > page selector. > > s/for/specific to/g OK > # A first page can be either a left page or a right page but a UA > MUST > # apply any rules defined for a first page in preference to those > defined > # on a left page or a right page. > > Stating this requirement should be deferred to the page selectors > section. > (It is already defined there.) OK > How does this module consider these concepts when the binding edge > is the top edge of the booklet instead of a side edge? Left/right- > based styling doesn't really make sense in that case. The module does not address the short-edge (horizontal) bindings use case. I don't know the historical rationale behind this. Arguably 'leading' and 'trailing' or similar terms might have been preferable. > > Page Size > --------- > > It is not clear which box's size is being set here because what > rectangle > exactly corresponds to the term "page box" is not defined. > I assume it > is the same rectangle as the page margin box, but that must be > stated > somewhere. The first sentence in the property description links to the following definition: "Page box A page box is derived from the box model and contains portions of the document flow destined for rendering on a page sheet. The width and height of the page box are determined by the size property. Running headers and footers can be put into margin boxes. In the simplest case, the page box is congruent with the page sheet. However, there are more complex use cases (see the transfer possibilities in the Introduction) where the page box differs from the page sheet in values such as size or orientation." Apparently it would be helpful if I expanded the definition to include something like: "As for all CSS boxes, it contains margin, border and padding areas." If I change the definition as follows, does it clear things up? "Page box A page box is derived from the box model and contains portions of the document flow destined for rendering on a page sheet. The width and height of the page box are determined by the size property. In the simplest and usual case, the page box is congruent with the page sheet. (See the transfer possibilities in the Introduction for situations where the page box differs from the page sheet in values such as size or orientation.) As with all CSS boxes, the page box contains margin, border, and padding areas. Unlike other CSS boxes, running headers and footers can be placed within the margins. " > > # When possible, output should be rendered on the media size > indicated; > # if not available, a larger size should be used; if not available, > # the contents of the page box should be scaled down to fit the > smaller > # page sheet. > > Given the conditionals about availability, we might want to > s/should/must/g The problem is that cheap printers are dumb. A media size is obviously available if it's loaded in the device tray; but many low-end printers don't have media size sensors, so they don't know what size is loaded where. I'd prefer to leave this as a recommendation. > # The page context has a font associated with it either by an > explicit > # use of the 'font-family' and 'font-size' properties or from the > UA's > # default style sheet. Therefore, values in units of 'em' and 'ex' > # refer to the page context's font. > > Replace with just "Values in units of 'em' and 'ex' refer to the > page > context's font." How to find that font is more accurately defined > in > the "Page Properties" section. OK > You need to add that > "If two length values are specified, the first value sets the > width > of the page box and the second value sets the height." > (or vice versa if that's what you meant). Boy, a lot of eyes have missed that one! All the way back to CSS2. ;-) Thanks! > # A5 > # The page box should be set to the size of ISO A5 media: > 148mm wide > # and 210mm high. > > Since the paragraph above defines these names as equivalent to > their > stated size in <length> values, the definitions should reflect > that. > I propose adopting the form > > | A5 > | Equivalent to the size of ISO A5 media: 148mm wide and > 210mm high. OK > It's pretty obvious what should happen with > size: 8.5in 11in portrait; > and > size: 8.5in 11in landscape; > but I just want to check what should happen with > size: 11in 8.5in landscape; > ? > Are > size: 8.5in 11in landscape; > size: 11in 8.5in landscape; > size: 11in 8.5in; > all equivalent? Yes > > # User agents SHOULD also support Media Size Self-Describing Names > as > # defined in Section 5 of [PWGMSN]. > > Why is this SHOULD rather than MUST? While other protocols require printer user agents to support these names, it's not clear that desktop user agents need that level of support, given that length pairs provide equivalent functionality. > Is there any way for the author to specify preferred paper sizes? > E.g. I want my report to print on letter paper, but A4 paper would > be OK, too. Failing that, I'll settle for legal, and failing that > whatever the printer has available. > 'size' only allows me to set one size, which becomes the absolute > paper size, and @media rules only let me specify different styles > for different sizes: they doesn't let me specify a preference for > one size over another. No, we haven't defined a means to provide preferences/fallbacks. > # The '<page-size>' names can be used in conjunction with > 'landscape' > # or 'portrait' to indicate size and orientation. > > Insert "both" immediately before "size". OK > Some Examples > ------------- > > In the second example, it might also be helpful if you stated the > size of the page area. OK > > In the third example, s/requires/requests/ since the printer will > give a smaller sheet if that's all it has. Changed to: This indicates that the page sheet size should be 8.5"x11". > Rendering page boxes that do not fit a page sheet > ------------------------------------------------- > > # There is no requirement to maintain the aspect ratio of the page > # or of any elements on the page when scaling; however, > preservation > # of the aspect ratio is preferred. > > Should that be s/preferred/recommended/? Probably. Reworded. > # Reformat the page contents, including 'spilling' onto other page > # sheets. > > Does this mean reformatting the document to print as if a smaller > page 'size' were specified, or does this mean each page will have > its own slice of overflow printed on a separate page? Unspecified; either is allowed in this case. > > Page Selectors and the Page Context > ----------------------------------- > > # Authors specify various aspects of a page box such as the > dimensions, > # orientation, and margins within an @page rule. > > I would either use the passive voice here, or s/specify/can > specify/ OK > # The OPTIONAL page name and OPTIONAL page pseudo-class constitutes > > s/constitutes/constitute/ Yep. > Page selector grammar > -------------------- > > # more strict > > stricter OK > Cascading in the page context > ----------------------------- > > # computed in an analogous manner to > > computed in a manner analogous to OK > > Either this section or the following section must specify that > properties that aren't explicitly set take their initial values > and do not inherit from any element. Added to the Cascading section. > Page Properties > --------------- > > # That is, when set in the page context, the values become the > # initial values for the margin boxes. > > This should be specified in terms of inheritance, because we > don't want to e.g. re-interpret the meaning of the 'initial' > keyword here. > > | That is, the margin boxes inherit values for inheritable > | properties from the page context. Yeah, that's better. > # Values in units of 'em' and 'ex' refer to the page context's > font. > > Is this true for margin boxes as well, or do 'em' and 'ex' on > the margin boxes refer to the margin box's font (as I would have > expected)? Should be called out separately, thanks. > # For left and right, the margin, border and padding percentages > # are relative to the width of the containing box; for top and > # bottom, the margin, border and padding percentages are relative > # to the height of the containing box. > > I don't understand this sentence at all. I've replaced it with: "For 'margin-left', 'margin-right', 'padding-left', 'padding-right', 'border-left-width', and 'border-right-width', percentages are relative to the width of the containing box; for 'margin-top', 'margin-bottom', 'padding-top', 'padding-bottom', 'border-top-width', and 'border-bottom-width', percentages are relative to the height of the containing box." Does that help? > # * The page background applies to the entire page box, > # including the page margins. > # > # The page background is painted first, and covers the entire > # page box. > > Delete the list item, and add "including the page margins" to the > first sentence of the paragraph after it. It would read a bit more smoothly that way, but the list of exceptions would be missing the special background treatment for page margins. So I'm not sure that would be an improvement. > # The origin of the page background is the upper-left corner of > # the page area. > > To be consistent with how backgrounds are handled on all other > elements, the origin should be the top left corner of the page's > padding box, not its content box. OK > # When a page break splits a box, the box's margins, borders, > # and padding have no visual effect where the split occurs. > > IIRC, this is covered by CSS2.1. If you want to state it in this > module, it needs a more appropriate context: this section is > talking about page-level boxes, whereas this statement refers to > content-level boxes. Moved to the 'Page Breaks' section. > Left, right, and first pages > ----------------------------- > > # However, to force a ':left' or ':right' first page, authors MAY > # insert a page break before the first generated box (e.g., in > HTML, > # specify this for the BODY element). > > I suggest s/MAY/can/. OK > I also suggest changing the parenthetical example to say > (e.g. by specifying it on the root element) Changed into a real example. > Content outside the page box > ---------------------------- > > # Note, however, that generating a small number of empty page boxes > # MAY be necessary to honor the 'left' and 'right' values for > # 'page-break-before' and 'page-break-after'. > > That should not be a MAY for two reasons: > 1. It's not expressing a conformance requirement > 2. It's in a non-normative note. It's certainly not a conformance requirement (fixed); but why do you think it's in a non-normative note? I think the recommendations here are normative. > # User agents MAY handle boxes positioned outside the page box in > # several ways, including discarding them or creating page boxes > # for them at the end of the document. > > The term "several ways" seems to imply a fixed list. Maybe > | This specification does not define how boxes positioned > | outside the page box are handled. Possibilities include > | discarding them or creating page boxes for them at the > | end of the document. > ? Works for me. > ~fantasai > > > >Received on Friday, 4 May 2007 03:50:50 UTC
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These donuts might just blow your mind - they're so freaking good!
...it's a yeasty, flavorful dough-pocket served hot off the griddle—and what's not to like about that?
...pocket of dough disclosing liquefied brown sugar syrup...
Best Korean Donuts in town!
A ho-Dduk is a warm pita-shaped pillow filled with melted brown cinnamon-sugar and crushed walnuts, a little like a mashup of a New Orleans beignet and cinnamon toast.


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Saturday, 30 July 2011
Penny Black Saturday Challenge...Week 162
27 comments:
- Lotte said...
Wow, so great that I have won the challenge. Really didn't expected it with so many people participating.
Thank you so much for that.
The new challenge is really great as well. I love all the card made by the DT ladies. Great job ladies.
Hugs Lotte
- 7/30/2011 9:40 am
- Sandra said...
Congratulations Lotti great card and well deserved to win, gorgeous cards again from the DT :) Sandra H
- 7/30/2011 1:13 pm
- Jennifer said...
Lotti, I send huge congratulations. Your card is gorgeous. Positively gorgeous!
What a super theme for this week's challenge. I look forward to playing along!
Jennifer :)
- 7/30/2011 2:29 pm
- My Little Corner said...
Congratulation Lotte !!!
This time so exiting, and love to see many gorgeous card from the DT, TFS.
I would try to playing along this sweet challenges:)
hugs, Yulis
- 7/30/2011 5:25 pm
- deb said...
All the cards by the DT are wonderful
- 7/31/2011 1:48 am
Just a quick note to let you know that a link to this post will be placed on CraftCrave today [31 Jul 01:00am GMT]. Thanks, Maria
- 7/31/2011 6:23 am
- Jules said...
It helps if you link your entry right in the first place .. .. please could someone delete entry no. 2 for me.
Sorry - and thanks Helen for letting me know!!
Great challenge and inspiration ladies.
Love Jules xx
- 7/31/2011 8:26 am
- Jayne said...
Beautiful DT cards.Thanks for the challenge.
- 7/31/2011 11:06 am
- Catherine said...
Such a great challenge. Have never tried this before and yet loved the effects!!!
- 7/31/2011 1:51 pm
- Annette said...
fun challenge thank you, got me thinking!
- 7/31/2011 3:47 pm
- kathleen said...
Another great challenge.Lovely cards Ladies.
Kathleen x
- 7/31/2011 4:11 pm
- SallyB said...
Hi Ladies...
My little honey Bee stamp was just perfect for this challenge...
Hope you like my card!
- 7/31/2011 6:33 pm
- Judith said...
ooo I love this site!! Penny Black is one of my favorite. I have more than 200 stamps off it..
I love the challenge I hope I win hihi
Greets Judith from Holland
- 7/31/2011 7:53 pm
- AJECreativity said...
Congrats Lotte.....well deserved win that.....thanks fo the inspiration DT for this challenge..it was well received xxxx Amanda
- 7/31/2011 9:35 pm
- April said...
Congrats, Lotte! Enjoy shopping! I enjoyed this new challenge. I didn't have a small stamp to make a background with, so I used the flowers from the cute hedgehog. I like it when I have to go outside my box to come up with something for a challenge. Thanks for the challenge opportunity!
- 7/31/2011 10:40 pm
- April said...
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- 7/31/2011 10:42 pm
- April said...
I did it again! Please delete number 16. It is the wrong card! Thanks!
- 7/31/2011 10:44 pm
- Barbara Colbert said...
This was a challenge!!! Didn't have any Christmas stamps to use for backgrounds...so I used the little mouse! It worked!!! :-)
- 8/01/2011 5:26 pm
- Little K Smith said...
Wonderful inspiration for a fab challenge :)
- 8/02/2011 8:48 pm
- Debs said...
Great challenge ladies - thanks.
And fabulous DT inspiration.
Debs xx
- 8/03/2011 9:09 am
- sunnysideup/doreensng said...
Fun Challenge!And great works by the Dt's,thanks
- 8/03/2011 5:06 pm
- atlanta website design said...
Well, All the cards by the DT are wonderful. I very happy to hear about this great challenges, Waiting for more details, it is full of fun.
- 8/04/2011 10:18 am
- petra,s cards said...
congratulations lotte!!
compliments to the design team for the gorgeous cards and inspiration!!
xx petra
- 8/04/2011 10:59 am
- Julie.G said...
awesome challenge...
- 8/05/2011 4:14 am
- Hetty said...
Wonderful cards by the DT and great idea for the challenge.
- 8/05/2011 4:17 pm
- first responder first aid kit said...
How simple way you create spectacular design in white paper. I impress with your peerless creation also advice to my sister, include this same art work in your school studies.
- 8/17/2011 10:19 am
- Jilly said...
Guest designs are one of the best treasure in your blog land. Congrats, Lotte! I enjoyed this new challenge. I didn't have a small stamp to make a background with, so I used the flowers from the cute hedgehog. Like it when I have to go outside my box to come up with something for a challenge.
Solvency II
- 10/24/2011 7:00 am


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One of the world's leading authorities on nonsurgical treatments of spine and disc problems, Dr. Kevin Pauza regularly speaks to professional organizations and the media about his specialty. Cofounder and co-owner of Texas Spine and Joint Hospital and a Senior Partner at Spine Specialists, P.A., Dr. Kevin Pauza maintains a private practice, conducts research, travels the globe to lecture on his areas of expertise, and publishes scholarly articles and textbook chapters on interventional spine techniques. Dr. Pauza holds a license to practice medicine in Texas and board certification in physical medicine and rehabilitation. Dr. Kevin Pauza has lectured before the annual meetings of the American Society of Interventional Pain Physicians, the International Spine Intervention Society, and the Physiatric Association of Spine, Sports, and Occupational Rehabilitation. He has also spoken to audiences in Tokyo, at the Mayo Clinic, and at Harvard University about his specialties. Dr. Pauza has served on the Board of Directors of the International Spine Intervention Society, as Chairman of the Society's Standards Committee, and more recently as President-elect. Dr. Pauza has been featured in stories that appeared on the Discovery Channel, CBS Sunday Morning, and the CBS Evening News, as well as in USA Today, The Wall Street Journal, and The New York Times. Educated at Pennsylvania State University, Columbia University, and East Texas Medical Center's Neurological Institute, Dr. Kevin Pauza strongly advocates for biologic and nonsurgical treatments of neck and back pain. Dr. Pauza and his colleagues hold patents for several procedures, involving a device and the use of biologic drugs, to encourage healing and regeneration of deteriorated tissues. Scholarly articles authored or coauthored by Dr. Kevin Pauza have appeared in Pain Physician, The Spine Journal, the Journal of Virology, and the Journal of Clinical Anaesthesia. He also has had chapters published in Depalma's Interventional Spine Techniques (2010), Hanley and Belfus's Pain Procedures in Clinical Practice (2000), and Weinstein's Injection Techniques: Principles and Practice (1995).


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Dubya Writer was born on February 5, 2015, at 6:37pm. Our little peanut clocked in at 5 pounds, 7 ounces, and 18-3/4 inches. To quote the over-quoted line from A Midsummer Night's Dream: "And though she be but little, she is fierce."
My Caesarean delivery went well. Its start was delayed, which was anxiety-inducing, but I'd say I handled it okay. My husband is an absolute gem of a person: I have no idea what I'd do with someone less supportive or understanding. Our daughter? She is adorable and lovely and fascinating.
We had a pretty good hospital stay, though Dubya's feeding and size were something of a concern. But at four days old, my milk has come on strong (while we waited, we supplemented a bit with formula – between an unfed baby and a fed baby, I take the latter, so the soldiers of the mommy wars can kiss my ass). She had been losing weight, but is now stable and will probably start gaining since she eats like she's training for Nathan's Hot Dog Eating Contest.
It was an experience that I can't begin to describe, though I plan to. Dubya's arrival in this world was nothing like I expected (from working so hard to conceive her to giving birth): there is a lot for me to work through. And we have a tough road ahead of us, raising a child in this crazy world. But we're going to do our damn best.
It's a promise you should hold us to, little Dubya Bean.