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This summer, ninth-graders Tenzin Smith and Evan Lemole started their own company called Zodiac Pictures, a small film company dedicated to producing entertaining videos and short movies.
Zodiac Pictures sprung from a love for film and enthusiasm for video production. "We used to make videos with some of our friends and we really enjoyed it … we realized that we could [start a company]," Smith said.
The two started out by making videos with their friends, solely for personal enjoyment to make each other laugh. Now, however, they are creating productions for all to see. Smith and Lemole make use of their current equipment, hoping to expand their production materials one day. "For now we just use our phones because we don't have the money to get a good filming camera, but we are saving up for one," Lemole said.
Lemole and Smith make their videos for the public's enjoyment, but still take a personal interest in the fun of the film making process. "The main reason we make the videos and skits are for our [own] entertainment," Smith said.
The two end results are very rewarding, considering all the hard work they put into their finished products. "My favorite part about this whole thing is when you finally finish a video and you get to look back at all of your hard work and see what you've made. It's a feeling of accomplishment," Smith said.
Of the videos posted on their YouTube page, the duo have already introduced a comedy film, a small skit, and several previews hinting at their next big production. Their upcoming piece, a short film titled "The Remake," centers around an inept Hollywood director whose been given one last chance to make an epic blockbuster before being ousted from the business for good.
The pair not only have a strong base of support from their friends and Pine View staff, but also their parents. "Both of our parents really like what we do. They really enjoy our videos and they are a great help. We wouldn't be able to do this without them," says Lemole.
Zodiac Pictures' films can be viewed at https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCRAY7_-rxH9o1HH_0KJ_KzA
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Martin Bell, in Comment is Free, calls for an inquiry on Iraq.
The mission will end, as it began, on the basis of a falsehood.
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That day I decided to whip up a batch of brownies while waiting for the hubby to come home. Coz these brownies are dead easy to bake and only really need 1 bowl (measuring cups and weighing scales not included!)
As usual, I assumed I had all the ingredients and started without checking. Until I reached the point of - add the nuts. The hubs had eaten us out of nuts in the entire house!
So I proceeded without any nuts and it was still great!
One-bowl Brownies
150 g bittersweet chocolate chopped
113 g unsalted butter, cut into pieces
2 tbs Milo powder
200 g granulated white sugar
1 teaspoon pure vanilla extract
3 large eggs
95 g all-purpose flour
1/4 tsp salt
- Preheat oven to 180 degrees C and place the rack in the center of the oven.
- Line bottom of tray with aluminium foil.
- Melt the chocolate and butter in a large stainless steel bowl placed over a saucepan of simmering water.
- Remove from heat and stir in the Milo powder and sugar.
- Whisk in the vanilla extract and eggs, one at a time, beating well after each addition.
- Pour into the prepared pan and bake for about 25-30 minutes.
- Remove from oven and let cool on a wire rack. Serve at room temperature or chilled.
- Make sure the equipment used to melt the chocolate is dry and avoid splashing water from the saucepan as this would cause the chocolate to "seize" and not be useable.
- I couldn't find baking cocoa and substituted Milo. Just as good.
- If baking brownies for the first time, watch it carefully. It is very easy to overbake. Overbaked brownies become cakey.


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DJ3K was a mini-game in Club Penguin. The DJ3K itself was invented by Club Penguin's resident inventor and scientist, Gary the Gadget Guy. DJ3K was a way for penguins to create their own music for their igloo. It also serves as an add-on to the DJ Table in the Night Club. It was released on July 25, 2008, the same time the Music Jam 2008 started. You could bring your Yellow Puffle along in the game and it would dance and earn you more points, earning you more coins.
On July 17, 2014, when the Music Jam 2014 began, DJ3K was closed and replaced by SoundStudio. SoundStudio brought a whole new experience to the game, allowing you to "share your beats in the Dance Club for penguins to like."[2]
The way to earn coins in this game is to let your penguin sit and press a button every 10 minutes. Move your mouse to click all the buttons on the DJ Table and make music. The better the music sounds, the more coins you will make. A signal as to how many coins you are making is what your penguin or puffle is doing and the lights in the background. There is also a way to leave your screen for 5 minutes and you will get some coins.
Since June 26, 2009, players could buy records for the DJ3K in Game Upgrades catalog for 75 coins each, allowing more tunes to be used in the game. The three records, Jungle, Funky and Festival, each add different sounds. When Music Jam 2010 started, three more records were added: Reggaetron, Desi-bel, and House Blend. In October 2011, the Monster Muzak record was released as well.
- When starting the game, a yellow puffle will appear along with your penguin saying "I put these on three lines. Not a good haiku."
- If you pressed the "X" button on the game while not playing, your penguin would be playing. This glitch was later fixed.
- There was a glitch where you could push tab a few times and a yellow box would be around the "X". Click enter and it would say "You have earned 10,000 coins". This was later fixed.
- On August 20, right before the Frozen Party, you could play DJ3K instead of SoundStudio.[3]
- It was Franky's favorite game.
- The name DJ3K means Disc Jockey 3000, as the letter "K" stands for thousand (this may mean it was made by Gary considering that most of his gadgets end with the number 3000).
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The Fashiolista team is in New York for the fashion week. I'm looking forward to meet some local tech startups. Drop me a mail or leave a comment if you want to grab a coffee.
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The Fashiolista team is in New York for the fashion week. I'm looking forward to meet some local tech startups. Drop me a mail or leave a comment if you want to grab a coffee.
Thierry Schellenbach
CTO/ Founder
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Facebook has just enabled the open graph for 60 lucky apps. The new open graph beta allows you to post a user's actions to their timeline. This activity is shown to the user's friends in Facebook's newsfeed and ticker. Furthermore your data is nicely aggregated on a user's Facebook profile. Fashiolista's aggregation for instance looks like this:
Posting these actions on Facebook can greatly enhance the viral growth of your company. Spotify, one of the launch partners, has grown by more than 4mil active users. This blogpost explains how to use Django Facebook to integrate your Django based site with Facebook.
Before going into the code though we need to understand the basic concepts of the open graph: actions and objects. Facebook's getting started interface explains it best:
Actions are the verb, objects are what the action is applied to. You submit the data for these actions and objects to Facebook. An example would be watching (action) the movie Pan's Labyrinth (object). Every object should be represented by a dedicated URL. For instance if you look at Chiara's profile (object) on Fashiolista you will see the following open graph data:
<meta property="og:title" content="ChiaraFerragni" /> <meta property="og:image" content="http://bit.ly/rso3ig" /> <meta property="og:type" content="fashiolista:fashiolista" /> <meta property="og:site_name" content="Fashiolista" />
To post to the open graph you specify an action and the url for the object. You can read more about it in Facebook's open graph docs.
Users only need to give you permission to the open graph once. You specifically need the publish_actions permission. When asking for this permission a pretty permission interface as shown below will appear:
Notice the tiny add to timeline box displayed at the bottom right corner of the interface.
The code below will show you how to post to the open graph. There are however a few requirements which you'll need to go through.
After receiving this permission we can post to the user's timeline. Below is the most basic example:
@facebook_required(scope='publish_actions') def open_graph_beta(request): ''' Simple example view on how to do open graph postings ''' fb = get_persistent_graph(request) entity_url = 'http://www.fashiolista.com/item/2081202/' result = fb.set('me/fashiolista:love', item=entity_url) messages.info(request, 'The item has been shared to fashiolista:love')
This posts the action love to the users timeline with the object data found at the url http://www.fashiolista.com/item/2081202/.
The syntax me/fashiolista:love translates to post to me in the namespace fashiolista with the action love.
While the above example works, you often won't want to keep your users waiting for the Facebook API request. Especially since they are quite sluggish at the moment.
Below there's a version of the code using celery. Celery is a task queuing system which enables you to run tasks asynchronously.
@task.task(ignore_result=True) def open_graph_beta(user): ''' Example posting to open graph using a celery task ''' profile = user.get_profile() fb = profile.get_offline_graph() entity_url = 'http://www.fashiolista.com/item/2081202/' result = fb.set('me/fashiolista:love', item=entity_url)
Integrating with open graph is easy. Head over to the github page of Django Facebook to get started. Contributions are more than welcome.
Do you also see the beauty in clean code? Are you experienced with high scalability web apps? Currently we're looking for additional talent over at our Amsterdam office. Feel free to drop me a line at my personal email for more information: thierryschellenbach[át]gmail.com
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In the last few years the landscape for online marketing has shifted towards Facebook. The most obvious point is Facebook's own ad platform, which currently exceeds 2 billion dollar in revenue. However the more fundamental changes are caused by Facebook's social platform. This article outlines the 5 ways in which Facebook is redefining online marketing.
About Thierry Schellenbach: Co-Founder of Fashiolista.com, author of Django Facebook. Follow me on Twitter or Facebook
Firstly Facebook allows you to target your advertising to specific interest groups. Especially for community driven sites it's now possible to reach your target audience with almost scary precision. A marketeer can target all single girls living in Amsterdam, which like snowboarding and work at Google. This improved targeting enables you to attract visitors which are more likely to use your product.
The Facebook effect continues when users reach your landing page. Instead of filling out a form with annoying questions, users just need to find the big blue button on your site and they are good to go.
Having a Facebook login flow on your site drastically increases your conversion to members. Also the Facepile social plugin shows you which of your friends are using the site you're visiting. This creates another incentive for users to join your site.
A good example of a zero friction signup flow is the Fashiolista landing page as shown above.
The first two points allow you to acquire more users at a substantially lower member acquisition cost than previously possible. In addition the user accounts created by the Facebook connect flow immediately contain very rich information. You know their birthday, their age, their email, their gender and more importantly their real name. Using real names on online platforms substantially reduces spam and trolling. Furthermore since you know the user's Facebook id you can connect them to their friends.
Pinterest for instance makes it extremely easy to follow your Facebook friends on Pinterest.
Facebook started focusing on likes about a year and a half ago when they released the open graph protocol and like buttons. Currently many users have indicated which sports, movies and brands they like. You can utilize this data to immediately connect the users to topics they care about.
Quora is the leading example on how to personalize your content to new users. When you join Quora topics will be suggested to you based on your interests. So someone interested in Entrepreneurship will see entirely different content than someone interested in gardening.
Some of these users you just acquired will absolutely love your product. (Stop marketing and improve your product if they don't). Previously these users would maybe email a friend or two and if you're lucky tell their colleagues about it. Facebook however empowers them to easily share your product to all of their friends. Evangelists which would maybe recruit two new members are enabled by Facebook to recruit dozens. It is very common for user's of Fashiolista to invite more than 30 of their friends, many of which become members.
The invite flow on Fashiolista smartly shows your female friends, which are not yet on Fashiolista and enables you to quickly send an invite message to their wall.
Similar, albeit less pretty invite flows are a strong component of games like CityVille and Farmville.
Facebook has so far reduced the cost of getting visitors to your site. In addition it has become easier for these visitors to become members and receive a personalized experience.
Finally Facebook empowers your evangelists to reach more of their friends than was previously possible. Throughout these steps the cost and friction involved with recruiting new members have been substantially reduced.
On September 22nd Facebook will make several announcements at their F8 conference.
Have a look at the livestream to find on how they will change online marketing again.
About Thierry Schellenbach: Co-Founder of Fashiolista.com, author of Django Facebook. Follow me on Twitter or Facebook
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Some good news while new code is compiling :)
Champagne moment over here!
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I was thrilled to see twitter releasing their own button. This is good news all around for us bloggers looking to promote our content. After looking at their code snippets a warning is in place though. The current twitter button implementation will severely break your site if their servers face load issues. Fortunately you can work around this issues by slightly modifying their implementation.
For Fashiolista.com we have been writing a lot about the various techniques for implementing these type of buttons. Especially important here is the way the javascript is loaded. Twitter uses a simple blocking script approach, where as digg, facebook and fashiolista use the async dynamic script approach. There are two large differences:
In this example we are faking slow twitter servers. (By routing it through google's app engine and delaying the response). You can see the difference for yourself (be patient and be sure to clear your browser cache using CTRL F5).
Default twitter version
(note that site content is not loading until the twitter button is loaded)
Async twitter script
(everything loads and then we wait for twitter)
Solving this is quite simple. Simply change the way the twitter javascript is loaded from the first example to the second version.
Twitter version
<script type="text/javascript" src="http://platform.twitter.com/widgets.js"></script>
Async twitter implementation
<script type="text/javascript"> //async script, twitter button fashiolista.com style (function() { var s = document.createElement('SCRIPT'); var c = document.getElementsByTagName('script')[0]; s.type = 'text/javascript'; s.async = true; s.src = 'http://platform.twitter.com/widgets.js'; c.parentNode.insertBefore(s, c); })(); </script>
Hope the difference won't matter and Twitter will stay up :)
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No more beta for YouTellMe.nl
The website which is taking over the Dutch product comparison market is officially going out of beta @ 8 o clock.
Party in Amsterdam, Keizersgracht 182 :) Festivities starting right now!
Things are going well, looking very forward to international launch.
We've changed a lot since the first reviews!
Beter pictures coming after the event :P
PS. Thanks to Python and Django, for enabling us to beat the competition :)
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We have been rolling out some awesome new features at YouTellMe.nl. The new version of the comparison system allows for the most flexible product comparison queries. Furthermore we now fully support product variations with easy selectors during price comparison.
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TVA Architects has developed 1 featured project with Zahner. Architects come to Zahner for the company's commitment to developing the designer's aesthetic to completion. Zahner worked with TVA Architects to develop their design into custom architectural systems, featured below.
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In early 2013, Zahner began working with Nike to produce a series of concept and flagship stores for several cities in North America, starting with an innovative store in Scottsdale, Arizona. The new stores, designed by TVA Architects in Portland, represent a shift for Nike towards a new immersive branded store.The design build process for this project is among the fastest that Zahner has been a part of to date. The entire design, fabrication, and installation process was completed within the span of a single month at a cost below what the client had estimated.


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Translated from the Spanish by Margaret Sayers-Peden
I invite you who are holding this book, my dear friend, to follow a process that I have followed. Working on this book I have learned to see smallness anew, to allow the small details in Nature to be more important than what is large and majestic.
I had a beautiful teacher whose name was Carolina Hidalgo Vivar. She taught me to look at the world with gratitude and tenderness. I have tried to take these photographs from that position.
This book is a personal, an extremely personal, portrait of Ecuador, of my country, of my homeland. I have traveled its roads in an attempt to find healing following the death of Carolina, trying to find a formula for converting grief into beauty.
Nature reminds us that life and death are intimately interwoven. And that life, splendid, potent, and filled with pinnacles and precipices, is a precious gift that we must celebrate with those we love.
I invite you to take an imaginary journey from the east to the west of Ecuador, from the heart of Amazonia, climbing the flanks of the Cordillera, crossing over the peaks of the Andes and its sweet inhabited valleys, descending again to the tropics, crossing ocean waters until you reach the Galapagos, which we call the Enchanted Islands.
But approach with caution, this book is not composed of grand vistas but often of small spaces ones eyes can rescue, humble landscapes, and gardens conceived by nature.
How does one speak to a person who is no longer here? What words does one use? What does one say to be heard?
Carolina, my dearest Carolina, you wrote me a modest little poem, that is what you called it. This book is my modest little poem for you.
It is modest because I don't know what language to use to reach you where you are. It is small because it has no wings to penetrate mystery. It is the language that I know best, but I am aware that it is incomplete, inadequate. I need to tell you how important you are to me, to thank you for all the gifts you gave me.
Now after months of slow wandering around, of grieving, of looking at the persistent miracle of nature, I have realized that making a book about gardens is in truth yet another gift you are giving me. Your spirit, your memory, quickly led me to photographing what was smallest and simplest. It became an overwhelming, irresistible impetus.
These gardens are a gift you are giving me, that we are giving to others.
You had a deep love for trees. I remember the enormous, age-old Samaná, the raintree next to your house in Santo Domingo. I went to visit it, and it looked very sad now that you are no longer here. It was wrapped in fog and slightly bowed, with mossy whiskers that trailed to the ground.
You held that it is impossible to defend nature only by thinking about it, that conservation must first of all be an act of tenderness.
And your thesis was simple but absolute. "You see my Samaná, Palito, the tree I love so much? The years have turned it into an important and honorable tree. Imagine, it can't become any more worthy because it is home to so many mosses, so many bromeliads, so many ferns, of so many little birds and insects. That tree, despite being so large and having the wrinkles, is a thousand times more fragile than you or me! It can't defend itself! How can I look at it without feeling tender?"
You spoke to the trees with absolute naturalness. And it broke your heart when anyone attacked them. "Look, Palito," you would say to me. "Look at that handsome tree." For you, young trees, and gardens, and little animals, and the hummingbirds that flew outside your window were all "handsome."
You always said that every person has a right to the shade of a tree, to the song of birds, to the sound of water.
Oh how you loved nature. That's why you went to Harvard to specialize in landscape architecture. The city distressed you, the concrete, all the square lines and pigeonholes, the space in which trees and gardens were mere decoration. The city where the most humble people have no access to nature while those with the most resources close themselves within the sterile walls of blocks and blocks of buildings.
You were working on several municipal projects. You had the world by the tail. Your mind was bubbling, you were thinking that we must invite nature into the city, give it a fundamental presence in our lives.
No, it isn't merely a matter of building more and better parks, but of erasing the artificial frontiers between the wilds and what is urban. "The ravines in Quito are a miracle, they guard the last traces of native vegetation within the city," you often said. "Our nature does not in any way resemble the parks we construct. We want to make Italian or French parks in a land that is an explosion of trees, an overabundance of bromeliads and ferns and mosses." Our tropical vegetation is baroque, a jumble of greens and water. "On the Andean moors are the minute, the microscopic hiding from the cold, while in the tropics primordial, ancestral leaves burst out before your eyes."
And the parks, of course, should rid themselves of that European esthetic and fill themselves with the overflowing ethic of our mega-diversity. Those absurd oppositions between park and city, and between city and nature, would have to be demolished.
It horrified you how alien species were being planted in reforestration programs. Those forests of cypresses or pines, so false in the heart of the moors, pained you deeply. "We are complex. We like to look like Switzerland or Canada when there is no greater beauty than the humble underbrush of our wild country."
"Nature is honest, Palito. Nature teaches us to look within ourselves toward what is profound. It teaches us astonishment and gratitude."
A few weeks after your death, in the darkest moments, you came to me in a dream, small, thin, delicate, with your natural elegance and your sweet way of smiling. "Palito, you don't have the power to know what the future is going to bring you. Nor do you know when the persons you love most will be gone. You can't control everything that happens in your life. The one power you have is that of your tenderness, of your goodness."
The power of my goodness? And I had never seen tenderness as a power.
We frequently commit the error of thinking that tender people are fragile, defenseless. But you were powerful. Only a powerful person can transform those she has around her in such a profound and conclusive way.
You were tenderness. You used your words to comfort, to heal, to celebrate, to respect.
We Ecuadorians carry affectionate itos and itas on the end of our words. We have a warmth in our culture that the intolerant are robbing from us. We don't drink coffee, we have a cafecito. You used the diminutive with a pride I have never seen in others. You had an active, proud, assured sweetness. You focused your concerns on everything you saw that was fragile or helpless, especially children and the less fortunate. It was not a syrupy softness or self-complacency—you despised anything sugary or lacking in good taste–but an essential tenderness.
How is a garden made? Slowly, with care and with enormous tenderness. In the same way that affection grows, in the same way that a house is converted into a home. Just as people gradually put so much of themselves in our heart that one day they are there to stay.
There is nothing magical or automatic about it, making a garden requires perseverance. First its outlines are drawn; it is given an easily understood and human dimension. Then it is sown, it is watered, it is awaited, it is trimmed and then again awaited. Constructing a garden is an act of appropriation, a personal dialogue with nature and its cycles.
So if a garden is to be an actual garden, I must become its gardener. I must domesticate it. Make it mine. Mine in affection, mine in invested time, mine in my ability to evoke it when I am not there.
We human beings can love what is small, what we have shaped with tenderness, what we can hold in our memories. It is difficult to love an entire national park like a Cotopaxi or a YasunĂ. But that little rivulet born from their glaciers, or that ancient and so lordly tree clothed in mosses, those I can make mine.
You can see, my beautiful Carolina, that you have turned me into a gardener. I make gardens with my camera. I make them mine through patience, and waiting.
I have gone back to my origins. Inspired by you, I am again taking photographs of landscapes.
You were always so fond of that shot of me on Cotopaxi, the one when I was a thin, ungainly youth photographing nature. More than twenty years have
gone by since I traveled all over Ecuador with an unbounded sense of hope and my camera on my back. You were captivated by how happy and handsome I looked in that photo.
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While that was being taken care of, a CT scan, MRI and ultrasound found that there was a small narrowing in my portal vein, one of the two main vessels in the liver. It wasn't impeding blood flow, or causing a problem with the liver function, but my surgeon felt it would be good to place a stent in it to ward off any future complications. They didn't know if it was something that happened as a result of the surgery, or something that was an anatomical abnormality. In either case, a week after my discharge, I headed back to Rochester to have the stent put in.
I was told that I would be there for 24 hours, which turned into 72 hours. There were some small blood clots around the stent (actually two stents), and they started me on a regimen of Coumadin, a "blood thinner." So, now I'm home, and dealing with the side effects of this medication, of which tiredness is one of them. It reminds me too much of the fatigue I experienced from my liver disease, though I'm told that it will pass. I hope so, as it's a little unnerving, to say the least.


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Understanding Pagophagia: Causes, Symptoms and Treatments
If you know a child or a pregnant woman who is consuming ice on a regular basis, know that this is not just a strange and quirky habit. It could be just that, of course, but it may also be a sign that they have iron deficiency anemia. This abnormal consumption of ice is a condition called Pagophagia, which is a more specific form of the eating disorder called Pica, which causes people to crave non-food items. The condition itself does not pose a threat to one's health, but the underlying cause of it may be a cause for concern. Here are more information about this seemingly unusual behavior.
Causes of Pagophagia
This form of pica is caused by severe iron deficiency in the body. It is severe enough to cause anemia. Even in a nearly severe state, iron deficiency can still cause the development of pagophagia. This means that whatever causes iron deficiency can also lead to an intense craving for chewing or consuming ice. These causes include a diet that consists mostly of vegetables and fruits, old age and hemorrhaging. When one loses blood, it may take a lot of iron from the body, so this condition is common among women who are menstruating.
There are instances when the cause is not hematological in nature. Pagophagia can also be caused by other biochemical, cultural and psychological factors. For instance, a child who is raised to chew on ice for one reason or another can take this behavior to their older years whether they are suffering from iron deficiency or not.
Symptoms of Pagophagia
For pagophagia that is caused by iron deficiency, it can be accompanied by fatigue in patients. They may suffer from being tired easily from performing regular tasks, especially those that require a lot of effort physically. Since iron is required by a lot of proteins, this condition can come with extreme weakness and the inability to do hard labor.
Other than weakness and fatigue, there are no other serious symptoms of pagophagia. There are not even serious effects of consuming a lot of ice except for the fact that chewing a lot of it may cause some sort of damage to one's teeth if they do it on a very regular basis.
Diagnosis and Treatment of Pagophagia
Treatment of this condition simply requires iron supplements to defeat the effects of iron deficiency. If one is not sure whether their craving for ice is behavioral in nature or if it is caused by iron deficiency, they could simply have a blood test done to see the levels of iron in their body. If it is determined by the doctor that one has iron deficiency that is causing the pagophagia condition and one needs to take iron supplements, they can also take Vitamin C supplements. This will make iron absorption of the body better. Again, chewing a lot of ice may seem more strange than dangerous, but it could simply mean that there is something wrong with one's body that needs to be checked out.
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Open XML webcasts (French)
Last month the Microsoft Paris office featured Open XML development at their "mercredis du développement" event, and webcasts from that event are now available on MSDN/France. Cyril Durand has posted a list of links to the webcasts.
These webcasts (13 total) are all delivered in French, and they cover Open XML development in .NET, Java, PHP, and Xlinq, as well as some of the basics of the main schemas and reviews of some major Open XML projects including the ODF translator project and the DOCX2HTML project. Speakers include Cyril Durand and Julien Chable from CodeS-SourceS.com (a large and very active open-source community in France) as well as Jean Goffinet (lead architect on the ODF translator) and many others. Coincidentally, I was in Paris that same week helping put on an Open XML deep-dive developer workshop, and I saw the last three presentations in person.
If you speak French, these webcasts offer a variety of useful information about Open XML development. And if you're just learning French, as I am, what better way to learn than to listen to French software developers talk about Open XML? :-)
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Meisterplan comes with preconfigured reports, which you can use to plan your project portfolio, but sometimes you need quick and convenient access to this data (e.g., what are the capacities of your roles or employees) to use in other tools such as MS Excel® or MS Access®. You might also need to visualize your data or link it to other data in a business intelligence tool such as Tableau® or Power BI®. This can all be done using the Meisterplan Reporting Database.
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Regardless of whether you also work with Excel, Tableau, Power BI, or other solutions, the Meisterplan Reporting Database makes all of your data available for further processing in other tools.
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Are you looking for an innovative way to promote your business, charity or organisation?
We now have a fun, fresh and exciting addition to websites (but you don't even have to have a website to take advantage of this).
We have setup a way for an organisation or individual to have their own online cinema. And you can choose the videos you play in your own cinema for your visitors to watch! We can convert any videos into an instant cinematic experience! These can be full length movies, or short promotional videos. In fact, we can show:
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Imagine the possibilities of showing new product launches, promotional videos showing your services or screening lectures to people anywhere in the world.
If you would like to see how this works take a look at some samples:
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The author of five blockbuster novels, Emily Giffin, delivers an unforgettable story of two women, the families that make them who they are, and the longing, loyalty and love that binds them together.
Marian Caldwell is a thirty-six year old television producer, living her dream in New York City. With a fulfilling career and satisfying relationship, she has convinced everyone, including herself, that her life is just as she wants it to be. But one night, Marian answers a knock on the door . . . only to find Kirby Rose, an eighteen-year-old girl with a key to a past that Marian thought she had sealed off forever. From the moment Kirby appears on her doorstep, Marian's perfectly constructed world—and her very identity—will be shaken to its core, resurrecting ghosts and memories of a passionate young love affair that threaten everything that has come to define her.
For the precocious and determined Kirby, the encounter will spur a process of discovery that ushers her across the threshold of adulthood, forcing her to re-evaluate her family and future in a wise and bittersweet light. As the two women embark on a journey to find the one thing missing in their lives, each will come to recognize that where we belong is often where we least expect to find ourselves—a place that we may have willed ourselves to forget, but that the heart remembers forever.
Emily Giffin has done it again with her newest novel. Again, switching each chapter between two character's point of view as she did in Heart of The Matter, she did it very nicely, making the story more interesting and was really able to hold my attention. I loved that this book dealt with events that some people really do have to deal with in their lives, and I loved seeing that perspective because I have never been put in those positions. While the book was not completely predictable, it still left you with that "feel-good" feeling that predictable books often do.
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Policies, learning-by-doing played important role in reducing ethanol costs
A new study from the University of Illinois concludes that learning-by-doing, stimulated by increased ethanol production, played an important role in inducing technological progress in the corn ethanol industry. It also suggests that biofuel policies, which induced ethanol production beyond the free-market level, served to increase the competitiveness of the industry over time.
The study, co-written by Madhu Khanna, a professor of agricultural and consumer economics at Illinois, and Xiaoguang Chen, of the U. of I. Energy Biosciences Institute, quantifies the role that factors such as economies of scale, learning-by-doing, induced technological innovation as a result of rising input prices and trade-induced competition played in reducing the processing costs of corn ethanol in the U.S. by 45 percent while also increasing production volumes seventeen-fold from 1983 to 2005.
"The purpose of this article was to see if we could disaggregate the extent to which various factors contributed to a reduction in cost," Khanna said. "The existence of learning-by-doing has been empirically validated for many technologies, including other forms of renewable energy. But in the case of corn ethanol, the main contribution of this paper was to see if there were some missing variables that had affected the estimate. We found that the impact of learning-by-doing in reducing the processing costs of dry-mill corn ethanol from 1983 to 2005 was twice as high as previously estimated."
For a retrospective analysis, a long time-series of data is necessary, the researchers say.
"The main limitation to conducting a retrospective analysis is that it takes 20 years to get 20 observations," Khanna said. "Looking forward, what this suggests is that one can expect similar cost reductions through learning-by-doing with new technologies and that there is, in fact, a case for providing government support for nurturing new innovations in energy."
"If we think about what it might mean for second-generation biofuels, it suggests a need to continue mandates despite all the skepticism about their efficacy," Chen said. "This definitely shows that government mandates that accelerate production to higher levels than would otherwise occur can induce cost reductions in the future."
The study also concludes that the tariff on Brazilian sugar-cane ethanol imports made the corn ethanol industry more competitive, but only slightly.
"On the one hand, because the tariffs protect the domestic corn ethanol industry they can induce more domestic ethanol production, which can contribute to lowering costs," Khanna said. "But on the other hand, it also reduces competition, which reduces the incentives for the corn ethanol industry to be as efficient as it might have been otherwise. We found the latter effect offset the benefits of the larger domestic production induced by the tariff."
The researchers also say the learning-induced cost reductions are flattening out.
"The reduction in cost is approaching its limit," Chen said. "Additional reductions in production costs of corn ethanol, simply based on learning-by-doing, will become a lot more harder to come by because they would require very large additional production over already-high current levels. The gains from learning are largest for an infant industry in its initial stages of growth; the justification for policy support decreases as the industry expands."
"Our estimates show that each doubling of cumulative corn ethanol production decreased its unit costs by 25 percent," Khanna said. "But there's an upper limit that has been reached to increasing corn ethanol production because of the concerns about its impact on food prices. So we may never get to that level where we see further reductions in costs as a result of an increase in total production not because the technology has hit a wall, but simply because current policy does not allow production to expand to that level."
Other factors such as the rising prices of energy and labor did serve to lower processing costs, but the effect was not statistically significant.
"One of the standard theories about induced innovation is that higher input prices will lead the industry to become more efficient and lower costs," Chen said. "But we didn't find any strong evidence of that here despite the increase in energy prices and labor costs. Instead, we found it's really experience and learning-by-doing that's working."
"The demand for those inputs is not very responsive to prices, so that's not where industry would make significant improvements," Khanna said. "I think it's improving the process of conversion, and improving conversion efficiencies; that's where the real gains came from."
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Every now and then something comes in to the SRK tipline that makes me reel back in my chair. Never, in my lifetime, did I think I'd see a combo video for the PlayStation 1's Digimon Rumble Arena — nor did I think I'd find it, well, fascinating.
Before PlayStation All-Stars Battle Royale was just a twinkle in Sony's eyes, Bandai and Hudson Soft experimented with the idea of a combo-oriented platform fighter in the Digimon universe. When hit in Digimon Rumble Arena, your body flies in the direction it was already traveling. This means juggles either need to be kept simple of consistency's sake, or the player must prepare to different, more complex juggles for specific situations — such as punishing.
All of this information is documented in ncea's comprehensive Digimon Player's Guide, which gives context to the ideas on display in the above video. Lest you think these combos exist in a vacuum, there's even a small scene brewing in New Zealand around this odd gem.
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Thanks to Woody, our comic athology of Cincinnati illustrators got coverage in Imagine FX, the UK fantastic illustration magazine. Cool! Now to get some local coverage!
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International Coverage for 12-Way With Cheese!
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Ahhh. Just perfect for Mother's Day! :-)ReplyDelete
Congrats on the press, Woody! I'm in awe of your moonlit sky —just amazing!
That looks dynamite Woody!ReplyDelete
Can't wait to see the whole story.
Thanks Christina, Daryll, and Chuck. I look forward to holding the book in my little grubby mitts to read everyone else's stories.ReplyDelete
Actually, it is a good Mother's Day post since our moms are the most likely buyers ;)ReplyDelete
Hopefully this press will catch someone else's eye too. It should be good for the press kit to get local stores to carry it.
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How does one develop a networking habit?
As exercising is to physical fitness, networking is to relational fitness, i.e., the health and resilience of your networks of social and professional contacts requires consistent attention. This case outlines a process by which to establish an approach to networking that is long-term, strategic, and semi-automatic—i.e., how to develop a networking habit.
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Where do SF's non-native residents come from?
Spokeo, the kiiiind of creepy site that knows everything about your residential whereabouts, just released some data outlining where most of SF's transplants are actually from. Using cell phone data that shows where people's origins were (via their area codes) before they headed to the best city ever, the site revealed that most of our emigrated residents are Vegas sloppy seconds, and Colorado and Hawaii ...er, sloppy thirds and fourths.
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November 2017 Market Update
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November 8, 2017
The latest jobs report came out on Friday. It showed 261,000 new jobs created in October, a welcome reversal of the job losses that occurred the prior month. In fact, the October report revised the September numbers, shifting from a negative (minus 33,000) to a positive (plus 18,000) net new jobs. Unemployment also fell from 4.2% to 4.1%, the lowest it has been since December 2000, nearly seventeen long years ago!
The October jobs report is certainly good news for the economy. Part of the reason the October number was so big is the same reason the September number was so low. You may recall we had some interesting weather late summer and early fall this year with three major hurricanes wreaking havoc on the economies of the Texas and Louisiana Gulf Coast, Florida and Puerto Rico. The devastation caused by these storms temporarily put a lot of people out of work. No one expected all of these job losses to be permanent, and the October jobs report is one measure of the ongoing recovery from those weather events.
But the trend is still clear. With the upward revision in job numbers for the month of September, the US economy is now in its 85th month (that's seven years and one month) of positive job growth. This is an impressive number by any measure, and represents one of the longest stretches of job growth the country has ever experienced.
If there is any bad news in these job and unemployment numbers, it is that the distribution of these new jobs remains uneven, and is not widespread across the country. The Chicago area seems to be a good example of both the good and the bad of this trend. While the Central Area booms, the rest of the city and region are not doing as well. Overall, the Chicago area economy is growing, but at a slower rate than the nation and most other large metro areas.
One indication of this trend is housing values. While a few downtown and near-downtown zip codes have seen housing values recover to pre-recession levels, most of the rest of the city and suburbs have not. The downtown economy may be the region's golden goose, but it is not large enough to lift the whole region. Previous large job losses in manufacturing, and current weakness in retail, continue to hobble many parts of the Chicago area. The region's growing economic sectors are simply not dominant enough to completely make up for the weaker sectors across all areas of the city and suburbs.
In my own experience, we have seen weaker demand and declining effective rents for our few remaining available apartment units in Rogers Park and other far North Side neighborhoods. Some of this is simply due to the time of the year. The pre-holiday months of November and December are often the most difficult time of the year to find tenants.
But some of this seems to be due to a shift in the market. After years of steady rent growth and strong demand, the market appears to be tilting from a landlord's market to a tenant's market. We have had to reduce rents and are still seeing tepid interest. These observations are anecdotal and personal. I can't say that other property owners have been experiencing the same thing. But the pain is real – we are having a harder time renting units.
Perhaps the continued economic expansion will rev things up in Chicago again and the spring leasing season will bring a return to stronger demand and increasing rents. I, for one, am holding my breath. The national trends do not apply equally to all places. Chicago is not Austin or Seattle. We are just going to have to live with that reality… and keep hoping Amazon chooses us for their next headquarters!


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and ordinary truth.
OK, I admit it, I love seeing my kids wake up Christmas morning to a pile of gifts under the Christmas tree. This is especially true for my youngest this year, as it's probably the last year that santa comes down the chimney. Luckily for me, my girls are pretty simple and practical when it comes to their Christmas gift list. Sure, there remain a few toys listed for the younger one but, in general, the list is filled with a few clothes items, pajamas, and maybe a couple of books. Many times they have written things like "hugs and kisses". One of the cutest things on the letter to santa this year was, 'please put something in mommy's stocking this year'. With all of this said, many times what I hear from them is, "You don't need to get me anything mom. I don't need/want anything." What many people don't realize from that statement, is that is a greater gift, for them, than any present under the tree could ever be. The gift of not wanting and the freedom it brings with it.
Have you ever had the experience of being perfectly content in the moment; completely at peace with everything just as it is? No desire to change anything, not wanting anything to be different from the way it is? What is missing during those moments of perfect contentment? Part of the euphoria in getting something new, be it a television, a piece of jewelry, a new pair of pants, a new job etc., is that, for a short time afterwards, the wanting is gone. The "want" is fulfilled. This brings contentment. Then, after a while, that fades and another want or desire takes its place. Have you noticed? Have you ever lost yourself in a movie and when the movie is over you feel great? What happened during that time? You lost yourself enough to stop putting demands on the moment. For that time you were lost in the lives of the people on the screen, you didn't want anything different for yourself. Once those moments are over it's usually not long before you are back to wanting to change things again. I want an ice cream cone. I must have that new shirt. I want that lady over there to stop talking so loudly. I want there to be no traffic on my drive home. I want my husband to pay more attention to me. I want my kids to be quiet. I want a bigger house. I want a new IPhone. I want. I want. I want. Heavy. That's how I feel when I even think about putting a demand on the moment. It feels heavy, because it's not freedom. It's a trap, and one most people find themselves in, many without even knowing it.
So, when my girls tell me that I don't need to get them anything because there is nothing they need/want is a greater gift for them than any present ever could be. To be free from constantly wanting something is just that, it's free. You are no longer bogged down or pulled along in life based on wants. Day-to-day activities are not weighed down by wanting anything to be different than it is. Wants may be fulfilled and bring you peace for a short time, but will ALWAYS be replaced by new wants….unless you stop. It is possible to stop. Be perfectly happy with everything just as it is. When you do that, you will eventually see, that you will get more than you ever wanted because everything you need is simply provided, right here and now.
This morning (prompting today's post), when a coworker asked me what I wanted for Christmas and I answered, "the gift to continue to not want anything", I got one heck of a strange look. She turned and began telling another girl how her husband had better get her the vacuum she saw over the weekend and new sheets for the bed or he was going to be in trouble. Needless to say, I was smiling, she wore a frown.
This one's for you Kate. It's not too late to ask for the gift of not wanting for Christmas.
A few quotes for today, to help promote that season.
"And you will know the truth, and the truth will set you free."
John 8:32
"Empty your mind of all thoughts.
Let your heart be at peace.
Watch the turmoil of beings,
but contemplate their return.
Each separate being in the universe
returns to the common source.
Returning to the source is serenity.
If you don't realize the source,
you stumble in confusion and sorrow.
When you realize where you come from,
you naturally become tolerant,
disinterested, amused,
kindhearted as a grandmother,
dignified as a king.
Immersed in the wonder of the Tao,
you can deal with whatever life brings you,
and when death comes, you are ready."
Lau Tzu ~ Tao Te Ching
"Enlightenment means waking up to what you truly are and then being that."
"Do it. Open your eyes. The truth is right there. You ARE it. Everything is it. It's that simple."
Be yourself.
Exactly as you are.
If you think you should be different – you are wrong.
If someone around you thinks you should be different – they are wrong.
You are perfect – just as you are. It could be no other way.
Be yourself.
Let others be themselves as well.
Exactly as they are.
If you think they should be different – you are wrong.
They are perfect, just as they are. It could be no other way.
Be yourself and let others do the same.
You may just get a taste of freedom.
Every thought is a filter. Every thought you have is judging, contemplating, evaluating, and filtering your experience. Every single one. What happens when you let yourself experience a moment without having a thought about it? No opinion, no judgement, no deciding if it's good or bad, no conditions on the moment, what-so-ever? What happens?
Open up to the experience just as it is, without the filter, and watch your life unfold in effortless beauty.
"You don't act awake."
"He doesn't act like he's enlightened".
Have you ever thought this thought or known someone who has? It's more common than you might think. One of the curious things about the spiritual seeker is the preconceived notion of what someone looks/acts like when they are awake or enlightened. Many believe that a person who is enlightened will be in constant bliss, always calm, always smiling…on and on. But is that true? One of our foremost and well-known spiritual leaders, Jesus Christ, was known to get angry and knock over a table now and then. So does that make him less awake than he is depicted in the Bible? In truth, it makes him a very good example.
When awakening happens, yes, it does bring about a certain calmness, a certain contentment with everything that comes. You see that everything is right, just the way it is. What it doesn't mean is a loss of personality. What it doesn't mean is that you will necessarily "like" everything that happens. There is still an attraction to certain things and a repelling from others, kind of like a magnet. Certain energies will flow together more than others.
Will there still be emotion? Of course. It's the identification with the emotion that fades. It becomes more a movement of energy instead of something you own, and it doesn't come from thought. For example, I still see an anxious energy arise sometimes before I give a talk or teach a class but instead of getting wrapped up in it, I step back from it and observe it flowing and essentially watch it fade away. I don't identify with it and I don't attach to it. I observe it arise and I observe it fade. I don't try to control it or change it. I just observe it, appreciate it, watch it fade.
There is no mold. An awake or an enlightened person may be the man who spends the rest of his life in a secluded cave in silence. It may be the person who finds solitude in a cabin in the woods. It may be the woman who leads her own Sangha to point others in the direction of their own awakening. It may be the grocery store clerk who scans your items and takes your money. It could be the old yogi who smokes 3 packs of cigarettes a day and grumbles at the ignorance of his followers. It may be the gas station attendant. It may be that old oak tree in your back yard. It may be you. There is no mold to fit. An awake being can take any form and can perform in any way. It's not up to you and it's not what you think.
(And I'll add that the awakening process itself can be a quite messy affair. It isn't usually some instantaneous snap of the fingers where the clouds open up and the angels sing. It's not always light and glorious. Most of the time it's messy, confusing and can look like a complete mental breakdown to an unfamiliar observer.)
So check in with your conceptions now and then. Because we can never know the expression the universe has in store for us, until we let it happen.


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The Marcellus Shale Coalition, an industry organization promoting the development of natural gas from the Marcellus Shale formation, draws attention to the figures below from Pennsylvania's Department of Labor & Industry.
Green employment can be a reality — if regulators and politicians don't stand in the way of development of this abundant domestic source of low-carbon, low-particulate energy. And in the Marcellus Shale region, the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania has done a relatively good job of doing so, particularly when compared with its sad northern neighbor, which also sits astride the Marcellus.
|9,000 New Marcellus Hires in 2011
There were 9,000 new hires in these two
|94% Increase in Marcellus Employment
Marcellus Employment (2008 Q1 to 2010 Q3):
141,000 Marcellus Related Jobs
Marcellus Employment (2008 Q1 to 2010 Q3):
2010 Q3 Marcellus Shale industries
$69,995 Average Marcellus Wage
Marcellus Wages (2009 Q4 to 2010 Q3):
48,000 New Marcellus Hires
New Marcellus Hires (2009 Q4 to 2011 Q1):
1300% Employment Increase in the N. Tier
Northern Tier Pa. saw an increase of 1,109
660% Employment Increase in Central Pa.
The Central Workforce Investment Area (WIA)


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Full Stack Developer, C#
About the Role
We are looking for a developer with some prior "full-stack" experience and a desire to develop by working with a variety of technologies to join our dev team.
We work in an Agile development environment and maintain several products in a range of languages including:
- A centralised data platform exposed through REST APIs currently built primarily with Rails.
- A remotely managed, distributed network of agents deployed in schools throughout the country, written in C# and Atom.
- Customer facing web apps currently in React and Rails with some new projects starting in Elixir/Phoenix and React/TypeScript.
You will get involved with our whole product range and, as such, will have the opportunity to be exposed to all of the technologies mentioned above with a focus on the back-end systems but plenty of opportunity to be involved in the UI/UX should you so desire.
We're a semi-remote team and are flexible to applicants who wish to work from outside the office.
About You
- Excited by the idea of working in edtech (though experience in the sector not essential).
- Comfortable working within an agile environment, including pair programming, test driven development and continuous delivery.
- Happy to work in a cross-functional team and work across projects as required.
- At least 2 years of professional dev experience.
- Strong C#/.NET skills are essential as this will make up approx 30-50% of the role.
- Experience with at least one dynamically typed language, e.g: Ruby, Python, Groovy, JavaScript etc...
- Some Proficiency with the Ruby programming language and the Ruby on Rails web framework would be a big bonus.
- A good understanding of web technologies and how they fit together (HTTP, HTML, CSS, Javascript).
- Experience working with relational databases.
- Comfortable working within an agile environment, including; pair programming, test driven development and continuous delivery.
- Previous experience with the AWS platform and experience of working with (or at least an interest in) Docker containers would also be an advantage.
- Knowledge and previous experience of scaling HTTP based services.
Pay & Benefits
- £38-48k depending on experience, with opportunities for progression
- Your own choice of tech set-up (including brand-new MacBook or equivalent)
- Annual training and conference budget
- 25 days annual leave
- 11% non-contributory pension
- Season ticket loans, childcare vouchers and retailer discounts
Please include with your application any links you can to your previous work and also to your GitHub profile.
How to apply?
Please apply at https://assembly.homerun.co/full-stack-developer-cruby/en
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Tell us about Luke Brodie. Where is he from and what led him to be a bounty hunter.
Luke was born in Texas, enlisted in the Army a couple years out of high school. A former Special operations soldier, after he was injured, he moved to Seattle where his brother, Ethan, lived, and took up bounty hunting to make a living. Luke figured it was a good way to use his special skills.
What's motivating him to bring in international criminal, Rudy Vance, the $600,000 bail enforcement fee or the desire to haul in a bad dude?
Luke is one of the good guys. That means he likes the money–who wouldn't? But he's always glad to do a good deed at the same time. Rudy is the worst of the worst, just the kind of bad guy Luke enjoys bringing to justice.
Emma Cassidy has a darn good reason to go after Vance. He murdered her sister's housekeeper and assaulted her young niece. Where in the world does she even start to look for him?
Emma has been digging around the Seattle underworld, but she's new at the job of bounty hunting. When she gets a lead that brings her face-to-face with Luke Brodie–a man she idolizes for his amazing skills, things begin to turn in her direction. Now all she has to do is convince Luke to help her!
What can put her ahead of Brodie as they are both after the same man?
If she is lucky, she can get Luke to work with her to bring Vance to justice. Except that Emma's version of justice might be a little different from what Luke has in mind.
There's been so many wonderful books in the "Into" series. Is this number 9? Share with my readers what #7 – "Into the Fury" and #8 "Into the Whirlwind" was about.
Years ago, the first book I wrote in the series was AGAINST THE WIND. There were nine AGAINST novels that all featured hunky guys. I went to Seattle for the INTO books, INTO THE FURY, INTO THE WHIRLWIND, and INTO THE FIRESTORM. All three revolve around a Brodie Operations Security Services, BOSS, Inc. A bodyguard, a detective, and a bouny hunter. In FURY, Ethan Brodie and Dirk Reynolds act as bodyguards for the sexy La Belle lingerie fashion show models. In WHIRLWIND, Dirk falls in love with one of the models, who comes to him for help when her four year old son is kidnapped. Ethan's brother, Luke, gets his own story in FIRESTORM.
Where do you get your dynamic ideas for these books?
The ideas usually come from something I read in the news or something I watch on TV or a combination of both. To tell you the truth, they just sort of pop into my head.
Is there one Brodie that you adore more than the others?
Got to admit Luke Brodie is my all time favorite. He is just the sexiest man alive, smart, capable, loyal and caring, gorgeous to look at and sexy as hell. Big swoon here.
What are you currently working on?
I'm off to Texas for a trilogy that begins with Lincoln Cain, Texas multi-millionaire. Linc is 6'5" 210 pounds of gorgeous sexy male, the kind of guy who needs a strong woman to handle him. He meets his match in Carly Drake, a woman determined to make it in a man's world. It's a high action adventure I'm hoping readers will enjoy.
How do you balance your personal life with your work as a best-selling author?
That's easy. I don't have much of a personal life!! Just kidding, though I do work a lot. I like to sneak off with my husband for a weekend out of town on occasion, a nice hotel with a lot of good restaurants in the area. A little time away revives my work-weary spirit.
What are you reading to help you kick back and relax?
I've been reading Loreth Anne White, a Rita finalist, one of the best authors I have discovered in a while. Particularly enjoyed In The Barren Ground.
Purchase links for Into the Firestorm below:
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Bidwells LLP
Bidwells LLP
Bidwell House
Trumpington Road
We work across UK and specifically the 'Golden Triangle' of Oxford, Cambridge and London with the world's leading research universities, life science and R&D organisations, the financial technology sector, aerospace businesses and even the motorsports industry.
We have a science & technology agency team that draws on various fields of expertise and work with clients who currently hold, or wish to hold, R&D property as an investment, and investors to identify opportunities and assess potential.
We provide advice on over 10 million sq. ft. of R&D space in the UK – more than any other advisor
We have provided exceptional advice to the owners of Cambridge Science Park (Trinity College) since its inception in 1970. We understand the needs of Science base organisations and can deliver buildings that their business' can excel.
Here are some of the key areas where we can help science and technology organisations:
- Providing exceptional advice to developers that promote scientific excellence and collaboration
- Designing creative working environments
- Developing buildings
- Managing premises
- Investing in science and technology property
Cambridge Science Park
Cambridge Science Park, Trinity College
Bidwells has been working with Trinity College Cambridge on Cambridge Science Park since the inception of Cambridge Science Park, the first and most successful European Science Park. Bidwells offers a whole range of services that has ensured the successful evolution of the park over its 40 plus years.
What we do:
- Bidwells actively manages Cambridge Science Park to be the number 1 destination for R&D business in not just Cambridge but the whole of Europe
- Current build space will increase from 1.6 million sq ft to over 2 million sq ft over the next five years. Increasing employment from 6 – 8,000 people
- Bidwells provides a full suite of services to Trinity including asset management, project management, funding, letting, development consultancy and strategic review
- Pro-actively drive new development
- Look after all current tenants and encourage to stay and grow
- The park is currently 100% let
- Rents up by 20% since 2014
- First phase is now being regenerated with nearly 200,000 sq ft of construction on site
- Major growth from existing companies and inward investment
Cambridge Biomedical Campus, Liberty Property Trust & Countryside Properties
The concept of the Cambridge Biomedical Campus was formed in 1999 by Addenbrooke's Hospital, the landowner of the site south-east of Cambridge.
The site was already a hub of research, education and patient care but Addenbrooke's formed a plan – called the 2020 Vision – to transform it into a world-leading biomedical centre to attract leading commercial organisations in the research and biomedical fields. Bidwells have advised since the beginning.
Liberty Property Trust and Countryside Properties were brought in as developers for the 3.1 million sq ft scheme. In 2010, the Medical Research Council signed a deal to house its Laboratory of Molecular Biology in a new 330,000 sq ft facility on the site – providing the scope to develop the infrastructure for the rest of the Campus.
But it was the choice of international biomedical research and pharmaceutical company, AstraZeneca, to relocate its global HQ to a 875,000 sq ft site on the Campus that was the game changer for this project. Addenbrooke's 2020 Vision has already become a reality.
Our clients always had the vision of the Campus as a world-leading biomedical centre rather than a conventional science park. The Cambridge Biomedical Campus offers unrivalled facilities in a specially designed environment to enable companies to flourish in this fast-growing sector. Will Heigham, Partner
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South Cambridgeshire District Council's Planning Committee has approved plans for Inholm, a contemporary Fenland village and the second phase of Cambridgeshire's new town, Northstowe, with Bidwells providing planning advice on the application. Once complete,...
Bidwells Research – "further period of opportunity for the UK's science parks and campuses lies ahead"
A further period of opportunity for the UK's science parks and campuses lies ahead, if, the country can capitalise on its potential, says Bidwells Research Director Sue Foxley. YouGov, on behalf of Bidwells and Creative Places, has recently completed a major...
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Robin Proctor Photography – Aspen Wedding Photographer
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Aspen Wedding Photographer
Specializing in Contemporary, Documentary Style wedding photography in Aspen Colorado.
Robin Proctor Photography is a full-service wedding and event photography company. Robin is very active in the wedding community in Aspen Colorado and is published in national and local wedding magazines, books and guides.
"The Knot Wedding Magazine" Voted Best Photographer
Recommended by Aspen's Finest Wedding Venues and Vendors: The Little Nell, Hotel Jerome, St. Regis, Aspen Meadows Resort, Caribou Club, T Lazy 7 Ranch, An Aspen Affair by Suzanne Dupre, Jane Floyd and Associates, Burns & Madsen, PJ West Events, Aspen Eventworks, Adam Event Planning, Gold Leaf Event Production Company and Bluebird Productions.
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Robin is very passionate, detail oriented and extremely caring with an amazing taste. She is passionate and truly engaged. Robin goes above and beyond your expectations and we loved the memories she captured on our wedding day. She analyzed every detail of our requests and executed them perfectly. We made a great connection and felt beyond comfortable with her. Great photographer and professional!!! Ana and Csaba
Robin was an absolute pleasure to work with. From the moment she arrived at our wedding she made us and our guests feel at ease. Robin went above and beyond to capture every shot we asked for without ever taking away from our special moments during the ceremony or the reception. The end product was beautiful. My husband and I are very lucky we found her to capture our special day.
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Robin was amazing. She is a true professional and has a great presence. She captured the day perfectly but wasn't intrusive or in-your-face. I love our photos and had a great time working with her! Highly recommend.
Robin did my daughter's wedding this last summer in Aspen, Colorado.
She was so professional and captured every moment of the weekend.
She is now doing our albums and we are over the moon.
I cannot recommend her high enough.
She was actually the first person we hired because of her reputation.
So glad we did!
Dear Robin,
We've been drooling over the digital images for the past year.
We look at your photographs and can remember each moment. You captured
the spirit of the day so beautifully. And you were so much fun to have
near. I like to think of you as our special super talented guest
rather than as our photographer.
Thank you!
Very passionate, detail oriented and extremely caring with an amazing taste. Pasionate and truly engaged. Robin goes above and beyond your expectations and we loved the memories she captured on our wedding day.
She analyzed every detail of our requests and executed perfectly. We made a great connection and felt beyond comfortable with her.
Great photographer and professional!!!
I can't say enough good things about Robin. Her natural style is exactly what we wanted for our pictures and from the first time we met her, we knew she was the photographer for us. Robin is very laid back and down to earth. We wanted pictures that would really capture the moments rather than have a lot of posed/formal pictures. Our pictures are gorgeous!! Robin and her team did an excellent job of capturing the emotions- the happiness, love, excitement and fun of the celebration! I really couldn't be happier with how they turned out. On top of being a really talented photographer, it was so much fun to work with Robin. She exudes such a positive, fun and calm energy- exactly the person you want to have around on your wedding day!


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Roy Dental
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Andrew W. G.
3 years ago
Unscheduled visit
I had a scheduled tooth repair however the tooth did not co-operate and decided to crack ahead of the scheduled repair. Dr. Roy made space availbe the next morning and looked after my needs in a very timely, professional and permanent manner.
Blair C.
3 years ago
Great Communications and excellent professional services
I really appreciate an email two weeks before my appointment as a reminder. I noted that I was going to be out of town and was able to re-arrange my appointment. Your staff was extremely professional and courteous in order to make the necessary adjustments and provide me with another appointment which was convenient for both me and the dental hygienist. Extremely professional service. Further the Text your staff sent me on the morning of my appointment (2 hours before) is really appreciated. This demonstrates that this Dental Office is utilizing the technology available to them to serve their clients and add to their very professional services. Staff is extremely polite and friendly. I was and continue to be received by a staff that appears to enjoy working at Roy Dental and further appreciate their customers. Honestly when I go to the dental clinic I feel more like a family member than a client. I have recommended Roy Dental Clinic to many of my friends and family and after more than 3 decades of having all my dental services provided here I will continue to do so in the future. I love the way this office has progressed with the electronic services available to them and I highly recommend that they continue to do so in the future
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3 years ago
Always excellent service
I have been a patient of Roy Dental for approximately 30 years and have always been extremely satisfied, I have 100% confidence in the entire team, they offer expertise and knowledge and this team is also very professional and pleasant. Thank you for your services
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3 years ago
Professional and friendly dental services
I have been a patient at Roy dental for a couple of decades and I actually look forward to my twice yearly cleanings. My hygienist is professional and friendly and gentle on my teeth and gums. I highly recommend Roy dental.
Marie R.
3 years ago
Always excellent service ; that's why I've been with Roy Dental for more than 30 years!
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3 years ago
Service, Quality, Professional and Very Friendly
I am not as scare to go the dentist anymore... they make me feel special and are very considerate for whatever is your condition. Always pleasant and I would recommend to all to go there!!!
Suzanne L.
3 years ago
No stress!
I am usually stressed when dealing with anything medical. I can say I am never stressed going to the dentist. Relaxed professionals who are always willing to make time for their patients!
Heather B.
3 years ago
Excellent service
I had a general scaling. Marlene did a great job. She was attentive to my sensitive teeth and recommended ways to reduce the sensitivity. Provided me with a special brush. I always recommend Dr.Roy.
Derek F.
3 years ago
I have been seeing Dr. Roy for a number of years and I have always been pleased with the professionalism of both him and the staff. His rates are also very reasonable and just recently he suggested we delay a procedure as I was getting close to my insurance cap.
Response from Roy Dental
Thank you Derek for your kind words! We appreciate you taking time out of your schedule to provide us with valued feedback! Have a great day! :)