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Inbound Marketing vs. Outbound Marketing
A few years ago companies were betting all their cards on reaching their customers through outbound marketing. Now, we're living in the era of inbound marketing. For every marketer, content marketing should be your priority: it attracts your most desired target to your business and makes them want you over someone else.
So, what's the difference?
What is Outbound Marketing?
Simply put, outbound marketing is a traditional form of marketing where a company sends out a message to its audience. This could be advertisement on TV, radio or print, e-mail, cold calls and other agressive techniques. It's harder to tack and less profitable, when compared to other forms of marketing like inbound marketing.
Companies still spend a considerate amount of their budgets on outbound marketing, however they're drifting more towards inbound marketing over time. Outbound marketing is getting less effective over time due to the impossibly high volume of interruptions one person gets per day; and also due to the incresse of blocking techniques that literally block the information. The final reason is that outbound marketing techniques are very expensive and it's way cheaper to create and optimize a blog than it is to create an ad on TV.
It requires that a lot of messages be pushed out through multiple channels hoping that it will reach the right person. Doesn't this sound expensive?
What is Inbound Marketing?
Inbound marketing is the opposite of outbound marketing. It is easy to track, has a high ROI and much lower costs than outbound marketing. Instead of communicating to the masses, where a big slice of the audience doesn't fit your target, inbound marketing allows you to be found by people who are specifically looking for your services and products.
It incorporates social media, blogging and paid online advertisement, allowing you to create a much more target oriented strategy. As people are spending more time online, it only makes sense for brands to build their online presence and organically reach their customers.
Companies are re-locating more of their marketing budgets to inbound marketing, given that it is crucial when improving their sales. However, it is highly time consuming and that's one of the reasons why not all organizations are betting hard on it.
According to CRM Daily, "nearly half of the companies that implement inbound marketing efforts see a 25 percent greater return on investment (ROI) on those programs than companies that do not. The survey found that inbound marketing channels can deliver up to 30 times the campaign conversion rate of traditional outbound direct-mail campaigns."
Why is Inbound Marketing much more effective?
Hubspot states that over the last 6 months companies are relying more on blogging, social media, E-mail marketing and SEO for lead generation than on outbound marketing.
If you want to cut costs and increase conversions, you should bet on inbound marketing. According to Brian Halligan, from Hubspot, "most marketers today spend 90% of their efforts on outbound marketing and 10% on inbound marketing" and those ratios need to flip.
People don't want to receive your intrusive and annoying messages and they are starting to tune out. Inbound marketing goes directly to your target market and, with the right content strategy, you can increase your ROI in a way you couldn't with outbound marketing.
One of the good things about inbound marketing is that it doesn't sound like hardcore marketing. You provide quality content that serves your audience and is appealing to them, instead of being that annoying salesman that everyone despises.
So how do you move from outbound marketing to inbound marketing? Here are a few quick tips:
- Invest some (a lot) of time and effort on your website or blog. If you don't have a blog yet, create one. And then get busy generating amazing and useful content that fit your prospects
- Do your keyword research (read more about it in this blog post). Know what your customers are searching for on search engines and in your website.
- Create campaigns on Google Adwords. Start with a Pay-Per-Click Campaign and begin experimenting with keywords and driving more traffic to your website. See how much you'll gain in return with such little investment.
These tips are specially useful to small and new companies, that need to reach a large audience but can't invest a lot of money in traditional marketing. It's a learning process but you'll get a much higher ROI by building your online presence.
Focus more on creating kickass content and being consistent with you audience. You know what they say: Content really is king.


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How Important Are Sports Shoes To Outdoor Sports?
In any outdoor sport, shoes are a very important part. Most people tend to ignore the important role of perfectly fitted sports shoes. It is imperative to have the right sports shoes while taking part in any outdoor sport.
The right sports shoes offer a kind of immunity that every sporting individual needs. Outdoor sports are meant to build up one's immunity. This means that there is a lot of sweating and body fluid release. If an individual is not wearing the right kind of sports shoes, the shoes can be a source of bacterial infections once the buildup accumulates.
Safety is every individual's desire when taking part in outdoor sports. It is important to keep fit and at the same time maintain safety. With the right sports shoes meant for the outdoor sports, safety is evident. Shoes enable individuals to avoid leg injuries that would otherwise easily be experienced when bare feet.
Some sports shoes are meant to enhance the participant's performance. In sports that require a lot of running here and there, it is only fair to have the right kinds of sports shoes so as to avoid falling victim to unwanted injuries.
Wearing the right sports shoes in outdoor activities also boots an individual's confidence. Considering that some shoe manufacturing companies are specializing in creating shoes that are meant for sports. They make it easy for sports enthusiasts to perform what they enjoy doing most while in the best attire.
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Median Prices Up & Sales Down By Record- What Gives?
Be cautious what you extrapolate to your neighborhood market from national real estate media coverage.
Last week the press trumpeted that median home values were up everywhere indicating the housing market was in recovery mode and on solid footing. This week? The number of existing home sales were down nationally by a record amount bringing last week's cheery news into doubt. How can this be?
Lack of thought and analysis are the reasons the press is so often off the market with their real estate articles. And government meddling is causing the current phenomenon of higher prices and lower number of sales. Fed driven record-low interest rates on larger loans are allowing more higher-priced homes to sell this year. Median home prices go up (not necessarily home values). Last year high-balance loans disappeared for awhile limiting high-end homes sales, and thereby causing median home prices to drop (not necessarily home values).
Why did the number of home sales plummet nationally? The federal and state tax credits accelerated the pace of lower-priced home sales last year and the first part of 2010. When the tax credits ended recently it created a short-term drop in demand for homes as many buyers purchased sooner than they might normally have.
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Knowing the formula for Cosmic ordering is like knowing the formula for
Solar Power.
You will never again have to struggle to figure out why your manifestations aren't working. You just plug the figures into the formula and see what your results are.
The Cosmic ordering formula is a
Universal Law,
much like the law of gravity or force (Mass * acceleration=force). And, like those two, it is always operating. You can control it when you know the formula. The only slight hitch is that Cosmic ordering or the LOA formula is an energy formula, not a physical formula. It's not so easy to measure passion.
Everyone has had the experience that sometimes you get what you desire, and other times you don't. If you are honest, you will remember that this is not dependent on how hard you work, or the quality of advice that you get from your parents. Cosmic ordering is not even dependent on the quality of the feelings that you put into the desire.
My first experience with a failure of Cosmic ordering was with a bicycle. In third grade when most of my friends got bicycles, I asked for a bicycle. I didn't get in for Christmas and I didn't get it for my birthday. I desired that bicycle more than I have ever desired anything else in my life. I had to wait four more years. What did I do wrong?
Cosmic ordering (and the Law of Attraction) is a
Law of Energy
whereas gravity and force are laws of matter. Energy is dependent on your state of mind because your personal energy is set by your state of mind, rather than your job or your beauty or your education.
When you have the state of mind of a wealthy person, your wealth will match your state of mind. While you hang on to the state of mind of a middle class person, it doesn't matter how much education you have or how many friends you have. You will remain a middle class person until you change your state of mind. Your state of mind is equivalent to your vibrational frequency. This is the term that Abraham uses
to explain the Law of Attraction
or Cosmic ordering.
Bob Doyle
does the best job we've seen, of explaining how this works in his course, Wealth Beyond Reason. If you aren't now saying, "oh, yes, I know how that works!" you should take a look at his course.
So, why wasn't I getting the bicycle I wanted? My passion was high. My vision was excellent. I knew exactly the make, model and color that I wanted; I had tried one out and had the exact feeling of being on it. This was a failure of Cosmic ordering.
It had to be my vibrational frequency or my belief that was off.... I'll explain more below.
(Belief + Vision)Passion = Manifestation
These are the elements of your vibrational frequency. We have written on other occasions about raising your vibrational frequency. Any formula can be written in several ways.
(Belief * Passion) + (Vision * Passion) = Manifestation
Your vibrational frequency is determined by the first part of the formula, your beliefs multiplied by your passion. Then, the vision multiplied by your passion sets the exact thought manifestation. The two are synchronized by your passion. When all is in harmony, your thought manifestation becomes particle in the world of space/time.
To change your vibrational frequency you either have to change your beliefs, or your passion, or both. In my case, my belief in getting the bicycle that I wanted was a little off that first year. I wasn't sure that I would get the same bicycle that all my friends had gotten. They lived over in the wealthier side of town. Often my parents had to give me a less expensive substitute for the things that they were given.
But, I had never had my heart set on anything the way I did with that bike. After being so deeply disappointed that first year, my beliefs were far from where they needed to be. Cosmic ordering was not working for my bike. I'd like to point out that it was working in other areas of my life, but we don't learn as much from our successes as from our failures.
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Originally, we are born into this time/space life with a complete set of true beliefs. As the Hicks say, we are given the tools that we need when we are sent to space/time. We know how to home in on those things that lead to our getting our heart's desire and we know who we are. Then, parents, siblings, teachers and well meaning neighbors begin to change our true beliefs by adding false beliefs and they sometimes change our idea of who we are. You might have come to earth/time to be an athlete, but if you are growing up in a lawyer's home, you might feel pressured to become a lawyer.
Beliefs can be changed back to the truth, little by little as we develop new skills. This is the way that most people raise their vibrations. This is the value of courses or mentoring or coaching. Our beliefs will go from, "Oh, you can't do that!" to "Yes I can." Your mother might say, "Oh, you can't run a 4 minute mile. You're too short." But, if your trusted coach says, "Yes you can. You only have to take 2.5 seconds off each quarter mile and I know you can do that!" then your beliefs change.
This can also be done with a mastermind group or by spending time with those who have already done what you intend to do. This is the recommendation of NLP practitioners and Anthony Robbins. When you hear on TV that you can buy a house with "No Money Down" you are a little skeptical. When your friend or mentor tells you that they have done it many times and can show you how to do it, your beliefs change easily.
Beliefs can also be changed by using a brainwave generator with affirmations, or by using lucid dreaming. These techniques will change the false beliefs imprinted on your subconscious pretty quickly. This will improve your Cosmic ordering.
In my case, I started with a little doubt about the bicycle, and after not getting it, I had a gaping, Grand Canyon of doubt. Four years later, I had given up the idea of ever being given a bike. I had begun saving the money I was earning as a babysitter to buy my own bike. The change in my financial status, changed my beliefs and my parents gave me the bike for Christmas.
This is the other element in your vibrational frequency. This is more subtle. Beliefs can be "heard" as you state or write down your desires, and your vision can be discussed and adapted or improved. But your passion is determined by the closeness of your dream to your soul's desire.
Coaches usually focus first on your vision. Once they get that right, they focus on breaking any blocks caused by false beliefs because that is the next easiest element to get at.
One gymnastics coach told me that he could teach a child how to master the events. He could train his student's body and muscles to be strong enough and coordinated enough to be a champion. But, he couldn't give a child the passion if he didn't come with it naturally.
So, the answer to this question, "how can I change my passion?" is that you can't, much. You can change it a little. But, if the thing that you want isn't connected to your heart's desire, you are never going to care very much about it. If it's a little thing, you don't need much passion. But if it's a big item, or capability, or success, then you're going to need an appropriate amount of passion.
My father was a competitive swimmer when he was growing up. He loved it and developed many lasting friendships from those friends. He wanted to pass this love and ability along to his children. My older brother was 12 inches shorter than his two competitors and always came in third. This caused great distress in my family. My father thought that he could do better.
My younger brother loved swimming as my father had. He was 14 inches shorter than many of his competitors, he didn't try to be a sprinter. He became a middle distance and long distance swimmer who excelled at all strokes. He won the 200 and 400 yard races, and the 200, and 400 yard medleys. He was also a great competitor on a relay, often breaking his best time by many seconds if his team needed him to do it. He went to all his 5 am practices, and did everything his coach asked him to do. Their team swam seven days a week. He won a scholarship to college, but he never made the Olympic team. He became a Navy SEAL and still swims almost every day. My brother's passion was enough to win a spot on an elite squad, and to enable him to make a living doing what he loved. But, it was not enough to make him the fastest swimmer in the world.
One of his teammates did go to the Olympics and won his event. This was a boy, and then young man, who not only went to every practice, but practiced himself in between practices. He became a long distance specialist. He never lost an 800 or 1600 meter race and did very well in the 400 meter races. He had more passion for swimming than any one else we knew. He did it all by himself. Sometimes people referred to him as "crazy" or "driven." The results show that his (belief + vision)passion were high enough to enable him to win an Olympic gold and to hold a World's record for a while.
Some people go to college and graduate school and become successful lawyers or doctors. This may or may not have anything to do with the Law of Attraction. We don't know unless we interview them. It is entirely possible to be successful at one thing or another without using the formula, (Belief + Vision)*Passion = Manifestation
We only know that the Law of Attraction is in effect when we see a quick and inexplicable jump or fall in someone's ability or success. We often call this "luck". It can be good or bad "luck" depending on the direction of the change. We will focus on how to keep the direction positive.
The first element to focus on is the one that coaches can't help you change significantly. You must find your passion or your heart's desire. This is the key to all your success.
Clarity also comes to daily meditators. If this is more your route, then we recommend
Holosync (binaural beats)
or ARVRI
(guided meditation).
Another way to discover your true mission is to explore your
Akashic records.
You can learn to do this yourself, or get someone to do it for you. Andrea Hess has a training program and will recommend a qualified graduate student if you don't want to take the training yourself.
Once you are working from your passion, your talents and skills will improve in leaps and bounds. "Luck" will always seem to be on your side. This is what the Hicks call "being in the stream" of well being and abundance. This is when you have open access to Cosmic ordering.
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Tuesday, April 26, 2011
Secret Society Girl by Diana Peterfreund
Secret Society Girl was nothing like what I was expecting. It was so different from Rampant and Ascendant that I could have sworn a different author wrote it. Whereas the Killer Unicorn Series was pretty chaste (you know, unicorns and virgins), Secret Society Girl talks about one night stands, friends with benefits, and "hit lists." It's all hilariously done, too.
I was also surprised that there was such a mature theme to the novel. Amy is tapped for the oldest secret society at her high-powered college, a society that has traditionally only ever included men. This is the first year they have ever tapped women, and the backlash is immediate: The alumni on the board try to kick the new members — and those who tapped them — out of the society, and start pulling strings to ruin their budding careers. Amy and the rest of the new members have to decide whether they are going to fight back.
I was thinking it was going to be more of a "fluff" YA series, but I was pleasantly surprised. Secret Society Girl was in turns laugh-out-loud funny and scream-out-loud infuriating, but there was nothing "fluffy" about it. It's an excellent novel for teenage girls who for the most part, I'm guessing, don't know much about feminism or the women's movement — but it was also a very satisfying novel for me, a 30-something feminist (just turned 31 today!).
I've already placed a hold on the next book in the series — I can't wait to see where Amy goes from here!
Edit 4/26/2011: Ms. Peterfreund visited to point out that the book wasn't actually billed as YA, so I changed the label on the post. I'm listing it as chick lit, even though my library lists it as romance and fiction, because it's more fun than most fiction, and I'm not sure the ending qualifies it as romance, either — it's not a "happily ever after" sort of ending, which I think is a requisite of a romance novel.
Edit 12/29/2012: You can see my reviews of the rest of the books in the series here:
Under the Rose
The Rites of Spring (Break)
Tap and Gown
4 comments:
- Diana Peterfreund said...
Thanks for reading! I'm curious... did you find this in the teen section of your library? It's not a young adult novel, which might account for some of the, er, variations in tone you are describing.
- April 26, 2011 at 6:28 PM
- Katharine Swan said...
Wow, thanks for stopping by! I could have sworn my library had the book listed as YA, but I double checked, and it's not. I must have just assumed it was because I read the Killer Unicorns series first. I must say, though, that I've read plenty of YA with sex in it, which is why I didn't realize this wasn't meant to be YA. Regardless, though, I loved it -- and I especially loved the humor!
- April 26, 2011 at 9:47 PM
- Diana Peterfreund said...
Thanks again. It's definitely YA-accessible, and I know a lot of places cross-shelve it, especially since most of my other books are YA. And a lot of chick lit is shelved as romance.
Re: the sex, the first book is more... PG, I think.
- April 27, 2011 at 7:14 AM
- Katharine Swan said...
Glad to know I'm not the only one who has made that mistake!
I just got the second book... Can't wait to get started!
- May 6, 2011 at 12:23 PM


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https://www.youtube.com/embed/Tj75Arhq5ho?rel=0&controls=0&showinfo=0 ... Love, cat.ReplyDeleteReplies
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You are right.. there are times when we concentrate too much on what isn't us... just change of light.ReplyDelete
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I am the same person regardless of the source of light - what a wonderful epiphany and poemReplyDelete
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I am the same person, regardless of the light. Unless it is very dark. Then I am someone else. Shhh....ReplyDeleteReplies
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224 ROSS Avenue, Cochrane, AlbertaMLS®#: C4093864
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- Year Built1959
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Catching a bus to the shops to grab a coffee at your favourite coffee shop is a humble pursuit practised by people all over the country. You can even do it if you're blind. You grab your white cane or you harness up your trusty guide dog and off you go.
You can find your way to the bus stop, negotiate the steps to the bus, get off at the right place and find the café and get that much needed caffeine boost. But what if, even with all the appropriate training and all the mobility aids in the world, that simple act seems beyond you? What if the anxiety surrounding this journey is so great that it prevents you from even trying because you are so afraid of getting lost or getting hurt?
I am congenitally blind. I have no vision at all, not even light perception. I'm married with two teenaged children, I run my own business, I volunteer in my local community, I have loads of friends and I lead a full and rich life. However, until a few years ago, travelling independently caused me untold levels of anxiety. At times I would describe it as paralysing.
In December of 2010, I happened upon a documentary about a boy who had lost his eyes due to retinoblastoma, who used the click of his tongue to navigate around his neighbourhood. He would use the echoes created by the click to avoid cars in the street, to play video games and even to play basketball. I thought that this was fascinating but I didn't really see anything that related to me.
Enter Daniel Kish, blind mobility specialist and president of World Access For The Blind. Daniel came to work with Ben (the boy in the documentary) to refine his echolocation, or 'flash sonar', skills.
Flash sonar allows the user to generate a sound from which an echo is created. It is this "flash" of an echo that gives the user a world of information about the environment in which they are travelling. The echo sounds quite different depending on the object off of which it bounces. A wall sounds quite dense, whereas a hedge sounds quite sparse. It seems so complex and yet it's really very simple.
Daniel made me sit up and take notice. He presented as an articulate, educated man who could travel anywhere he wanted by himself. I had to know more. I got in touch with Daniel and so began a journey that would eventually lead to him coming to Australia to give me eight days of training. Eight days that would, quite literally, change my life.
My desire to go to a coffee shop and grab a coffee by myself was realised in the first three days of training. We went to unfamiliar places and found our way around. Remember, Daniel had come to Brisbane from LA. He didn't know the shops, train stations, and parks we visited either but we were able to navigate these places with no assistance from sighted people.
Daniel gave me permission to trust myself and to use my senses to find out what I needed to know about my environment. He didn't focus on the rote learning of a route from point A to point B. Rather, he taught me to use flash sonar to locate the landmarks I needed to find my way to my destination.
If you learn a particular route and you deviate from that route you are often unable to find your way back because you've focussed so much on the route that you don't have an understanding of the greater environment. Flash sonar encourages you to interrogate the environment to find the answers you need to reach your target.
I now use flash sonar every day. I do it the same way I breathe, all the time and without too much conscious thought. While I still experience a small amount of anxiety at times, I can travel anywhere I need to or want to without assistance. I still take a guide at times and I still get assistance if I feel like it. However, it's my choice now. I'm truly free to navigate the world in my own way.
I'm now working with Daniel's team and hoping to bring them to Australia to give others the gift of flash sonar. We have already seen lives changed and even saved by this revolutionary technique. I want to be able to give blind people the freedom to live as they choose, to navigate the world and their lives in whatever manner suits them.
Why shouldn't every blind person be able to go out and get that cup of coffee or anything else they desire? It doesn't seem like too much to ask.
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Bellshill Taekwon-Do are a regular customer of ours having in the past done personalised tracksuits, T-shirts and kit bags. This time with the summer approaching they wanted some baseball caps and a table cloth for their Martial Arts Gradings.
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If you find yourself in Altoona, Pennsylvania you'll soon notice that there are two things this area is well known for. First will likely be the numerous Sheetz convenient stores/gas stations here. This successful chain was started in Altoona, and now operates more than 30 stores around the area. Secondly, and perhaps more noteworthy, is the huge number of railroad infrastructure here. In fact, Altoona was one of the most popular railroad junctions in America during the late 19th and early 20th century. To honor this distinction, the Altoona Railroad Museum was constructed. Admittedly not an overly exciting attraction (unless you are a die-hard rail-fan) Altoona's deep history promises to fill her museum with a wide variety of attractions that should hold the interest of any fan of history. Even if you're not too into railroads, the before mentioned other option in Altoona is hardly a proper back up plan. Go ahead and check out this historic Railroad Museum.
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With over three decades of aviation experience and participation in aircraft transactions exceeding $6B in value, we facilitate and manage aircraft acquisitions, sales and asset management through an approach that is grounded in strong values and forthright strategic counsel. Our holistic model and one-on-one guidance provide clients with a different and transparent approach to achieve this goal. Typical clients include corporations, individuals and governments. Simply put, at IAG we care about the long-term outcome.
Why IAG?… We focus on client service. While the process of buying or selling a corporate aircraft is inherently complex, our goal is simple: We save clients money, time and stress, in addition to assisting them in managing risk. Our formula stresses proprietary analytics, inclusiveness and industry expertise to confidently develop actionable strategies. Our ethics and dedication ensure these strategies are executed with the professionalism and ease that our exclusive client base demands.


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We have many years of experience in the Canadian pest industry specifically dealing with the elimination of bed bugs.
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There's nothing like a fried, shredded vegetable pancake to fill you up and bring you comfort. This recipe definitely fits the bill—without grains, gluten, dairy or nuts.
You can make these pancakes with potatoes for a traditional latke, or use shredded turnips, rutabaga, celery root, parsnips, sweet potato, yam, or even butternut squash for a more nutritious, GAPS-legal and Paleo-friendly variation. My favorites are celery root/potato and turnip.
If you are on GAPS or other gut healing diet, these pancakes are a great way to make sure you're getting enough carbs without consuming the grains or fruit sugars that make your health issues worse.
After you make these a couple of times, you will quickly memorize the ratio of shredded root veggie to onion to egg, and you'll find the seasonings you like best, too. Then it will be easy to whip up some pancakes any time, with whatever root veggies you have on hand, without a recipe.
- 5 medium sized potatoes OR 4-5 small turnips OR 2-4 medium rutabagas/celery roots (about 10 cups of shredded root vegetables)
- 1/2 to 1 medium onion to taste
- 2 pasture-raised eggs beaten
- 1 tsp sea salt , or to taste
- herbs and seasonings , to taste (parsley, garlic, chives, chile powder, cumin, etc.)
- 4 Tbsp. virgin coconut oil , butter, schmaltz, bacon grease, or pastured lard
- If you are using rutabaga, celery root or butternut squash, peel them thoroughly before grating.
- In the food processor, grate/shred the root veggies and the onion together for a total of about 10 cups of shreds. (You can obviously use a box grater for this, but I think it's exhausting and time consuming.)
- Salt the shreds and let sit for 10 minutes. The veggies will "sweat" a bit.
- Use your hands to put the shredded veggies into a nut milk bag, bundle of cheesecloth or fine sieve. (I find using a nut milk bag to be easiest.)
- Squeeze as much liquid out of the veggies as you can so the shreds are as dry as possible.
- Place the dried shreds into a bowl and add 2 beaten eggs and seasonings.
- Mix thoroughly with your hands to separate and coat all the shreds in the egg.
- Heat a skillet to medium heat and melt about 1/8 inch of coconut oil, butter, schmaltz (chicken fat) bacon grease or lard into it.
- With your fingers, grab a small "nest" of shredded veggies and place it onto the hot, oiled skillet. You should be able to fit at least four "nests" onto the skillet. Press them flat into pancakes with your spatula.
- Cook till golden brown, then flip and cook the other side.
- Keep finished pancakes in a warm oven until you are ready to serve them.
- These pancakes go great with yogurt, sour cream or homemade applesauce, and they also freeze and reheat well too.
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Today I am sharing my top 5 brown lipliners for Indian/Tan/Brown/Medium/Asian skin tones with lip swatches! These are great with most lipsticks but especially for nude lipsticks and for those with two toned lips like mine. I hope you find this helpful.
Products used in this video:
1. Primark Lip liner pencil – Toffee (Not available online)
2. Sephora Collection Nano lip liner, Cherry Chestnut – Discontinued
3. Rimmel London 1000 Kisses Stay on Lip Liner Pencil, Cafe AU Lait
4. NYX PROFESSIONAL MAKEUP Slim Lip Pencil, Brown
5. Coastal Scents lip liner – Toast (Discontinued)
Alternative – NYX PROFESSIONAL MAKEUP Slim Lip Pencil, Espresso


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Westview Theatre Company's October Performance
The award-winning Westview Theatre Company will present The Curious Savage this October.
Sweet Mrs. Savage has been left $10 million by her late husband, and wants to do good with her wealth. Enter the greedy and dishonest stepchildren attempting to make a grab for the cash, even to the point of placing her in a sanatorium. There the comedy begins, as Mrs. Savage meets society's misfits that all have hearts of gold, which turns out to be even more valuable than her inheritance.
Show dates and times:
Oct. 5, 6, and 7 at 7 p.m.
Tickets: Adults – $12; Seniors/Military – $10; Students – $8
Oct. 7 at 2 p.m.
Tickets: Adults – $9; Seniors/Military – $17; Students – $6
Performances are held at the Westview High School Theater: 13500 Camino Del Sur, San Diego, CA 92129. Tickets are available at the door or online at www.westviewtheatre.com.


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Posted: May 8, 2014
We will be doing a multi-genre reading and writing for our last unit. Students will hopefully get the bulk of this unit done at school, but if they are falling behind in their reading, they will have to do some at home. Attached is the unit. We are currently working on Step 1.


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With a heavy heart, we report the following news.
According to Sports Chosun, JYJ member Park Yoo Chun's father passed away on March 14. Park Yoo Chun's brother Park Yoo Hwan received the news before his scheduled filming for Channel A's new drama "K-Pop Survival." Unfortunately, Park Yoo Chun is currently on his way back to South Korea from JYJ's Chile concert and will arrive at 4pm today on March 14.
A representative of JYJ's agency stated, "Park Yoo Chun's father passed away. It was so sudden that we have yet to learn about the whole situation. It looks like Park Yoo Chun has not received the news yet."
Everyone here at Soompi.com express our deepest condolences to Park Yoo Chun and his family.
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Azaleos has introduced two new services designed for organizations deploying SharePoint 2010 in private cloud environments: SharePoint Starter Edition and SharePoint Core Edition. According to Azaleos, each provides "drop and go" managed SharePoint outsourcing alternatives to the existing Azaleos SharePoint Premier Edition.
Starter Edition is designed for departmental rollouts or pilots within an enterprise and is claimed to enable SharePoint deployments that require only minimal care and feeding. The managed service combines deployment with basic monitoring, management and support for SharePoint infrastructures in a private cloud, at a third-party datacenter or on the customer premises, says Azaleos.
Core Edition has been engineered for midsize to large enterprises deploying a new SharePoint infrastructure for the first time. Azaleos says it provides full monitoring and management with a fixed set of functionality.


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AFT Fathom™ Improves Water Cooling System Reliability and Saves Refinery $200,000 Annually
Figure 1. The P-103 vertical turbine pump in cooling water service and a closer look at the damage in the suction bell.
With reliability issues, excessive downtime, and repairs amounting to $126,000, AFT Fathom™ was used to determine a new pump configuration that increases reliability and saves $200,000 a year in energy!
Phil Sneeringer, Tier 1 reliability engineer at Flowserve Corporation, used AFT Fathom to perform a cooling water study at an existing refinery in the Midwest, USA. The purpose of the study was to identify the most economical scenario to run their cooling water pumps and provide a solution for the excessive erosion at the suction bell of an existing high-performing pump (Figure 1 above).
Operational confidence in the pump and system reliability had decreased due to equipment downtime which resulted in nine work orders totaling $126,000. Four of those work orders included high vibrations or other substantial mechanical failure.
Sneeringer's team was asked to monitor the system to determine why pumps were having premature suction bell erosion, and then identify the most economical way to run the cooling tower pump system.
Using wireless technology, flow and pressure data was collected throughout the system. They then used this data to model and analyze the system and tune an AFT Fathom model (Figure 2). Their AFT Fathom model predicted almost exactly what their field data showed. Sneeringer states, "the accuracy achieved was excellent."
Figure 2. Field data was used to tune an AFT Fathom Model. The AFT Fathom model was "highly accurate."
Based on several AFT Fathom modeled scenarios, Flowserve then presented the refinery with six recommended pump configurations that would provide the required flow and head to remove heat from the units (Figure 3).
Figure 3. AFT Fathom model of the existing system used to create new pump configuration scenarios.
By using AFT Fathom, the customer had the required data to change the way they ran their cooling water pumps. They were able to achieve the required cooling at the units while running with 4 pumps instead of 6 (Figure 4). This saved them $200,000 per year in operating cost!
Figure 4. Identifies the existing pump operations compared to the optimal pump operations for the cooling water pump system. The cost savings is approximately $200,000 per year.


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One of the winter "must do's" in Newfoundland and Labrador is to go sliding.
It has always been a fun and cheap source of entertainment, fresh air and physical activity.
The Grinch of legal liability has worked its way onto municipal council agendas across Canada this Winter.
Moronic litigation, enabled by slip & fall, ambulance chasing lawyers enticing people to cash in is at the heat of the issue.
Yes, there is a need for people to be protected from negligence, but for the love of God, if you are going to get on a slide - you are responsible for your own safety. Do you check the depth of ice before walking or playing hockey on it? Yes.
So, if you are going to be sliding, check the path you plan to use to ensure there are no rocks or hidden debris! Walk up the side of the sliding hill, not the center! Wear a helmet!
What ever happened to personal accountability and responsibility?
Hamilton took the fun out of sliding and starting enforcing a municipal regulation banning the priceless practice after the city was hit by a litigation in the 1970's. In 2004 a man suffered a spinal injury after hitting a draining ditch concealed by the snow. In 2013, he was awarded $900,000 in damages courtesy of the courts.
These types of litigation make it irresponsible for those that administer our city to ignore the lurking liability. It is only a matter of time before someone is hurt and seeks compensation from the city. It is bound to happen and the City has no choice but to protect the taxpayer.
I hate potentially being placed in the position of telling my kids that an unjust law should not be followed. It sends out confusing signals about civic engagement and right and wrong.
Solutions are needed.
There is no sense in asking the city to ignore a real litigation issue that could leave the taxpayers shelling out funds.
Some cities are dealing with the risks and liability around sliding by creating sanctioned areas. That approach would be reasonable allowing unsupervised sliding hills that are properly maintained.
Surely the province or some of the high powered legal talent on retainer with the City can find a solution that indemnifies City Hall, protects the taxpayer and ensures that sliding does not become the next victim of nuisance litigation.
Now that the City has opened Pandora's Box, it is incumbent on them to find a solution that does not include banning sliding on city property.


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Red, Red Wine
From CBS News' Fernando Suarez:
MADISON, WIS. -- After a long day of campaigning, Hillary Clinton unwound with the traveling press aboard Hill-Force One late last night. Armed with a glass of red wine, Clinton spoke on the record to reporters about her favorite beer, "Blue Moon" and how she is "bipartisan" when it comes to her favorite choice in ales.
Clinton casually leaned one arm on the back of a seat as she fielded some more important questions, like her thoughts on Barack Obama borrowing words from Gov. Deval Patrick, D-Mass. "If you're whole candidacy is about words, they should be your own words — that's what I think," Clinton said, taking sips of the red between questions.
At one point, Clinton was asked whether or not she comprehends the delegate allocation process of Texas, a state that has both a primary and a caucus on the same day. "I've got people trying to understand it," Clinton said candidly. "Grown men are crying as we speak. I had no idea it was so bizarre," the former First Lady joked.
For months the traveling press has had a debate over whether or not Clinton's visits to the back of the plane should be on the record, or reportable. Early on, Clinton used to schmooze with reporters – often enjoying a drink – off the record. Now, if Clinton wants to speak off the record, she can call members of the press to the front of the airplane, leaving those unable to participate in their seats in the rear of the aircraft. Since arriving at that decision, Clinton has done fewer trips to the back of the plane, so needless to say most of the traveling press was quite confused when a seemingly upbeat Clinton visited the press cabin.
Clinton doesn't overstay her welcome in the press cabin, oftentimes getting her cue to head back to her seat in the first class cabin from the pilot, who starts to taxi on the runway without warning.


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Dandi Wind
Post Wave from Vancouver BC
Contact DetailsDandilion Wind Opaine Schlase
The following is true:
I was conceived in a tent.
My birthname is Dandilion Wind.
I was born and raised in a cabin without running water, right next to a taxidermy museum housed in a concrete igloo. I lived there for ten years before we drove the 14 hours down to Vancouver. I was impressed by the revolving billboards in the big city because I'd never seen them before.
My music is about all that and where I live now. The downtown eastside of Vancouver is the most depressed slum in Canada; the most junkies per capita in North America but it's so expensive here there's nowhere else to go. Currently I live next to the train tracks and the rendering plant where they turn dead pets into glue and give me cancer too (I sing about it. Listen up) Sometimes I escape to Brazil and Japan or Las Vegas and I sing about the slums there too.
I don't like any new music. I hate mesh ball caps and I especially despise irony.
I made this music because I need to get away from this city and because I have something to offer you don't find anymore: Charisma. I love to perform and dance and make people dance and FEEL something. I write the lyrics and my partner Szam does all the music. We have performed together as a theatre collective for the past 4 years and have been doing music for a year now. We are nearly finished a self produced 12 track cd / full length dvd album. We have already filmed 5 art music videos and have 2 more on the go (one of which is classical animation!) If we can just get somebody to back us up and we do everything possible to take this project as far as it can be taken.
We are a fantastic live band (look at the photos on our website) and are willing to play everywhere and forever. Just let us know if you have a gig for us.


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At Banner Health, we make health care easier so life can be better. If you are looking to leverage your abilities to make a real difference- and real change in the health care industry- you belong at Banner Health! We're committed to not only providing the finest care possible, but to advancing the way care is provided. To achieve our vision, we seek driven professionals who embrace change and who possess the passion and skills to make it happen.
The Outpatient Observation Unit functions as an extension of the Emergency Department and is a 36 bed, fast paced unit with high patient turnover and a diverse patient population. The RN - OOU has a talent for building quick rapport with their patients even during short stays, and thrives in a fast paced environment with a focus on delivering exceptional patient care. This position is for a full time day shift, working three 12-hour shifts from 7:00am - 7:30pm. Apply today!
Your pay and benefits (Total Rewards) are important components of your Journey at Banner Health. Banner Health offers a variety of benefit plans to help you and your family. We provide health and financial security options so you can focus on being the best at what you do and enjoying your life.
If you are a New Graduate Nurse with less than 12 months of experience, please apply to our New Nurse Experience openings.
About Banner Gateway Medical Center
Experience innovative technology and exceptional opportunities for growth and development at Banner Health's state-of-the-art hospital Banner Gateway Medical Center. With comprehensive electronic medical records, physician order entry, digital radiography and proprietary advanced patient monitoring, Banner Gateway provides you with the innovative resources you need to provide your patients with the best care possible. Our commitment to nursing excellence has enabled us to achieve Magnet™ recognition by the American Nurses Credentialing Center. Located near Phoenix in Gilbert, Ariz., Banner Gateway Medical Center offers 176 private rooms, eight operating suites, a 37-bed emergency department and shares a campus with the Banner MD Anderson Cancer Center. Key specialties include oncology, obstetrics, bariatric surgery, emergency and other services that focus on meeting the changing needs of the dynamic and growing community we serve.
About Banner MD Anderson Cancer Center
Located in Gilbert, Ariz. (the Phoenix Metro area) on the Banner Gateway Campus, the center provides world-class care for oncology patients - both inpatient and outpatient - and has also brought leading oncology programs to the Banner Gateway campus including Stem Cell Transplantation and comprehensive Head & Neck cancer care. Our capabilities include five linear accelerator vaults, a brachytherapy vault, an advanced diagnostic imaging suite with PET/CT scan, more than 50 infusion bays, a cryopreservation lab and much more. Our inpatient medical oncology unit also incorporates a program that utilizes the electronic surveillance partnership in caring for the patient, where remote nurses have the ability to interact with patients via two way audio-video to assist the bedside nurse with patient care.
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Banner Health is one of the largest, nonprofit health care systems in the country and the leading nonprofit provider of hospital services in all the communities we serve. Throughout our network of hospitals, primary care health centers, research centers, labs, physician practices and more, our skilled and compassionate professionals use the latest technology to make health care easier, so life can be better. The many locations, career opportunities, and benefits offered at Banner Health help to make the Banner Journey unique and fulfilling for every employee.
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This position assesses, plans, implements, evaluates and documents nursing care of patients in accordance with organizational policies and in accordance with standards of professional nursing practice utilizing the framework for professional nursing practice and development. This position is accountable for the quality of nursing services delivered by self or others who are under their direction. This position utilizes specialized knowledge, judgment, and nursing skills necessary to assess data and plan, provide and evaluate care appropriate to the physical and developmental age of assigned patients.
Essential Functions
Minimum Qualifications
Must possess a current, valid RN license in state of practice, temporary/interim RN license in state of practice, or compact RN licensure for current state of practice. BLS certification is required. Additional certification or continuing education may be required based on area of practice.
Relates throughout the interview process the experience, training and education needed to perform the job. Experience in the clinical area for which he or she is applying is desired. Must maintain clinical performance competencies appropriate to the area in which they work as demonstrated through annual validations. Banner Registry and Travel acute care positions require a minimum of one year experience in an acute care hospital setting. Experience must include working in an acute care setting within the past 12 months as a Registered Nurse in the specialty area. Banner Registry and Travel physician practice positions require a minimum of one year experience as a Registered Nurse in a physician practice or an acute care setting.
Preferred Qualifications
Bachelors degree preferred.Professional certification preferred.
Additional related education and/or experience preferred.
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Black sports online reported that Houston Rockets James Harden had paid a large sum of money to "hang out" with model Jenna Shea.
According to BSO Harden recently addressed this topic via twitter by saying the following.
Stop believing everything you hear.
BSO spoke with "someone close to the situation" in Houston about the matter:
"The exact amount of money maybe wasn't $20k, I don't know if it was more or less. It isn't uncommon for players to send for women, they pay not so much for them to come, but to leave. The only problem with this situation is someone leaked to the media it was Harden who sent for them. If it was any other player no one would care, but Harden has a reputation and it became a story. No one considers it a big deal even if the story is fairly accurate. Things are being put in place to make sure it doesn't leak to the media again."
Tricks come in all shape,size,and beards!


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Mozilla issues Firefox mega-fix
The digital underground could exploit as many as seven flaws to bypass security restrictions, compromise sensitive data and launch cross-site scripting attacks.
Updated Feb. 3 with information from Symantec on a flaw not fixed in the latest Firefox update.
Mozilla Corp. has fixed an array of security glitches in the popular Firefox browser late Wednesday. Malicious attackers could exploit the flaws to bypass security restrictions, compromise sensitive data and launch cross-site scripting attacks.
Four flaws affect Firefox version 1.5 specifically, while other problems affect various versions of Firefox, and possibly the Mozilla Thunderbird open source e-mail application under certain circumstances. The flaws and fixes were outlined in seven separate advisories:
The first problem is that "garbage collection hazards" were found in the JavaScript engine where "some routines used temporary variables that were not properly protected," Mozilla said. "Specially crafted objects could contain a user-defined method that would be called during the lifetime of these temporaries. If this method triggered garbage collection, the engine would operate on the unexpectedly freed temporary object when it returned from the user-defined routine."
The risk appears remote, Mozilla said, but "this type of memory corruption could potentially be used by an attacker to run arbitrary code."
The second problem is a dynamic style handling glitch that could be exploited to reference freed memory by changing the style of an element from "position:relative" to "position:static." Attackers could exploit this to run arbitrary code, Mozilla said.
The third problem is that calling the "QueryInterface" method of the built-in location and navigator objects can cause memory corruption, allowing an attacker to launch malicious code.
The fifth problem is that attackers could exploit some integer overflows in the E4X, SVG, and Canvas features to launch code.
The sixth problem is that an upgrade in the XML parser introduced a bug that could read beyond the end of the buffer, often causing a crash. "We don't know if this could be exploited to incorporate private data into the DOM of an XML document," Mozilla said, "but it could be a privacy risk if so."
The seventh problem is that the implementation of E4X introduced an internal "AnyName" object that was unintentionally exposed to Web content. "This singleton object could be used by two cooperating domains as a communication channel to get around same-origin restrictions that prevent direct access from one window or frame to another," Mozilla said.
The advisories come two days after Cupertino, Calif.-based Symantec Corp. e-mailed customers of its DeepSight Threat Management System an alert regarding a flaw in Firefox. The AV giant warned that the open source broswer is vulnerable to a flaw that could allow a Web page to "execute malicious script code in the context of an arbitrary domain." This could lead to a variety of attacks, "including theft of cookie-based authentication credentials," Symantec said.
"The issue affects the '-moz-binding' property that is used to attach extensible binding language (XBL) to elements through cascading style sheets (CSS)," Symantec said. "Due to an origin validation error, arbitrary script code included with XBL may be executed in the context of another domain. The cause of this issue is that the browser's same origin policy is not enforced on this property." This could allow a malicious site to access the properties of a trusted site and facilitate various attacks, including disclosure of sensitive information, Symantec said.
A Symantec spokesman said Wednesday that this particular flaw was not fixed in the latest Firefox update.


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LG 55UJ6200 55-in LED 4K UHD / HDR / 60HZ (120HZ TruMotion) webOS Smart TV Read more...
webOS brings together popular streaming video apps, such as Netflix, and gives you access to more than 70 free premium Internet channels through the LG Channel Plus app.
The IPS panel in this LG TV uses in-plane switching to deliver rich colors and strong contrast ratio that remain consistent at wide viewing angles.
Uses advanced color mapping technology to effectively correct color distortions and deliver a picture that is accurate and natural.
Large enough to provide an immersive experience for everyone in the room.
Watch 4K movies and TV shows at 4x the resolution of Full HD, and upscale your current HD content to gorgeous, Ultra HD-level picture quality.
With an HDR-compatible 4K TV, you can enjoy HDR movies and TV shows, in addition to all your current content.
Stream shows, movies, games and more with the TV's built-in Wi-Fi and integrated apps.
They also deliver plasma-like deep blacks and rich colors.
Two 10W speakers, ULTRA Surround.
High-speed HDMI delivers up to 2160p picture and digital surround sound in one convenient cable. HDMI cable not included.
Enjoy high-speed action with good motion clarity.
Easily connect your digital camera, camcorder or other USB device.
Web-based services and content require high-speed Internet service. Some services may require a subscription.
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Marketing: What Is the Purpose of Your Brochure?
Marketers often order a brochure without a clear idea of what purpose the brochure should serve. They just think a brochure is a good idea. "Oh, we need them to, you know, like, put in the envelope along with a letter, or, um, for our salespeople to keep in the trunks of their cars."
Many brochure designs foolishly waste money because they don't accomplish any specific marketing goals; they just look pretty, at best. To avoid producing a pretty-but-pointless brochure that doesn't achieve a sales goal, know the answers to the following questions (which focus your brochure design and make it useful to your marketing):
Who will read the brochure?
How will they get the brochure?
What should they do after reading the brochure?
Without a specific focus, your brochure can't be properly suited to any single use. It becomes a boring piece that talks generally about your company or product but doesn't hit readers over the head with any particular appeal or call to action.
A good general rule is to define up to three specific purposes for the brochure. Don't go past three, though, because your design can't accomplish more than three purposes effectively. The most common and appropriate purposes for a brochure are to
Act as a reference on the product, or technical details of the product, for prospects.
Support a personal selling effort by lending credibility and helping overcome objections.
Generate leads through a direct-mail campaign.
Say you want to design a brochure that does all three of these tasks well. Start by designing the contents. What product and technical information must be included? Write the information down or collect necessary illustrations so you have the fact base (the essential information to communicate) in front of you.


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Gilbert Real Estate
by Justin Lombard
Town of Gilbert – From Hay Capital to Thriving Family Community
In 1902, the Arizona Eastern Railway asked for donations of right of way in order to establish a rail line between Phoenix and Florence, AZ. A rail siding was established on property owned by William "Bobby" Gilbert. The siding, and the town that sprung up around it, eventually became known as Gilbert.
Gilbert was a prime farming community, fueled by the construction of the Roosevelt Dam and the Eastern and Consolidated Canals in 1911. It remained an agriculture town for many years, and was known as the "Hay Capital of the World" until the late 1920s.
Gilbert began to take its current shape during the 1970s when the Town Council approved a strip annexation that encompassed 53 square miles of county land. Although the population was only 1,971 in 1970, the Council realized that Gilbert would eventually grow and develop much like the neighboring communities of Tempe, Mesa, and Chandler. This proved to be a farsighted decision, as Gilbert's population today is about 210,000 residents over about 75 square miles.
High Quality Lifestyle
Gilbert offers a high quality lifestyle, earning it national fame when Money Magazine named it #36 on the 2010 list of "Best Places to Live" in the United States.
Shop until you drop at San Tan Village or spend a day touring the Riparian Preserve, with miles of walking trails and a family-friendly fishing lake.
Arts and culture enthusiasts will enjoy the Heritage District, which is the original town site, or take in a show at the Hale Centre Theatre or Higley Center for the Performing Arts.
Gilbert Real Estate
For people who commute to and from Central Phoenix during rush hour, it can be a difficult drive. As a result, Gilbert real estate remains a good value. Small 1 bedroom, 1 bath condominiums can be purchased for about $50,000 and many single family homes are available in the $140,000 – $200,000 range. Gilbert luxury real estate is a fairly scarce commodity, with rarely more than a few dozen $1M+ estate homes on the market at any given time.
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23 March 2012
[From the Mailbag] It Ain't My Fault, Dear....
I know, I know. "MORE minis?" you're thinking.... Well, so is my wife, I'm sure.
But these weren't my fault. Not at all. It was y'all's fault. Or at least a select few of you. And I'm offering you all up on the Altar of Doom as sacrifices. Nothing personal, you understand.
This first one I blame on Christian over at Loviatar 'Zine and Destination Unknown, as well as his cohort in art: Jay Penn. It's all their fault, they did it, they forced me to buy the thing. You see, I've never had an otyugh mini before. Never really saw the need for one. On second thought, I guess that I shouldn't really blame Christian. His 'zine was just the delivery system. I think it's really Jay Penn's fault. You see, I was happy in my otyugh-less existence -- at least fairly so -- and then Loviatar #8 came out. With this on the cover. By Jay Penn.
Jay's magnificent artwork doomed me. And my wallet. I simply HAD to have an otyugh. (According to the scene as written, I suppose I really should have purchased more than one. However, even in my mini-frenzy I have a general idea of my monetary limits. That, and there's always next month.) So... Dear.... if you're reading this, it's all Jay's fault. And I suppose Christian's too, if you really need to include him. But mostly Jay's.
Sorry, Jay.
Jason Sholtis takes all the blame for the next mini out of the box. I suppose I could blame his cohort as well, John Larrey. Sigh. OK. I guess they share the blame. You're off the hook a little, Jason. Or you're sharing the hook. Something. Whatever. But this mini is your fault. You see, Jason went and published a little 'zine adventure entitled Zogorion: Lord of the Hippogriffs. I picked it up and read through it once. I have to confess, I giggled. Several times. Not because it was funny or there was anything wrong with it. It was an evil giggle. It was a DM-giggle, at the thought of running my platers through this. My wife will probably remember that evening, because she looked at me with great concern whilst I was giggling. I read it through a second time. I giggled even more. I started plotting where in my campaign world this could happen. And when. (Not in a rail-roady fashion, but just some potential plot hooks.) On my way home from the office the next day I stopped in at the FLGS and found a booster pack of DDM minis, from the Dangerous Delves set, with this hippogriff proudly displayed as the "visible" mini.
I had never seen this booster set before. All the other Dangerous Delves sets, yes. But never the hippogriff. I took it as a sign: it was meant to be.
And then I looked at my minis. I already had a griffon from the Dungeons of Dread boosters that I could use as a hippogriff. But I clearly needed a third beastie, just for the opening scene of Zogorion alone. So I simply HAD to order another one. And as purty as the Arcadian Hippogriff is (also DDM), it had to match. Right? Right. So, again...it wasn't my fault.
Sorry Jason...and John.
Now...the last items out of the box. I'm not sure who takes the blame. I'm sure it isn't me, though. Honest. Someone....Somewhere out there....Ah, yes. THAT'S who it was. Jamie over at For a Fistful of Coppers posted a while ago about "cheap minis." In that post he referenced the DDM Warape mini. I'd seen the figure before; I'd considered buying it. Always before I'd been able to reason my way out of the purchase. But something about seeing it this time? Yeah. I was hooked. And then I found a good deal on them. I have several now. Alright, I have five.
Why do I have five? Well, I think I'd like to have a band of warapes following me around in real life. Think about how much easier it would be to get a seat on public transit if you had a warape with you? So, yeah. A band of warapes. Or an orangu-posse. That'd be cool too. Either one.
But at any rate, it's Jamie's fault, dear, that I now have a band of warapes. (Sorry, Jamie. Really.)
And so readers, I just want to make it clear again: None of these purchases were my fault. None of them.
That's my story, anyway.
4 comments:
- Peter D said...
Are those all DnD plastics? I have an old Chainmail otyugh or two, and I have a few Chainmail versions of those war apes, as well. But I don't recognize the otyugh sculpt.
- March 23, 2012 at 4:08 PM
- Boric G said...
@ Peter: Yep. All plastics. When I was looking for quick/easy photos, I came across the Chainmail otyugh. I had NEVER seen that beastie before and immediately started craving it. I didn't like the first plastic otyugh Wizards put out, but this one seemed to have the appropriate menace.
And until you said something, I had forgotten the Chainmail warapes. I think I may have a few of those around the house somewhere. That gives me something over which I can obsess this weekend.
- March 23, 2012 at 4:36 PM
- Peter D said...
Honestly, the chainmail apes suck. They're forward-heavy, top-heavy, and too narrow. I had to put pieces of lead in the base of mine and then glue them down to heavy washers so they'd usually stand up.
Still, they came in handy for representing some gladiator apes I had for a GURPS game, once I have them better cestii and head armor. :)
- March 26, 2012 at 3:16 PM
- christian said...
I am glad to have fed the minis mania!
- March 29, 2012 at 8:07 PM


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The short answer to that question is: I made my werewolves (semi) demonic because my vampires are totally demonic. Or were. I killed them all off in the backstory, but they were demonic, all right.
I thought we'd had enough sexy vampires for a while, see, and decided it would be nice to go straight back to the old-fashioned vampire of horror. And your basic historical vampire was demonic. That's why it took three days for a corpse to rise as a vampire – because the soul didn't leave the body for three days, and until the soul was gone, the demon couldn't enter the body.
And if the vampires were going to be demonic, then why not the werewolves, too? That would be something a little bit different from all those other werewolves in recent fiction, right? I chose to call my werewolves " dogs" to help make it clear that they aren't exactly like canonical werewolves.
Only my black dogs couldn't be entirely evil, because after all one of my protagonists and most of my characters were going to be black dogs. But giving them demonic shadows that constantly push them toward violence and destruction, even though they may try to be decent people? Whoa, there's a perfect opportunity there for character development and all kinds of conflict. You can base all kinds of stories on that.
Making my black dogs demon-touched also told me a lot about the structure of my world. Because if you have demons – like, real demons – then it makes sense for religion to play a role in resisting demonic evil. We all know that crosses are proof against vampires; it made sense to take this a good step farther. In my world, it was a real historical saint – Saint Walburga, from whose name we get Walpurgisnacht, or Walpurgis Night – who created the Pure, apparently via a real miracle, though no one in the modern day knows for sure. The Pure are born into black dog families, but they are completely free of any demonic taint; their magic is specifically used against demonic influence. This was really important in the recent war between vampires and black dogs – well, I'm getting ahead of myself, there.
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Angela Alioto, never a shy or retiring sort, is in more of a frenzied state than usual these days about her favorite subject: homelessness.
She's been that way since February, when Mayor Gavin Newsom picked the former supervisor to head a special committee to write a plan to end chronic homelessness in San Francisco within 10 years. For Alioto, a lawyer who considers St. Francis of Assisi her hero, it was like opening the gates to an earthly paradise -- she went at it full bore.
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Q: What qualifications made the "civilians" good, then?
A: Well, take for example (stockbroker) Bobby Jones, an African American who is an entrepreneur and was raised by a father who is a leader in the National Baptist Convention USA. Nobody can deny that the majority of the chronically homeless are minorities. And nobody can bring a better viewpoint to the problem than a Bobby Jones, or (hat saleswoman) Ruth Dewson, who's a community leader for seniors, or (doctor) Suzanne Gerardo, who's been working with children at Children's Hospital in the psychiatric area. Their expertise in what they do is what I want.
Q: What's the difference between the chronically homeless and the homeless who will be most affected by the revamped Care Not Cash welfare reform plan due to begin next month, moving homeless people inside and cutting their checks?
A: Care Not Cash is welfare reform; it is not a chronic homeless plan. The public certainly doesn't understand that. In my opinion, Care Not Cash has the potential to move the chronically homeless out of shelters to put in (welfare) recipients -- we'll just have to see.
Generally speaking, chronically homeless people don't have it together enough to go apply for welfare, to pick up their checks. I'll bet you anything, you go ask someone who is sleeping on a grate, who clearly smells of alcohol and who clearly is not well physically, if they are GA (general assistance) recipients -- and they will say no.
It's a controversial subject.
Q: What happens if your council tells the mayor you don't like his yet-to- be enacted street outreach and revamped Care Not Cash plans?
A: He'd have a 10-year plan with the recommendation not to do something that he wants to do -- and he's the mayor, so he does what he wants to do. But we would never disagree with a program without giving alternatives that the council believes would be better for taking the chronic homeless off the streets.
Remember, we are dealing solely with the chronics. The mayor and Trent (Rhorer, head of the Department of Human Services) are not -- they're dealing with the full 8,000 to 15,000 general homeless population. So our recommendations would be toward those 3,000 who are the most visible homeless people in the city.
But hey -- I'm here to learn, I'm here to watch, I'm here to see. I'm just dying to see how they plan on doing this.
Q: When do you think the work will reach its most intense level at the council, and what ideas do you most want to see in the report?
A: I see the battleground being June. I see there being differing opinions and a vote of the full council with the majority vote winning as to what goes in the actual document.
I want this plan to have really innovative ideas, like Dr. Richard Kunin's nutritional ideas (adding nutrients to food given to the homeless to help counteract the decaying effects of drugs on the brain), like supportive housing with master leasing. ... like looking at every single vacant and empty city building to see if it could become homeless housing.
We asked (Board of Supervisors budget analyst) Harvey Rose and the controller and the real estate department for an accounting of properties around the city ... and so far they've come up with thousands of buildings. We have a lot of opportunity.
Q: The mayor has suggested that a bond be put on the November ballot to raise $150 million for supportive housing for the homeless, as well as possibly another bond for affordable housing for lower-income people. Some in the community are suggesting other bonds, or one combined, to raise a total of than more than $400 million for housing that would serve an even broader range of people. What do you think of these ideas?
A: This is my opinion, not that of the council. If the mayor sticks to a $150 million to $200 million bond to take the chronic homeless off the streets, it will pass. But if you combine different types of housing for poverty-level and middle-class people into one bond, it makes it very difficult to pass. People get nervous when bonds are too big. They don't vote for it. If anything, keep the bonds separate.
Q: So what programs so far do you support, and which do you not?
A: Do: The Direct Access to Housing program (supportive housing for the severely troubled homeless), the Catholic Charities senior housing program, Larkin Street Youth Services, Walden House (drug treatment center).
Don't: Services that give you a cot on the floor and nothing else for eight hours.
Q: How has it been dealing with Mayor Newsom on this issue so far?
A: The mayor has been incredibly true to his word with me. When something upsets me, I leave a message on his machine, he checks it out, and we have agreed 9 out of 10 times. And when we don't, we accept each other's disagreements. He accepts my passion about this issue because he knows the poor are a very sensitive subject to me. And this is a guy I fought, that I was vicious about (in political tanglings before his election as mayor).
Q: Do you honestly believe we'll see an end to homelessness in our lifetime?
A: Absolutely. Someday, hopefully you'll see -- as Mr. Mangano says -- museums where your children, or grandchildren, will have to go to learn, 'What was homelessness? What was that?' That's what I will believe will happen. I'm adamant about it, I'm territorial about it. We can solve this.