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A self-managing neighbourhood care team
In West Suffolk we are implementing a new way of community care based on the Dutch Buurtzorg model.This way of working will represent a real cultural change to those who join the Test and Learn.
They will be a central part of testing this neighbourhood-based, holistic and person-centred care model which aims to wrap care not only around the patient but also their wider informal network. They will take a leadership role in exploring how the model can be adapted to the UK context and how it relates and interacts with the wider system.
They will also need to learn to work in a very different way.
Self-managing teams
The model is founded on the establishment of self-managing, non-hierarchical teams. The team will be made up of nurses and nurse assistants, based on a 70/30 split. Nursing and non-nursing tasks will be shared amongst the team.
The test team will be accountable to each other and to the people they support.
Coaches not managers will support the team, and the team is encouraged to take a solution focussed approach to all aspects of their work.
What values do we need to recruit to?
The success of the test and Learn is inextricably linked to the people who will lead the change. In the Netherlands, the Buurtzorg model was established by a small group of community nurses with a passion for this way of working, and has grown as a movement of like-minded individuals who are recruited by the Buurtzorg nurses themselves.
In establishing the model in West Suffolk, our aim has always been to start as close to the model as possible and to embrace the key principles of this way of working. The Buurtzorg team of nurses and nurse assistants must be at the centre of leading the change.
One of our biggest challenges has been how to find our first group of nurses who have the right values and behaviours to lead this way of working.
We started by analysing the Buurtzorg approach and identifying the values we would need to recruit to, to ensure that the team could embrace this way of working. These included:
– Compassionate and empathetic
– Communicative
– Solution driven
– Collaborative
– Insightful
– High integrity
Our approach
We knew that we needed to recruit a team, not just a number of individuals. We knew that a high performing team needed people who not only had compatible values and behaviours with the model, but also with each other.
We started with 6 weeks of engagement activities to socialise the model with existing staff within the wider system.
We also agreed that the model needed a different approach to recruitment.
We designed an assessment day with tasks and challenges to help us to identify the individuals who would be suited to this way of working and who had the rapport to make an effective team. There were four key elements to the day:
1. Supporting the candidates
Our aim for the day was to get the best out of the candidates. We were aware that many would not have taken part in such an involved assessment process before and were keen to ensure that they were comfortable and able to behave as naturally as possible given the circumstances.
We appointed a neutral, facilitator who was there to support the candidates throughout the process, rather than the assessors. The facilitator and the candidates started the assessment day with a joint lunch and a getting to know you session away from the assessors.
This initial session seemed to have very a positive impact on the dynamics of the group at the start of the more formal stage of the assessment.
2. Interactive group exercise
We started the assessment process with an interactive group activity aimed at testing out the values of the candidates to assess how they work in and respond to a team environment.
The team were given a 'wilderness survival' challenge which asked them to initially identify individually how they might tackle a series of challenges and then to come together as a group to reach consensus on each of the posed challenges.
The activity was purposely focused around a non-clinical problem. This ensured that candidates had to rely on their critical thinking, communication and collaboration skills to reach consensus, rather than their clinical knowledge.
For the assessors the task was an invaluable opportunity to see how the team would work together. It was clear where their strengths were, as well as where there might be areas for potential challenge or areas for development. In fact, as observers we were able to see the test team take shape before our very eyes!
3. Scenarios
The candidates undertook individual situational tests to examine their personal approach to specific scenarios. The scenarios were designed to explore:
– Person-centred thinking
– Care planning, including co-production with the patients
– Clinical governance
4. Reverse interview
We were keen for the candidates to make an active choice to join the Test and Learn and so finished the assessment day with an opportunity for the assessors, who were representatives of the partner organisations, to be interviewed by the candidates about the role and model.
This was a really lively session and could have gone on much longer and offered a great opportunity for the candidates to start to 'own' the model and understand their leadership role within it.
Next steps
The assessment day was a really positive experience and we have now recruited three members of the team. This is slightly fewer than we had hoped for, but finding our first group of nurses was always likely to be a challenge. This is a very different way of working and those who lead the change will be pioneers.
In many ways the team has been self-selecting with the engagement and recruitment process encouraging, as well discouraging applications. Testing a radical new way of working will not be for everyone and it is critically important that we get the right team.
With the first three members of the team in place we can now support them to grow their team with like-minded individuals; taking a peer-to-peer approach to growth, which is so inherent to the way Buurtzorg has developed in the Netherlands.
By the Autumn we are aiming to have half the team in place and then to grow them to full capacity (8fte/12 people) over the first four months of the test. This is purposeful; self-management will be new to most and growing the team slowly will support them to embrace this way of working in a more managed environment.
Alongside this, our next step is to establish the induction process to support the team in this new way of working.
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Getting Your Way
by Stephen Cox | Posted January 30, 2011
One of the most useful concepts I know is Friedrich Hayek's distinction between freedom and power. Freedom, he says, is the right to be left alone; power is the ability to have and to do things. Confusion on this score can be fatal. The world is full of people who believe that their nation, race, or religion can be "free" only if it has power over its neighbors. Here at home, our government is bankrupting its citizens by forcing them to pay for everyone's alleged "freedom" to have healthcare, to have a job, and to have 15 children whether you have a job or not.
Libertarians have rightly emphasized freedom in its true definition. But power is also important, nor is it a bad thing, if it helps one to enjoy one's freedom and master one's own life. To get a job, maintain a home, gain money and respect, improve one's existence materially and spiritually — these are good things; these are ways of shaping life creatively. Yet personal power can easily be squandered, passed off to others, in the sordid transactions of daily life.
This is where Sharon Presley comes in. Her book starts in this way:
"Experts and authorities can take your power away by intimidating, manipulating, abusing and bamboozling you. Examples are everywhere. Physicians tell you to leave your treatment to them because they are the experts. Bureaucrats give you the run-around. Clerks and customer service reps say it can't be done . . . ."
She continues in that vein, because such conflicts are everywhere; and although many of them are unimportant in themselves, they are always discouraging. Remember the last time something went wrong with your computer. How many hours did you spend trying to interpret the "advice" you got when you resorted to the "help" button? How many hours did you then waste on the phone, fuming while an "expert" treated you like a child, suggesting to you that your machine might not be plugged in, putting you on hold, interrupting your attempts to explain, mystifying you with terminology ten times more opaque than even the insultingly unhelpful "help" pages?
If you're like me, your day was ruined. You lost your cool, yelled at the "expert," yelled again at his supervisor and his supervisor's supervisor, felt helpless and guilty, and finally found yourself searching the phonebook for a fixit company that would charge you a hundred dollars an hour to repeat the process.
That's not power, and that's not life. But these conflicts are inevitable, and some of them are much more serious than that glitch in your downloads. Just consider what may happen on one of those awful, though possibly "routine," visits to your doctor's office. I well remember the horrors of dealing with the office staff of my former "primary healthcare provider" — people who put me off, wouldn't listen when I talked, said they'd return phone calls but didn't, communicated lab results long after they should have been available, and offered me no help at all when, facing a possible diagnosis of cancer, I was unable to get an appointment with a relevant specialist without waiting three months for it. Finally I located a hospital ombudsman (actually a woman) who was concerned about my plight and in a few days got me a quick appointment with a specialist &‐ a magnificent doctor, who immediately found the cancer and removed it. Never once did my "primary healthcare provider" or his office check back with me.
Libertarians are often taught to value themselves on behavior that is "right," though self-destructive — or even right because it is self-destructive.
At my next routine physical, which required months to arrange, I sat in the doctor's waiting room for almost an hour after the scheduled time, wondering why medical doctors are the only people who keep you waiting like that. Then a fat nurse or para-nurse (all these people are fat) opened the door, boomed out "Cox" as if she were calling hogs, and led me into an examining room, where I sat for another half hour. At that point, I went crazy. When the doctor asked me how I was, I said, "Angry! I'm angry! I'm sick of being your patient and seeing myself and all your other patients being treated like cattle!" Then I recited what I've written above, except that by now I was shouting loud enough, I hoped, for the poor slaves in the waiting room to hear what I said.
What surprised me was the expression on the doctor's face. It was obvious that he had never been talked to like that in his life. He wanted to object, but he didn't know how, because he obviously had no idea of how his office operated, from anything like the patient's end of things. I almost felt sorry for him — almost.
The next time I came back to that office, the situation had changed. I was now "Mr. Cox," and there were more or less appropriate displays of civility. Later, I found that if I persisted to a moderate degree, I could actually get my calls put through to someone who knew something, without waiting weeks to obtain the information I required. This improvement may have had some relation to the fit I threw.
Was it worth it? I suppose it was. But perhaps I could have handled it better. I don't want to live in a world in which people — even people like me — are always screaming at each other. I want things to work right, without my having to scream. I want the power to get things done, without throwing a fit.
Sharon Presley knows all about such situations, and she has excellent practical advice about how to deal with them. It's not about the supposed delights of naked "self-assertion" (i.e., yelling). It's about ways of gaining people's attention and getting them to do what needs to be done for you, in the way that's most likely to be successful and least likely to deplete your own energy. It's not about sermons on self-esteem; it's about gaining self-esteem by increasing your practical power. And of course a lot of it is about thinking through what authority figures, whether doctors or teachers or technical experts, have to say, to make sure that you possess enough information to take power over your own decisions. In short, a lot of it is about exercising your power of rational analysis.
Presley doesn't want her readers to get locked into hopeless conflicts with The Man. She wants them — all of us — to succeed.
Presley's practical advice is divided into sensible categories: dealing with doctors, lawyers, teachers, bosses, merchants, and so on. The subheading of one of her chapters reveals her primary concern: "Dealing with Bosses without Getting Fired." A book of psycho-babble would focus on "taking back your power" by "communicating your feelings" and expressing your "true identity." Presley isn't opposed to such goals, but she doesn't want you to lose your job, either. You don't have much power if you don't have a job. Presley wants you to be yourself and keep your paycheck, too — in other words, to have your cake and eat it. Sounds good to me.
One excellent feature of this book is the fact that Presley bases her advice on the experience of hundreds of real people; there are no made-up characters. Another is that she seems to have consulted every book, article, and website in the field of "critical thinking," personal power relations, and just plain good advice for the contemporary world. She tells you which texts she thinks are useful, and why. That's a big gain.
I want to compliment Presley for her constant and persuasive suggestion that adults should act like adults. What she wants is for her readers to get their way, satisfy their legitimate demands, and achieve success and happiness. Dissident minorities, such as libertarians, are often taught to value themselves on behavior that is "right," though self-destructive — or even right because it is self-destructive, as in the familiar zest for martyrdom. Presley will have none of this. She doesn't want her readers to get locked into hopeless conflicts with The Man. She wants them — all of us — to succeed. She doesn't mind getting down to basics:
"Develop a skill that you can succeed at. If you already have a skill, keep that in mind when you feel as if you can't do things right. Perhaps there was a time when you were able to stand up to an authority figure. You lived through it, didn't you? Remember your successes, not your failures."
Isn't that good advice? Wouldn't we all be happier if we followed it? It's a matter of perspective. Rather than banging the computer keys and screaming at that poor "technical consultant" in India, have some coffee, think about the good things you've done in your life, and turn to the chapter where Presley suggests how to deal with the immediate problem.
Editor's Note: Review of "Standing Up to Experts and Authorities: How to Avoid Being Intimidated, Manipulated, and Abused," by Sharon Presley. Solomon Press, 2010, 389 pages.
Stephen Cox is editor of Liberty, and a professor of literature at the University of California San Diego. His recent books include The Big House: Image and Reality of the American Prison and American Christianity: The Continuing Revolution. Newly published is Culture and Liberty, a selection of works by Isabel Paterson.
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Fri, 2011-03-04 16:41
Jon Harrison
Sounds like an interesting book. I wish it had been around when I was in the corporate world and trying without great success to stay on the right side of the people above me.
What interested me most in this review was Cox's recounting of his awful experiences with the healthcare industry. I know several people who have had similar experiences. My personal experience has been completely different (perhaps I should mention that I have avoided serious illness or injury in my life so far). Having lived most of my life in the Northeast (including much time in the Boston area), I have had access to some of the best doctors and hospitals in the world. With the exception of one rather stupid physician assistant (or whatever it is they call those "almost doctor" types), I have always been treated professionally and with courtesy. This goes for GPs, specialists, nurses, and office staff. As I am not as rich as Bill Gates, or as handsome as the current male heartthrob (whoever he may be), or as charming as . . . (insert any name), I have to wonder at my good fortune. Have I just been lucky so far? Anybody out there with an opinion?
Sun, 2011-01-30 18:27
Greg Woods
Doctors do seem to have a "special" place as opposed to others that have a valuable skill that is offered for service. But the truth is that there are good doctors and not-so-good doctors, good clinics and not-so-good clinics, just like providers of any other service. The clinics and doctors I have gone to seem to be very good with regard to the things that Steve Cox complains about, except that sometimes it does take longer to get an appointment than I would like (I have had to wait three months to get a basal cell removed from my hand by a plastic surgeon, but when I had more immediately serious conditions, I was able to get appointments within a reasonable amount of time). So I would say it depends on which doctor and which clinic.
Mon, 2011-01-31 16:14
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Shock and outrage have greeted Tuesday's accidental airing of the death hoax of revered South African former president, Nelson Mandela, fondly called Madiba.
The Universal Channel (shown on DStv channel 117) had aired a programme 'Remembering Nelson Mandela', apparently from an already prepared file on the global icon.
The channel on MultiChoice's DStv pay-TV cable network platform had accidentally aired the obituary to its millions of viewers who took to the social networks to express their shock and grief. Mandela's health had relapsed last week following infection of his lung. But latest reports from the hospital indicates that his condition is improving.


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Today, St. Bernard Parish agreed to suspend enforcement of a September 2006 ordinance barring single-family homeowners from renting to anyone except blood relatives without the special permission of the Parish Council. The agreement comes on the heels of the filing of a motion for preliminary injunction last week by the Greater New Orleans Fair Housing Action Center (GNOFHAC) and Wallace Rodrigue, both plaintiffs in the case.
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The agreement and motion stem from a lawsuit filed by GNOFHAC in early October of this year. The lawsuit alleges that the ordinance discriminates against minority families seeking housing and perpetuates the Parishs history as a segregated, predominantly white community. While the ordinance will not be in effect, the Parish still refuses to repeal it. As a result, the parties will still prepare the case for trial.
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☛ Barnaby Barford: "Stick that on YouTube!" from the Private Lives series, bone china, porcelain, earthware, enamel paint, other media, H 27 cm x diameter 29 cm, 2007. Image credit: Theo Cook. © Barnaby Barford.
I wrote about Barnaby Barford's art before (Barnaby Barford: "The Good The Bad The Belle", 2009). He is currently having his first solo exhibition in United States at the Virginia Museum of Contemporary Art (Virginia Beach, VA). The exhibition has been running since September 12 and will continue up until December 29, 2013.
Here's how Alison Byrne, director of exhibitions and education at the Virginia Museum of Contemporary Art (MOCA), describe Barford's art:
Part artist, storyteller and casting director, Barnaby Barford works with antique and mass-produced figurines. He dissects, combines, reassembles, and paints them to create narrative sculpture with darkly comic titles and a touch of English humor.
By incorporating kitsch figurines that we might expect to find on our grandmothers' shelves into contemporary and sometimes scandalous scenarios, the artist takes us off-guard. At first glance these pieces might look harmless, but when you get up close and notice that a cherub-like boy figurine has been altered into a mischievous weapon-wielding character wearing a hoodie, jeans and Nike sneakers, you can't help but laugh. It's been wonderful hearing our visitors chuckling out loud when they see these tongue-in-cheek sculptures. (British Council: "How a young UK artist came to exhibit in Virginia" by Alyson Byrne, October 11, 2013).
The exhibition features 28 sculptures from 14 collections dispersed around the world. It also has Barnaby's first animated film, Damaged Goods (2008, Vimeo):
The film marks Artist Barnaby Barford's first venture into animated film, creating a new world for his porcelain characters. "I've always seen my pieces as scenes from a film – I want viewers to make up what happened before and what might happen afterwards – so it felt like a natural progression to work on a film," Barford explains. (Barnaby Barford: "Damaged Good Film")
One can also watch the 5-min profile "Porcelain Artist Barnaby Barford" produced by Deutsche Welle back in April 2013 for its Euromaxx series:


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Artist and designer Glenda Blake's subject matter is primarily the human figure in light and space, with occasional forays into still life, bird-life, and feline studies. Her work is distinguished by surreal lyricism, archetypal analogy, clarity of light and tone, and an ambiguous emotional resonance. Recent series include figure studies based on Anglo-American traditional dance (she was awarded an Artist Fund grant by the Community Foundation of South Central New York in 2012 for her "Unlikely Dance" series of 30x48" paintings), and pictorial variations on the Edward Lear poem, The Owl and the Pussycat. She is also a freelance graphic designer.
I grew up in greater Binghamton, NY, and worked in the Southern Tier for many years as an illustrator, graphic designer, art director, communications coordinator, academic publications director, and drawing instructor. Moving to Manchester, NH, I continued my career in academic publications while studying oil painting at the Currier Museum of Art. Since my return to the Triple Cities, I've worked extensively in oils and colored pencil, as well as graphic design.


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The lighthouse (Fyren, 2000)
The Lighthouse is a story about a journey, not only in the presence, but also in the past, litterature and the tale. A lighthouse is one of the strongest symbols man has made. It has one distinct function. It is the sign of do not pass, or the exact opposite if your are a traveler arriving by sea. The light it sends out is both welcome back, and farewell.


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Wool over who's eyes…
I just picked this off a blog I was reading… I cant believe it. Who is pulling the wool over who's eyes here: According to Neg Norton, president of YPA (Yellow Pages Association), "The Yellow Pages medium is still a … Continue reading
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I asked a few of our early users what they thought of version 1, and I was thrilled to be sent this by one of our people (you know who you are K). Its really flattering when someone says stuff … Continue reading
Apparently we're a "Killer Startup"
I just noticed that we got a great write up on KillerStartups.com by Cameron. In his own words "Brown Book may seemingly fulfill the role that the Yellow Pages occupy, but its interactivity and user capabilities set it far apart. … Continue reading
Spread Brownbook
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Our first press release announcing the UK launch
Here is our first press release announcing the UK launch this week. 🙂
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Hello! I'm Janey Pagels, Happily married mother to 4 adult children. Coming from a large family of 11 children, family and family values mean everything to me.
With a love for all things real estate and an honest, committed and professional attitude, I guarantee to do my best in achieving outstanding results when it comes time to sell your home.
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I Specialize in Canning Vale and the surrounding suburbs, and am considered by many to be THE Canning Vale real estate expert!
My interest and drive in all areas of real estate stem from the 15 years of buying, selling and subdividing of my own properties in a number of south east metropolitan suburbs. With the experience gained from these undertakings, especially the constant involvement with other Canning Vale Real Estate Agents and local councils, I developed a unique perspective on just what people would expect from their agents and others when buying and selling.
I now use this knowledge to deliver an exceptional level of service and unique strategy to all of my clients, and as such find I continue to exceed client expectations. With exceptional communication skills, clients are always kept informed and updated with market trends and buyer interest.
People say I have a unique compassion and friendly disposition. I have a genuine interest in helping and meeting new people, and consider many of my old customers as friends, continuing to keep in touch. Choose me for all your real estate needs, and you will be selecting the perfect person to sell your home.
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i also help bands i like release records. below is a list of records i have been involved with past, present and future. there's been a lot of stuff along the way, and hopefully more to come.
i am interested in trades, though you should get an idea of the kind of stuff i carry from my releases below. i am definitely happy to sell your distro my stuff at wholesale rates! either way, get in touch through the contact form on the left.
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C'est Dommage - Leaving Los Banos 12" lp
the Set Up / Wow, Owls - split 7"
Butter Up Band / Scarecrow Frequency - split 7"
The Union Ares - Songs from the North 12" lp
Kepler - If You See Our Friend, Tell Her We Miss Her 12" lp
Desidia / La Ciencia - split 12"
Belka - Ermitage 12" lp
Cody Noon - Ace of Wands 12" lp
Beau Navire / Republic of Dreams - split 7"


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I've been involved in Influenster for a couple of years now and love it. Basically, in a nutshell, Influenster is a company that rewards you for your opinion. All you really need to do is provide some reviews, complete a few survey's and you are in the running for voxboxes. The more involved you are, the better your odds are at getting more. I received my first voxbox last spring. And now this year I've gone on to get a spring voxbox, simfast sexy summer voxbox, slimfast brand challange box, mega voxbox, and now I'm anxiously awaiting my Rose Voxbox which will be coming soon!
In the past two weeks, I've received my slimfast brand challenge winner box, and a mega voxbox. First, about the brand challenge box. Every box you get, there are opportunities to win brand challenges. You complete a list of tasks and you are in the running for a bonus box. Since I did a review and some other posts about slim-fast (read it here) I won 4 more bottles to try. I got 2 bottles of Strawberries N Cream, 1 bottle of Cappuccino Delight, and 1 bottle of French Vanilla. These are a great snack to have available when you are on the go or as a quick breakfast when you are running late. Plus they taste delicious!
Part of completing all of my tasks on the slimfast box, I was awarded a mega voxbox. This box was just items they wanted to share with me, and I don't have to do any reviews on, its just a bonus for being involved. This box was awesome! So far, I've been using the Head & Shoulders shampoo and conditioner which is fantastic. It smells nice and my hair is super soft. I will be using the other items soon. Let me know if you want more detailed reviews of those items and I'll be happy to share them!
Lastly – I have some invites to Influenster to share. If you are interested – let me know and I'll gladly send you one. Its a fun experience and like Christmas in your mailbox because you're never really sure what you're going to get – but every time it has been full sized products which I love and get to share my thoughts with all of you!
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We all agree that the year 2010 was one of the most difficult in terms of financial hardships, and we can't wait for the year to be over. But as we usher in a new year, lets not repeat the same mistakes we made in the year 2010 in 2011. Although most experts agree that another financial catastrophe will definitely happen again sometime in the future, because apparently human beings have a very short memory span, and they never seem to learn from their mistakes, that doesn't mean you are going to sit down, do nothing and hope for the best. I know as a parent, the last thing you want your kids to go through is what is happening in your financial affairs right now. The best way to protect kids from ever repeating the same financial mistakes we're going through, is by educating them on the benefits of financial management skills, as is explained in the following article by Richard MacGrueber.
If you have ever struggled with your own money management issues, you probably know how difficult it can be to deal with personal finance issues. If you have made it to the light at the end of the tunnel, and have been able to overcome financial problems, you also know how much easier it is to get through your day-to-day life without worrying about money. If you do not want your children to deal with same financial burdens you have struggled with, it is wise to teach them the importance of good money management skills.
Just as you teach your children other good habits, such as brushing their teeth and cleaning up after themselves, you can also teach them good money management habits. The most important is teaching your children the value of saving money, and not spending their savings on an impulse.
Give your children the opportunity to save money by rewarding them with an allowance or monetary value for completing tasks outside the realm of their regular responsibilities. To teach children the connection between spending and saving, do not try to dictate how they handle their money. Allow them to spend or save at their discretion. If you know your child wants to purchase a new video game, but he or she wants to spend their money on a bucket full of candy, you can remind your child that if the money is spent it will take longer to reach their goal of getting the video game. Teach them, but don't tell them what to do.
Practice What You Preach
Although you may have the best intentions when it comes to teaching your children good money management skills, they will not reap the benefits of your efforts unless you are also managing your own money wisely. If your children see you constantly purchasing unnecessary items or overspending, when you tell them how important it is to save their money – the advice will fall on deaf ears. The old saying "do as I say, not as I do" will not work when it comes to teaching children the value of good money management skills. If, on the other hand, your children see you working hard to save money and successfully reaching financial goals, they will be more inclined to follow in your footsteps.
Family Savings Goals
You can even set family savings goals together for fun. If you set a savings goal of a certain amount to reach in a set timeframe to take a family vacation, work with your child to save for a goal within the same timeframe. Your child can set a goal and save so that he or she will have spending money of their own while on the vacation, or for some other item to be used on the vacation. Whatever the family goal is, working together towards a financial goal can be fun and rewarding, and can bring the family together.


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I bring this up because it was questioned in the election a while ago. If you don't believe this, though, Jay himself can confirm it.
old irc log]Session Start: Fri Aug 13 00:00:01 2004 12:18 <Aribar> wrote:12:26 <Metal_Man88> (You mean, a Death-zooka?)[/b]
12:26 <Aribar> (Don't you mean take over the world again?)
12:26 <Jay|Bass_Fishing> (YEAH)
12:26 <Jay|Bass_Fishing> (Dr. Donez needs a Death-zooka)
12:26 <Razor`> ((lol))
12:26 <Jay|Bass_Fishing> (Damn, I have to make that into a Short)
12:51 <Jay|Bass_Fishing> (Dang, I really like that word, Death-zooka. I'm going to have to use it in a comic and give MM credit or soemthing)


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Ingredients that are introduced to American consumers can take a while to become truly mainstream. Exactly how long that takes can depend on many factors, but menu research firm Datassential, after surveying the more than 4800 menus in its database, has figured out how far along different items in Latin American cuisines are in becoming household words.
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CERN Demonic Portal Alpha-2 Demons Caught on Camera Anti-Matter (Video)
CERN will be "opening the gates of hell" during the three days of darkness and every devil will be let loose
At the Geneva headquarters, stands a statue of Shiva, a divine being of the Hindus, and a destroyer of worlds. This deity, for many thousands of years, has been associated with annihilation. Shiva is the ravisher, which ultimately destroys all things, including the Earth.
The logo of CERN incorporates the number of the beast, 666, as predicted by Revelation, chapter 13. The headquarters has been a staging area, for midnight satanic rituals.
When the collider was under construction, excavators unearthed Roman ruins of the 4th century. The Collider was built on the site of a Roman temple for the worship of Apollo. As a jealous god, Apollo's name was most often associated with destruction.
Today scientists are preparing to throw the power switch, on the newest Alpha project. The purpose of the Alpha series, is the creation of antimatter. Before the year 2016, man had succeeded in producing, only loose particles of the exotic substance. However last year, the Alpha team synthesized for the first time, complete atoms of negatively charged matter, specifically, antihydrogen. Every time that antimatter is retrieved from the pit, it brings with it by definition, destruction and chaos. The pit, of course, is Hades, and our unbridled scientific foray, now threatens to release a literal "hell on Earth".
CERN's chief executive officer, Rolf-Dieter Heuer, described it as breaking though a wall. His Director of Research, Sergio Bertolucci, said that once this door has been opened, something may come out of it. When the gates of hell are opened, by men who play God, interdimensional beings will be given free passage, and emerge from the portal, with a taste for human destruction. Against these beings we have already been warned, for centuries.
One of the working physicists at CERN was Dr. Edward Mantill. According to colleagues, he had not slept for days, when in July of 2016, he locked himself inside his office. After one week of failing to keep his appointments, he was found behind his filing cabinet, mortally wounded from a self-inflicted gunshot. Papers had been burned in his wastebasket, and the rest of his experimental data was permanently deleted from his computer, by means of a low-level format of the hard drive, except for one text file.
Although the interdimensional door had not yet been opened, the text file of Dr. Mantill's last words, revealed that in spite of the fact that the portal was not yet open, experimenters were able to see through it, to the other side. In one of his own experiments, he saw a frightening scene from three years into the future, when CERN scientists could be sreen in panic mode, struggling to close the open gateway. A black hole was released, which consumed our very planet, within three short days.
Stephen Hawking, the semi-paralyzed English physicist, predicted CERN would trigger a bubble of vacuous decay, expanding at the speed of light. Even Astrophysicist Neil de Grasse Tyson sounded an alarm, when he said, if someone wanted to blow up the planet, this would be a good way to do it.
Marie-Julie announced the three days of darkness during which the infernal powers will be loosed and will execute all the enemies of God. "The crisis will explode suddenly; the punishments will be shared by all and will succeed one another without interruption ..." [January 4, 1884] "The three days of darkness will be on a THURSDAY, FRIDAY AND SATURDAY. Days of the Most Holy Sacrament, of the Cross and Our Lady ... three days less one night."
"The earth will be covered in darkness", says Our Lady on 20th of September 1882, "AND HELL WILL BE LOOSED ON EARTH. Thunder and lightning will cause those who have no faith or trust in My Power, to die of fear."
"During these three days of terrifying darkness, no windows must be opened, because no one will be able to see the earth and the terrible colour it will have in those days of punishment without dying at once ..."
"The sky will be on fire, the earth will split ... During these three days of darkness let the blessed candle be lighted everywhere, no other light will shine ..."
"NO ONE OUTSIDE A SHELTER.. will survive. The earth will shake as at the judgment and fear will be great. Yes, We will listen to the prayers of your friends; NOT ONE WILL PERISH. We will need them to publish the glory of the Cross ..." [December 8, 1882]
"THE CANDLES OF BLESSED WAX ALONE WILL GIVE LIGHT during this horrible darkness. ONE CANDLE alone will be enough for the duration of this night of hell ... In the homes of the wicked and blasphemers these candles will give NO LIGHT."
"And Our Lady states: "Everything will shake except the piece of furniture on which the blessed candle is burning. This will not shake. You will all gather around with the crucifix and my blessed picture. This is what will keep away this terror."
"During this darkness the devils and the wicked will take on THE MOST HIDEOUS SHAPES ... red clouds like blood will move across the sky. The crash of the thunder will shake the earth and sinister lightning will streak the heavens out of season. The earth will be shaken to its foundations. The sea will rise, its roaring waves will spread over the continent. .."
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By Emily Mieure
Jackson Hole Daily
Via Wyoming News Exchange
JACKSON — The man who died in an avalanche near Breccia Cliffs on Monday was wearing an airbag and a beacon, investigators said.
But Teton County Coroner Dr. Brent Blue said Dale Laedtke, 27, suffocated under the snow before his friends could dig him out.
"There was no evidence of blunt force trauma," Blue said.
Avalanche airbags are designed to inflate so the person wearing the backpack floats to the top of the debris, rather than sinking lower.
First responders said Laedtke's airbag was inflated when they found him, but he was still buried three feet under the snow.
The investigation in ongoing, but preliminary information revealed that Laedtke and three of his friends "had completed several runs in the same area of where the avalanche occurred," according to a press release sent by the Teton County Sheriff's Office.
"Laedtke left the group on the opposite slope of the avalanche and was attempting to high mark the previous runs in the area," Teton County Sheriff's Sgt. Clay Platt said in the release. "During this attempt, Laedtke got above the high marks and turned across the slope for a short distance when the avalanche started."
Witnesses told investigators that Laedtke turned his snowmobile downhill and accelerated but was thrown from his machine.
"The remaining members of the snowmobiling party were able to locate Laedtke using beacons and probes within approximately five minutes," Platt said.
Laedtke's friends vigorously dug and found him quickly, but he was unresponsive and had minor signs of trauma on his face.
That's when they called 911 and started CPR, police said. They continued CPR until Teton County Search and Rescue arrived, but Laedtke was later pronounced dead on scene.
"It was determined Laedtke was wearing appropriate safety gear for snowmobiling, including an avalanche airbag pack, beacon, helmet and goggles at the time of the avalanche," Platt said.
The Bridger-Teton Avalanche Center visited the avalanche site Wednesday.
Director Bob Comey said the slab that broke was 3 to 5 feet feet thick and broke on a weak layer of faceted snow on an avalanche-prone slope.
Laedtke, a Wisconsin man, was on a snowmobiling trip with friends from Minnesota and Wisconsin.
There have been 18 avalanche-related fatalities in the U.S. this winter season, according to Avalanche.org. Three have happened in western Wyoming.
"Breccia Cliffs is very serious terrain," Teton County Sheriff Matt Carr said.
There have been avalanches there before, Comey said.
"That area is somewhat accessible to sleds," Comey said. "It's ridden a lot. It's a scary slope, and with our snowpack the way it is, unfortunately the recipe came together for a trigger."
Another Wisconsin resident was killed in an avalanche in January, also near Togwotee Pass but closer to Mount Leidy.
Cody Christopherson, 29, was snowmobiling with a big group of friends and family when he drove his sled up a steep slope, triggering an avalanche that buried him.
Christopherson also died of asphyxiation, Blue said.
According to his obituary in the Post Crescent, the newspaper in Appleton, Laedtke's "sense of adventure was greater than most. He didn't worry about how long it would take to get there or even how he would get there. He strived for the adventure that was to be enjoyed."


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Hear today's Warm and Fuzzy here!
There are times in every life when we feel hurt or alone…but I believe that these times
when we feel lost and all around us seems to be falling apart are really bridges of growth.
We struggle and try to recapture the security of what was, but almost in spite of ourselves,
we emerge on the other side with a new understanding.
A new awareness.
A new strength.
It is almost as though we must go through the pain and the struggle in order to grow and reach new heights.
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Emilio Godoy, IPS News
Emilio Godoy is a Mexico-based correspondent for Inter Press Service who covers the environment, human rights and sustainable development. He has been a journalist since 1996 and has written for various media outlets in Mexico, Central America and Spain.
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Saturday, November 29, 2014
Only a Few Drops of Water at the Lima Climate Summit
MEXICO CITY - Although it is one of the victims of global warming, water will not be given a place of importance at the COP20 climate change conference to be held Dec. 1-12 in Lima, Peru. Climate change already threatens water supplies for agriculture due to the reduction in the availability of...
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Friday, October 10, 2014
Family Farmers, Not Green-Washed 'Climate Smart' Agriculture Is the Solution to Climate and Hunger
NAPLES, Italy - Small farmers can look to options like agroecological intensification and innovation, without necessarily turning to what's being called "climate-smart agriculture," which is promoted by the United Nations but has awakened doubts among global experts meeting in this Italian city...
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Tuesday, July 15, 2014
Mexican Farmers Oppose Expansion of Transgenic Crops
Bean grower Manuel Alvarado is part of the majority of producers in Mexico who consider it unnecessary to introduce genetically modified varieties of beans, as the government is promoting. "There is no study showing superior yields compared with hybrid or regional seeds. People are still unaware of...
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Based on Disney's hit movie, the show's story in many ways updates the tale of Romeo and Juliet.
Tickets are £3.50 or £12 for a family ticket - call 0121 744 3835 to book yours.


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Throughout the year Garstang Country Hotel plays host to a number of hugely popular events from Valentines celebration, Mothers day lunches to Christmas party nights and New Year dances. We have some beautiful suites to host these events and entertainment team able to satisfy all tastes. Please remember to book early for all these events as dates are often booked surprisingly early.
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The application for tax-exempt status submitted to the IRS in the fall of 2010 by Crossroads GPS, the Karl Rove-linked dark money group, has been obtained and was published online Friday by ProPublica.In the confidential document, Crossroads GPS acknowledged that it intended to influence elections. "Consistent with the Supreme Court's decision in Citizens United v. Federal Election Commission, the organization may, in the future, develop and/or distribute independent political communications," it said. But, the group added, "[a]ny such activity will be limited in amount, and will not constitute the organization's primary purpose."
The group eventually reported over $70 million in election spending to the Federal Election Commission in 2012, according to the Center for Responsive Politics. Most of that money went to opposing Democrats, and, as ProPublica points out, the group also announced it spent an additional $50 million on anti-Obama ads outside the window during which it was required to report spending to the FEC.
In the 2010 filing, the group also offered a breakdown of its planned activities, saying 50 percent of its efforts would go to "public education," 30 percent would go to "activity to influence legislation and policymaking," and 20 percent would go to "research." The document said that the group's public education efforts would, among other things, be conducted "through a wide variety of communications channels, including paid advertising," while the activity to influence legislation and policymaking would engage "citizens to participate in grassroots advocacy on pending legislative issues through paid advertising, mailings, e-mails, and web-based advocacy tools."
After reviewing the filing on behalf of ProPublica, Paul Ryan, senior counsel for the Campaign Legal Center, said the statement "does not seem to align with what they actually did, which was to raise and spend hundreds of millions to influence candidate elections."
Crossroads GPS is organized as a 501(c)4 "social welfare" organization. As such, it is allowed to raise unlimited sums of money without disclosing its donors. Such groups have become popular vehicles for political spending in the last two federal election cycles.
But the IRS has not yet recognized Crossroads GPS as tax exempt, a fact which complicates ProPublica's obtaining the 2010 application:
"As far as we know, the Crossroads application is still pending, in which case it seems that either you obtained whatever document you have illegally, or that it has been approved," Jonathan Collegio, the group's spokesman, [told ProPublica] in an email.
The IRS sent Crossroads' application to ProPublica in response to a public-records request. The document sent to ProPublica didn't include an official IRS recognition letter, which is typically attached to applications of nonprofits that have been recognized. The IRS is only required to give out applications of groups recognized as tax-exempt.
In an email Thursday, an IRS spokeswoman said the agency had no record of an approved application for Crossroads GPS, meaning that the group's application was still in limbo.
"It has come to our attention that you are in receipt of application materials of organizations that have not been recognized by the IRS as tax-exempt," wrote the spokeswoman, Michelle Eldridge. She cited a law saying that publishing unauthorized returns or return information was a felony punishable by a fine of up to $5,000 and imprisonment of up to five years, or both. The IRS would not comment further on the Crossroads application.
Richard Tofel, ProPublica's general manager, said in a statement that the organization believes the information it is publishing is "not barred by the statute cited by the IRS." But parts of the document were redacted to remove financial information.
You can read the document itself here.
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In Life of Alfred, Bishop Asser was supposedly trying to explain why kings of Wessex didn't bestow their wives with the status of queen. Then he went on to recount a queen who lived decades earlier: Eadburh, who conveniently came from a family that had competed with Alfred's grandfather for power.
Objective reporting of known facts is a relatively modern concept. Using the pen to trash your (or your master's) rival isn't, and medieval readers would have known that Asser had a definite point of view.
Asser tells a story of murder and justice, but I simply cannot believe him. His tale did inspire a post about Eadburh. See English Historical Fiction Authors for more.


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After visiting Europe last year where everyone was on their bike and very few people wore a helmet, I had stopped wearing my helmet in recent months, especially since I usually ride my bike on quiet (side) streets, wear normal street clothing (not bike gear), and ride slowly and carefully. But after a debate today with my hair stylist, I went online and researched and there are quite a. Few comprehensive studies that show the importance of wearing a bike helmet, even for slow and cautious riders. So, starting today, I will wear my helmet again.
Month: July 2017
What a truly awful article today in The Seattle Times :(
The Times ran an interesting article today that I had to stop reading because it was kinda upsetting. It was about a high tech prostitution ring where "hobbyists" would pay for sex with youjng women holed up in fancy hotel rooms and later review the girl on an online review board much like you might review a book or movie. Okay, maybe a horny guy is a connoisseur of sex – fine. But let's be honest in that it is a one way street for the benefit of one (these girls probably make less from a night of sex than the techy Johns visiting them made in a few hours sitting in meetings and at their computer). Also, let's be honest in that most prostitutes are selling their bodies, often with no choice, because they have no other choices to make a living – if a guy has 400 bucks to spend on one-sided sex, maybe they could instead gave that money to a scholarship or charity fund to help out women such as these. Having sex with a random, nerdy dude would be bad enough but then these girls have to be exposed to some jackass posting a review about their performance. I have a hard time believing most of those men would accept 400 dollars to give another man a blow job, especially if the man then posted a note about the experience, which kind of indicates how one sided the whole thing is.
How sad, and how unkind and unfeeling to patronize and participate in that.
Funny how I've changed on my approach to CRM the past few years
Time was, I more or less refused to put my activity into CRM, as mandated by most Sales Organizations. I figured I was measured by quota, and if I hit quota they'd keep me regardless if I updated CRM and if I didn't hit quota they'd fire me anyway, so screw them – if they wanted me to update CRM they could get ride of my quota. But the past few years I worked as a manager where CRM was watched soooo closely and it was so chaotic that (to make a long story short) you had to use CRM. So I;ve gotten int he habit of it and am one of the most ardent documentary in CRM now. I still dont think it's a great tool as compared to effort vs. reward, but when in Rome…
Loved the movie The Big Sick
Wife M and I went to the Annex for a drink then to The Big Sick. The Annex's cocktail was awful – I am not sure how a drink can be too bitter and too sweet at the same time, but it was. Wife M's drink was too sweet. Won't be going back there… We loved The Big Sick, which turned out to be a true story based on the Pakistani actor from Silicon Valley's courtship of his girlfriend, where they fall in love, break up then she gets sick. We loved it – it was a touching, funny and enduring story about lovable characters, and I loved it much in the same way I loved the lovable people in Bend It Like Beckham from 10 years ago. A fun summer evening that ended at a reasonable hour (9:40pm).
Note: her illness reminded me of my mom's illness in 2009, when she had to be intubated and was in ICU for several weeks where we didn't know if she'd live, and my dad, sister, wife and I spent a lot of wrenching time together where we all really bonded.
Sooo frustrating when HQ gives you a goal/quota which is mandatory to hit but then wastes my time with endless conference calls and trainings, etc.
SO many times I can be a good corporate citizen and do the many asks that I am asked, *or* I can be a good sales person.
This week in BC (my trip just ended)
SPent a portion of this week in Vancouver BC. Some observations: In stead of renting a car, I rode the sky train everywhere. I loved the sky train. With limited inconvenience I could get almost anywhere in the city within an hour plus 15 minutes of walking… I found a couple of decent authentic Mexican Food restaurants… Stayed at Marriot in Burnaby – it was nice, although I like to stay closer to the metro area.
It is time to take away guns from police!
After yet another innocent person was killed by police (a woman who called police to report a crime in her neighborhood was shot in front of their patrol car while in her pajamas!!) it is time to take away guns from police. The odds of innocent people being killed by a police officer seem greater than a police officer saving innocents using a gun – we can always call in SWAT if needed. Or lock their guns away in the trunk. My two cents…


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IX Reach says 'Bienvenue' to over 15 new France-IX members
February 2013: IX Reach, a layer 2 carrier with its own global network, has built on its solid reputation of being a leading Internet Exchange (IX) connection provider after its recent push with its neighbours across the Channel, France-IX. For a limited time, IX Reach offered a free 100Mb connection into France-IX, the popular Parisian Exchange; more than 15 companies seized the opportunity to open up their network into the French hub and have become the latest France-IX members. Stephen Wilcox, Founder and CTO of IX Reach commented, "To bring more than 15 companies to an Internet Exchange in a period of less than two weeks is almost unheard of. We feel privileged to work with France-IX and be able to offer this 'no obligation' deal and boost France-IX's name and popularity within the UK marketplace." Solène Souquet, marketing manager of France-IX explained, "We're grateful to be working closely with IX Reach promoting the services of France-IX. Working with a company well known for providing IX connections adds a certain gravitas, and opens up France-IX to companies that otherwise may not have joined. France-IX has over 200 members and peak traffic of over 160Gbps making it one of the largest IXPs in France. Using IX Reach to provide direct connections to France-IX enables customers broader access through its comprehensive global MPLS Ethernet network. IX Reach provides capacities ranging from 100Mbps to multiple 10Gbps from any on-net location to France-IX, opening up the country to the rest of Europe and North America. About IX Reach IX Reach operates its own purpose built international MPLS network reaching over 30 major cities across Europe and North America. IX Reach specialise in providing bespoke solutions based on Point-to-Point and Point-to-Multipoint connectivity with flexible bandwidth capacity from 100Mbps to multiple 10Gbps, VLANs, VPNs, wavelengths and business IP. IX Reach's network offers a robust and reliable platform designed to support customers such as carriers, ISPs, content providers and large corporates in order to expand their network across IX Reach's 70+ data centres. IX Reach also has over 250 racks of colocation and can offer space from a 1/4 rack up to large suites. Through its partnerships with key Internet Exchanges, data centres and cloud operators, IX Reach offers all the benefits of one simple solution. For more information about our services and our partnerships with key Internet Exchanges, data centres and cloud operators please visit us at ixreach.com, email us on firstname.lastname@example.com or call us on +44 845 013 0845. You can also like us on Facebook or follow us on Twitter. About France-IX France-IX is the latest generation IXP based in France which offers Unicast and Multicast IPv4/IPv6 public peering, private peering (Closed User Groups), routes servers and a reseller program through various connection ports: 100 Mbps copper, 200Mbpbs (copper or optical), 1000 Mbps copper, 1 Gbps SX or LX, 2 Gbps and 10 Gbps LR. For further information, visit the website franceix.net or contact firstname.lastname@example.com.
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IMDb Rating: 4.8/10
Genre: Action, Drama, Thriller
Director: Tony Mitchell
Release Date: 24 August 2007
Star Cast: Robert Carlyle, Jessalyn Gilsig, Tom Courtenay
Movie Story: Timely yet terrifying, The Flood predicts the unthinkable. When a raging storm coincides with high seas it unleashes a colossal tidal surge, which travels mercilessly down England's East Coast and into the Thames Estuary. Overwhelming the Barrier, torrents of water pour into the city. The lives of millions of Londoners are at stake. Top marine engineers and barrier experts Rob, his ex-wife Sam and his father Leonard Morrison, have only a few hours to save the city from total devastation. A real probability in a real location. It is not a question of if, but when London floods.


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In brief: New short story, eight hour fiction challenge, most boring cover I ever did, out now on Smashwords and Amazon.
Ladies and gentlemen, my first publication in English, not counting re-publishing public domain work. Cue the fireworks.
At 2,400 words (2,100 counting only the story itself), this is a very short piece, though still twice as long as my introductory shorts in the German Meilensteine der Evolution series. It is certainly the shortest I would ever publish as a standalone, except maybe a free one once I figured out how to set things to permafree reliably on Amazon.
Further apologies follow once I get to the cover, so on to the story. itself.
The year 2061, in the middle of the Pacific Ocean. It is here the floating city of Pacifica has been growing since the late 2020′s. We follow Chang Wu, a Chinese immigrant who just arrived for a job interview, around town and towards his first assignment. However, he does not yet know what that assignment is, really.
Introduction is a flash fiction in the style I first got to know short stories from the likes of E.A. Poe and Ernest Hemingway: Very short pieces of fiction building towards a twist or surprise ending. Stories that are all about the ending. Mind you, this is neither Poe's gothic fiction nor Hemingway's realistic stories, this is science fiction, technically hard science fiction with everything happening and seen possible by current or probably possible technology.
What this is, is a tour arounf town through the eyes of a new arrival who is basically a man of our world, entering a very foreign one. It mainly serves to illustrate how different our future could be from our present. A showcase of ideas, condensed into one city.
I've been wanting to write a story set in the city of Pacifica for a long time, there are a lot of story ideas set in different time periods waiting to be put to paper. Holographic politicians in the 2040′s! Plant aliens in the 2100′s! There's just so much one can do with a city that is by its nature constantly shifting and changing, inviting innovation and experimentation. Meaning, this is a mere, well, introduction to the setting. I will certainly return with a full story, maybe sooner than expected.
Blame for this story can be put on the August Eight Hour Fiction Half-Month Challenge. The challenge was to write, edit, and publish a story within eigtht hours. I decided to try it when I found out about it earlier this month via Cora Buhlert's blog.
There not being a topic or theme this time first threw me off, but then I got the idea I could use this as a starting point of building this city I had in mind for so long, depicting a moment in its history I never knew how to show (I knew how to show the consequences of it, but not the event itself). So I did it, wrote the story in about 4 hours, created a cover and added front and back matter in one more hour.
Speaking of the cover, it was surprisingly hard to find something to fit on it and I ended up with perhaps the blandest cover I ever did. There is basically no illustrations I could use of a swimming city. I am not good enough an artist to make one, especially the timeframe given. I toyed with the idea of putting in something that would hint at the ending, but decided that to be too much of a spoiler. I suppose it's possible to do subtly enough using a fitting silhouette at its borders or below the title. Maybe I will come back to that by changing it later.
So I settled for water with text over it.
At least I found a nice font that looks a little like my idea of Pacifica's skyline with its swimming 21sup century skycrapers and the like (with the – to those who read it – obvious exception of New Venice). It does not have a bold option, though, making a hard to read. *sigh*.
Uploading to Amazon is something I've done a few times by now and as always, it worked like a charm. I always do that late in the evening so approval has been finished when I wake up in the morning. Uploaded, approved, go!
This was the first time I put a book on sale with another retailer than Amazon, uploading it to Smashwords as well. I was anxious how that would work out. You see, in Amazon I always upload a finished Mobi file, meaning formatting cannot fail, because Mobi is virtually the same as AZW, the proprietary kindle file format. Smashwords doesn't let you do that, except for ePub and then you're stuck with only ePub.
Smashwords uses a program called the Meatgrinder to convert a Doc file into a couple of file formats to provide the ability to sell a book for almost all currently available platforms, ranging from surviving palmtops (PDB), to current independent e-readers (ePub) and the Kindle series (Mobi). The Meatgrinder is infamous for rejecting input until it is perfect. Introduction being 100% text seemed safe enough to try and put into the grinder. I was really surprised how it worked perfectly at first try, the book going online at the store the moment conversion was done. After all I heard of Smashwords being a complicated vendor to submit to on a technology level, this was the last thing I expected. The only thing that takes time is the review for Premium Distribution, which will take a few days according to Smashwords' FAQ. Given that gets done successfully, the book will then become available at other major ebook stores such as Kobo, Barnes & Noble, and iBooks. I will add links at the book page if and when that works.
Here it is at Smashwords, available in Mobi, ePub, PDF, RTF, LRF, PDB, TXT, and for online reading at US$ .99.
And the Amazons. All of the Amazons (ordered by guesstimated likelihood of being interested in downloading a book in English): US/International (.com), UK, Australia, Canada, India, Mexico, Germany, France, Spain, Italy, Japan, Brazil
Now, if only the moniker "seapunk" hadn't already been taken by something else. And Ocean Punk has been taken already, as well. Damn. It does have shades of Cli-Fi and Ribofunk, though, so I'll just go with that.
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Red Velvet Takes the Number One Spot on Weekly Album Charts
Red Velvet's second mini album "The Velvet," which was released on March 17, is first place on the weekly album charts for Hanteo Chart and Synnara Record, amongst other music sales sites, for the third week of March (March 14-20), in addition to the daily charts.
"The Velvet" includes soft, feminine, "velvet" style music, including the title song, "One of These Nights," a fairytale-like ballad.
It displays a completely different style from their first full-length album, "The Red," showcasing a new side of the group.
In addition, "The Velvet" is also first place on the K-pop album charts in the U.S., Japan, Thailand, Singapore, Hong Kong, Indonesia; as well as other regions across Asia.
Congratulations to Red Velvet!
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