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In the late 1990s and early 2000s, diagnoses of pediatric bipolar disorder increased sharply. Children as young as preschoolers (and pre-preschoolers) entered treatment. However, most current experts agree that pediatric bipolar disorder is rare. People with bipolar disorder need medications in order to function, but these medications have side effects and should never be prescribed unless necessary.
The general impression we get about bipolar disorder is that it involves mood swings. Teens are famous for their mood swings, one day being miserable, and the next, chatty and animated. Some mood swings in adolescents are completely normal. However, when mood swings get to the point where someone's behaviors and thinking seem unrecognizable, there may be a problem.
One of the hallmark signs of bipolar disorder is mania. Mania classically refers to a state where someone can display symptoms such as:
- More than two nights with no or very little sleep, but tons of energy and no fatigue
- Talking so quickly and tangentially that others can't understand them
- Making uncharacteristically grand and unrealistic plans that don't really make sense given where they are in life (like curing cancer or solving world hunger right away)
- An increase in goal-directed behaviors to a point that is unreasonable, like organizing every book in the house by title, and then author, and then publisher
- Displaying very impulsive behaviors like gambling, casual sex, or taking drastic risks while driving
- In severe forms, mania can lead to psychotic symptoms such as hearing voices, hallucinations, or paranoia
The key point about these behaviors is that they are not the person's baseline. Someone who regularly drives fast, has casual sex, or talks quickly may have some issues- but mania is not one of them.
I should note that "grandiose thinking" is also a symptom of mania, but age needs to be considered. A 13-year-old who expects to be a movie star despite not being a good actor can be well within the normal range. A 19-year-old who plans to be the next star quarterback for the NFL, despite the fact that they have never played sports before, is cause for concern.
Complicating the issue is the fact that mania can sometimes present as irritability. Most teens get irritable at some point. However, if your teen has extreme irritability that is a change from their normal functioning, it's worth getting a mental health evaluation. Irritability is unlikely to be the only sign of bipolar disorder, but it could be a sign of depression, anxiety, or ADHD. In the past, children and teens with behavioral outbursts were often diagnosed with bipolar disorder. However, the new diagnosis of Intermittent Explosive Disorder now seeks to better characterize and treat this population.
The opposite "pole" of mania is depression. Teens with bipolar disorder will have deep depressions, but it's worth noting that "regular" teen depression is much more common than bipolar disorder. People with bipolar disorder will cycle between episodes of mania and episodes of depression. These episodes usually last at least a few days each, but can last longer.
Adult bipolar disorder is uncommon, and pediatric bipolar disorder is a very rare occurrence. Here are some things to consider if you're wondering if your teen has bipolar disorder.
- Many conditions other than bipolar disorder can cause mania-like or depression-like symptoms. If you're concerned about your teen, make sure to get a medical workup, including substance abuse screening, as well as a mental health workup.
- Bipolar disorder tends to run in families. It's not unheard of for a case of pediatric bipolar disorder to crop up with no family history, but it is unlikely. Please note that most teens with a family history of bipolar disorder do not develop the disorder.
- If your teen is functioning at their baseline at school and/ or work, communicating as usual with peers, and carrying out their day-to-day activities, they are unlikely to be experiencing the symptoms of bipolar disorder.
- Bipolar disorder indicates a change from prior functioning. Teens can seem to be changing every day. Nonetheless, episodes of mania and/ or depression should look quite different from what you're used to seeing, and possibly from what you're used to seeing in anyone.
- If someone diagnoses your teen with bipolar disorder, and you're uncomfortable or disagree with the diagnosis, ask the provider detailed questions about how they came to their decision. You can always seek a second opinion if you feel strongly that another set of eyes is needed. (This goes for all diagnoses, not just bipolar disorder.)
- If your teen does have bipolar disorder, make sure you are getting the support you need while you care for them. Ask a mental health provider about the best ways to keep yourself functioning while your teen receives treatment.
Bipolar disorder in teens may be rare, but mental health problems are not. Seeking a mental health assessment for a struggling teen is an important first step in protecting their well-being. Good mental health is vital for your teen's functioning and development, so don't wait to address any problems that you see arising.


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There are several misconceptions about homoeopathy. Some staunch homoeopathic clients themselves worry when their young ones have a fever. Well, homoeopathy works well in colds and flu. Migraines and allergies are the latest diseases affecting the most, almost on an epidemic scale, I feel. The pollution, the stress, the food habits, the pesticides, the ozone depletion etc. etc., the possible causes are numerous. These diseases respond well to homoeopathic treatments, just have the patience to let the body heal. We are not trying to put a cork or suppress your allergies which would have been a rather simple task. They would return ferociously no doubt in that. Homoeopathic medicines, in any diseases aims to stimulate the body to let it cure itself. What better way to heal? Migraines get cured wowing not to return ever! Bronchial asthma and chronic bronchitis too respond well. Adenoids, tonsillitis, sinusitis, ear troubles homoeopathy works wonderfully without resorting to surgery.
The "female" being is an amazing creation, the way it responds to various stresses and strains. Homoeopathy is the right choice for them, be it menstrual irregularities, hormone troubles, fibroids, cysts or other tumours, pregnancy troubles, post birth (puerperal) problems, menopausal disturbances, infertility etc..
Skin diseases like eczemas, lichens, fungal infections, acne, psoriasis, vitiligo and what not are amenable to homoeopathic treatment. Patients are reluctant to take homoeopathy for skin diseases fearing aggravations. Aggravations do occur but they subside soon.
Acidity, ulcers, diarrhoeas and dysentery, crohn's disease, ulcerative colitis, or simple flatulence, the digestive diseases are curable with homoeopathy. Kidney troubles, liver troubles, eye troubles etc.. are treatable with homoeopathy.
Lifestyle diseases are the "Rage" of this century. Many are on lifetime medications and suffer from their side effects too. Homoeopathy can cure hypertension, diabetes, raised cholesterol levels, obesity etc.. Be sure to adhere to strict nutrition, exercise, laboratory investigations and the treatment protocol as advised by your physician.
Joint troubles, the aches and pains and the disability ruins one's hope to go about one's daily routine 'normally'. Homoeopathy is very effective in joint troubles, muscular troubles, without resorting to pain killers. Do I have to give a list of the medical terms? Back aches, spine troubles too are curable. In degenerative joint changes, where the joint structures are deformed beyond repair, homoeopathy can give palliative relief by reducing pain, providing limited motility etc..
Several doctors have cured cancer as well, I don't have any personal experiences. It can at least give palliation to incurable cases. Pain-free life is every one's hope.
Mind is the ruling force and mental diseases are treatable too. The list provided here is not complete. These are just general guidelines to get started. Homoeopathy rocks!

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On the 18th of May I held a session about JavaScript Patterns during the first SharePoint Saturday in Milan. I felt that the session was great but you know what the speakers think is always wrong.
When I got feedback I realized that the topic of the session was ok but the attendees didn't understand why they should write good JavaScript code.
That don't really surprise me because I had some discussions about the same topic but with C# instead of JavaScript.
Indeed when you talk with a lazy C# dev he/she can understand why they should use polymorphism instead of having 10 unrelated classes with maybe
3 copies of the same function!?
And if in C# the mess is remedied by the language itself, because it needs namespaces and classes, in JavaScript you are totally without control.
If you are a SharePoint dev and you don't like JavaScript I'm sorry for you because the future of SP is JavaScript and JavaScript is the presence of the web since 1994.
So maybe it's time for you to change your job because you unable to write code for the Web and for the SP2013 Apps.
Microsoft is pushing JavaScript and Azure technology so we have to learn about it if you are not yet!!!!
What about JS is very useful for the future of devs?
IMHO you have to learn 3 JS patterns from scratch:
- Closure
- Class
- Module
Let me provide some examples:
1 - You need a business function. Usually you write code inside a page/app/web part:
function MyBusinessFunc() {
a = 5;
a += 5;
// do job
and then you need the same function in another page/app/web part.
What do you do? Copy&Paste in the second page, off course!
But what is the problem in doing it in this way?
1 – if your business logic changes you have to change it in 2 or more scripts
2 – the function has a GLOBAL scope attached on the global 'window' object
3 – the variable 'a' has a GLOBAL scope
What solution can I apply?
One of the most important patterns that you have in JavaScript the Module Pattern.
The implementation of this pattern is easy. For example if we want our business function wrapped with this pattern we could write:
var SDF = SDF || {};
SDF.Utils = {
MyBusinessFunc: function () {
var a;
a = 5;
a += 5;
// do job
the first line says "if the global variable SDF doesn't exist then create it otherwise use it".
Then we extend our object with the property Utils where inside we have the method MyBusinessFunc.
This is what our 'window' object looks like without a Module Patten:
and this is with the Module Pattern
and what if we need to keep some logics separated?
If we keep in mind to define our variable with the keyword var and we use the Module Pattern our JavaScript code can became: tidy, reusable, and maintainable.
If you don't want start from scratch you can use these files: http://sdrv.ms/ZcWODQ


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Today's post was written by Sheri Colautti of Capture It! Photography, who's an Edmonton wedding photographer with a huge heart, and talent to match. Here's her review of Hastings Lake Gardens, a popular outdoor wedding venue near Edmonton.
Located East of Sherwood Park, just off of Highway 14, you will find the ever-popular Hastings Lake Gardens. The venue is a successful family-run business. No matter the season, the location has something to offer everyone. There are a variety of locations and backgrounds available for weddings including a gazebo surrounded by beautiful blooms as well as a vintage church. No matter what you are looking for, the gardens are a stunning choice for the perfect wedding.
- Options for an outdoor gazebo wedding for up to 200 guests or alternately an indoor vintage church with pew seating for up to 100.
Pricing ranges from $1300 – $2100 for a 3-hour booking.
- Located roughly 40 minutes east of the city.
The outdoor gazebo is surrounded by beautiful gardens and is a serene location. The gardens are taken care of by the entire family and are well groomed and manicured as well offer a beautiful and colourful background for your wedding. In case of inclement weather tents are included for the guest area. There is a private indoor location where the bride can wait for the wedding to start. This spot is perfect for those looking for the perfect outdoor wedding.
The vintage church location is nestled further in to the property. The church is surrounded by nature; as well there are some vintage vehicles in the vicinity. The area surrounding the church area offers a stunning background and location for photos. This area is perfect for those maybe looking for a vintage or rustic look as well as an intimate wedding.
Capacity & Features:
The gazebo setting fits up to 200 guests and the church fits up to 100. Your booking includes a 3 hour allotted time slot. All inclusive packaging includes pew markers, seating set up and take down, parking for all guests, as well as a stereo system and microphone.
What we Love?
- As a photographer I love the options and choices for photo locations. If it's raining they will allow you to take photos inside the greenhouse area.
- All-inclusive packages.
- Supporting a local family run business.
- Beautiful location for an outdoor wedding
What we don't like:
- It would be nice if it wasn't so far from the city limits as you may be limited in travel time and reception locations.
- Some days have 4 weddings booked; this can cause problems with parking and timing.
Overall, I think Hastings Lake Gardens is a magical place and offers a great location for an outdoor or alternately an indoor wedding. The fact that the capacity is 200 for the outdoor location and everything is taken care of adds to a stress free day for the Bride and Groom. Even though it is a bit of a drive outside of the city there is a reason the gardens are a popular wedding venue location.
Today's post was written by Sheri Colautti of Capture It! Photography. Check out her home on the web here, say hi on Facebook here, or connect on Instagram here.


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Who jumped first from the newspaper sinking ship?
When did the ripe, bulbous, and gibbous newspaper bubble pop?
It was probably in the 1990s, when the business better resembled a cruising blimp than it did the dotcoms like Pets.com, Boo.com, and TheGlobe.com, which all went kerblewy around the turn of the century. Unlike the bombing dotcoms, the high valuation of newspapers was based on real, not imaginary profits, and the belief that the profits from these deals would extend for years, if not decades, into the future.
And such deals there were. The New York Times Co bought the Boston Globe for $1.1 billion in 1993. In 1997, McClatchy acquired the corporation that owned the Minneapolis Star Tribune for $1.4 billion and Knight-Ridder purchased the Kansas City Star and Fort Worth Star-Telegram (and two other smaller papers) for $1.65 billion. On the sidelines, newspaper consultant John Morton crunched the numbers and expressed the market consensus about these transactions in the headline for his January/February 1998 American Journalism Review column: "Expensive, Yes, But Well Worth It."
Morton's column provides no sense of the impending doom, no inkling that an entire industry is arrowing its way to a hospice, no clue that all these newspaper people have booked passage on a death ship. Even after the Hearst Corp ditched its San Francisco Examiner for a $660 million deal to buy the San Francisco Chronicle in late 1999, more happy talk ensued. If anybody cited Warren Buffett's 1991 warning that newspapers had lost their special "franchise" value and that he wouldn't be buying any more of them soon, I missed it.
The newspaper faithful were still such strong believers at the end of the century that the Washington Post, one of the most prudent newspaper operations in the universe, opened a new $130 million press facility in 1999. By 2009, the company had to shutter the place. The Post wasn't being stupid when it built the plant, it just misread the contraction of newspapers by a decade. Many newspaper owners continued to think that profits would fund expansion forever. Arthur Sulzberger Jr. completed a modern Renzo Piano-designed Manhattan office tower for his New York Times in 2007, and as recently as 2008, Rupert Murdoch was completing construction of a new $290 million printing complex for his London newspapers.
Every seller has good reason for unloading his property, but until bubbles pop the news coverage accentuates the buyer's brilliance and vision. Thanks to the genius of hindsight, we know that the sellers of the Globe, the Star Tribune, the Chronicle, the Star, and the Star-Telegram were the dealers and the buyers were the marks. But I doubt if any of them were making a shrewd market call when they sold. The Globe, Chronicle, and Star Tribune went on the market primarily because the sprawling families that owned the properties had lost interest in the business and preferred cash to dividends. The Star and Star-Telegram went to the block because their owner, Disney, which had recently acquired them in another deal, wasn't interested in the press.
Newspaper owners who spied the newspaper bubble early were the small fry at Harte-Hanks and Park, who got out of newspapers in the late 1990s, and the multibillionaire Canadian overlords who issue my paycheck, the Thomson family. Thomson started selling its 140-plus chain of newspapers in the mid-1990s and had basically exited the market by 2000, collecting at least $2.44 billion along the way. The company used the proceeds to expand their investments in electronic information and later, in 2007, went more electric than Dylan at Newport by acquiring Reuters.
What did Thomson know that the other newspaper operators didn't? Perhaps nothing, except for using a cold eye to look at its profit margins. In a brilliant feature about the company written by William Prochnau and published in the October 1998 American Journalism Review, we learn that Thomson's newspaper profit margins fell steadily from 33.9 percent in 1987 to 17.6 percent in 1997. Thomson, which was as good as any company at extracting high margins out of its newspapers, wisely read the data as a market directive to escape the bubble and get out of newspapers.
Around the time Thomson was using some of its proceeds to buy Reuters, the last of the fool's money was rushing in to buy Knight-Ridder (McClatchy dropping $4.5 billion), the Wall Street Journal (Rupert Murdoch spending $5.6 billion on the paper and the other Dow Jones properties), and the Tribune Co (Sam Zell orchestrating an $8.2 billion bid). Not long after, Tribune was stumbling into a bankruptcy filing, Murdoch was writing down the value of his new toy by a half, and McClatchy stock had disintegrated. And the market cap for the entire New York Times Co dropped below the $1.1 billion it paid for the Boston Globe in 1993.
By the end of 2008, New York Times media reporter Richard Pérez-Peña had pronounced the newspaper bubble pricked. He reported:
Looking back, what happened to newspapers in 2006 and 2007 directly paralleled the bubble in the housing market, with similar results.
"There was very cheap credit available," despite risks that should have been obvious to everyone, Mr. [Dave] Novosel [an analyst at a research firm] said. "The banks were willing to lend, and people were willing to buy at these prices because they figured if asset prices kept going up, they'd be fine."
The great recession, which arrived in December 2007, completely degassed the newspaper bubble, driving print newspaper advertising revenue to the bottom of the Marianas Trench. In a widely reproduced chart by Mark J. Perry based on Newspaper Association of America data (and made viral by the Atlantic's Derek Thompson), we see that newspaper ad revenues peaked in the early 2000s but have now dropped to levels not seen since 1950. Perry noted that it took newspapers 50 years to go from $20 billion to $63.5 billion in print ad revenue (1950 to 2000), but only 11 years to go from $63.5 billion back to about $20 billion in 2011.
Unlike the tech bubble, the newspaper bubble won't come back because it can't. Many of the businesses that once supported newspapers with ads don't exist on the same level anymore (such as competing department stores and grocery stores) or have found better places to put their ad dollars (the Web, television and Craigslist) or have discovered that they don't need to spend ad dollars anymore to sell their goods and services (Craigslist again).
The expired bubble won't take all newspapers down with it immediately. One theory (pdf) gaining currency is that because the current generation of print newspaper readers isn't being replaced, major U.S. print dailies will be dead in five years with only small-town newspapers and the national dailies surviving.
This is at least the second time in newspaper history that collapsed advertising revenues and rising production costs have thrown the newspaper biz into a crisis. In January 1918, American journalist Oswald Garrison Villard decried the "tragedy of journalism" that was destroying newspapers in Boston, New York, Cleveland and elsewhere. Owners weren't giving up just because they were incurring losses – they were used to that because many of them published newspapers for the social cachet and political influence it brought them. They were giving up because they were incurring unsustainable losses.
If this 1918 owners' psychology continues to hold true, we can expect marginally profitable and unprofitable newspapers to persist. But not forever, and certainly not by the time running a newspaper that few read and even fewer advertise in carries all the social stigma of owning Pets.com.
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Bubble, bubble, bubble…
What's been happening to newspapers isn't anything like a bubble. Newspapers have been around since the invention of the printing press. Just like personal mail delivered by the United States Postal Service and for the same reason, it has been subject to an evolutionary change.
Why is this distinction important? Because a bubble is a relatively short term event, destined to pop, but often with little notice such as the mortgage-backed casino gambling by Wall Street. In the case of digital technology changing the common means of communication, it has been more gradual and highly predictable.
Bubbles can reinflate, but newspapers and snail mail are dying – permanently.
Um, Craigslist doesn't accept advertising.
A whole lot of words to describe the demise of an industry.
Probably the same when the automobile did the Blacksmith industry in.
Simplified – How about: "After visiting all my Newsites,by the time I get to the newspaper box it contains history papers!
Its always been a "we want to know now world".
I began writing a blog about the Eagle Ford Shale, eaglefordinfo.blogspot.com around 3 years ago to fill a void for landowners to learn about oil and gas mineral leasing. My blog is mostly just a aggregation of pertinent oil and gas news, along with my personal commentary, that mineral landowners find helpful and interesting. It has become wildly successful due in no small part to the same forces that caused the demise of newspapers. People today need and want information that is pertinent to their lives and helpful to their unique set of circumstances. The casual, general interest, gossip story just doesn't have the cachet today it once had.
An interesting perspective, although I think it depends on a ton of hindsight. I do think the writer made a mistake that is common to many journalists writing about the newspaper industry: They focus on Craigslist as a major contributor to the demise of the industry. Craigs has certainly drawn money away from print but it is probably a small %. The big money that left newspapers went to the major job sites, car sites and real estate sites (or to non-internet marketing). I suspect journalists make little use of these sites–and tons of use of Craigs–so their focus is on the smaller player.
Peeple dont rid anymor, so thay dont nid newpapars anymor. We'r now keept enformd witt FOX.
@ptiffany I'm not 100% sure postal mail and the printed newspaper are dying. The better question is whether, in adopting electronic communications like email and online news sites, people feel compelled to eliminate postal mail, which a lot of people in rural areas rely on (and may or may not have good internet access), and printed newspapers, which in some ways are superior to reading online (e.g. a reader of a printed newspaper is more likely to encounter stories and possibly read through the printed paper than if they scan a few headlines on a news site). It would be a mistake to believe or act as if all technology is better.
But I'm much more interested in the history of newspaper conglomerates, as presented here. You could make a rational argument that the drive to consolidate media, especially print media, has had as disastrous an impact on the economy as the consolidation of banking (about 36 banks were merged 1995 to 2007 to create the 4-5 too big to fail banks), US media (50 companies in the 1980s controlled media assets now controlled by 6 companies), food (e.g. Monsanto), and so on. Of all these consolidations, newspaper appears to be one that is economically unsustainable.
Put another way, the idea of a local paper might be viable in most communities. However, the economics of combining local media outlets into a single company probably is not, based on recent and past history. Small towns, for example, presumably have car dealers, appliance stores, and even big box stores, all of them needed direct access to people in the community through local media, whether print or online or both. And people in a community will still want (perhaps need) local news coverage not of interest to large media outlets.
If true, you could have local media with profit margins comparable to grocery stores (or even non-profit) that support a small but viable news staff and business team. Staff might even be unionized. But no one would make outsized salaries.
So thanks for a little useful history, Mr. Shafer. You inadvertently proved part of my point: the newspaper conglomerate business model is unsustainable.


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Before Prince Harry, Meghan Markle Dated This Celebrity Chef
Before Meghan Markle had her prince, she dated celebrity chef Cory Vitiello. They dated for two years while she was shooting her TV show 'Suits' in Toronto, where he owns a chain of rotisserie chicken restaurants called Flock. A published report in Britain's The Telegraph says Markle was still Vitiello's "partner" when Harry asked for her number. The chef isn't discussing if there is any truth to the matter, but some wonder if he took a dig at the actress after her engagement announcement.


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I Wish She Had Smart Suraksha App
We all know about the story of India's daughter 'Nirbhaya'
For those who don't know about her, she was a girl who was raped mercilessly in a moving automobile around the city for more than 4 hours, hit by a steel road and left on the road half naked. There were many people who passed by, but no one helped her. After a long time, she was recovered by the police and was sent to hospital. She was severely injured and was on coma. After some days, she died. Recently, Saketh court sentenced the rapists to death. However it would never bring the life of that girl back.
I now wish, she had Smart Suraksha app. She could've alerted 5 of her contacts and the police with a single click of a button.
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Susan Levine, School Lunch Politics: The Surprising History of America's Favorite Welfare Program (Princeton University Press, 2008)
You may order a copy of this book here.
Reviewed by Kevin R. Kosar
Each school day, the National School Lunch Program provides reduced cost or free lunches to about 30 million school children. The program, which has been around since 1946, costs taxpayers over $8 billion per year. In view of its size and activities, it is astonishing that so little has been written about it. Susan Levine has done us a service, then, in producing School Lunch Politics, which describes the politics that produced and shaped the program over the decades.
As told by Levine, the National School Lunch Program is a tale of politics and the suboptimal policy it so frequently produces.
The roots of the National School Lunch Program lie in the late 19th century. The science of nutrition was developing rapidly, as chemists and other researchers began to conceptualize food in terms that we still use today—calories, carbohydrates, fats, proteins, and vitamins. This knowledge brought about a revolution in the way that people think about food. Hitherto, people either ate whatever was available or whatever their particular culture identified as appropriate fare. Ultimately, the new science of nutrition permitted mankind to adopt rational approaches to eating; food could be selected to provide meals that gave humans their "recommended dietary allowances" of micro- and macro-nutrients and substances. Today's health food stores, like GNC (General Nutrition Center), are the product of this revolution.
Children's diets popped onto the federal policy agenda during World War I. In sizing up recruits, the government found surprising levels of malnutrition and stunted growth. Thus, at the behest of "women's clubs, community groups, health departments, and teachers … examinations and weigh-ins [of pupils] became common in schools throughout the country." Johnny's diet and well-being became the business of the national state. In 1921, the federal government expressed its interest in children's health by enacting the Sheppard-Towner Act, which provided matching grants to states for promoting "the welfare and hygiene of maternity and infancy."
During the Great Depression the Works Progress Administration operated school lunch programs in 35,000 schools, and the National Youth Administration employed approximately 16,000 pupils in school cafeterias. The key moment came in 1933 with the enactment of a policy that permitted the Department of Agriculture to buy excess crops from American farmers and deliver the foodstuffs to schools.
Linking farmers' fortunes to children's nutritional needs provided the alignment of interests needed to establish the Federal School Lunch Program in 1946. Hitherto, advocates for expanding the federal role in the public schools, be it through school building improvements, supplements to teacher salaries, or what have you, had run headfirst into a wall of opposition. Conservatives in Congress, mostly from the South and the Midwest, decried new K-12 policies as socialism, usurpations of states' rights, and a waste of limited federal resources. Many of these conservatives, though, were eager to back school lunch program as it would funnel federal dollars to their farmer constituents. Thus it was that liberals and paleoconservative segregationists, like Senator Richard Russell, joined arms to pass the National School Lunch Act of 1946.
This was, as Levine indicates, a necessary but costly bargain. Nutrition advocates who wanted to see all children, rich and poor, fed nutritious lunches had to settle for "a school lunch program that was designed primarily as an outlet for surplus food." Though the program would benefit millions of children, it was not especially well designed. In great part, the food that came to lunchrooms consisted of whatever happened to be in surplus at the moment, be it dried beans, beets, or butter. The program was housed in the Department of Agriculture, so farmers' interests came first, and the Department did little to oversee states' operation of their lunch programs. Indeed, from their perches on the Senate agriculture committee, Russell and his colleague, Allen Ellender, saw to it that states' rights were defended from federal intrusion. State and local officials were free to set whatever criteria they pleased for participation in the program.
More fundamentally, and perhaps surprisingly, the program simply was not designed to feed all the children that needed to be fed. Federal appropriations were not pegged to the number of needy children, and states were required to contribute matching funds, which often were raised by charging pupils for lunch. The program provided no aid to old schools that lacked cafeterias. So, many nonwhite, poor, and undernourished students in crumbling schools did without while white, middle-class kids in new buildings were able to purchase meals on the cheap.
Unfortunately, Levine's narrative concludes without giving the reader a good sense of how well the school lunch program currently operates. We read that in the 1970s, it was turned into an entitlement program and put on permanent appropriation. We also learn that the feds' underfunding of the program provoked local officials to start contracting out cafeteria operations to private providers, like Sodexho. The feds also get called out for loosening regulations to permit junk food vendors into the schools.
But the reader does not get the sense that the program now works better than it ever did. Which it does. Agricultural interests, though potent, no longer dominate the program. Today, most of the federal support for the program comes in the form of cash, not surplus food. Administrative tweaks have helped to reduce discrimination and create more uniform operations nationwide.
Still, the program is not what it could be. Since Levine wrote a straight history, she did not include any suggestions for improving the program. So, for the sake of provoking discussion, please allow me to suggest a few possible reforms. First, make the National School Lunch Program free to all children. This would wipe out the stigma that deters children from participating in the program, and would also save localities heaps of paperwork. Second, decouple the program from the surplus commodity program entirely. Children should eat food that is good for them, not what farm lobbyists want them to eat. Third, require the federal government to pay the full cost of the meals served and forbid schools from having vending machines and ala carte dining. No parent of any sense allows her kid to choose pizza over broccoli and to graze on junk food each day. Why should schools? Fourth, have the federal government deliver the federal school lunch dollars directly to each child in the form of a meal debit card, good for one school lunch per day. This would cut reams of red tape and goad schools into serving desirable meals that meet current national nutritional standards.
(This review originally appeared on History News Network on April 7, 2008.)


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Or you happen to work too many hours and have no time for YOU, family, friends etc?
What if you can make better use of your 24hrs?
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Interesting. Nokia has suggested that the Windows Phone 7.8 update could be just days away from emerging, and – entirely separate – that version 7.8 might not be the final evolution of Windows Phone 7.x.
The launch date rumour in particular comes as a surprise, as conservative estimates had the arrival of WP7.8 coming at around the end of the month, with others predicting we wouldn't see it before 2013 at all.
But Nokia – Microsoft's preferred partner in Windows Phone, let's not forget – appears to believe otherwise. At a joint developer event put on by the two companies in Singapore over the weekend, WMPowerUser reports a Nokia exec as confirming that WP7.8 has officially gone RTM, and that we should expect its official release in "days to weeks".
That's in line with forecasts at the beginning of the month that the release of the latest evolution of Windows Phone 7 would be dealt with once the marketing efforts surrounding the launch of WP8 and Windows 8 were out of the way – though just days ago it was being suggested we'd only see it in the New Year.
Whenever it arrives, though, there's new hope that Windows Phone 7.8 might not be the end of the evolutionary road for WP7 after all.
A slide said to have leaked from a Nokia roadmap acquired by German site WParea, refers to a mystery Windows Phone 7.x update coming after 7.8's appearance as the final point of development for WP devices caught on the wrong side of the Apollo divide.
As a single snippet of information, it's by no means hard and fast proof that another WP7.x release is definitely coming, but it does at least lend weight to the notion that Microsoft won't be turning a cold shoulder to legacy Windows Phone handsets just because they won't ever be jumping to Windows Phone 8.
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When the Gucci slides first launched a year or two ago, I had a feeling that the look would stick around. At the time I was on the fence about the trend, but as more brands put out different styles and colors I have come to really love the look. I invested in quite a few for the summer and find them to be so comfortable (this pair and this pair are on regular rotation) and in certain cases give the illusion of an elongated leg (my short legs need all the help they can get). I began seeing more styles pop up for fall over the past few weeks, but when I went to compile this round-up I was shocked at just how many there were available now. And at every price point and style imaginable! To be honest, there are a ton that really look frumpy and unappealing, so I went through a bunch of different retailer sites to find the ones that looked like they would be the most flattering and stylish. Now all that is left is to decide which of them I need to get myself! If I had to pick out my top 3 favorites, the first one would be the Splendid mules which are a great price but have a classic shape that can be worn with anything. Next I still think the Gucci mules are a great investment, and my final pick would be these Jenni Kayne ones.
The Shoe To Buy For Fall: Mules and Slides
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1st Annual - "Last One Standing" is a reunion of those of us that have been part of the Syracuse area Biker community, and to remember our lost Brothers & Sisters.
$10.00 Donation Per Person (In advance if possible)
Bring a Dish to Pass (Please contact Jolene or Carol "Frenchy's Ol' Lady to coordinate what dish you are bringing so that we don't end up with 40 versions of potato salad.)
-- Hamburgers, Hotdogs, Sausage with Peppers & Onions will be provided.
-- Music by "Cousin Jake" and Others
-- 50/50 Drawing
-- Bring Your Own Drinks.
-- Feel free to bring your own lawn chairs.
-- Please bring photo's In Memorial - We will have a
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BAFTA Award winning sound artist Richy Carey offers some thoroughly useful practical advice on recording sound for film poetry.
Recording film sound can seem less instantly gratifying than shooting the images. It's more ephemeral and less conspicuous, and it's an investment in terms of time and energy for what might not seem like the eventual focus of the film. When was the last time you heard someone say I can't wait to hear the new Star Wars film? But it is the sound of your film that carries your work to the audience. The patterns of light and sound waves entwining as they unfold from the screen are the contour lines along which your poetry walks, and taking time to think about what the sound of your film says about your work will amplify your imagery and your poetry.
What follows is a bit of a checklist for recording sound for your film poetry, written on the assumption that you might not have done a lot of a sound recording previously. It will hopefully help you think about where and why the sound of your film poetry meets the images you create, as well as just giving you some practical advice to help speed up what can seem like a laborious process.
1 What do you want to hear?
Much like planning your shots for filming, you should always first sketch out what you want the audience to hear. Find some examples of recordings/films that you like the sound of and try and think about why you like them. What can you hear in them and how might you come close to replicating it? This is true for working in the studio as well as when out doing field recording.
It's really difficult to improvise when you are also thinking about the technicalities of recording, so spend some time making a list of all the things you know you want to get recorded and do them first. Then you can go back and try other things out. This way you'll quickly build up a bank of sounds and get to making sooner.
2 Monitoring.
Try and make sure that the speakers or headphones you are listening back on when recording are the best you can get your hands on. What the recording sounds like when you record it is more or less what it will sound like when it is played back to the audience. Cars, wind, electrical hum, etc. can be taken out when you are editing, but doing so severely compromises the quality of your recording. Do your best to make sure what you can hear when you make the recording is what you would be happy for your audience to hear at the end. This will also reduce the amount of time you need to spend editing or trying to cover up unwanted sounds later in the mix.
3 Microphones.
There is a world of microphones out there and for the most part they are not cheap. Much like cameras however, it's not how big or expensive they are but what you do with them that counts. Different microphones are made for different things and it is important that you know which one you are using and how best to use it. When filming, the most common type of microphone used is a shotgun microphone. These are very good for using outdoors and at a distance from the source you want to record. X/Y microphones, like the kind you get on zoom recorders, are great for close up field recording, ideal for collecting sounds that you will use later in the work and they can also be useful for recording voice. The third is a condenser microphone, much like you'll see in a recording studio. Excellent for recording voices or other sounds in a controlled environment – not good for outdoors (they are very delicate) and not good from a distance.
Whatever type of microphone you use, be it the one on your phone or something upmarket, make sure you try it out at different distances from the source of the sound. This lets you figure out what type of sound you like and also think forward to the eventual shape of the work and the image you foresee it being paired with. A close up image of a bird and a recording of distant birdsong might be jarring. This can be a good thing of course, just as long as that is a decision you have chosen to make and not one forced upon you by not having made the right recording at the time.
4 Housekeeping.
This might seem obvious, but once you start recording you'll quickly amass a long list of .WAV or .MP3 files with memorable names such as 00011463.WAV. When recording using a DAW (Digital Audio Workstation) such as Reaper, Logic, Cubase, Pro Tools, Garageband or even Final Cut, etc. make sure to name the track you are recording on to. This makes it much easier to edit yourself, or pass on to someone else to edit, as it will automatically name your file something sensible. Similarly, when you are out field recording, say what you are listening to into the microphone at the start of the recording. This means that when you come to transfer them on to your computer you only need to listen to the start of the track to know what it contains.
5 Editing.
As I have mentioned there are lots of DAWs you can choose to use to edit your recordings into one homogenous audio track. They all have their ups and downs, but one that is initially free, has excellent tutorial videos on its website to help you, and can be used to edit to video, is reaper.fm. Of course whatever you are used to will likely be the best option for you.
There are only a couple of tips I would initially give for recording which will help you in the edit, and again these are as true for studio recording as they are for filming and field recording.
Let the tape roll a bit before and after your recording. As with film, give it a few seconds from hitting record before you start to speak into the mic or move to the sound you want to capture. Similarly give it a few seconds at the end before hitting stop. It's really easy to trim a long recording short, but impossible to extend a track if you have stopped it too early and clipped off the last bit of dialogue or not allowed the sound to naturally fade out.
Avoid clipping. This is when you see the meter on your recording device go red and means that your gain setting is not right. A clipped audio file will distort and sound noticeably poor. It is not possible to fix clipping in the edit as it's part of the original recording. To avoid clipping, if possible test out your source by either asking them to do the loudest part of their performance or, in the case of field recording getting as close to the source as you are likely to get in the recording. Adjust your gain level so that you get a good, strong recording level but make sure that it's not too close to the red. Always anticipate that when recording a voice or performance, the performer will be more animate, and therefore louder, during the actual take than they are when you ask them for a test run.
6 Sculpting.
The language we use for sound is a physical one. When we talk about sound we talk about its texture, shape, size, weight and materiality. Try to think about your sonic composition as if it were a sculpture. What does it look like? What does it feel like? How does one substance meet another? How and where does it entwine with the image and the poetic object?
Practically speaking, it's useful to think about the frequency spectrum and where the sounds in your work sit within it. If you have a speaking voice as part of your work, introducing other sounds that are in the same range of the spectrum can muddy the mix, making it difficult to hear both the voice and the other sounds no matter how much you adjust the volume of each. A broad palette of textures and frequency ranges will give colour to your mix and also allow you to experiment with different audio-visual relationships.
7 The {sound-image-language} object.
This is a term I use that helps me think about the rhizomatic, dynamic structure of film, what Umberto Eco might call a "complex interplay of motive forces"1. The sound, image and language of film are in a state of constant flux, vying for attention and continually impressing their agency on each other and you. When you are constructing a {sound-image-language} object, it makes sense to be as responsive as possible to the unexpected ways they might meet and change each other.
As such, I'd advise being flexible with the film and audio editing process. Don't just edit the film to "completion", and then make the sound, or vice-versa. Try to be editing each at the same time. You might find that there are moments in your editing process where the poetry and sound really connect to say something that contradicts the image at that point in the film. If so, change the film. Similarly, with the sound or the poetry. Let each part of the process inform the construction of the other.
8 Make a decision.
When you do something, make sure you know why you are doing it. This seems obvious, but when you are working with recording devices, cameras or DAWs it can be really easy to let the technology make the decisions for you. Knowing what you want to record and finding the right sound is great, but equally so is just hearing something you like and going with it intuitively. In both cases however, you can say to yourself that you got that sound because you wanted it. Your choices are what give your recording character, and are where you can make the sound of your film poetry insightful, artistic and personal.
Richy is a sound artist, filmmaker and academic. He makes films about the way we listen to film, and writes about the language we use to talk about film. You can see some of his work or get in touch at www.richycarey.com.
1 Eco, U., 1989. The Open Work. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press. Eco was speaking about graphic scores, but the field of interplay which he talks about is as applicaple to film as it is to the open scores he is discussing here.


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Because of her belief in the preservation of optimal health using natural methods, Amy was drawn to pursuing an education in the massage therapy profession. A massage therapy session removes one from the outside world and aids in de-stressing and recharging our mind and body—the ideal solution for fundamental health and healing. She enjoys meeting with a client to discuss and develop a massage to suit their circumstances and achieve the results they need. Her points of focus are Deep Tissue, Neuromuscular, Sports, and Swedish Massage. In 2009, Amy obtained her massage education at Harrisburg Area Community College School of Massage Therapy with over 650 hours of training. She then successfully earned the National Certification for Massage Therapy & Bodywork and became a PA Licensed Massage Therapist.
In September 2009, Amy joined Camille Baughman & Associates and felt immediately welcomed and comfortable with the practice. Her past experience has been as a Registered Respiratory Therapist (1987 to 2011) and a Personal Fitness Trainer (American Council Exercise 1998-2002) and she follows good health practices with strength training, running most weekdays, and yoga. She believes strongly that soft tissue injury prevention should include regular stretching. To better assist her clients, she has completed training to include therapist-assisted stretching techniques. This includes studies in Aaron Mattes Active Isolated Stretching and/or Thai Yoga Massage.
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Kim & Suong
Friends since high school, Melbourne mums, Kim (38) and Suong (38) plan to show Australia what real Vietnamese food is.
Suong reveals, "We're both Vietnamese and we're both refugees. I came here when I was five on a homemade boat. I've never been to a five-star restaurant before. I never say no to food. I eat everything."
"Our friendship grew because we understand each other very well," Kim tells. "It's thanks to our parents that we're here and having a good life."
Immensely proud of their culture and their food, these "supermums" have seven children between them.
"When I grew up we didn't have much to eat so I always want to make sure my four kids are happy and fed," Suong shares.
"What we didn't have we are trying to give to our kids now," mum-of-three Kim explains. "We definitely appreciate and understand the value of food."
"Being a mother changed our lives," Suong admits. "We lost ourselves. Our life is about the kids. So being on MKR is about doing something for us. We're here because we're passionate about food."
"We're doing this for ourselves and for our families. We want to make them proud," Kim says. "It's going to be hectic but we're mums, we're used to it."
We cook with love and passion and try to use every bit of an ingredient to minimise waste. For example, we use the carrot skin, orange skin and roots in our cooking.
Kim is more assertive, especially when it comes to timing and presentation. Suong is in charge of the cooking. They write their own recipes and wing it when required.
Kim: Oxtail stew because it's nutritious, full of flavour and my children love it.
Suong: Vietnamese pork and seafood noodle soup. At first glance it looks simple but it'll catch you by surprise with its depth of flavour. The more you eat the better it gets. It's my kids' favourite dish.
Kim would love to open a restaurant or cafe while Suong wants to build a new career in the food industry.


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Poodles have the appearance of intelligent companions, always alert and active, and harmoniously built, exuding elegance and pride. Their reputation for loyalty, vivacity, above average life expectancy and capacity for learning and training help explain why they are greatly prized as companion dogs.
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Many experts feel that Poodles are the archetypal companion dog, coming in a variety of sizes, colors and coat textures, including the lesser known corded coat. Originally, Poodles were used for wildfowling. They are primarily descended from an old breed of waterdog, the Barbet, with which they share many characteristics. Breeders worked hard to produce original individuals of uniform color and their efforts have been duly rewarded as Poodles have become the world's favorite French dog since the beginning of the 20th century.Permitted show clipsLion clip: Clipped hindquarters up to the ribs, muzzle, above and below the lower eyelids, cheeks, forelegs and hindlegs save cuffs or bracelets and optional patterns on the hindquarters, tail save a round or oblong pompom at the end, mandatory mustache. Pants – unclipped hair on the forelegs – are permitted.Modern clip: unclipped legs are permitted provided the following instructions are observed: Clipped lower forelegs from the nails to the tip of the dewclaw, lower hindlegs to equivalent height. Machine clipping limited to toes is permitted. Head and tail as above. Exceptionally, short hair no longer than 1/3 inch under the lower jaw, the lower line of which is parallel to the jaw. A goat's beard is not permitted. No pompom on the tail.Shortened coat: on the body to produce "shot silk" effect at least ¾ inch long on the line of the back. The length increases gradually on the ribs and high on the legs.Neatened coat on the head with topknot retained at reasonable height and down behind the neck to the withers without a break to the clipped part of the feet along a slightly slanting line from the top of the chest. From the top of the ears along no more than a third of their length the coat may be shortened with scissors or clippers in the direction of the hair. The lower part should be covered in increasingly long hair from top to bottom, ending in fringes that may be leveled. Alternatively, neatened coat on the legs, with "pants" marking a neat transition to the clipped part of the feet. The hair length gradually increases from bottom to top, measuring 1½-2¾ inches on the shoulder and thigh, depending on the size of the dog, avoiding any bouffant effect. The pants at the back must bring out the Poodle's typical angulation. Any deviation from these standards disqualifies the dog. The outline produced by any clip should never influence show rankings, all dogs of the same class must be judged together.English clip: Lion clip with patterns on the hindquarters (bracelet and cuffs), optional topknot (no hairspray or other substance allowed to keep it in place), optional mustache, lack of demarcation on hindquarters is permitted.Poodles without permitted clip cannot be judged in shows or official events but are not disqualified from breeding programs.
So what's in a name? Poodle comes from the German word for the breed, Pudel. In German, puddeln is a verb that means to splash. In France the word for Poodle is Caniche, based on the word cane, which means female duck. So whichever way you look at it, Poodles are inextricably bound up with water.
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Peak Climbing Club
Crag Clearance
On Sunday Rachel and myself spent a great day on the crags with the Peak Climbing Club, climbing you would assume. No, the club, supported through the British Mountaineering Council are helping with the woodland plan for the Eastern Moors.
Following on from a day last year, the club have been working their way along the crag clearing birch saplings from the rock face itself. Sections of the crag, particularly around the north end of Curbar, are now very wooded. This has led to more mossy damp covering of the rocks. Letting the light back in will help the rare lichens on the rock, help prevent birch seed blowing up onto the moors, replace the edge as a landscape feature and improve the quality and conditions for climbing.
The Eastern Moors team and the National Trust estate team are currently working in the woodlands below, clearing trees to create more light to promote the growth of oak and rowan. So the Idea is to help the woodland regenerate new growth not to reduce the amount of woodland on the Eastern Moors.
Dead bay grove area has gone from dank and dark to dappled shade. More work is due in these areas with the Eastern Moors Partnership team following on behind. We achieved more than I had hoped, finishing under the pinnacle at Froggatt.
A big thanks to David and the club for all their help and the biggest slices of cake I have ever seen.


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I did get some time to take a ride with my good buddy Pat Cohen. To the Salmon River, the salmon started to run early this year so we heard it was good fishing up there, so off we headed,
it was a perfect day for it, 60's Sunny, river was running at a low 185cfm, and was also about 60's in the water, We showed up to the River and Found everyone and there Brothers up there, we hit a couple spots we know are good and so did everyone else,
So we went to a spot not alot of people go and walked up river a ways and found a great spot,
With in 5 mins i was hooked in to a big male Salmon and He took me for a Run but i Landed him, i was Stoaked My First Salmon ever, i ended the Day with three Salmon Landed and tons of hook ups, Pat Landed one and Hooked in to a Ton too a couple Really Nice Coho's but lost them at the Shore
hope to be going up again soon For the Steelhead Run!!!!
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I am team transparency. I used to talk about it all the time when I was in a Bible study and when I led one. We need to be more transparent. We won't grow as a group if we aren't more transparent. I respect a person more when they are transparent with me. Etc., etc.
I'll tell you almost everything about my life - my relationship with God, my beliefs, my marriage, my family, my friends, my work, my hobbies...
Almost everything. But not everything.
I'm still not going to spill all of my secrets. Some are simply unnecessary to publish on a public website. Some I still find too shameful, too painful to talk about. I will, however, tell you a handful of things that if I'm honest, I'm afraid to tell you.
I'm insecure about my intelligence
One of the best decisions I made in high school was taking mostly IB (similar to AP) classes. The downside was that most of my closest friends were the insanely smart kids. All they talked about at the end of senior year was their GPA and who was going to be valedictorian. I didn't get into Virginia Tech - a fact that I'm still ashamed about, and my SAT scores were nothing to write home about. I dread the day when my child asks me for help on their math or science homework and I don't know the answer.
I'm not crafty and I can't draw worth beans
You're probably wondering why I'm afraid to tell you this. It's the strangest thing - so many people assume that I'm crafty! I guess I feel like I'm letting people down? There's this pressure to be crafty because everyone else is craft-crazy these days. I don't scrap-book (I stay far far away from scrap-booking supplies), I don't knit or crochet or sew (yet) and I rarely ever do DIY projects. I get frustrated and impatient with crafts. I much prefer to do projects like painting furniture or arranging items on a bookcase. I have a creative eye, and I think it's a pretty good one, but I don't play well with crafts.
I struggle with jealousy and comparing myself to other people
I don't have a cool job, or a high-paying one. I don't run marathons (or work out much at all). I rarely shop at "fancy" stores. I'm not a very good photographer. I am completely inept at doing my own hair. I don't live in an exciting place. Many of my peers are more talented writers than I am. I drive a minivan.
I've cried over many "I'm pregnant!" facebook statuses
Something I won't tell you is when we're trying, how we're trying, if we're trying, etc. I don't need MORE pressure to have a baby. The truth is, I'm very happy with how we've handled family planning, and I'm very happy that these past four years have been sans baby. Still, that desire in me to be a mom makes it hard for me when other people receive that honor. I've never not been happy for a friend - babies are exciting and all of my friends are going to make awesome mommas - but I have absolutely been jealous! Mainly because the phrase I've heard over and over again after a pregnancy announcement is, "Laura, you're next!" Yeah, I've had to listen to that for two years. Hear my heart - I appreciate that people are excited for us to become parents, and I'm sure I've done my fair share of unknowingly pressuring someone to have a baby, but I'm tired of being bombarded with baby questions! When we do have/adopt a baby one day, it will be planned. We will have years of marriage experience, going to restaurants alone and sleeping in behind us. We will have saved up. We will have traveled. We will have gotten practice watching other people's kids. So that's pretty great.
I feel guilty for having had such an easy childhood
My parents are together and have a very happy marriage. We had a nice house and nice things. I was never abused, abandoned or neglected. I never struggled with smoking, alcohol or drugs. All of these things are huge blessings and I certainly wouldn't want the alternative, but I ache for people who have had loneliness and devastation in their life.
I like fast food, including McDonald's
I'm surrounded by friends and family who turn up their nose at fast food chains. They're right, I know. It's gross. But Wendy's junior bacon cheeseburger? Taco Bell's chalupa supreme? Checker's fries? McDonald's breakfast? Nom nom nom.
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I'm working on my first piece of assessed work now so I may be quiet for a little while longer. At least I'm absent from here for the very best of reasons. I'm having a great time.
Friday, 2 December 2016
A sample of what I'm doing on my MA Course
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wow - quite impressive. I give a thumbs up. Good luck and keep enjoying your new journeyReplyDelete
Ros - this is fab. Good to know you are enjoying the course so much.ReplyDelete
Hi Ros - thanks for introducing us to Neuschul and to ekphrasis writing ... you are stretching yourself - but how great and as you say ... so worthwhile. Enjoy ... your poem really brings home the horror of a Jewish life under the Nazis ... yet exploring the ekphrasis aspect of writing ... clever - all the best as you continue on -HilaryReplyDelete
I've never heard of ekphrasis writing before, Ros. This is brilliant! I can imagine how inspiring that would be! So glad you are enjoying your course so much!ReplyDelete
That's powerful! Just the simplicity, observation, and the placing it in history; quite extraordinary. I take my hat off to you, Ros! And look forward to more.ReplyDelete
Striking. Thanks for sharing. Look forward to hearing more.ReplyDelete
I've never seen this painting, so that was interesting. Then I read your poem...and that was so moving. Thank you.ReplyDelete
Hi Ros, It's over 2 years since I even looked at my blog, but here I am. Well done for starting a Master's course. I was lost when mine ended and I feel as if I've been treading water ever since. Adrift, but still afloat. Good luck. So exciting. I would do it all over again if I could afford it.ReplyDelete


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Hello! You may be pleased to hear (or may not be), that I haven't completely abandoned my new blog, but I do have finals starting in two days, so writing book reviews hasn't exactly been top priority 🙁
For the time being I've got another book cover design – I got really enthusiastic and made a few a couple of weeks ago, but didn't want everyone to get sick of them if I posted them all in quick succession.
Anyway, this one is for the modern classic Lolita, by Vladimir Nabokov, which as most probably know, is about a middle aged man who falls in love and fantasises over a teenager (called Lolita).
I chose the childish underwear to emphasise Lolita's young age, but also show her sexualisation by the author. The black tiles and the printed letters look a bit like a blackboard too, again pointing to her youth.
I know my past few posts have all been cover designs, but I'm planning to do more texty posts after exams finish. This blog is supposed to be about entire books, not just the covers!


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My van. :sigh: Something is going on again. It suddenly stalled the other day. It's ran fine since, and without a check engine light on or it stalling frequently, the mechanic doesn't have enough to go on. He could guess and make repairs, but...In the meantime, I wonder when it'll be more than just a "random glitch".
Some of us are naturally patient and "laid back". When life throws them for a loop, they just roll with it. I'm blessed to have both a husband and an older son who just "go with the flow". They're definitely 9s; they deal with whatever comes up when it comes up with calm coolness. Me? Not so much. I'm a 5. I've got to work on that! Fortunately, I have 2 men in my life that keep my grounded.
3. Share about a time when you felt like you could fly. Or a time you wished you could fly. Or a time you felt like you were flying.
Oh, flying and I don't go well together. I get motion sick!
4. Your favorite song with the word fly in the title or lyrics, or your favorite song that relates to flying in some way?
5. What's in your fall picnic basket and where are we picnicking in your neck of the woods this time of year?
We just explored caves in New Hampshire this weekend, driving through the Kancamagus Highway in the White Mountain National Forest. In our cooler was cold cut and cheese sandwiches, Pringles, Fig Newtons, apples, and pears.
Can I add mechanic? :: wink :: From the list I would say carpentry as the house needs quite a number of repairs. Or maybe plumping? No, carpentry!
Besides a new vehicle? :sigh: Food! Feeding 3 kids is an investment! But I'm still going to the grocery store too often just the same.
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About Rosalind:
Rosalind James is the author of the Kindle-bestselling "Escape to New Zealand" series (currently five titles strong), as well as the new U.S.-based "Kincaids" series. Her first book,"Just This Once," has sold tens of thousands of copies in the year since it was published, eventually reaching #85 in the Amazon store. A marketing professional and publishing industry veteran, Rosalind has lived all over the United States and in a number of other countries, traveling with her civil engineer husband. Most recently, she spent several years in Australia and New Zealand, where she fell in love with the people, the landscape, and the culture of both countries. She loves trying new things in her writing, most recently the mystery and suspense in "Nothing Personal."
Rosalind credits her rapid success to the fact that "lots of people would like to escape to New Zealand! I know I did!"
Interview with Rosalind:
Which of your seven books is your favorite?
That changes all the time. This latest one, "Nothing Personal," just consumed me. I got to do some mystery and suspense, which I loved, and Alec and Desiree took me over. This book poured out of me in a furious blur, like nothing since "Just for Now."
What's your publishing story?
After I finished my first two books, I tried the traditional thing, submitted to 38 different agents and publishers, got pretty discouraged. Three expressed interest, all ultimately said no. The problem seemed to be, "New Zealand rugby? Huh? Tough hook!" And I knew it was a GREAT hook! I KNEW it!
Besides, I'd had a 20-year career in publishing, 10 of those years in marketing, and I figured I should be able to figure out the self-publishing thing if anybody could. I sold 2,000 ebooks the first month, 20,000 ebooks the fifth month, had a magical hour where I outranked Nora Roberts, published the paperbacks, and a year and four more books later, it's still going great. Guess those folks were wrong . . . not that I'm gloating, LOL. Thank goodness for Amazon!
What's your writing routine?
I'd like to give you some rational, reasonable schedule, but the fact is, once a book grabs me, I'm working all the time. Just ask my poor husband–if it weren't for pizza, he'd have wasted away by now. I lost six pounds in the six weeks it took me to write "Nothing Personal."
You're best known for your "Escape to New Zealand" series. What research did you do to make sure the setting was real and vivid for your readers?
Swam in the ocean a lot and drank lots of coffees and traveled all around and did lots of fun outdoors things in beautiful places, and watched a lot of rugby in pubs. Sigh. It's a tough job, but someone's gotta do it.
Seriously, I'd say, just lived there. The longer you're there, the more Kiwi culture seeps into your bones. The Maori influence, the geographical isolation (it's just so FAR from everywhere), the sheer physical beauty of the place, they're all part of it. You end up with this emphasis on family, the land (and the sea), hard work, and . . . well, I'd describe it as being a "regular person," no matter who or what you are. Not being a jerk. Oh, and rugby.
All your heroes in that series are rugby players. Why rugby?
Umm . . . Google "All Blacks haka." Go on. I'll wait.
Yeah. Well. Tight jerseys, short shorts, full contact, big muscles, the "regular person" deal combined with the fact that the All Blacks (NZ's national rugby team) are NZ's version of movie stars—and the best team in the world. The pressure of that in a country of 4.5 million people, about 4 million of whom will recognize you walking down the street—and will come up to shake your hand, ask for an autograph or a picture, and you'll be expected to smile and SAY YES. It's life in a fishbowl, and good behavior is expected. Pretty different from the lives of athletes in other countries, and I just found it fascinating to think about what it would be like to be that person.
On the other hand, "Welcome to Paradise" is totally different, a spin on reality television. What inspired the plotline? Why 1885?
I wanted to write a story about brothers—guys' relationships make me laugh. Somehow I got the idea to put them on a reality show. I'm from Idaho, and I have farm connections, so doing a show about living like pioneers in 1885 was a pretty easy leap. I got to interview some older folks who grew up on farms and whose parents did too, almost back to those times, and my awesome, handsome bull-rider nephew did things like going out and throwing an axe for me. I texted him, "If you have an axe throwing challenge how far can you throw it," and he texted back, "One handed or two?" That cracked me up. (Axes are HEAVY.)
Why do you write love stories?
Romantic love is such a powerful and beautiful thing. But I try to write about more than that too–about those pivotal moments when you make the big, scary decisions, when you change, when your life changes. I also love writing about parents and children, sisters and brothers, friends, the love of country and place. Sometimes when we say "love," we forget about all the different kinds of love that enrich our lives. Two of my books, "Just for Now" and "Just for Fun," are very much about fatherhood and motherhood. Plus, kids are funny.
What type of person is your ideal heroine? Your ideal hero?
Heroine: Strong, with a backbone. Doesn't necessarily mean she's "tough": several of my heroines are very gentle and sweet, but they all have a core of fortitude, character, endurance.
Hero: No question I write alpha males! But not jerks I hope–because to me, a strong man doesn't need to hurt or control anyone else, especially a woman, to feel like a man. (I'm not talking about what kind of sex you have. That's a whole different thing, though for me, reading or writing, it has to be explicitly consensual. And role-playing and having fun are one thing, real degradation and pain are another, and not someplace I go. And it has to include condoms!)
I suppose the main thing I like to both read AND write in characters is just basic decency, being a person who's trying hard to do the right thing, even if you mess up.
What's next?
Another New Zealand book, I think. I have an idea floating around in there. But Alec and Desiree have to leave my head first!
Nothing Personal Excerpt:
She'd spooned up every bit of the rich broth, the chunks of beef and vegetables, had dipped a second and then a third piece of bread in olive oil. Alec had watched it all without comment, while dispatching his own dinner with an alacrity that confirmed to Desiree that he really hadn't had dinner yet tonight.
And when they'd finished, he'd insisted, together with Giuseppe—of course the waiter's name was Giuseppe, because this wasn't romantic enough, the white tablecloth and the single red rose and the candle and the worn brick against her shoulder—he'd insisted that she order cannoli for dessert.
"Just one," he coaxed. "If you don't want it, you don't have to eat a single bite. But I think you need to taste whipped cream tonight."
"Don't you think she needs some whipped cream?" he demanded of the waiter, who smiled back at him, sensing, Desiree thought through a satisfied haze of red wine, succulent beef, and way too much potent testosterone, a truly magnificent tip.
"Definitely, the signorina needs whipped cream," Giuseppe agreed. "And we have the best."
She wasn't sure how you had better whipped cream than anyone else, but when the dessert arrived, she had to concede that this was the best.
Amaretto, one still-sane corner of her practical brain suggested, but that sensible voice was drowned out, oh so rapidly, by the sensation on her tongue, the silky smoothness of cream, the almond sweetness of the liqueur, the delicate drift of pastry and the deep dark pleasure of chocolate. And Alec, watching her as she allowed the rich concoction to drift between her lips, over her tongue, down her throat. Watching her, enjoying the sight of her enjoying herself, as if it were his tongue. His throat.
By the time he'd slapped a hand against the door of the cab that had again been waiting when they'd stepped out of the restaurant's front door, leaped back onto the sidewalk and raised that same hand in farewell, she'd been so lost in fatigue, wine, and lust that she could only sit back against the scarred leather and thank heaven that she hadn't actually kissed him. Or begged him.
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Website: http://www.rosalindjames.com
Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/rosalindjamesbooks
Twitter: @rosalindjames5
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I still remember the first day that I decided to start a business making preserved rose, people keep asking me what is preserved rose, and why working on something people rarely know about it.
Well, the very first time I heard of "preserved rose" was when I took a trip to Asia. I was so surprised to see that people living in China, Japan and Korea are so interested in flowers that will never die. Those beautiful flowers have vivid color, soft petals, just like those fresh ones do. Husband bought preserved roses for their wives on anniversary, boyfriends bought preserved rose for girlfriends on Valentine's Day, kids bought preserved flowers for their moms' birthdays. It seems like people will never get enough of preserved roses.
Preserved rose is so wonderful for someone like me, who is allergy to flower pollen. You don't need to worried about the itchy eyes, and running rose while having preserved rose. Because all the allergy triggers have been extracted through the preservation process. Also, no time to water those little beauties? No worry, preserved roses don't even need to be watered.
You might think it sounds like a miracle, a flower can live without water and sunshine. But yes, it is a miracle, and it is what we are making right now.