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Saguaro Sentinels
At sundown, they stand in silhouette
Silent in the fading orange light, ultimate icons of the great West
How many parched cowboys, with sweat stained bandanas drooped about their necks, have lead weary, spavined horses through the Sonoran Desert, weaving under and around the massive arms and prickly spines of the Saguaro cactus; all three with their own story of survival?
–No one can look at a Saguaro cactus for the first time and look away.
Saguaros are viewed as much more than a plant. People see in them what they want to see. Some loan these desert giants giant John Wayne personalities and loads of Wile E. Coyote animation! We put Santa outfits on them at Christmas time. Other seasons find them standing guard in subdivisions, sporting clown-sized sunglasses with a ten gallon hat and a shiny gold star pinned to their chest. Woodpeckers peck bullet holes in them. They accept these insults with a wink. Saguaros steal our hearts because we feel empathy for them, stoic in their thirst against a blinding blue sky.
Saguaro Cactus are part legend, part song, and can be found everywhere–not just growing in portions of southern and central Arizona and northwestern Mexico! A forth grade classroom in Wisconsin in February has Saguaros pictured and plastered across a cork board in the hall. These sentinels stand in our living rooms while we watch Clint Eastwood "Hang 'Em High" all over again. Saguaros live in everyone who has experienced them (and they are an experience!) Their arms hold our awe.
I am a changed person after having seen, felt and "knowing" them for the first time at age 54. They are patient. They are still. They are funny. They are real. They are strange. They are heroes of the southwest. They are inspiring and beautiful. They are survivors. They are miracles. They stole my heart.
Facts About Saguaro (pronounced "suh-wha-ro")
- Bigger ones are 25-35 feet tall, some reaching 50′
- The average Saguaro is 125 to 175 years old
- They don't grow "arms" until they are at least 50 years old
- A mature 35′ cactus can weight 7.5 tons or 14,000 lbs.
- They are 95 percent water
- Of all U.S. states, only Arizona and California (with only 100 of them) have Saguaros
- They started to grow in Arizona only 10,000 years ago
- They produce 40 million seeds in a lifetime and only one seed might survive
- In full sun, a Saguaro seed will die so they find "nurses"…thriving only under rocks or plants to hide under for protection
- Cactus spines are finally tough enough at 12″ tall to deter predators such as birds and caterpillars
- Average annual growth is 8″ to 9″ because they are busy growing a massive root system
- A mature Saguaro can drink one ton of water after a heavy rain
- It breathes at night, when air is coolest
- The spines or spikes can provide as much as 70% shade for the plant
- Reproduction starts at about 50-60 years of age
- Their flowers blossom at midnight and die by next day's noon sun
- Once pollinated, the flowers become fruit and a source of nutrition for desert animals and insects such as bats, birds, bees, desert tortoises, javelinas, rabbits, squirrels, wood rats coyotes, and foxes.
- Winged white doves eat the fruit and the seeds are pooped out and spread this way
- They are reluctant bird houses for gilded flickers and Gila woodpeckers as these long beaked birds dig out cavities to raise their young
- Saguaros, enjoying celebrity status, bring in the most scientific research dollars to the desert habitat
A Western Legend about the Saguaro (a tall tale) that is worthy!
Joe Mulhatton was a man living on Arizona's frontier. He wears a big hat, boots that go jingle-jangle, and a fringed jacket that's too clean and well-kept to be anything but decoration. He is sitting behind a glass of really horrible whiskey in a shack-like saloon telling a story that shouldn't, by any reasonable standard, attract a single believer.
He lived in Florence, southeast of Phoenix, an area where saguaros grow as thick as the tales, and in 1899 (true story) he told the following tale that was picked up and printed by several newspapers around the Territory.
Joe claimed that giant saguaros around Florence exerted an extraordinary magnetic force, probably , he theorized, from vast beds of copper running beneath the earth. Because of this great power, each plant could attract or repel any object that drew close. In his story, Mulhatton told of two unsuspecting tramps who took refuge underneath some of these monsters and of the grisly disaster that ensued. He swore:
"One of the men was at once drawn up to and impaled on the sharp blades of the cactus, while the octopus-like arms folded around him crushing him through and into the cactus, where his blood, flesh and bones turned into a pulp very much like ordinary mucilage, which trickled out slowly from the aperture made by the passing in of the man's body.
He went on to tell how the cactus loses its magnetic power while it is digesting its victim. "So we were enabled to look at this wonderful yet gruesome sight and report about these particulars." A negative cactus repelled the second tramp and heaved his body about 100 feet against a positive one, whereupon he met the same fate.
Mulhatton's story originally ran in the Florence Tribune, and it so impressed the editors of the Tombstone Epitaph that they printed a subsequent version with added details.
It seems Mulhatton himself approached to within 100 feet of one of the man-eating cacti, but it was "all he could do to resist its influence to draw him in." He then returned to the town to fetch a rope, planning to tie it around his waist while four of his friends wrapped their arms around him and held on. Mulhatton wanted to "approach near enough to minutely examine the wonder without danger."
A traveling salesman in his work life, brave Joe, we can assume, was accustomed to approaching thorny customers. In telling his story, however, there is something more going on than a prankster creating nonsense for kerosene-lamp entertainment. At the bottom of the Tribune version, Mulhatton concluded: "There is very little travel through this wild section of Arizona, or this species of cactus would have been written about sooner." (Note the implicit danger in that statement, the romance and the mystery. What's out there? Will I survive it? Am I tough enough?)
Everyone who ever braved the Western frontier has asked those questions. The man-eating cactus was less a story than an invitation–a dare to test ourselves against "wild Arizona," using the saguaro as the lure. Joe Mulhatton was an early practitioner of the art of promotion, a pioneer in more ways than one, and his legend lives on.
Trump Card
This little five year old boy did not "fight a battle with cancer" – he trumped it with a full house thanks to Marvel Comics. Nobody who is so brave and fights so hard loses a battle with cancer. They win because they don't give up.
At first glance one may think these men
In their colorful suits
Did something special for the boy
–But quite the opposite is true.
Five year old Brayden Denton belongs to all of us. Our little Super Hero brought out the best in humanity and the gift is real. He held on to faith in the good guys. He inspired us to aspire.
He accomplished something in five years that takes many of us a lifetime–he transformed us into something bigger than ourselves. He mattered.
Today, Brayden is skimming stones across blue water ponds and collecting lightning bugs in a jar. He is righting wrongs and playing cards with the biggest SUPERHERO of all time. Through HIS Superpowers, Brayden is sitting on his Mom and Dad's shoulders–an innocent angel, living life in full color.
~Dedicated to Rick Carmichael who lives two lives. One for himself, and one for his little boy angel.
You Don't Know Nothin' About Machinery
Colloquialisms or expressions/slang that our parents
abused used on us while we were busy growing up on the south side of Chicago in the 1960′s and 1970′s have scarred us for life. These sayings were meant to show us how little we knew of life.
No matter the project or the explanation, Uncle Ted Laszczewski would come back with, "Ahhh, youse guys don't know nothin' about machinery." But, on the outside chance we did know a little something about nothing, he would remark, "Chihauhua," –his one size fits all acknowledgement.
Bad words were only used by kids who wanted to end up at St. Charles or "CharlieTown", the juvenile detention center. We were always being sent there. Parents posted the phone number to the North Pole next to the rotary phone and threatened to call the Abominable Snowman on us if Santa was busy. Yeah, Richie Cunningham never experienced "The Chicago Way."
Economics dictated a lot of what we got in trouble for. "Turn off the lights! We don't have stock in Edison."
- Get off the phone–it's long distance!
- Close the front door, you're letting out the heat.
- Close the refrigerator, you're letting out the cold.
Then there was the 'ol collect call trick used when we reached our final destination. Our parents would tell us, "When you get there, call home collect and then hang up when I don't accept the call."
Things told to a ten year old:
Quit your dilly-dallying. I don't care if everybody is doing it, you're not everybody. I'm not going to tell you twice. When you are big enough and tough enough, we'll talk. What was that? It sounded like a bomb went off. I thought I told you not to do that. Go disappear. Yeah, well people in Hell want ice water. Don't make me take off my shoe. I've seen better heads on lettuce. You have two legs, walk! That's enough from the peanut gallery. I have eyes in the back of my head. Stop it or I will give you something to cry about. Keep your hat on so your head won't fall off. Wipe that smile off of your face! If you had brains, you would be dangerous. You've got more excuses than Carter's has pills. I don't want to hear a peep out of you. Use your noggin. Don't make me come up there. I wouldn't bet the farm on it. Stop it or you'll poke your eye out. Because I said so. Do that and you're headed to Hell in a hand basket. Get out of my hair. If your friend jumped off of a cliff, would you? Don't call your Mother a "she". Oh for cry-eye! Close the door; you weren't born in a barn. Mind your P's and Q's.
Things told to a seventeen year old:
"E" does not stand for Enough…if you run out of gas, don't call home. Aint isn't a word. They'll never buy the cow if they get the milk for free. I asked for a reason, you gave me an excuse. This is not a popularity contest. You don't know your ass from a hole in the ground. Money doesn't grow on trees. "Hey" is for horses, grass is cheaper. Keep your knees together if you don't want to get pregnant. Who do you think you are…The Queen of Sheba? or King Farouk? Make sure your underwear is clean. See, there's the problem…you were thinking again. Don't let that change burn a hole in your pocket. Guess what…the world doesn't revolve around you. If bullshit was music, you'd be a brass band. You're going to break that mirror if you keep looking in it. This is not a flop house. That outfit leaves nothing to the imagination. You don't know shit from apple butter. Here's a nickel, go call someone who cares. This job needs a bigger hammer; or, get me a left-handed screwdriver. "You smell like a French whore" (if we wore too much perfume). If you think I'm going to say yes, you have another thing coming. "I don't know" is not an answer!
The Theory of Relativity:
- Lose a game? We could count on being cheered up with, "Well, when it rains, it pours" or "Cry me a river" or my favorite, "Go play in traffic."
- Confused? Then you don't know whether to shit or go blind.
- Want your dad to get moving? He says, "I can't. I have a bone in my leg."
- Want a dog? "Go pet your brother, Pete."
- Need stitches? "Time to get the chainsaw out."
- Blocking the view of the only TV? "Your dad wasn't a glass maker, Move!"
- Bullied? Go kick 'em where it counts.
- Making faces? "Cut it out or your face is going to stay like that."
- Need to use the restroom? Go bomb Tokyo or go see a man about a horse.
Moms had their own mafia. One mom would catch you up to no good and cuff you for it. Then, when you got home, your own mom would double down. After that, you'd have to explain it to your father when he gets home. We went to bed without supper. We were made to fix what we broke and return what we stole. By the time our parents got done with us, we knew just enough about machinery to not be dangerous.
Bright blue, blinding cotton-candy skies shifted above me, demanding sunglasses. A light, cooling breeze drifted across my forehead as I navigated a Kevlar clad canoe around the rocky outcrops and pebble beaches of the Michigamme Reservoir on an eighty degree June day.
It was a day when the sun's rays beat the waves into submission and they penetrated my bare shoulders until my skin emitted a summer, smoky smell.
Way up in a solar glare, birds with wing spans of four feet soared this way and that on the breeze; hang-gliders! Deer, driven out of their grassy beds by mosquitoes, stood in the open, at the water's edge, quenching parched throats with long, protracted sucks as though through straws. Bees buzzed in the wildflowers and jumping frogs escaped from shore.
Harmony. The swift, silent canoe blended into nature's scene and through its silent glide, it afforded me the opportunity to observe nature undisturbed.
It lifted my soul as we (my faithful dog, Remi, and I) paddled from island to island one glorious afternoon last year.
She sitting forward and not a jiggle. I paddled. On this day, though, it occurred to me to experiment with the dog by pulling up to a beach, off loading her, and then resuming my paddling to see what her reaction would be.
Harmony. As I maintained a distance of about ten feet from the shoreline, she continued to run along with me, happy as a clam.
We were both confident in this new endeavor and the resulting partnership was fun. She proved herself a true athlete, climbing cliffs and swimming in bigger water, next to the canoe, when we had to get to another island. I marveled at her busy feet, stroking to an internal count, underwater. Her gait was steady, confident, and strong.
We traveled in silence, each under our own power. We were a team. We were on an adventure. We learned to trust.
Harmony. A very special day for both Remi and me.
Locked and Loaded
I'm pretty excited about THIS so I'm using lots of capital letters.
The iCPooch is REVOLUTIONARY. This INTERACTIVE care device was invented by a 13 year old girl who had a dog that suffered from separation anxiety. AND IT WORKS. You can feed and talk to your dog when you are away.
Lock and load some treats in one of the four little trays that slide down a hopper. Mine doesn't stay clean long…usually there are bacon crumbles or cracker bits laying on the bottom. Sync the feeder to your phone using the app. (It was so easy even a 54 year old could do it.)
Now leave the room or leave the house or leave the state or leave the country. When the spirit moves you, open the app to send a signal to DROP A TREAT! There is a mechanical sound when the chute pops open and it took my dog 1.5 times to memorize it. Works better than hearing aids. She might not move when I call her from the next room, but let that chute sound off and BOOM.
Now here's the best part…if you have a tablet laying around, you can opt to attach it to the front of the feeder to talk to your dog and see your dog on FaceTime. SERIOUSLY. YOU CAN CALL YOUR DOG ON THE PHONE. Have her do tricks for you, too, sometimes, before releasing the treat. I feel like I'm living in the future, in a Jetson's cartoon.
iCPooch is fun for both of us and if you have a spare buck fifty laying around, get one. It works on cats, too. But I don't like cats. Not yet, anyway. Everyone says I will when I get old. I'm all about that pup, 'bout that pup, 'bout that pup…no kitties.
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Riding the Rails
- At January 21, 2015
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I discovered the joy of riding the rails last summer in Alaska, truly the last frontier. The last train I had ridden on was a commuter in Chicago that hustled me from preppy Elmhurst to the skyline of the Magnificent Mile, reuniting me with my steno pad as I spent another work day, single in the city, transcribing shorthand as an executive legal secretary–only a buzz away by Intercom–in my heels and fitted skirt.
In Alaska, instead of clothes flapping on lines strung across every back porch from here to there and seeing blurred humanity whizzing by at 50 mph, I saw purple mountain's majesty and crystal pure ponds with a hues that stole my heart, one click-clack at a time.
The Alaskan Railroad passes through the wilderness, where all roads end and moose begin. Whistle stops happen: homesteaders stand at any point along the track and flag the train to a halt. These pioneers clutch babies and bundles as they hop a ride to town for supplies. Sometimes they have to strike a camp along the rail, waiting for the next train. It could be days.
My favorite part of the trip was discovering the "in between."
To get from one train car to another, you exit the first on a bridged walkway, over the massive linking sections, to the next. It is a pause from here to there on the way from "saw that" to "what's next." There are half walls to keep rubbernecks from spilling out. There is no glass or wind protection above these walls, so sticking one's head out is mandatory (if you are me!)
Some destinations on our trip required a five hour train ride. My mom and I enjoyed the perks of white glove dining in the dining car, the splendor in the glass dome observation car, and we sank, with smiles, in the reclining seats in the passenger cars. Among the creature comforts were big tables for snacks or card games and little bistros where a mug of hot chocolate went a long way.
Me? I spent the whole time, hogging up my spot on the open rail, in the "in between."

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Teresa Heffernan is Professor of English at Saint Mary's University, Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada. She is author of Post-Apocalyptic Culture: Modernism, Postmodernism, and the Twentieth-Century Novel (University of Toronto Press, 2008) and Veiled Figures: Women, Modernity, and the Spectres of Orientalism (University of Toronto Press, 2016). She is co-editor (with Daniel O'Quinn) of a critical edition of Lady Mary Wortley Montagu's The Turkish Embassy Letters (Peterborough: Broadview Press, 2012). She is series editor, with Reina Lewis, of Cultures in Dialogue (website) developed with SSHRC research funding. She is co-editor (with Jill Didur) of a special issue of Cultural Studies entitled "Revisiting the Subaltern in the New Empire" and of a special issue of Cultural Critique (with Jill Didur and Bart Simon) on "Posthumanism." Her articles have appeared in journals such as Studies in the Novel, Eighteenth-Century Studies, Arab Journal for the Humanities, Subject Matters, Canadian Literature, and Twentieth Century Literature.
Karen Asp is a PhD candidate in the Faculty of Environmental Studies at York University, Toronto, where she is focusing on capitalist accumulation, technocracy and ecological degradation in the so-called "Anthropocene Era." She has a BA in politics and two Masters degrees, in geography and in social and political thought (SPT). She is Social Robot Future's web designer/manager, and occasional blogger. She also helped plan and coordinate the Cyborg Futures Workshop.
Alex Baker is an undergraduate student at Saint Mary's University, majoring in philosophy, English and history. He helped compile the film and fiction bibliographies posted on this site, as well as annotating all of the associated entries.
Keif Godbout-Kinney is an MA student in the Women and Gender Studies Program at SMU where he is working on a thesis titled, "AI and Sex Robots: An Examination of the Technologization of Sexuality". Keif helped annotate the "Nonfiction" bibliography on this website, and he assisted at the Cyborg Futures Workshop.
Bryn Shaffer is an MA student in the Women and Gender Studies Program at SMU where she is exploring the topics of gendered robot design in both science fiction and reality. She is developing a robo-centric form of gaze theory for her thesis. Bryn is helping to update and annotate the "Nonfiction" bibliography on this website.


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Aldous Huxley
The nearest approach to a new drug is the drug of speed.
Careening towards the future, we live by the belief that speed is a matter of will – everything can be, and must be faster. In a desolate corner of the American Southwest, the Bonneville Salt Flats is a land that has become synonymous with the devout pursuit of speed.
In the hollow of a long-forgotten lake, the smooth, flat corridor of the 'Bonneville Speedway' is the holy land for the possessed. Patterned only by the fault lines that split the salt and trace the earth's curve, it is a land outside of reality. A high-speed mecca straight out of Mad Max, this glittering white plain has called speed hungry pilgrims for over half a century. Beautiful and cruel, it seduces them to tread the flatland; luring them back each year to its hostile grounds. After months of tireless building and planning, they return annually with their monstrous machines, flocking in from around the world to battle it out in the nothingness. 'The Speed King', Mickey Thompson was one of the many devout to answer to the call of the bone-white plain.
Catching The Bug
Danny Thompson, son of 'The Speed King' Mickey Thompson
When you tinker with cars, you want to make 'em go faster, you want 'em to make more noise. Somehow that bug has got in my blood.
On a dry-hot summer in late '30's, a young Mickey Thompson caught the bug. Hailed as 'The Speed King' by many, he made history in 1960 when, seated in his sky blue streamliner (Challenger I), he became the first American to break the 400 mph speed barrier. Lured in by the uncanny landscape and in pursuit of the world land speed record, Mickey was a man who dedicated his life to coaxing speed out of engines. Racing against the professional elite, whose machines were sponsored by big motoring corporations, Mickey's junkyard vehicle represented the triumph of the back-yard engineer.
Tinkering away in his garage until his eyes grew heavy, Mickey's reputation was the stuff of legend- an everyman's genius whose single-minded determination forged his name in automotive history. Sharing a technical drawing that Mickey sketched out idly out over dinner, his son explained, "the guy was very intense. He never slept and would wake up in the morning with pages of ideas he'd had. He wasn't an academically trained engineer, he was an innovator." Tragically, his legacy was cut short when he and his wife were mercilessly gunned down outside his family home.
Today Mickey is survived by his only son who carries a legacy that has been passed down the bloodline. Marking the 50th year after the Challenger II was built, Danny Thompson sits in his father's seat, ready to return to Bonneville Speedway to break the world record. Gearing up for this year's race, we speak to Danny about the menacing lure of the salt flats, the business of family and the trailblazing spirit of the men and women who run the track.
(Above- From the Thompson family archives, Mickey Thompson's sketchings)
The Bonneville Speed Demons
We are not all rational creatures. Living a life defined by the rhythm of restraint and routine, we seek out danger.
The speed-junkies that descend on the stark white salt flats are a rare breed. Willingly possessed, they fill the stark white landscape with colour and noise. They are a ragtag posse, of tattooed petrol-heads, leather-clad veterans, and white collar workers. Accountants on vacation come to test drive souped-up Honda Civic's and battered DeSoto's, ex-fighter pilots bring turbocharged engines and septuagenarians ride in on 50cc bikes. These races are the Wacky Races in 3D- each mutant motor that revs up on the start line is a labour of love. Danny explains, "somebody might build up their Plymouth, and even though it's the ugliest thing in the world, it's cool because it was that guys idea. And, if he goes a mile faster this year than he did last year that's a huge success". Racing only against the clock, achieving very little credit outside their closed community, the Bonneville races are more of a personal battle for each rider. Each race is an opportunity for their dreams of speed to be realised.
Danny Thompson
It can be the most beautiful, mystic place in the world. And, at the same time, it can be the cruelest place in the whole world. Nothing grows out there, nothing lives out there.
With the hundred degrees heat beating down on the alloy "frying your brains", the vehicles are death traps. Reaching speeds that match a commercial jet plane, the slight twitch of the steering wheel can land you in trouble. Danny explains, "The track is 80 foot wide, and that's pretty wide but when you're at 400 mph that's like driving down a bowling alley. A touch left and you're in Salt Lake City, right and you're in Rhino Nevada".
Shadowed by the danger of death, the thrill of risk calls in the speed-hungry addicts from across the globe. We are not all rational creatures. Living a life defined by the rhythm of restraint and routine, we seek out danger. Danny adds, "There's one lady, she's 73 years old, and she's up there hitting it hard every year." The dopamine that surges through their veins on the narrow line of the racetrack is what keeps the Bonneville racers hungry for more. It is this chemical that pushes us to take risks, make mistakes and learn new skills. Often sexed-up for column inches, dopamine is the invisible force that motivates us to get up and try again, it is what drives the human race forward.
Danny Thompson
You're never 100% successful because you're always on that cutting edge. So, when you fail you can't ever accept that as a failure, just as another lesson you're learning.
Racing towards Forward
Mickey 'The Speed King' Thompson to his son
Stand on the gas.
Every year, Danny doggedly returns to the salt flats. For Danny, living under the long shadow of his "Speed King" father was a legacy intermingled with history and blood. After decades of racing in different lanes, his father reached out, he wanted to restart the engine and reclaim his crown before the clock ran out. The pair never made it to the start line. As the conversation turns to his father, his eyes start to glitter, his face softens and something clicks. Taking a breath from his story he looks up, "look, it's made the hair on my arms stand up just thinking about it". For Danny, the journey towards the pale salt flats in Utah is a journey back to his father. In honour of his father's legacy, Danny has resurrected the fifty-year-old vehicle and readying it for the salt flats.
Remembering his last run, he explains, "It can be the most, mystical, magical place in the world, at the same time it can be the cruelest place in the whole world. When you're sitting there at the start line, you've got a helmet on and you're looking straight down the track, all you can see is what we call 'The Floating Mountain'." Racing towards the ghostly mountain like his father before him, Danny races towards an uncertain future, embracing the pioneering spirit of a lost America.
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Danny Thompson has maintained and expanded his family's celebrated history in motorsports. He began his career in Motocross, winning his first eighteen consecutive events, before switching to cars and progressing through the Formula Atlantic Series, Supervees, and CRA Sprint Cars. He won the opening night of the Mickey Thompson Off-Road Grand Prix and continued performing as a Chevrolet factory driver for the next seven seasons. After a decade of retirement, he came to Bonneville for the first time in 1992 and subsequently became a record holder in multiple classes. He gained further notoriety in 2007 for building and piloting the world's fastest Ford Mustang in partnership with Hajek Racing.
Photography (unless stated otherwise) – Simon Davidson – 'The Bonneville Salt Flats' series.


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WASHINGTON (8/21/14)--Rep. Paul Ryan (R-Wis.) Wednesday said he would back a plan to reduce the available mortgage-interest tax deduction to apply only up to $500,000 in mortgage debt, down from the current $1 million in debt. He made his comment during a wide-ranging interview with Mark Halperin and John Heilemann on Bloomberg Television's "Market Makers."
Ryan said the tax break should be targeted to the country's middle class and not be something for higher-income earners.
Deductions for mortgage interest have been part of the tax code since its inception in 1913, and it is considered hugely popular with taxpayers. In fact, national opinion polls often indicate that between 75% and 90% of Americans support the tax provision.
The proposal to reduce the cap was introduced by House Ways and Means Committee Chair Dave Camp (R-Mich.), who in March announced plans to retire from the U.S. Congress at the end of his current term. Ryan is considered by many to be the next chairman of Ways and Means, the powerful tax-policy writing panel.
Ryan, during the interview, rejected an idea of similarly capping charitable deductions by the wealthy. He was quoted as saying that is "the one area" where there should not be a cap.


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According to an article (http://goo.gl/fHdZ7g) in the Business standards, October 7th, 2013 India is on the path of being a self sufficient Nation. The article states that India will achieve Oil and Natural Gas self-sufficiency by the year 2030. The plan for the same is said to be 'in the making' by the Vijay Kelkar Committee appointed by the Indian government.
As per the respective plan, 2020 will see a fall in the dependence on imported oil to at least 50%. Another 5 years would pull it down to 75% following which, 2030 would be the year of self-sufficiency for India. As per the same article, M Veerappa Moily (Union Petroleum and Natural Gas Minister) said "We have huge deposits of oil and gas in the country. But we need more private sector players to come forward and invest in new oil and gas exploration blocks. It costs Rs. 7 crores to dig a well and not many are ready to invest in the sector."
This declaration of making the nation independent followed the announcement of 2 pilot projects by the Ministry of Petroleum and Natural Gas. The projects were aimed at allowing a LPG consumer to choose their distributor freely. Additionally 5 kg Gas cylinders were made available to select distributors (for the time being) at market price with minimum documentation. 24 cities have seen the launch of this 'Inter Company LPG Portability Scheme' and it shall spread to the rest of the country soon.
This is indeed a very optimistic move towards a better Nation. Tomorrow is naturally yours!


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Better your own life by strengthening your vocabulary.
Better someone else's by providing them with a meal of free rice.
For each word you correctly define, this group will donate 10 grains of rice to the United Nations food relief efforts.
I maxed out at Vocab level 47, There are apparently 50 levels. You move up a level whenever you get 3 correct in-a-row.
Enjoy. Become obsessed with Free Rice.


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SD Art Institute Intersectional Feminism Panel 3-6-17
Intersectionality, as coined by professor Kimberlé Crenshaw in 1989, is the "The view that women experience oppression in varying configurations and in varying degrees of intensity. Cultural patterns of oppression are not only interrelated, but are bound together and influenced by the intersectional systems of society. Examples of this include race, gender, class, ability, and ethnicity."
Panelists include:
1. Melinda Guillen
2. Artemisa Clark
3. Angie Jennings
4. Eunsong Kim
5. Jillian Hernandez
6. Andrea Chung
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09:00 Welcome
10:00 Opening Session
Pr. Oreste Foppiani, Head of the Department of International Relations – Webster University Geneva
10:10 Introductory remarks
Pierre Portas, President of WE2C, Former deputy Executive Secretary of the Basel Convention
Interpretations of scientific analysis are promoted by many different actors such as politicians, NGOs, social networks or businesses via a multitude of vectors on the Internet. Some of these vectors may shift the subject of discussion according to particular interests, needs or a specific agenda. Subjective interpretation might override scientific facts.
10:30 Round table: Feedback of experiences (from the Probo Koala case)
This story reveals many divergences. Why? Because the actors involved failed to employ a benchmark scientific analysis method acceptable to all in forming their own opinion or judgement. Each stakeholder selected the scientific analysis that best suited its interests. Ten years later, it is not possible to identify the benchmark independent scientific analysis that could have been used by all concerned. Nor is it possible to assess the real impact of this incident on the local population. What happened then?
• 20-minute presentations by the speakers
• Pierre Portas (moderator)
• Maria Neira, Director, Department of Public Health, Environmental and Social Determinants of Health – WHO
• Denis Bard, Professor epidemiology and risks assessment – EHESP (France)
• Joost van Rooij, Toxicologist, industrial hygienist – Caesar Consult (Netherlands)
11:30 Break
11:45 Round table continuation
13:00 Lunch
14:00 Session A : Ethical and legal criteria or parameters of benchmark independent scientific analysis
Introductory remarks by the moderator (15 minutes). Two case study are considered. Module 1 will address the issue of the feasibility of independent scientific analysis having in mind the Probo Koala case. Module 2 will address the cholera outbreak in Haiti.
• Francisco Rubio, Adjunct professor at Webster University (Geneva), member of the Steering Committee of Médecins du Monde Switzerland
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• Juliette Kohler, Policy and legal advisor – United Nations Basel, Rotterdam and Stockholm Conventions Secretariat
• Patrick Ramaël, Magistrate, President of chamber – Court of Appeal of Aix en Provence
Module 2 : Although legal framework and procedures are in place at the national or domestic level to conduct scientific analysis, such framework is lacking at the international level. Scientific analysis carried out abroad could, consequently, be more easily subject to political influence and opportunism or to vested economic interest, which might not be conducive to the rapid and effective resolution of crisis. The 2010 epidemic of cholera in Haiti, causing the death of thousands of people, witness the distortion of scientific work, evidence and facts.
• 30/40-minute presentation
• Renaud Piarroux, Professor and head of service, parasitology and mycology – Hôpital de la Timone (France)
16:00 Break
16:15 Session B : Possibility of benchmark independent scientific analysis in the context of globalization, media coverage and mass communication
The influence of media globalization must be matched by strategies designed to convey and underpin the accuracy and veracity of the facts. It becomes difficult to trust information conveyed by public or private vectors whose motivation or business models may distort, transform or ignore information because of vested interests. The common good requires the introduction of strategies to challenge communication dominant feature and to promote the accuracy or reality of information. Who could help and how?
• Venance Konan Journalist, Director of Groupe Fraternité Matin (Ivory Coast)
• Dietram Scheufele, Professor, life science communication – University of Wisconsin
18:30 Adjournment
09:30 Round table: Initial conditions for independent benchmark scientific analysis
It is important to clarify the scope of an independent scientific analysis. The way the scientific analysis is being established will determine the entire process. The initial conditions of the analysis are therefore primordial. From these initial conditions, emerge the process of realization of the analysis, its use and reporting of results. Could such initial conditions be explore and identified?
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• Venance Konan
• Renaud Piarroux
• Patrick Ramaël
• Francisco Rubio
• Dietram Scheufele
10:30 Break
10:45 Round table continuation
12:30 Responses and the search for solutions
• Remarks by Pierre Portas followed by an exchange of views, suggestions and any proposal for follow up
12:30 Closing of the meeting
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Caffeine: As a society we love caffeine. Coffee, tea, energy drinks, soda, even capsules, we can't get enough. In law school, everyone is using caffeine all the time. A lot of people are self proclaimed "caffeine addicts" before law school, so it's not particularly surprising that everyone always has a coffee or a Red Bull in their hands, but what did surprise me was developing an immunity to caffeine. I see classmates drinking Monster Energy Drinks in 8AM classes, and frankly, I get it. I have a Yeti thermos which holds an entire French press worth of coffee, and it does nothing except satisfy the taste craving. I can drink coffee while I'm studying at 9 or 10 and still fall asleep in a book. I see my classmates posting on social media about developing tolerances to caffeine. Yesterday I had 2 french presses worth of coffee, and a Red Bull, and I was still exhausted. The good news is that you can reset your tolerance level with caffeine, so I've been trying to avoid it since consuming it is more of a habit than a help at this point, and hopefully in time it will have an effect on me again.
Alcohol: Hopefully we all learned how to drink responsibly in college. However, when you spend all your time studying, you tend to lose your tolerance for alcohol, which surprised me. I used to be very good at holding my alcohol, and now I'm feeling woozy after one glass of wine. People go to the campus bar to celebrate after a project, or have some drinks at networking events, and are surprised by how suddenly they go from "professional socializing" to "no longer articulate." My friend told me a story about how a week ago she had to carry home someone twice her size from the bar because he hadn't realized he'd lost his tolerance, and at a networking event the other day one classmate was embarrassingly drunk. Be wary babes.
Tobacco: Everyone smokes here! I don't know if it's a new thing or if I just never realized it before. Personally, I have been a smoker for the past 2-3 years, and am in the process of quitting (going on a couple months!), but nicotine as a stress reliever is so common and so good at its job that it's hard to quit, even when you know your teeth and lungs and skin and everything is being destroyed and your clothes and breath smell and it's expensive. I was so surprised to see my classmates standing outside in groups after class. Even the people who "don't smoke" can be seen smoking during finals or after a drink or two.
Marijuana: People have their own views on marijuana use, and that's fine. If you love it, great, if you wouldn't touch it, great, do you. However, since it's legal where I am, I'm discussing it anyway, since it's a realistic occurrence. As far as I can tell, there's no real discernible difference in the performance of people who smoke marijuana and those who don't when it comes to schoolwork. I mean don't be the girl who comes to class 30 minutes late and high. And don't be the guy standing outside the law school puffing away. But aside from that, if you're using marijuana, do whatever works for you. There's no real stigma about it (except in the previously mentioned scenarios) and maybe that's due to the legal status where I am, but who knows. Like anything else, if it's disrupting your daily life, please acknowledge and handle that. Everything in moderation.
Stimulants: I know I know. ADHD diagnosis epidemic and abuse of study drugs etc. Yup. I mean it's true, what can I say. People take stimulants, a lot of my classmates are currently substituting them for caffeine since it no longer has an effect. It's only really rampant around finals, but there are a few people who pop pills openly in class or are really relying on them to get through. If this is or becomes the case for you PLEASE reevaluate the necessity (do you need them or do you think you do?), and do a cost-benefit analysis.
Law school is a cool thing to say you conquered. But you know what's really cool? Not needing low grade amphetamines to function on a day to day basis. Not making a fool of yourself because you tried to drink like an undergrad. Not being so baked you forget what time class starts. Self care above all, loves.


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- Paying a sum of Rs 4000 (including exam fee) personally at the cash counter of dean's office
- By remitting a sum of Rs 4000 (including exam fee) at any branch of State Bank of India by challan.
- The challan form is in three copies and the candidate has to send one original paid copy of the challan form to the "Dean, Mahatma Gandhi Institute of Medical Sciences, Sevagram, 442102" by speed post.
For more details and information on how to apply, please visit their official website.
Selection Procedure for MGIMS, Sevagram:
Selection will be made on the basis of merit of candidates in Pre Medical Test (PMT) conducted by the institute.
Important Dates:
- Start date for availability of prospectus and form: Friday, December 20, 2013.
- Last date for availability of prospectus and form: Saturday, March 08, 2014.
- Last date of receipt of filled up application: Thursday, March 20, 2014.
- Date of PMT 2014: Sunday, April 20, 2014.
Sri Siddhartha University Invites Applications for Medical/Dental ProgramsTuesday, 10 September 2013 11:53
Applications are invited by Sri Siddhartha University (SSU), Tumkur for admission to admission to Doctor of Medicine (MD)/Master of Surgery (MS)/PG Diploma and Master of Dental Surgery (MDS) programs in various specializations offered at Sri Siddhartha Medical College and Sri Siddhartha Dental College, Tumkur for the academic year 2014-15.
For more details on specializations, please click here.
Eligibility Criteria for SSU, Tumkur:
- The candidate should have studied and passed the courses leading to the award of MBBS/BDS degrees in colleges recognized by Medical Council/Dental Council of India.
- The candidate should have completed or is completing compulsory rotating internship on or before 30th April 2014.
For more details and information on eligibility criteria, please visit their official website.
How to Apply for SSU, Tumkur:
- The brochure along with the application form (on-line and offline) is available in the university website.
- The candidate desirous of appearing in the SSU-AIPGET 2014 is required to complete the prescribed on-line application form & submit the same to the university on-line, on or before the scheduled date 26th December 2013.
- Further the candidate shall take the printout of the application form and submit along with all enclosures mentioned in the brochure so as to reach the university on or before 26th December 2013.
For more details and information on application procedure, please visit their official website.
Selection procedure for SSU, Tumkur:
Candidates will be selected on the basis of their performance in the Sri Siddhartha University - All India Post Graduate Entrance Test(SSU-AIPGET) conducted by the university.
Important Dates
- Date of notification: Saturday, November 30, 2013.
- Hosting the on-line and offline application form on the website: Monday, December 02, 2013.
- Last date for submission of application from: Thursday, December 26, 2013.
- Last date for receiving hand filled application forms (on-line and offline): Thursday, January 02, 2014.
- Dispatch of test admission tickets: Saturday, January 04, 2014.
- Date of SSU-AIPGET: Saturday, January 18, 2013.
- Date of entrance test: Sunday, January 20, 2013.
- Date of declaration of rank list:Friday, February 14, 2014.
Amrita Vishwa Vidyapeetham University Invites Applications for MBBS ProgramMonday, 02 September 2013 15:27
Applications are invited by Amrita Vishwa Vidyapeetham University, Coimbatore for admission to 4 ½ year Bachelor of Medicine Bachelor of Surgery (MBBS) program offered at the Amrita School of Medicine for the commencing session 2014-15.
Eligibility Criteria for Amrita University:
- Candidate should complete the age of 17 years by 31 December 2014 and should not exceed 23 by the said date.
- Candidate should pass in higher secondary examination or its equivalent in the first attempt with 60% marks in Physics, Chemistry and Biology / Biotechnology taken together and 60% marks in English separately.
- Those who appear for the qualifying examination in March / April 2014 can also apply.
How to Apply for Amrita University:
- Candidates need to download the application form from the official website.
- The completed application should be The Admission Co-ordinator, Amrita School of Medicine, AIMS Ponekkara P.O, Kochi, Kerala 682 041.
For more details and information on how to apply, please visit their official website.
Selection Procedure for Amrita University:
Selection will be based on Amrita Common Entrance Test (CET-2014) conducted by the university.
Important Dates:
- Commencement of application: Wednesday, March 05, 2014.
- Last date of receipt of application: Friday, April 25, 2014.
- Date of examination: Sunday, May 18, 2014.


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Our Lady of Sorrows School has one of the most extensive athletic programs of any grammar school in the area.
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We belong to the Grammar Independent League (GIL) through which we compete against other area schools in basketball, soccer, softball and volleyball. We also offer competition in cross country and track & field with 4-6 meets per season. In addition, we host instructional clinics for the lower grades in basketball.
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Driven by customer-led research, the event features 40+ sessions on solutions and strategies that respond to the top challenges as identified by the industry. Hear from experts, thought-leaders and innovators within technology and business as they discuss and focus on the digital transformation of the automotive industry. A collaboration between, The Eventful Group, SAP and ASUG, Best Practices for Automotive will take place October 12-14, 2015, in Detroit, Michigan.
We are excited to inform that our customer Nissan will have a presentation at this congress about IT-Driven Innovation & Growth through Global VMS System: to address the highly dynamic automotive industry, Nissan is driving innovation and growth with their Value Innovation, Technology Simplification, Service Excellence (VITESSE) program. Learn how Nissan, with the support of proaxia consulting group, pulled off a global vehicle management system for a new assembly plant in Brazil, and how this solution is helping to maximize business value with cross functional regional solutions, while simplifying technology and achieving IT savings.
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01. Golden Clouds
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04. I'm Drowning
05. Babes In The Sky
06. Love Time
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Supernatural show, Being Human, gets Facebook game in time for Halloween
The same screenshot was used by SFX, though to its credit, it doesn't claim the game has launched. Instead, Broadcast claims that. I guess everyone was excited to tell folks about the game, but no one could provide a link to the actual game.
If you love this show and don't mind being teased beyond your sanity trying to figure out where this game is, then let us fill you in on what we do know. As of this writing, there's no official announcement about a game on either the Syfy or the BBC website. Neither is there any news on the official Syfy and BBC Facebook fan pages for either the American or British version of the show.
So, perhaps it's safe to say that the game is totally not launched and available yet. But given those involved in the game's creation, it's clear this game will be based on the original BBC show and won't be originating state-side on Syfy's budding games portal.
That definitely sounds like this will be a role-playing game. In fact, SFX also reported that you can "play as a ghost, werewolf or vampire." The game has got the blessing of Toby Whithouse, the BBC show's creator, and thumbs-up from the show's producer, Touchpaper Television. Enough screenwriters from the series have been brought in to make sure that the content and banter will be top-notch. Currently, the BBC version of Being Human just ended Season 3. Season 4 will premiere sometime next year. So this game will obviously be filling the void for the duration.The Being Human social game will build upon the creative inspiration of the TV drama and allow players to take the roles of vampire, werewolf and ghost in compelling new storylines that they will play, rather than watch. . . The game is a mix of exploration, combat and problem-solving that immerses users into an intriguing world of supernatural creatures that exist just beyond the surface of everyday life.
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What Every Freelance Writer Website Has
It's one of the most commonly asked questions about launching your freelance writing business: "What should I have on my website?"
There are a couple of things that every successful freelance writer website has, but I'd encourage you not to stress out too much about investing time and money into building your freelance writer website when you first get started. I know plenty of people, myself included, who have been very successful at building their freelance career without a website. Yeah, I said it -- without a website at all.
I did not have a website for my freelance writing services for the first three years of my business. I didn't need one because I was leveraging tools like referrals, Upwork and LinkedIn and I didn't need to have the extra expense and headache of putting together a website.
Ultimately, a website does help because it is an extra place for you to store your portfolio and information about you, but it is a huge mistake to think that putting a website online means that clients are going to be banging down your door wanting to talk to you. Far too many people fall for this myth and get frustrated when they put all the money into putting together a website, launch it and then they hear crickets.
What Every Freelance Writer Website Should Have
Every freelance writer website should have a couple of key things so that clients can find more out about you.
The first of these is your portfolio. Your writing samples should be clearly and easily displayed. Don't make your clients download one more thing from your website. No one wants to download stuff. Try to make it easy for your clients to see your work. A portfolio is a great way for your clients to tell right away if you are the right fit for them or not.
How to Contact You
The second thing that every successful freelance writer website has is information about how to contact you, whether it is filling out a form for discovery call, submitting a contact form for more information, or signing up for your email list directly. The website exists for one reason: to get your clients to get in touch with you about a freelance writing project. If you don't have a way for them to contact you that is very clear, then they are probably not going to follow through on it.
On my website, it didn't help to just have a phone number or my email address to send me a message. I used a contact form as a very specific call to action to help encourage people to take that additional step of reaching out and contacting me.
So, you may need to play around on your website with what it is that you use as your call to action in your contact, but you definitely want something that tells the client a reason why they should get in touch with you and exactly how to do it.
Now what a really great freelance writer website has is content - not just content that tells all about you or displays your writing samples, but actual content about your industry.
Why is it important to be writing the kind of content that you are selling? If you are a white paper writer, you should have your own blogs on your website, talking about the strategies behind the white papers, for example:
How to successfully outsource to a whitepaper writer?
What goes into a whitepaper?
Why are white papers widely read?
What You Don't Need on Your Website
Something that you might think that every freelance writer website has are rates. In the industry, you will see only about half of the people posting their rates on their freelance writer website. Many don't do it because they create customized quotes for their clients. Others like to put their rates on their website because it helps people to opt out, to see whether you are too expensive and then they won't waste your time reaching out to you with projects.
I found that I prefer to keep my rates off of my profile. It might lead someone to think when I put up a generic rate that the rate applies to all projects, and that's not true because there are different skill sets and levels of work and time that go into various projects. So, I ask people to contact me for a quote or for further information. I usually like to talk to my clients first before I'll even agree to do a project. That's a great way to weed out people who aren't willing to get on the phone with you or to provide you with more details about the project.
The three most important things to include on your site are your portfolio, a way to contact you, and content. All of these things show to prospective clients that you are highly knowledgeable in the industry. They help to position you as an expert in the field, but they also go one step beyond by helping your prospective clients find you via Google and search engine optimization.
Don't sweat it over putting together a freelance writer website. If you don't have the money, the skills or the time right now, put that energy into getting clients. Once you begin to bring clients into your business, you can use that money to invest in your freelance writer website.
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This was our third time staying at the Lighthouse Court Hotel! The staff members are always very friendly and willing to assist you in any way they can! The location is great, just two blocks from Duval Street! The one suggestion, I would like to make, is to allow guest in the pool later than ten o'clock. The pool always looks so refreshing after a long evening out! But honestly, I think it's a fantastic place to stay, and we can't wait to get back there again!By: Lynn November 19, 2015
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It's been a whirlwind couple of weeks, friends. My girlfriend Emy and I have been all over the west coast of the United States by way of planes, trains (does Muni count?), and automobiles, mostly in the pursuit of love. Mostly other people's - we have our own and it's pretty great. That's right - it's wedding season. And time for my first visit to my family in the Bay Area after moving to LA.
After a couple of weeks in LA, I drove back up to SF to stay with Emy and my parents for a bit. Before you say that I'd barely been in LA before making my first extended trip back up to the Bay Area - you're right. It wasn't that long. But I have an excuse - I can actually do voice acting work from the road. My sound booth packs up into a duffel bag that's big enough for a body and cement shoes to make sure it's never seen again (never trust voice actors or pig farmers, I guess), and the whole setup fits into my car quite snugly. This enables me to record, edit, and produce finished tracks, all provided that I have 5' x 5' of free floor space to set up my monstrosity. Now the trick is to actually book some jobs...
Stop #2 on the West Coast Bonanza was Eugene, Oregon. This was a particularly sentimental one for me - one of my best and oldest friends was getting married. Rob and Heather tied the knot on September 3rd, 2017, with me presiding as best man. The wedding ran smoothly and I got to wear a lot of different hats, even providing some of the entertainment (along with Heather's family and Matt Hiscox, another dear old pal), which was a blast for me. It was so much fun getting everyone together for such a wonderful occasion. The group that stayed in our AirBnb had not convened in one place since high school, and the love and camaraderie was like we had only been apart for days. Emy told me afterward that it was amazing to see how much love everyone had for each other that weekend, and how deep these waters run. We had so much fun and are definitely not going to go another 13 years without getting together again.
After a week apart, Emy and I rendezvoused back in LA for my friend Jess' wedding to her hubby Brian. I knew significantly fewer people at this wedding, but then again didn't have as many duties so was free to live it up a little. Jess and I worked at PwC together and were roommates for a time. In fact, she was my first roommate after moving out of my parent's house after college, and I have really fond memories of those times. I'd probably never have watched Avatar: The Last Airbender if it wasn't for Jess, and she never would have seen a grown man try to open a coconut like a caveman on her apartment floor. I was so happy to be a part of this wedding and lucky to spend a couple of weeks traveling all up and down this side of the country to bask in so much love and frivolity.
Ok, ok. You've made it this far. I suppose you're wondering how this whole acting gambit is going - and I suppose you've earned that much for listening to me blab on about all my friends. The naked truth is - there isn't a whole lot of progress. On the screen acting front at least. I have signed up for classes at Upright Citizens Brigade - one of the most well-known improv theaters in LA. I'll be taking the Improv 101 intensive from 9/18 through 9/29, with a show performed on Saturday, 9/30. If you're in LA, please come to the show!
What I've been focusing more of my energy on is voice acting. I've been recording quite a bit and learning more tricks for editing, which is making my auditions a lot sharper. I can even add music and produce finished tracks (may not seem like a big deal, but milestones baby... milestones). I'm nearly finished with my commercial demo and have recorded audiobook demo tracks, which is something I'm trying to get into as well. Now I just need to continue auditioning and refining my editing, especially for different styles. Fortunately I've got some financial leeway still and can work from home, submitting auditions from here.
Don't think that I've given up on my silver screen dreams - I'm still submitting to agents for representation and submitting myself for projects on LA Casting. I'm focusing on the voice acting because that's a more differentiating feature for me - my voice is pretty distinctive, if I do say so myself, and it might be easier to get a foot in the door in that industry. Like Bruce Lee said - "Be like water making its way through cracks. Do not be assertive, but adjust to the object, and you shall find a way around or through it. If nothing within you stays rigid, outward things will disclose themselves." The hallmark of this journey for me is openness, flexibility. I don't want to pigeonhole myself into anything, but rather play to my strengths and be open to the opportunities that come.
With much love, I take my love of you. Tolkien is in my bed (in Kindle form, you pervert) and he's calling my name.


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Well, my first official ten copies of my novella have arrived. And in light of their little yellow presence, I'd like to talk about self publishing for a moment. About letting loose your creations onto the world and, more importantly, about CreateSpace.
A month or two ago I had everything in hand. A novella with enough of a page count to make it viable, a cover, and an embarrassing release of the book on Kindle where my typos stood out like shinning white lights in the deepest abyss. I was ready to try my hand at a paperback version of the novella.
I had done research…well, I had scoured blogs and forums on the quality of CreateSpace versus Lightning Source. Most of what I found was people complaining about both. About quality. About reaching your audience. About fees and paying for a service. About scuffed corners or inconsistencies with colour. Well, I just wanted to go ahead and say that (so far) my experience with self publishing has been pretty damn good. These first ten paperback copies are in good condition, and they came pretty quickly. I'm in Toronto, Canada, so I was expecting a longer delivery time, but these came within a week. (So did the initial proof copies, which also arrived in great condition.)
A few years ago, I had seen one or two books printed by vanity publishing houses that had the first page or two of the next book on the run printed in the back, but hopefully those days are long gone. Now, on my little yellow novella, I do see a bit of a shift in the cover from book to book. It nothing critical, because it's only about 1/16th of an inch. That's why you should hire a designer, and make sure that nothing critical runs close to any edge. When you make a book, or anything, for print, be realistic with your margins.
Honestly, I'm not expecting the whole process to be this smooth, but so far, so good. If there is a problem, I change it. I update the file, minor tweaks that don't change the story. If there's enough, it becomes a 2nd edition. Move on, and do it again. Fail faster, right? My early concerns were with location, as I'm in Canada and Amazon.ca does not support CreateSpace yet. Sometimes Amazon.com will refuse to ship something to us up here, saying we have to purchase an item from .ca, where that specific item might or might not exist. This is NOT the case, I'm happy to say. Amazon.com is shipping my title to Canada, and there is the CreateSpace store, something which I knew nothing about until now.
So here I am, with a novella in hand, ready to find fans, to grow, to develop as a writer. My baby is in the world…next, I should look at Lightning Source…any tips?


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