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To me, everything is impossible. Even so, I just wanted to see you smile. And that's the most impossible thing..
I stared at you. I knew the moment my eyes fell on you, it's love at first sight. Cliché, but it's true! I swore, my heart can't beat any faster like when it is, the moment I first saw you or when I blush beet red like a tomato everytime I could feel your gaze accidentally landed on me. I said accidentally because no one want to stare at a nerd with pink hair especially you. Besides, I'm a nobody. I'm just like a wind.. Just passing by..
The moment you transferred here, you are gladly known as the ' icy prince'. You're a boy a girl could ever want. Tall, handsome, mysterious, rich.. And yet, I'm the opposite of you. I'm short, a freak, timid, poor.. I'm in no match with you. I could never ever be with you. Because of your appearance, you are popular among girls and adored by boys at school. Even so, I'm not in love with you just because you're good looking. I know that you are kind and generous . The time when you save a little kid from drowning proves it. Your actions made me realize that you are indeed a perfect boy, making me drawn towards you. I wished I could be like those girls whom shamelessly flirts you, but not like how they flirts you. Even I felt disgusted when they shoved their breast at your face or when they screamed practically beside your ear. I just want to flirt with you without any physical contact. But sadly, I could only hope.
I'm not a brave girl. I'm a coward, shy and timid girl who loves books and doesn't have a single friend. I'm just a nobody. I wished I could be a girl that could make you happy or the girl that will hold you, telling that everything is going to be alright. I wished I could be the girl to cheer you on when you're playing your favorite sports and wished that I could be the girl that receive your smiles.. I wished I could be your girl. But I know, dreaming couldn't get me anywhere. There are other beautiful girls out there; willingly to gave themselves to you, and yet you ignored them. You always glared at them and I know, having girls yelling and screaming at you are irritating. Trust me, I know how it feels. So, if you don't except a gorgeous girl to be by your side, why would you except an ugly pink haired freak. It made me realize that I can't never be with you, ever.Sometimes I thought you were gay cause you never and I mean ever showed any interest towards the girls.
You were in all my class and I doubt that you even notice me sitting beside you in math class or when I draw the 'SxS forever and ever' in my small notepad. I doubt you even know I existed. I mean why would you take interest in a nerd like me? You never once payed attention when the teacher was talking. You will always stared blankly outside the window. I sometimes wondered, what is happening inside your mind right now? I always prayed, that maybe miracle could happen, resulting you to fall in love with me but then again, I'm happy with the way it is even if you'll never notice that a freak like me even existed. At least I could spend my sophomore year sitting beside the one I love. Besides, you falling in love with the lowest girl in the popularity chain? That will never happen. You'll probably end up with Ami or Karin. Both of them are the prettiest girls to ever existed but sadly, both of them are loud and clingy and annoying. I think you preferred a quiet type of girl.
I always saw you sighing nowadays. I wonder if something had happen? You look even more tired as days passes. You don't even greet your best friend; Uzumaki-san like usual. I can see shadows under your eyes. I asked myself, do you get enough sleep? Are you tired? Are you okay? What happen to you? I wanted to ask you those but I don't want to end up like a stalker or your fangirls. Even if I love you that much, I will never act like one of your fangirls, ever. But, the more I see you, the more worried I became. Days turned to weeks and your attitude becomes colder and colder. I was worried like hell! I wanted to hug you and tell you to keep on living your life, no matter how fucked up your life is because there is someone that still cares for you. That's when a crazy idea popped in my head. Since I'm a shy and timid girl, I couldn't bring myself to tell you that so, instead of a face to face situation, I can used letters to tell you what I think of you and that you know that at least there is someone that cares for you deeply.
By the end of the math class, I had finished writing a simple letter for you.
Sasuke, you are not alone. I will always be there for you, no matter what.
But I froze. I sounded like a stalker and a lovesick girl! What will you do when you received this letter? Will you ignored it like the other love letters you received from your undeniably creepy fangirls? Or will you just ripped it off? What will you do if you know that I was the one whom write it? Will you hate me or ignored me just because of my little letter. So, I decided to just scratch the idea off. I don't want to risk myself from being hated by you. I crumpled the letter into a small ball and waited till the class end and waited until all the students went out. I was aiming for the dust bin when someone 'accidentally'pushed me off balance. The letter flew towards our math teacher's head, making him turned around with a hard and cold stare. I prayed that he didn't know that the paper belongs to me. What if he reads it? His narrowed eyes made me nervous as he picked up the letter. Then, he opened up the letter and read it silently, still with his cold expression. By that time, I was sweating heavily and I prayed and prayed that he won't notice of my handwriting.
" Uchiha-san, I believe this is yours." His stern voice echoed though the classroom as students stopped from rushing out of the door, the moment they heard your name slid off his mouth. I closed my eyes tightly as you frowned and walked towards him, snatching the letter from the teacher's hand. Your eyes skimmed over the letter and widened. When that happened, your eyes, your beautiful onyx eyes scanned in the big classroom. With that, I slowly walked out of the door, keeping my face in an expressionless facade although my heart is hammering inside my ribcage.
That next day wasn't like what I had expected. I thought rumors spread about you and the note but when I reached the school, it's peaceful; like always. I observe you in the class, you looked fresh, no shadows under your eyes. I was glad that your problems had faded; i think since i assume that you had gotten enough sleep. Though I couldn't watch you that much since girls would flock at your table. So I waited and waited till math class, the time where I could observed you and that you weren't crowded by girls because they are allergic to numbers and that I'm the only girl in the class. When I went to my sit, I saw you smiling, which was rare and that you were holding on what seemed like the letter I wrote yesterday. Did you love the letter? My heart fluttered at that thought. I saw you mouthing the words I wrote while smiling and that's when I decided that it was worth it, after all.
You tried to keep the letters I wrote for you a secret from your friends. But to no avail, with the letter in your hands 24/7, they'll surely notice. Everytime I passed you and your friends, I would see you smiling while holding the letter while your friends tried to get out little much of information. They all looked happy except for your annoying and clingy friend. She would glare at the letter as if it had ruined her life. I wasn't planning on writing more letters for you since it's not important anymore as you are back to your normal self. But that changes when I over heard you talking and hoping desperately to find the girl that send you the letter. " I hope she sends me another. I can't stop thinking about her. " Were your exact words. I can't believe my ears! You- Uchiha Sasuke wants another later from a nerd like me?I can't be more happy than that!
It has been my routine to slipped my letters a little twice a week; under your desk, in your bag, in your locker and heck, even in your school shoes when you're at the field playing football! I love your reaction when you read my letter though I could only see it from afar. It's like you're a different person when you unconsciously smile while reading my letters! It made my heart warms. A smile on your face followed by mine. When you didn't receive any of my letters on a daily basis, you would turned to your normal old self; moody and cold. And you would kept on muttering bitterly at your friends, " I wonder if she forgot me."
How could I forgot you? You are my world, my life, my everything.
Soon after, rumors starts to spread around the entire school about the letters. Students are playing guesses where as the girls are desperately trying to gain your attention by writing one themselves. I was worried that you might have forgotten about me and get mistaken by their letters. But, before I knew it, they are easily caught since they don't know the true contain of the letters. Even so, I was about to give up on writing to you again since there are a lot of beautiful girls, volunteering to write you a letter but when I heard you mumbling in the corridors, it fired up my system. " Stupid girls. I don't want to receive their stupid letters, I just want hers."
Deep down inside, no matter how arrogant it is to say but I'm sure that day by day, you are starting to fall for the person behind those letters. But, I'm good in keeping away your suspicions on me, not like you really do have. There were times when I wanted to show my true identity but I was afraid that you will hate me because of my looks. Everyone hates me and it won't be too shocking if you also hate me after you discovered that the one whom writes those letters was a nerd. To add it all up, the nerd haspink hair! I'm just a simple boring pink haired freak that will never ever be with someone like you. I was afraid that you won't read the letters I wrote anymore and won't smile the rare smile. So, being the coward I always was, I hid behind my letters, waiting for the time when you will discovered my true identity though I wished that it won't have to happen. I'm happy with just the way it is.
But then, rumors spread like wild fire that the one whom sends the letters was one of your best friend or to be exact; the one that will always glared at my letters. She was a beautiful girl with long mid length black hair and sparkling purple eyes. She has a body like a model! She's perfect. She eagerly welcomed the rumor; after all, you are the most gorgeous boy in school or probably in the entire world. I felt my heart being squeezed as you start to believe that she had wrote the letter. No one would blame you as you start falling for her, wrongly assuming that she was the 'mystery girl'. And it was my fault for being too much of a coward to not tell you that i was the one whom wrote it. But it's too late now, even if I revealed my identity, no one will believe me. Who would believe a nobody over a somebody?
Years past and I always saw you in the outside world with her of course. I was heartbroken. Even so, seeing you happy is enough to make me happy. You deserved happiness, right?
Then I heard it, the most heartbreaking word. You were with your friends, telling some good news to them which I accidentally overheard. " I'm going to get marry with Reika!" your words rang in my head. I can't believe this.. I couldn't take it anymore! I ran towards my home, and cried till morning. I just can't handle my broken heart anymore. No matter how happy you are with your soon to be wife, I can't help but continue to love you. I cried and cried.. Than I decided that I just... stop. I just don't care anymore. I need, no must move on because I know, no matter how many years I love you I will never be able to be with you.
You invited all our ex-classmates and even me to your wedding. I was deciding to whether or not go to your wedding. In the end, I went to your wedding with only one thing in mind, to give you the last letter. I sneak inside your changing room and placed my last letter on your dresser table.
Dearest Sasuke,
I'm sorry for lying at you. Remember when I said, I'll always be there for you? I'm sorry but I can't just stand here watching you find your happiness. I want my happiness too. You don't need me anymore. You already have Reika-san to be with. I hope you will prayed for my happiness.
Your Mystery Girl
Fond gestures were exchange, and the organ starts to play a song that sounds like a death march. And I am hiding in the curtains, it seems like I was uninvited my your lovely bride to be. She floats down the aisle like a pageant queen and I knew she was happy. But when I saw you, I was were wearing an unreadable expressions. Then, I guess you had read the letter I gave you.
" Do you, Reika Takiyama accept Sasuke Uchiha as your husband?" The priest asked as all eyes went onto your soon to be wife. She was smiling smugly while fluttering her eyelashes towards you. You ignored it as I sighed sadly. This is it.
" Totally."
" Do you, Sasuke Uchiha accept Reika Takiyama as your wife?" Right now, my eyes stuck onto you. Of course you will say yes. After all, you had learn to love her. Then, you turned around, facing me.. staring at me before breaking our gaze. I was shocked at first but I convinced myself that I was just an accident.
" Sasuke-kun?! Just say yes already!" Reika shrieked angrilly as she glared at you. You didn't flinch.
" No."
I gaped as I heard gasps from peoples. Why would you say no? Why didn't you accept your happiness! I need to get out of here. I was mixed with various emotions, confusion, worried-ness, happiness and guilty. I thought that it was my fault that you said no. I was guilty as charged and I need to get out of here. I ran away, reaching for the big doors as I could feel all eyes on me.
I wished you will run after me towards my home. I wished you will hugged me, telling me that I'm stupid and that you forgive me for lying at you. I wished you will kissed me in front of my house where my parents will witnessed it. I wished you will say those three words.
But there's not need to wish as it all happen right before I went out.
Should I continue?? O.O
Back with only one thing in mind
Daaaang, that's good, you should continue just a bit more, but in the starting, I was confused when you said "my cheeks turned beet red like a tomato." was it either beet color or tomato color, some parts were a bit confusing, but over all I think this is really good, and that you should continue, maybe he does follow you but you ran to quick, maybe he confesses his love to you, idk make a twist, but its your writing so do what you'd like, loved it.
"All I want in life is love and flowers"
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Nick Lowe is something of a British treasure. Those of us who appreciate his value rush to his live appearances, these occurring only twice a decade or so. Tonight Nick has a new album At My Age (Proper) to promote and is being filmed by BBC4 – all this suggests a special gig.
Nick takes the stage looking very trim: grey slacks, white shirt, mop of white hair – a silver fox not unlike this website's host. He's playing acoustic, tossing off great songs like Soulful Wind, Heart, Shaking The Hill. Then the band join him – double bass, piano, guitar, drums. Without Love is the song and Florence says "it's a long time since I've heard good English country music.â€

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New/Renewal School Bus Clinic - Bellows Falls
Instructor: Andrea Howe Contact (802)254-8170
Fee: $40.00 (Cash or Check)
Location: Windham Northeast Supervisory Union Office 25 Cherry Hill St Bellows Falls, VT
To register please call and leave a message. You will revieve a return call to confirm your reservation. Class begins promptly at 7:45 am. Outside class time so dress appropriately. Snacks and beverages provided.
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Saturday, November 4, 2017 - 7:45am to 4:15pm


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Dave Seeley and his cover for Elizabeth Moon's Engaging the Enemy (Del Rey)
Jason Chan's cover for Ari Marmell's upcoming Thief's Covenant (Pyr)
Guy Davis and the cover for B.P.R.D.: Plague of Frogs Vol. 1 Issue #4, illustrated by himself and written by Mike Mignola for Dark Horse Comics.
I felt all three represented the three main aspects of what I created this blog for. Science fiction, fantasy and comics respectively, but also highlights the emphasis I put on female characters.
And, as promised, I have a song to share.
UPDATE (16/11/11): I removed the header image earlier in the week. I'll leave the details up, however.


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Welcome to the Practice of
Doctor Gunita Jolly
....... your English General Practitioner in Paris.
The practice is located on the west side of Paris, within the
Institut Hospitalier Franco-Britannique
3, rue Barbes,
92300 Levallois-Perret
From 1st November 2018 the practice will relocate to 7, rue de la Pompe, 75116, Paris. Tel: 01 45 24 69 50. Metro: La Muette
The practice has two doctors
Doctor Gunita Jolly
General Practitioner, Adults and Children
Trained at Guy's Hospital, London
Email: firstname.lastname@example.com
Doctor Denise Gunoy
General Practitioner, Monday clinics, childhood vaccinations, gynaecology, visas & travel information
Trained at University Paris VII Denis Diderot
Email: email@example.com
Our Practice Philosophy
We are committed to improving the physical and psychological health of our patients and providing continuity of care. We provide care based on evidence-based medicine, using treatments that are proven to work in a scientific way.
Location: Institut Hospitalier Franco-Britannique, 3, rue Barbes, 92300 Levallois-Perret. (Click or scroll down for details on how to get here)
Making General Medicine Appointments
USA Immigration/Visa Examinations
Appointments for USA medical visits
Appointments for the medical examinations for US visa and immigration purposes MUST be made via a special Internet appointments system. They CANNOT be made through the switchboard or through Doctolib.
The completed medical file remains valid for 6 months if normal. You must repeat the medical visit and exams if you have not had your US embassy immigration appointment within 6 months of completion.
For information about your USA immigration medical appointment and how to reserve please visit this page:
Les rendez-vous pour les visites médicales Américaines
Notez qu'il faut prendre rendez-vous pour la visite médicale pour le visa et pour immigration aux USA uniquement en ligne via un système spécialisé. Il n'est pas possible de le faire ni par téléphone, ni par Doctolib..
Le dossier médical complet reste valide 6 mois si normal. Il faut répéter la visite ainsi que les exams si vous avez votre entretien à l'ambassade plus que 6 mois après la visite médicale.
Pour toutes les informations au sujet de la visite médicale et le mode d'emploi du système de résevation veuillez visiter cette page :
Nomeações para visitas médicas nos EUA
As nomeações para os exames médicos para fins de vistos e imigração nos EUA DEVEM ser feitas através de um sistema especial de consultas pela Internet. NÃO PODEM ser feitos através do painel de comando ou através do Doctolib.
O arquivo médico preenchido permanece válido por 6 meses, se normal. Você deve repetir o exame médico e os exames se você não teve sua nomeação de imigração da embaixada dos EUA dentro de 6 meses após a conclusão.
Consulting Hours
|Dr Denise Gunoy
|Dr Gunita Jolly
|Thursday AM
|Antenatal Clinic for IHFB
Dr Gunita Jolly
(Basic SS conventioné tariff)
|Thursday PM
|Dr Gunita Jolly
|Dr Gunita Jolly
Appointment Details
The best way to make an appointment (except for USA immigration) is to use the on-line booking service Doctolib - including the Thursday morning obstetric appointments
Alternatively, phone the Hospital Call Centre on 01 46 39 22 00 during office hours.
Appointments are for 20 minutes; should you require more time than this, please book a double appointment.
Please bring all relevant medical records to a first visit.
Should you need to cancel your appointment, please let us know well in advance so that your time can be allocated to another patient. A cancellation charge may apply if you give less than 48 hours notice.
Please note that the Thursday morning Doctolib appointments are covered by the Sécurité Sociale, but that you must be registered to give birth at the IHFB to benefit from this. All other obtsetric appointments outside Thursday mornings are private and charged at Sector 3 non-conventionnée rates.
Please note that some knowledge of French is required in order to use the Doctolib booking service as well as contacting the Call Centre. Should be unable to use either one of these methods send an email to email@example.com
Surgery Location and Access
The surgery is located within the Barbès site of the Institut Hospitalier Franco-Britannique (previously known as the Hertford British Hospital) in Levallois-Perret, which is on the west side of Paris.
Institut Hospitalier Franco-Britannique
3 rue Barbès
92300 Levallois-Perret
By car: See map below.
By metro: Anatole-France (line 3): 5 minute walk to the Hospital
By Bus: Buses 93 and 174 stop just outside the hospital.
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Medical Services
Personal, confidential consultations in English
An interface between you and the French medical system - Dr Jolly is a native English speaker, and her patients generally like to consult in English. After several years working in the hospital, Dr Jolly's French is perfectly fluent, which may be of help to those patients for whom French is not their best language. Even with a good command of French, all patients have different expectations of health care. Dr Jolly can help her patients manoeuvre through the complexities of the French medical system.
Referrals - We have a network of specialists whose command of English is proven, and who have a good track record of communicating with our patients. We provide our patients with a letter in French, explaining the medical problems and examinations already performed, whenever appropriate.
Confidentiality and standards - All patients' files are confidential. We feel very strongly about providing a high standard of medical treatment and continuity of care. A file is made for every patient and will remain in the practice to provide a reference for all related problems.
Our services offered
General Medicine
Our role is to diagnose and treat general medical problems. We act as gatekeepers to specialist services by referring patients, when appropriate, and continuing care after the specialist consultation.
Screening and health promotion
Health promotion is a very important part of the consultation. We give advice regarding lifestyle, diet, exercise, physical and psychological well-being. Medical check-ups are available and can be booked directly with the Doctor concerned.
Pregnancy – pre-natal and early antenatal care
Safe pre-pregnancy planning is vital to a healthy pregnancy. Advice and examinations relating to prenatal care are available. Once you are pregnant, we provide antenatal care and help you choose the right place for your delivery. We can help you to register with the Institut Hospitalier Franco-Britannique's (British Hospital) Obstetrics department. Ideally this should take place within the first few weeks of your pregnancy. If accepted at the IHFB, you can be followed by us throughout pregnancy with full coverage by the Social security.
Travel medicine and vaccinations
Vaccination schedules and anti-malarial advice is offered to all travellers. Please consult as soon as your trip has been planned to allow time for the relevant vaccination course.
General Paediatrics and childhood vaccinations
Children's medicine from simple ear, nose and throat symptoms to diagnosis of unexplained symptoms. Vaccinations are available within the French system or in accordance with the schedule in your home country. Dr Gunoy is available on Monday mornings to give childhood vaccinations.
Gynaecology and family planning
English GPs are trained and experienced in the management of gynaecological, obstetric and paediatric problems. In most cases, you would not need to consult a specialist. We provide contraceptive advice and regular gynaecological examinations including cervical (pap) smears. We routinely treat non-surgical gynaecological problems including menopausal symptoms and have on-site access to examinations such pelvic ultrasound and cervical cytology examination.
Dr Jolly's Medical Background
Medical Studies
Dr Jolly is a British trained Family Doctor (General Practioner / Médécin Generaliste).
Her Medical degree ( M.B.B.S) is from Guy's Hospital, London, and she has a postgraduate diploma in Obstetrics and Gynaecology (DRCOG) and also a masters in General Practice medicine (MRCGP).
Experience in England
Following her degree, she worked in London teaching hospitals in Accident and Emergency medicine, Paediatrics, Obstetrics and Gynaecology, Psychiatry and General Medicine.
Following her postgraduate qualification, she worked for 2 years as a partner in a busy GP surgery in Blackheath, London. There she had a personal list of around 2000 patients and worked with 3 other Doctors to provide a high standard of primary care.
Experience in Paris
On moving to France to join her husband, she initially worked for 2 years at the British Hospital in the surgical and medical wards to improve her medical French.
After learning the nuances of the French medical system and getting to know all the staff at the British Hospital, she was invited to start a practice for English speaking patients.
In 1998, she established her private consulting rooms within the premises of the Hertford British Hospital of Paris. Here she has the advantage of having immediate access to all the facilities of the hospital, such as the Laboratory, Radiology, Obstetrics and Gynaecology treatment rooms, as well as specialists on site for immediate advice and consultation.
Other Experience
Dr Jolly has worked for the French office of a large International Medical Assistance company for 11 years. She therefore has experience of handling hospitalisations and repatriations for patients who fall ill whilst travelling.
Dr Jolly also regularly teaches courses in Medical English to groups of French Doctors, run by the post graduate department of a Paris medical school.
Dr Gunoy's Medical Background
Dr Denise Gunoy is a general practitioner, who studied medicine at University Paris VII Denis Diderot. Her GP training included paediatric consultations, gynaecology and Internal medicine. She has an interest in Travel Medicine and Paediatrics.
The French Healthcare System
Register with a general practitioner (Médecin traitant)
In France, since 2005 you must register with a general practitioner (Médecin traitant) to be maximally reimbursed by the Social Security for your appointments, further examinations and specialist referrals. You can register with Doctor Jolly
Payment and reimbursement
Patients must pay their doctors directly at the time of the consultation by cash or by cheque (Dr Jolly does not accept credit or debit cards) and will receive a receipt for the French Social Security (Feuille de soins) or a receipt in English for private insurance purposes.
In France, a doctor can be either conventioné or non-conventioné.
For the Conventioné doctors, there are two sectors:
Sector 1 doctors have a fixed rate of consultation defined by the Social Security (e.g. in 2017, 23 euros for a general medical appointment) of which 65% are reimbursed by the Social Security. Of the 23 euros the Social Security always keeps 1 euro that is not reimbursed.
Sector 2 doctors can charge different rates (honoraires libres) and only the first 23 euros are reimbursed by the Social Security at the same rate as Sector 1. The remainder is normally covered by private health insurance (variable).
Sector 3 include non conventioné doctors who are also free to set their own fees (honoraires libres) and these are reimbursed very minimally by the Social Security, but are generally reimbursed (up to 100%) by top-up health insurance (e.g. a mutuelle or private insurance). The rate will depend on the specific insurance coverage for which you have opted.
Dr Jolly is classified as a Secteur 3, nonconventioné Doctor. She was invited to set up practice at the IHFB hospital due to the important role she plays as a medical practitioner in coordinating between different health systems. This is why she has the status of 'Médecin Généraliste Specialisé'. Please note however that all Dr Jolly's and Dr Gunoy's prescriptions for medications, laboratory tests, x-rays, scans, etc., are reimbursed at the standard rates for the conventionés sectors 1 and 2.
If you have no French social security or mutuelle, your private medical insurance will reimburse you on the basis of a 'pay and claim' procedure and we will complete the relevant forms necessary for reimbursement.
Telephone Numbers
Principal Emergency Telephone Numbers
European-wide Emergency number – if you are witness to or involved in an accident or simply do not know who to call. They will redirect you to the appropriate service.
SAMU Centre (Service d'Aide Médicale Urgente). Serious emergencies - to get an emergency medical team to come in a life-threatening situation, or to be redirected to an on-call medical care team.
Police intervention
Sapeurs pompiers (firemen/paramedics) Fire, accidents and medical emergencies. Apart from fire emergencies the pompiers are also there for problems like cardiac arrests, severe breathlessness and choking.
Emergency number for people with hearing difficulties to be helped and redirected to the appropriate emergency services
ENT and Eye emergencies
Dental emergencies: for an on-call dentist
Psychiatric Emergencies
01.47.07.24.24 or 01.45.65.30.00
Poison control (Paris)
Cardiac Crisis helpline
SOS Suicide prevention
Racial discrimination (Victim and/or witness)
Red Cross
SAMU Social for social emergencies e.g. homelessness
Severe Burns (lesgrands brûlures)
Child Burn Center, Hôpital Trousseau
Adult Burn Center, Hôpital Cochin:
Pediatrics emergency at home (Paris)
Child abuse information
119 or 08.00.05.12.34
SOS Incest information
SOS Missing children information
116 or 08.10.01.20.14
Drugs and Alcohol
Drug Tobacco Alcohol Crisis Centre
113 or 08.00.23.13.13
Drug Overdose Centre
Alcooliques Anonymes 24-hour AA
SOS Battered women information
Viol Rape information;
Domestic violence (Victim and/or witness)
Birth Control, Abortion, STDs information
24 Hour Pharmacies
- Pharmacie des Champs
- 84, av des Champs Elysées, 75008 Paris
Métro: Champs Elysées-Etoile: 01.45.62.02.41
- Pharmacie de la Poste
- 26, rue de Paris, 93100 Montreuil
Métro: Croix-de-Chavaux: 01.42.87.77.37
- Out-of-hours Pharmacy (Pharmacie de garde)
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Volume 17 - Issue 5, 2017
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3D Printing Will Increase Market Share to 40 Percent in 2015
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The trend toward personal manufacturing and small-scale production is being facilitated by 3D printing, with healthcare applications (including human organ reconstruction) and consumer goods representing areas for immense potential. The technology, which is by now well-established in the aerospace and automobile sectors, brings with it a new business... Read more
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2014 02 Jun
The steady growth of the next-generation sequencing (NGS) market in Western Europe is expected to continue thanks to a variety of new applications, from comprehensive oncology panels to non-invasive prenatal analysis to food testing. Major market potential exists in areas such as pre-implantation genetic diagnosis, infectious disease and companion diagnostics,... Read more
MRI Market To Reach $5.24 billion by 2018
2013 09 Sep
Reportlinker.com has announced a new market research report, Advances in Magnetic Resonance Imaging (MRI) Market (2013-2018) - Technology Trend Analysis -- By Architecture, Field Strengths, Technology & Applications in Medical Diagnostics with Market Landscape Analysis -- Estimates up to 2018. With over 2,000 MRI units produced per year, the global... Read more
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I totally forgot to mention this yesterday. I created a special Babymouse: Monster Mash gift for the door prizes at the 2008 Portland Kidlitosphere Bloggers Conference.
The prize was a poster ... a poster of which only two others exist in the world—one belongs to my sister, and one hangs in my office (below). It's the rejected cover of Babymouse: Monster Mash:
(Note that it wasn't rejected for the reason you might think—scariness and general zombiehood—but rather because people feared that Babymouse wouldn't be immediately recognizable as Babymouse since she's wearing a suit. And, to be fair, she's not smiling as she is on every single other Babymouse cover.)
Adrienne Furness was the winner!
She picked a plain brown poster tube out of the pile of prize goodies, without any notion as to what was inside. Brave girl! Congrats!
Tuesday, September 30, 2008
One More Kidlit Blogger Conference Post: A Special Babymouse: Monster Mash Door Prize!
I totally forgot to mention this yesterday. I created a special Babymouse: Monster Mash gift for the door prizes at the 2008 Portland Kidlitosphere Bloggers Conference.
Posted by Matt Holm at 7:03 AM 4 comments
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Monday, September 29, 2008
Babymouse: Monster Mash reviewed by SherMeree
Blogger/Librarian (geez ... I feel like I've been saying that a lot lately) SherMeree reviewed Babymouse: Monster Mash over at her blog.
Check it out! It's in among a nice treat bag of spooky books, just right for Halloween!
Posted by Matt Holm at 9:00 PM 1 comments
At 2008 Portland Conference, Kidlit Bloggers Raise Money for Books for Africa
Here's the backstory:
As an author, I automatically get author copies of all of my books (although I have to say the European publishers are a bit stingy when it comes to sending copies of the translations ... but then again, they pay in Euros, so with the exchange rate being what it is, I can't really complain). For example, here's what I just pulled out of my garage:
These are the GLBs—Gibraltar Library Binding hardcover editions. I also get copies of the standard, paperback versions of the books. Those are the flashy ones—silver foil, French flaps, secret illustrations under the flaps, etc. So I give those away to people when I need to promote the book, etc. Fortunately, Random House takes care of every reviewer I could imagine, so I never need to send out review copies myself.
But I'm usually left with a case of GLBs for each book. When I was living in New York, I tried (tried) to give them away to a Brooklyn-based charity that in turn donates books to schools in the city. After shipping them to the indicated person and having them returned after total failure to deliver, I sorta gave up on giving books to local charities.
So I searched further afield, spurred on also by one of my friends' trips to Burundi in east-central Africa (one of the ten poorest countries in the world), when she visited schools throughout the country on a fact-finding mission for the Church of England. The photos she brought back were both inspiring and appalling. Students living and studying in buildings that we wouldn't let people squat in here. Kids sharing iron beds which had metal springs but no mattresses. Everyone she met in the country, she said, was in a sort of continuous haze as a result of low-level Malaria infection. And these were the best schools in that country, the ones with the best chance for the future.
Perhaps the saddest thing was a photograph of the library of one school she visited. It was the biggest library of any school in the country, and it was a single bookcase. I'm pretty sure that I have more cookbooks on my donwstairs bookshelf than these students had in their whole library.
Anyway, things are dire there. Fortunately, there are folks like the Minnesota-based Books for Africa working to correct this problem. I sent them a few cases of books last year, along with a check to cover the transportation costs (it costs them around 38 cents per book to ship them).
Back to the Kidlit conference. When I came to the 2008 Portland Kidlit Bloggers Conference on Saturday, armed with a case of Babymouse: Monster Mash GLBs to give away, I was faced with the reality that (a) There were 70-some people in attendance and (b) I had about 20 books. I didn't want to shortchange anyone, so I decided, on the spur of the moment, to let the market decide (as the economists like to say). I gave away the books for free, but collected any donations people wanted to give in return for a book ($3-$5 was typical) to pass on to Books for Africa.
It was a rousing success. Even when I had to run out to pick up my wife for the conference dinner, people kept leaving donations! They even tracked me down afterward to shove five-dollar bills into my hand, like some kindly uncle at a birthday party.
The result: a whopping $97!
Not bad for people's spare change! Thank you, thank you, thank you all. I'll round this up to $100 and send a check out to BFA pronto, probably with a case of Puppy Love. (I'm sure the themes in Skater Girl would resonate with people in any country, but will the subject matter—ice skating—strike a chord with kids in the tropics? I think I'll pass the Skater Girls on to Jone MacCulloch for her Doernbecher Children's Hospital drive.)
Posted by Matt Holm at 10:02 AM 2 comments
Fantastick Ye Olde Manga
Killer stuff from Shaenon Garrity—pre-WWII Manga, including Monkey Steelworkers and people in Robot Disguises:
(See also the put-upon mouse.)
That's from the manga Yukaina Tekkôsho, which translates as either The Delightful Steel Mill or The Happy Cog Factory. Awesome stuff.
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More fall-out from the DC/Minx collapse
Looks like some people are on fire about what they think the comics bigwigs are going to conclude from the failure of Minx comics.
Yowzers. Sounds like her thesis is that the quality of the Minx comics was also a factor in the failure. I couldn't say—I still haven't read the Plain Janes et al, so I can't comment on that aspect . (There're only so many hours in the day, you know.)
Yes, Minx, DC's line of realistic fiction comics for young girls that held interest to only a small sliver of young girls that had no reason to access the direct market that it was sold on in the first place, predictably failed and its going to be chalked up as an argument against marketing comics to women.
Because heaven forbid they–as Katherine Keller suggests–actually produce the sort of YA fiction that appeals to tween girls–fantasy.
... Heaven forbid they consider that their assumptions about young girls who read manga may be wrong, that maybe they should actually crack a [@!#$] manga and see what sort of story is told rather than just pump out the after-school-special [@!#$] they think girls like to read and assume everyone with girl parts and the ability to read English will flock to it.
And heaven forbid they look at this failure and compare it to the relative successes of series like Courtney Crumrin and think of what they could do to capture that audience rather than write off an entire age demographic and gender as out of reach.
But we all know they won't do that. We all know what's going to happen. Just as sure as my coworker will assume the lack of a scrunchy on my car's gearshift is due to his mentioning it rather than my personal hair habits, there are people who will assume the failure of Minx is due to a disinterest in comics that results from the pairing of two X chromosomes rather than poor marketing or a poor product.
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Sunday, September 28, 2008
Portland Kidlit Blogger Conference: Postgame
Well, that was a rousing day. Here's a quick rundown on the highlights of the 2008 Portland Kidlitosphere Conference as I saw them:
Airport Sheraton: Much nicer interior than the exterior implies; easy to get to; terrible climate control. Look at photos of us throughout the day (I took none; others took hundreds; see how that balances out?), which range from jackets and parkas in the morning to mopping our fevered brows with icewater in the afternoon.
Learned some things about Podcasting and Social Networking that will actually be of more use to me in my Web Design business than in my kidlit life. Thanks, Mark and Greg!
Our table won a LOT of raffle prizes at dinner, and then at the Readergirlz after-party. Ahem. There might have been some ... mixed ... feelings from some of the other tables over that. I'm expecting I'll be able to link to one of Fuse's photos of my loot in the next day or so. Unfortunately, I have to finish drawing Babymouse #11 before I can read any of the books I won.
[UPDATE: The photo is here.]
PORTLAND Kidlit Drink Night! That's right, New York—you're not the only ones who can have a semi-regular get-together! Laini Taylor rounded up contact info. on all of us local yokels, so expect there to be fun, frolic, and socializin' in the not-too-distant future!
Speaking more of conference organizer and Portland local Laini Taylor, I must here confess something I confided to Laini and Fuse yesterday ... until yesterday morning, I had always thought Laini's book was called DREADmark, not DREAMdark. Lordy lordy.
Also, Laini and husband Jim recommended some excellent local Indian food, which we will try in due time. They were stumped as to good local Chinese food, though, as has been everyone I've yet encountered in Portland. Anyone??
Sock puppets. Look to everyone else's blogs for much more on that.
We collided with another conference, one which was involved in some sort of alternative-health-multilevel-marketing-scheme: "Tunguska" herbal mouth sprays, which do everything from pep you up to make you fall asleep within five minutes. (Rather than "Binaca", I suggested "Bi-knockout" as a name.) I couldn't even make up all of the crap associated with this. Just follow the link. ("Adaptogens?") Also discovered that, with reference to "Tunguska," (a) I was the only one who knew of the 1908 Tunguska Event (the curse of deep knowledge of useless fields, like the UFO world) and (b) out of 7 or 8 kidlitters and their spouses, only Laini had read The Golden Compass (which references "Tunguska"—the region, I believe, not the impact there).
I had some rousing success raising donations for Books for Africa. Thanks to all of you! Details on the final numbers and all else related to that will follow in a separate post.
Next year in Jerusalem! Oops, wrong event. I mean DC. Washington, DC. I'll see what I can do about getting myself out that way.
Oh, and one more thing:
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Thursday, September 25, 2008
Shojo is old news
The word "Shojo," that is. Here in the States, we just started to hear about "Shojo" in the context of Shojo Manga (via Shojo Beat) only a few years ago, but apparently the word "Shojo" is almost extinct in Japan itself. Matt Thorn did the scholarship here:
The word itself has been used in Japan for centuries, but it didn't really become "popular," it seems, until the turn of the century, which is to say the latter Meiji Period. You can read more about the word on the Wikipedia article I've been helping to edit. But since the 1950s, the use of the word in colloquial Japanese had declined to the point where now it is used basically as an adjective for a genre of manga and fiction, and also as a "news/legal" word that is rarely used in daily conversation.
... But what really came as a shock to me was the realization that, unless I'm overlooking something, the word "shôjo" now appears in the title of just one girls' magazine, Shôjo Comic. There are two other extant girls' magazines (Bessatsu Friend and BetsuComi) that used to include the word "shôjo" in the title, but the one dropped "shôjo" in 1984, and the other dropped it in 2002.
... The "shôjo" peak is in the late 1910s and the 1920s.... Throughout the 1950s, the word "shôjo" seems to have lost the potency it once enjoyed, and was now being used simply to identify a magazine as being for girls. Publishers began to try to distinguish new magazines from the pack, while at the same time identifying them as "feminine," by choosing titles such as Margaret (from the French "marguerite", which is what the Japanese call a daisy). By the 1970s, publishers pretty much stopped including the word in the titles of new girls' magazines. Now it seems all but extinct.
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Minx bows out; shelving practices blamed
Looks like DC Comics' Minx division for teens is shutting down. Although there's no full consensus yet on the cause for the failure of the line (a line best known for Cecil Castelluci's The Plain Janes series), a major component appears to be the inability of comics distributors to convince bookstores to shelve the graphic novels alongside YA novels. Apparently, not enough of the Sisterhood of the Traveling Pants crowd is venturing into the Graphic Novels section of bookstores.
Some trouble was evident back in March. I wrote then:
I guess it looks like DC tried to do both--get girls into traditional comic-book stores and get a piece of the YA bookstore market--and fumbled.Seems the fumble led to a game-losing touchdown (to stretch the metaphor too far).
It's an interesting quandary—which section do you go for? For instance, in the Children's category, most graphic novels tend to be filed with other children's books, not with the graphic novels. I can think of a number of reasons: (1) the difference between picture-laden kids' books and graphic novels is not as great as the difference between text-only teen books and graphic novels; (2) there are simply not that many graphic novels in the children's category, so it makes less sense to devote a special section of the GN area to them alone; (3) booksellers/parents feel more comfortable keeping children out of the GN area altogether, because that way they don't have to worry about the young'uns stumbling onto the sex and violence that will probably be shelved not too far away from Bone and Owly.
I suppose the dichotomy has helped Babymouse, keeping it where the book readers are, but hurt the Minx line, which couldn't get at those same book readers.
Graphic Novels and Books ... why can't we all just get along?
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Wednesday, September 24, 2008
More filthy, dirty disease carriers
Yup, move over Redwall and Mouse Guard. Now, there's Mice Templar.
(Not for kids; much beheading.)
Posted by Matt Holm at 6:57 AM 1 comments
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How to Break into Writing Comics
The number-one question I get from people is, "Do you get tired of drawing Babymouse?"
The answer (fortunately) is no. Babymouse is fun to draw. Wilson and Felicia Furrypaws are fun to draw. I could draw them over and over again all day long, given I had things for them to say and do. Less fun, for me, since I came from a newspaper-comic-strip background, which is character-focused to the detriment of all other visual elements, is drawing the rest of Babymouse's world—making sure sidewalks and houses and hillsides all have the proper perspective, drawing tree after tree, drawing cars (I'm one of those kids who never really drew cars ... I spent more time drawing spaceships), and so on.
The number-two question I get from people is, "How can I get started in children's books/graphic novels/publishing?"
Luckily, someone else did the homework on this one, because my answer isn't very satisfying (draw cartoons for 15 or 20 years with no reward in sight, get a job at a magazine for eight years while doing graphic design work on the side, wait until your sister develops a successful YA publishing career, collaborate with her on a graphic novel series, then wait two and a half years for publishers to begin to show any interest in the graphic novel genre). Johanna at Comics Worth Reading has a four-and-a-half-step-plan to success. The follow-up discussion is also excellent, as other successful comickers chime in with their own experiences.
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Tuesday, September 23, 2008
Killer Superhero Art from the '70s
Via newsarama, a collection of superhero (and esp. TV superhero—like the SuperFriends, Space Ghost, and Herculoids) artist Alex Toth's work. Boy, here's a guy who could draw:
Posted by Matt Holm at 8:01 AM 0 comments
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Babymouse: Monster Mash reviewed by 100 Scope Notes
A rousing good review of Babymouse: Monster Mash by the blog 100 Scope Notes:
... Girls have a whole ... set of unwritten Halloween rules, and in "Babymouse: Monster Mash" we see how those rules can have an impact on your social life. Full of the same wit that has been an unfailing hallmark of the Babymouse series, "Monster Mash" is a graphic novel full of the sort of real-life friend troubles that younger readers will identify with.Don't miss Scope Notes' reminiscence of Worst Halloween Costume Ever (Hint: it'll make you jump, jump).
... Once I started reading, it was hard to put this one down. Babymouse books have a way of keeping the reader engaged all the way through. Be it with daydream sequences, humorous situations, or moments of genuine feeling, the plot never plods.
The illustrations, created in ink, as inventive as ever. This is the first Babymouse book to forego the pink color scheme in favor of an appropriate pumpkin orange. I think this was a smart move. Not only does it instantly I.D. this as a halloween title, but the absence of pink might also result in more boys picking it up.
Entertaining through and through, "Monster Mash" is a book you should have on hand.
What were the Worst Costumes you folks ever wore? Thinking back, mine was a black cat. Which wasn't bad as costumes go, but I wore it in 8th grade. That's a bit late for a boy to be a black cat, even in my enlightened opinion.
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Thursday, September 18, 2008
... and yes, we are living in the End Times
The Department of Homeland Security is teaming up with...
Sesame Street.
No. I'm not kidding.
Now, I'm as much in favor of disaster preparedness as the next guy (probably more so, actually), but ... Homeland Security? This has more than a whiff of "Duck and Cover" about it.
Posted by Matt Holm at 6:20 PM 1 comments
Don't Panic?
No, not the financial markets. I'm talking about the fact that a new Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy book is being written:
Artemis Fowl author Eoin Colfer has been chosen to write the sixth book in the Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy series. The new book, And Another Thing..., will be published by Hyperion in October 2009. The Bookseller reports a bit of backlash on the Hitchhiker fan site over the choice of Colfer, who is in turn defended on his own fan site. Ellen Archer at Hyperion negotiated the deal with Sophie Hicks and Ed Victor of Ed Victor Ltd., agents for both Colfer and the Douglas Adams estate.
One question: Why? I mean, the series has ended three times. So Long, and Thanks for All the Fish was a fitting (second) finale. Mostly Harmless was Mostly Unnecessary. Do we really need another one?
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Wednesday, September 10, 2008
Steal this book? How big of a problem is this for libraries?
The post on Babymouse in the Auckland City Libraries made me think of something else:
Stolen library books.
A number of the ACL copies were listed as "MISSING." Presumed stolen? It reminded me of a story my sister related to me not too long ago. She was speaking with a children's librarian, and Jenni mentioned that the Babymouse books were also available in a durable, hardcover, Gibraltar Library Binding. She assumed, naturally, that librarians would be interested in buying books that were likely to survive years of repeated use and abuse.
But the librarian replied, "Oh, no—we only buy the paperbacks."
"Why?" Jenni asked.
"Because people always steal your books, and paperbacks are cheaper to replace."
Flattering to us, of course, but I wonder, librarians—is this a serious problem at all libraries? Is it worse for Children's departments?
Posted by Matt Holm at 10:48 AM 1 comments
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Babymouse is big in ... New Zealand?
Google Alerts occasionally brings me Babymouse listings from various libraries. I don't usually follow them up, because there's usually not much more to glean from the pages than the fact that, yes, a certain library has a certain book.
But when I followed a link to Monster Mash on the Auckland (New Zealand) City Libraries site, and then checked the pages for the rest of the Babymouse books, I saw that nearly all of the copies are checked out! It looks like they have 7 copies of each book, so that's 63 altogether for the series. I see that one copy of Beach Babe is available, and one copy of Rock Star. (Another copy of Rock Star is listed as "MENDING." I envision a book in body cast and traction, for some reason.)
So, to the 60 readers in Auckland (and the many others who have placed holds on the books!), you have my thanks. Maybe someday (say, should my wife ever decide to work a winery harvest in NZ) we'll have a book tour there.
Wednesday, September 3, 2008
Sue everybody!
Heh. Saw this post today:
Ashli has been getting these Babymouse books from the library. They are really cute and fun. I should sue the Holms because it is clear to me that Babymouse is just an anomorphic representation of Ashli.
Posted by Matt Holm at 9:24 PM 0 comments
First review of Babymouse: Monster Mash!
Hurrah! The blog, A Year of Reading, has posted the first review of Babymouse: Monster Mash!
I was so happy to find BABYMOUSE: MONSTER MASH this weekend! Now that Jennifer and Matt Holm are only writing 2 new Babymouse books per year, the wait between books seems like forever!
(Aww, thanks ... sadly, though, I need to get SOME sleep ...)
BABYMOUSE: MONSTER MASH is set during the Halloween season. And, the fun thing about this book is that it is ORANGE INSTEAD OF PINK! A fun change that totally works for this issue. And, as always, Babymouse is quite adorable on the cover and throughout.
In this story, Babymouse is planning a Halloween party. The group of "mean girls" (Felicia Furrypaws and friends) want to be invited but they want Babymouse to play by their rules. Babymouse has to make some choices.
I love so much about this series, but this one really nails why I like it so much. Babymouse gets lots of peer pressure in this book-peer pressure to be someone who she is not. Peer pressure to do things she knows are not right. I like this because it is so real--so close to what some of our kids deal with on a daily basis. Babymouse is a character who gives us a way to think about these things. Since I've read every Babymouse book out there, I've become quite attached to Babymouse. In the first few books I think I loved her because she was adorable and unique. And I loved the size of the books and the humor. But in this book I realized, I love the character Babymouse. She is strong and real and anxious and fun-loving and so many other things.
Reviewer Franki's 3rd-grade daughter also has a capsule review of her own at the end—but beware of spoilers!
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The National Football League is not just the most popular sport in America, but the most successful, most watched television series in the country. Every weekend in the fall the NFL rules the television world, garnering huge ratings numbers no one else in the industry can reach. The Super Bowl is now watched by over 100 million viewers while Sunday Night Football is the most watched primetime series in America, besting the likes of American Idol and others. While the NFL is at the top of the television mountain for the moment, what will it look like in the next generation? How will football coverage change? Who will be the major TV personalities that enter our homes every week? Will the NFL expand into non-traditional avenues to bring fans live games?
These are just a few of the questions we asked our expert panel as part of Bloguin's Football in 2030 series. Already Crystal Ball Run has examined college football in 2030 and This Given Sunday has taken a close look at the state of pro football in 2030. To finish the series, it's our turn to envision what football coverage will hold in the future.
AA spoke to a diverse panel of media writers, on-air personalities, journalists, and former players to predict how the NFL will change in the media landscape of 2030. Here's Part II of our discussion and Part V of the overall series. You can view Part I here. Make sure to check out all the links to the previous chapters at Crystal Ball Run and This Given Sunday below our roundtable.
The Panel
Chris Burke – NFL writer, Sports Illustrated
Richard Deitsch – Media writer, Sports Illustrated and The MMQB
Mike Freeman – Lead NFL writer, Bleacher Report
Brad Gagnon – Managing Editor, This Given Sunday; lead NFC East blogger, Bleacher Report; AA staff member
Ben Koo – GM, Awful Announcing
Andrea Kremer – Reporter, NFL Network
Curt Menefee – Host, Fox NFL Sunday
Trey Wingo – Host, ESPN NFL Live
Damien Woody – ESPN NFL analyst, NFL Pro Bowler
Matt Yoder – Managing Edtior, Awful Announcing
8) Are any women calling NFL games on television or radio?
Burke: Not as a play-by-play announcer, but possibly as a color commentator — Doris Burke's work in the NBA has at least opened the door. The NFL is slower than just about any other sport to really embrace drastic change, and this would constitute one. Plus, right now there simply is not a female football announcer storming the ranks.
Deitsch: Yes.
Freeman: Sports journalism is still a misogynistic, anti-woman profession but I do think one will break through by then. But it will be tough. Many of the people doing the hiring in our business are small minded little boys who only want a pair of pretty breasts on screen doing anything but calling a game. They fear strong, intelligent women in that position of power. If there isn't a woman calling NFL games by then, we should all be ashamed of ourselves. If Hillary is president before we have a woman calling NFL games, that's a sad state, and we should just all shoot ourselves in the face.
Gagnon: Nope. Sadly, I don't think the NFL has gotten to that point.
Kremer: This is a wishful thinking question. I must say yes, but it will be because she has paid her dues, worked her way up the broadcasting ranks and not because of her gender. And here's something to ponder – maybe the woman had playing experience in a women's only football league.
Menefee: There will be women that have been calling nfl games for more than a decade by 2030.
Wingo: I can't imagine they won't be. The largest growing part of the NFL fan demographic has been women over the last few years.
Woody: Yes, definitely. By then, women will be doing both. By 2030, we could possibly have a woman call a Super Bowl.
Yoder: 2030 seems like a long ways away, but in reality it's only 17 years away and it's hard to see a woman calling an NFL game in that timeframe. We've already seen Doris Burke do great work in the NBA, but due to the realities of its hardcore fanbase, pro football will be the last sport to progress to a point where women are calling games. The truth is that the fraternity of NFL announcers is the most exclusive in all of sports and the mentality that allows announcers to hold jobs years past their prime makes any kind of forward thinking almost impossible.
9) What's the best innovation in game coverage in the last ten years, from 2020-2030?
Deitsch: Live audio on every player so we can hear what everyone is saying during the game.
Freeman: Body vitals of players being displayed on screen. "The heart rate of quarterback James Winston brought to you by Budweiser."
Gagnon: Microchips and lasers! No more human error on calls and no more long breaks for reviews. Technology continues to take over.
Koo: The best innovation in game coverage is the ability to select previous highlights and stat lines as well as the All 22 views in game from your remote. Sure it's a little money, but it's pretty sweet.
Kremer: Tiny go pro-esque cameras on helmets for the ultimate point of view shots and a chip in the football that gives you exact placement information including whether the plane of the goalline has been broken. No more need to bring out the chains for first downs.
Menefee: The ability to use your remote to zoom in/out, and spin 360 degrees around any camera angle to create the picture that you want to see.
Wingo: The ability to digitize games and manipulate the perspective of the cameras. In other words, taking a shot from a sideline camera, and using ESPN Axis or whatever every other network calls it to turn the digitized pictures into the best possible angle to give everyone the best look at every single play.
Woody: A point of view camera that players wear to offer the perspective of what it's like to play. Fans want to be as close as possible to the action. With the help of technology, fans can pick and choose the player they want to watch on any given play.
Yoder: A camera inside the helmet that allows you to see the play from the perspective of any player on the field. If NASCAR can have in-car cameras, why not in-helmet cameras in the NFL? Additionally, fans will be able to select from a multitude of camera angles by the click of a remote.
10) Can fans order games a la carte on their television regardless of their provider? Can they do so on their computer, phone, or television or does watching games still require you to have the right provider?
Burke: If Roger Goodell (and whoever replaces him down the line) stays set on expanding the "brand", continuing to limit viewing options would be foolish. It may not wind up a flawless transition, but I'd guess by 2030 that the NFL has something in place that resembles NBA League Pass or MLB Extra Innings.
Deitsch: I could see an a la carte option being offered to mobile subscribers, yes.
Freeman: Hell yes. It will be one of the best things about watching the sport.
Gagnon: No chance. Everyone will have access to everything. You might only need the right hologram provider for hologram footage of the games. Kidding, I think.
Koo: All pro leagues and colleges have figured out to monetize individual games on all platforms. It's not economically that efficient to do so, but if you're in a pinch, what's $15.99 for a football game?
Kremer: You can have whatever games you are willing to pay for and whatever personalized experience, including practically directing your own game with camera angles.
Wingo: There will be some leeway there, but remember: the provider pays enormous fees for one reason and one reason only: inventory. They want the product that everyone wants to consume. If that product is available a million different ways, the value of that product will diminish.
Yoder: If the NFL can make money off of it, they'll do it.
11) Is talking about spreads and Vegas odds still taboo on television during the games?
Burke: No. I think we're already trending in that direction, be it with subtle Brent Musberger references or general discussion of lines. Whether or not betting on sports is legal outside of Vegas at this point, I'm not sure. But if there's one thing we know, it's that the NFL will go where the money is — and NFL fans have an increasingly ravenous appetite for this aspect of the sport.
Deitsch: No.
Freeman: It won't be. Networks will use point spreads as another revenue stream.
Gagnon: As I mentioned earlier, I think the NFL will start to realize that it's losing out on too many opportunities here. In 2030, the league has closed much of the gap between it and the gambling world, simply because that stigma was already fading early in the century. It's too mainstream to be ignored.
Koo: While not encouraged, the legalization of online sports gambling and rise of daily fantasy games has forced the NFL's hand here. There are some unspoken rules on how, who, and when odds and spreads can be discussed, but it's no longer the elephant in the room.
Menefee: Would it surprise you if sports gambling was legal in all states by then? It wouldn't surprise me. All of the major sports leagues may be against this trend, but everyone was against state lotteries at some point, and look at what happened with that. As State governments look for more and more sources of revenue to handle budgets that are struggling to come remotely close to being balanced, this additional source of tax money won't continue to be overlooked
Wingo: It's not nearly as taboo as it has been in recent years. Listen to what Peyton Manning was saying about disclosing info on his " lower body" injury this season. Everybody knows what's in play, and I think that will continue going forward
Woody: I don't think the NFL will change from this perspective. It will still continue to uphold a certain image.
Yoder: Maybe not "taboo," but maybe not out in the open either. I can see a few more veiled gambling references in the vein of pioneers in the field like Brent Musburger and Al Michaels. I could see mainstream sports networks developing gambling shows for studio programming, though.
12) How will the quality of games be for Thursday, Sunday, and Monday Night Football compared to now?
Burke: I doubt Sunday/Monday night games will change all that drastically, from a quality standpoint. However, I could see the NFL taking steps to improve its dismal Thursday product, starting with trying to give teams byes the week prior to a Thursday night game when possible.
Deitsch: I'll predict there will no longer be Thursday games but Saturday night might come back. Sunday remains the biggest game day and the Sunday Night game remains the showcase game of the week.
Freeman: Thursday games will still be quite shitty. They have to be. The human body just can't take that kind of abuse so soon after a game. I also think we'll having Saturday night games and they will be uber-shitty.
Gagnon: None are going anywhere, that's for sure. In fact, in 2030, the NFL has added an extra Sunday nighter and Monday nighter. SNF games are at 7 p.m. and 10 p.m. ET and it's the same deal Monday night. Thursday games continue to suck, but the league places more emphasis on ensuring that teams competing on Thursdays are almost always coming off bye weeks. There are also eight Sunday morning games per year from London, England. Someone buys the rights for an 8 a.m. ET kickoff to go up against soccer and cartoons.
Koo: Thursday Night Football continues to be pretty lackluster in terms of matchups. Sunday Night Football has reverted back to being modest in terms of quality and has actually shifted back onto cable. The NFL realized that the country had a bit of football malaise after a full day and that AMC and HBO were providing worthy competition. The NFL finally stopped punishing ESPN for not buying half of the NFL network and decided to make it the premium package of games with flex scheduling. Life is good. Really really good!
Kremer: Considering there are 36 teams, ranging from Los Angeles to London, and two bye weeks a season, there is plenty of quality to spread around.
Wingo: The biggest detriment to the quality of play will be the restrictions in the CBA. If you can't practice as much, especially with contact, the quality will go down. The upside here is that less contact during the week just might prolong some careers.
Woody: The quality will be lot better because of medical and training advancements. Players will be able to recover so much faster, and that will allow them to prepare for these games and recover that much more.
Yoder: The NFL's continued reign over American television will grow with a "Who Wants to be a Millionaire"-esque expansion across television. If they could, the league would be on TV every night. Not only is there still a Thursday Night package split between NFL Network and Fox, but a Wednesday Night package for Turner Sports. To alleviate the burden on players, an extra bye week is added so teams playing on Wednesdays and Thursdays will be able to gain the extra rest they desperately need to increase midweek game quality.
13) Is Hard Knocks still on television? Is there an in season version of Hard Knocks?
Burke: No, though the amount of access teams have to give to the NFL and its broadcast partners will continue to grow exponentially. I think Hard Knocks already is running into the main issue that will derail it entirely at some point: Teams don't really want to be on it.
Deitsch: Hard Knocks is not on television but you can pay each team a season subscription to get a Hard Knocks experience on a daily basis.
Freeman: There will be something like Hard Knocks but it will feature a handful of players wearing Google Glass. We'll watch them train, practice, go to meetings, make out with girlfriends and mistresses all while they wear Google Glass.
Gagnon: The in-season thing has been attempted, but it's not intriguing enough. The training camp version keeps rolling on.
Koo: Hard Knocks is still on television and it's glorious. The in season version of Hard Knocks is potentially better but unfortunately is aired after the season so as to not be a distraction or give too much away during the regular season. Liev Schreiber is on the ballot for the 2031 NFL HOF. He's got my vote.
Kremer: Cameras are omnipresent 24/7. Big Brother meets the NFL.
Menefee: A year round version of Hard Knocks will be broadcast in each NFL market featuring the local team. With the proliferation of regional sports networks, the rise of each team's in-house productions unit, and the eternal thirst for NFL programming, I fully expect every team to do their own version on a 12-month basis.
Wingo: Considering Jerry Jones has already gone on record as saying he'd love to do an in-season hard knocks, I'm sure it will happen. This will continue to press the divide between coaches — who don't want every part of the business out there for everyone to see — against owners who want to continue to push the envelope and maximize eyeballs and dollars.
Woody: Yes, Hard Knocks is fascinating TV. There will be an in-season version so you can watch a team from training camp through season's end. That will be compelling all-access TV.
14) Who are 3 current players who have transitioned well to being a broadcaster?
Burke: Nate Burleson's an easy choice for me, given how well he has performed in his offseason cameo appearances on the NFL Network. I also wouldn't be surprised if Aaron Rodgers and Drew Brees transition well, if they want to pursue that line of work. Both are popular players with experience in front of the camera.
Deitsch: Ryan Clark, Peyton Manning, and Russell Wilson.
Freeman: Tim Tebow, Maurice Jones-Drew, Andrew Luck.
Gagnon: Richard Sherman has become a media force in 2030, but that doesn't mean he's a good broadcaster. Greg Jennings, Peyton Manning and Arian Foster have become the best in the business.
Koo: Drew Brees is a guy that has really done well transitioning to the booth as the analyst for Monday Night Football. Troy Polamalu is a pleasant surprise and is hardly recognizable without his hair as you may remember as a studio analyst. Russell Wilson is a bit rigid at times but has done a wonderful job replacing the recently retired Ron Jaworski as the default x's and o's guy.
Kremer: Peyton Manning (every ballot will have him I would think!), Drew Brees, Tony Gonzalez
Menefee: No question in my mind that Aaron Rodgers will be a #1 game analyst for a network and Peyton Manning will be in a network studio. Both doing extremely well. Richard Sherman's mix of Compton street attitude and Stanford smarts will be perfect for television, too.
Wingo: Here are four: Tony Romo, Drew Brees, Russell Wilson and Richard Sherman.
Yoder: Drew Brees, Peyton Manning, and Richard Sherman.


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Now, Harvard research published in the current issue of the journal Bulletin of Insectology, shows that two types of neonicotinoids were responsible for as much as 50 percent of the honeybee colony deaths in the studies. "[N]one of the untreated colonies saw their bees disappear," reports the Guardian.
The researchers studied 18 honeybee colonies in three areas in central Massachusetts between October 2012 and April 2013. Four colonies at each site location were treated with neonicotinoids—two with imidacloprid and two with clothianidin—while two went completely untreated.
"Bees from six of the 12 neonicotinoid-treated colonies had abandoned their hives and were eventually dead with symptoms resembling [colony collapse disorder]," the researchers wrote. "However, we observed a complete opposite phenomenon in the control colonies." Of the control colonies, the researchers noted that only one was lost as a result of an infection by the parasitic fungus Nosema.
"We demonstrated that neonicotinoids are highly likely to be responsible for triggering 'colony collapse disorder' in honeybee hives that were healthy prior to the arrival of winter," said lead researcher, Chensheng Lu, an expert on environmental exposure biology at Harvard School of Public Health.
According to the research, all of the colonies had "near-identical levels of pathogen infestation," explains the Guardian. This new research challenges previous theories that suggested colony collapse disorder occurred as a result of parasitic infection and disease triggered by neonicotinoid exposure.
"It is striking and perplexing to observe the empty neonicotinoid-treated colonies because honey bees normally do not abandon their hives during the winter," the scientists wrote. "This observation may suggest the impairment of honey bee neurological functions, specifically memory, cognition, or behaviour, as the results from the chronic sub-lethal neonicotinoid exposure."
Additionally, colder winters, which are expected to continue as a result of global warming, appear to increase the effects of neonicotinoids on the bees. "In the cold winter of 2010-11, 94% of the insecticide-exposed colonies suffered CCD compared to 50% in the new study," the Guardian explained.
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Hmmm, you must really be having problems; everything is displayed upside down! Turn your monitor 180 degrees and that should fix that problem!
Joking aside, I do think the Web Drivers will work. For me, I need it in order to get my graphics working properly in High Sierra.
Yeah, I don't why it shows up side down, lol. I don't know, its 50%-50% that web drivers will help. I tried to install web drivers to working Sierra build and I get KP.
Right now im trying to install it on APSF partition. I can't get APSF to show in Clover after second boot to continue the installation. I do have apfs.efi in drivers64UEFI folder. Maybe you know why?
In some cases, I had to use NVIDIA Web Drivers in order to get my card working. The reason why is due to me using both my IGPU and my DGPU. I wonder why you got kernel panics from that...
I have no idea why APFS wouldn't be showing up whenever you installed it into the EFI. What's the version of Clover that you're using?
I've tried with the latest and few older versions. Clover shows all partitions but APFS. This is what i see on that partition when i boot to working Sierra.
Hmmm, it's not installed properly at all. What version of Clover are you using? It's at the bottom right (left? Bottom somewhere) on the bootloader screen.
I've tried with the latest v4097 and 4091 and 4084...i think
That's really weird; I'd try reinstalling. It worked just fine for me when installing.
Do you resolve problem with GTX 550 ti? Web drivers don't work because not support GTX 550 Ti
The Web Drivers should support the GTX 550. I don't see why not...?
Mark the web drivers aren't supporting the card because some older Nvidia cards (like GTX 550 and GTX 660) were installed in some older Macs (or at least their mobile version) and the drivers normally are included in macOS. But in High Sierra the cards (as far as I know) aren't working completely fine. My 660 is getting recognized in About this Mac and it shows up with the right amount of RAM etc. but all over the screen (in my setup mainly in normally transparent areas or areas with some transparent content) there are big pixel flickers and glitches... I know it's been some time from the last post but maybe someone has an idea how to fix this?
dieserNiko I upgraded to High Sierra on my main computer today and my GTX 670 works just fine. I wonder if Apple kept support for the 500/600-series cards. They must've; native out of the box. Then, NVIDIA was complaining about updates. They work as well.
Hey @dieserNiko ,
My GTX 670 is recognized just fine and works. When High Sierra gets released I'll do some testing. Good points though.
Mark Ok nice I found out that the glitches aren't there after booting, but by time they are showing up more and more. Especially when I open a new tab in Safari, my monitors are going crazy, same as in Launchpad... I don't have any idea why this could be :'D
There's a guy named @Niklas who's had the same issue as you. He might be able to help you.
He should get an email regarding this post.
I still have the same problem as I described in my 1st post. Have no idea how to fix it. Sierra is working just
fine but HS is not. So annoying.
I expirienced glitches when I was enabling IGPU (using the integrated and external GPU at the same time) in the bios. I would try disabling it, if it's available.
Hier gibt's auch Bilder der Glitches: https://markwithtech.com/d/90-weird-graphical-issues/22
I can't use both. I have to choose one or the other so i guess thats not the issue.
Glad its working for you. My GTX 550Ti still have problems. So annoying, have no idea how to fix it. I've installed HS on one of my friend's PC with GTX 580. Working just fine. I was so pissed
I'm wondering if integrated graphics are required for the dGPU to be enabled. Try enabling integrated graphics, set it as default graphics and attempt to boot.
I've already tried that, no luck.


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