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Out of the blue came an email inviting me to participate in the third Thursday Self-e Twitter chat focused on international authors in indie and self-publishing.
How come I wasn't invited to the first two? Never mind, I wouldn't have participated anyway just as I'm not planning to participate in this one, but I am interested in indie and self-publishing and who and what is SELF-e ?
SELF-e is a discovery platform powered by Library Journal designed to expose self-published ebooks to more readers via the public library, locally or nationwide (that means the US).
Authors whose ebooks are selected by Library Journal for inclusion in SELF-e modules can use a digital badge promoting their inclusion to potential readers who may choose to purchase a copy of the title and/or to purchase other books by that author via retail channels. Ebooks that are not selected by Library Journal will still be accessible to local library patrons via state-specific modules.
Okay, what's the catch, as in how much are they going to charge?
But wait, there is no cost to participate, and distribution via the SELF-e platform is royalty-free.
What they do ask is if your book is selected you give them a non-exclusive license to make your ebook available to public library patrons via subscribing institutions in the public library market, including subscribing public libraries in your state.
My local library is currently carrying my six novels, which they actually purchased (a thousand thank you's), but I would have gladly donated them.
Authors and their publishing service providers/future publishers are not restricted in any manner from promoting and selling their ebooks to any market (including the public library market via other vendors).
This information comes off their website which has yet to be updated to let authors know they are now also accepting international titles.
So why is Library Journal doing this?
Forgive me if I'm skeptical but there's an entire industry of sycophants who's sole purpose is to rip off vulnerable, delusional, hopeful and yes, stupid new indie authors. Is LJ the exception?
They claim their primary directive is connecting indie books, libraries and readers.
"Libraries are driving a new era of ebook discovery for indie authors and small presses. SELF-e helps develop robust local writing communities and keeps libraries at the center of the indie book movement."
Well, all can say to that is "hurrah!", and what took you so long.
Visit their blog http://self-e.libraryjournal.com/blog/to see the latest SELF-e news and events.
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Patti Ross, Vice President of the Coca-Cola Scholars Foundation, has been giving away money to students for 10 years. She often says that "scholarship providers aren't mind readers," but she's letting you become one. Ross is dishing out scholarship provider secrets so that you can be a better candidate.
Every game needs a strategy, and every building needs a blueprint. In the admissions and scholarship process, you need both. Ross encourages students to build their own blueprint for scholarship success.
A blueprint has four components:
- Notes essentials for scholarship applications
- A positive and confident attitude
- A clear definition of who you are and who you want to be
- An assessment of your top skills
Ross emphasizes that "you are your own best salesperson!" If there is something you think the scholarship committee should know about you, tell them. Also, if you're having trouble figuring out what you should convey about yourself, start by picking 15-25 adjectives that describe you. From there, start developing a game plan to showcase those personal assets.
When you're going through the scholarship process, don't skip the essentials:
- Research and identify relevant information to the scholarship or program
- Be aware of every deadline
- Be accurate in your essays and timeliness
- Get feedback from the people that know you best
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1upHealth provides a common RESTful API across 10,000+ health centers (our network) with more added each month. This API fully supports FHIR and provides rich programmatic access to electronic medical record data for patients and the companies and institutions who serve them. The available data includes patient demographics, labs, medications, observations, procedures, allergies, and much more.
The 1upHealth platform is HIPAA compliant and in use by some of the largest hospital systems. You can get started for free with our developer tier.
1upHealth offers access to data through an API that follows an interoperability standard called FHIR, short for Fast Healthcare Interoperability Resources.
Driven by federal healthcare regulations (see Meaningful Use), hospitals are incentivized to create publicly facing FHIR interfaces that promote interoperability of medical records by 2019. The 1upHealth team has been instrumental in FHIR since the beginning of these regulations and has built a unique cloud-based HIPAA compliant platform that makes data access easy for developers.
Medical record data access is going through a revolution. Five years ago, a developer who wanted access to patient electronic medical records might spend years negotiating a business and security agreement with a single hospital. Today, a developer can securely gain access to medical records in minutes through the 1upHealth platform.
The 1upHealth platform is cloud-based, scalable, and HIPAA compliant.
Components of the 1upHealth platform include:
The 1upHealth team are leaders in medical record interoperability and have been instrumental in FHIR since the beginning. The genesis of the 1upHealth platform lies in the combination of experience in public policy, building front-line interfaces into medical records for some of the largest medical systems in the nation, and technical expertise from the best tech companies in the world.
1upHealth's mission includes a commitment to serving patients. Patients have a fundamental right to access their entire medical records to achieve better care and live healthier lives.


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How to Fix My Computer if It Won't Let Me Update Windowsby Larry AmonUpdated February 10, 2017
There are plenty of things that can go wrong with a computer and cause various problems. One of the key steps to troubleshooting a computer issue is to make sure you have the latest Windows Updates. If you want to run Windows Updates, and for some reason you can't, the problem is almost always because a virus has disabled Windows Updates in order to prevent you from removing the virus. This must be fixed so that your computer can be free of the viruses and brought up to date to resolve any other problems.
Back up all of your documents and files to prevent the loss of some or all of your important data.
Make sure your Internet connection is working. Install antivirus software and check for antivirus updates. Disconnect from the internet and then scan the entire hard drive and remove all the viruses that are found. Restart the computer and check for viruses again. Remove any that are found.
Reinstall Windows if—after removing viruses or if there are no viruses found—you still can't update Windows. Insert the Windows CD in the drive and restart the computer. Choose to accept the license agreement when the Windows CD boots up. Choose to do an installation—not a repair—at the first prompt to do a repair. Choose to repair an existing Windows installation and finish installing Windows at the next prompt.
Reconnect to the Internet. Test your Internet connection to make sure it is working. Go to the Windows Update option in the Start menu or in the programs list. Choose to find the latest updates and then install them.
Clear your browsers history to help keep viruses off your computer.
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What does it mean to be a Grey Gecko Press Founder?
It means that your name goes on a special page on our website, permanently, unless you contributed anonymously.
You also get a discount on all purchases you make directly through us for 5 years. With discounts ranging from 5% (Bronze) to 10% (Gold) to 25% (Platinum and above), those savings can really add up!
Gold Founders and above receive print copies of the entire Grey Gecko Press catalog as well as cameos in upcoming books, being thanked by name on the copyright page, even having their likeness on the cover!
At the Diamond and Diamond+ levels, contributors also receive one hardcover copy of every book we publish for the next five years, as well as multiple copies of our entire catalog in hardcover, author appearances, and even free editing of a full manuscript.
In the end, these are some great perks to have for contributing, but the best perk of all is this: the knowledge that you have personally helped to secure the future of the most innovative and author-centric publishing company in the industry today.
We're changing publishing forever, and you can help. You can say you were there at the beginning. How cool would that be?


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Local design studio Resident launches its latest revolutionary lighting and furniture collection at Milan's Salone del Mobile
Design studio Resident unveils innovative collection in Milan
Established by Simon James and Scott Bridgens in 2011, Resident will launch its seventh collection in April at the annual Salone del Mobile furniture fair.
At Euroluce – the international lighting exhibition that's part of the fair, Resident is announcing the release of 'Circus' light (above), a remarkable system of interconnected rings that can be arranged in sequence to create a striking vertical drop.
Each brass ring projects a warm and elegantly diffused LED lightsource that spreads outwards to a 360-degree plane. The revolutionary plug-and-play system allows for power sharing between rings and a large range of variations to suit spaces of different shapes and sizes.
'Circus' is a theatrical system designed for both commercial and residential environments. It's available in two sizes – 500mm and 750mm diameter, which can be mixed.
Other releases include 'Bloom' pendant by Tim Rundle, a superelliptical form inspired by paper lanterns, and 'Offset' stool (above) and side table (feature image) by Philippe Malouin. The playful screw-together furniture is made in solid oak; durable pieces for everyday use.
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Every Sunday, you hear words that could radically change your life and transform your heart. In your home – probably high atop some dusty shelf – there is a book that can upend your entire world. It's a book that can literally change the direction of your life.
These are not ordinary words written on pages; this is the Word of God. This word is powerful, effective, and life-giving.
Have you let it transform you?
God wants to transform your heart every day, but He especially wants to transform it when you encounter Him at Mass. We receive Jesus in the Eucharist, but our hearts are prepared for this great gift through readings from Sacred Scripture. Too often we let this time at Mass pass us by while we daydream about donuts or sit and wonder if the lector is mispronouncing the names of these ancient people and cities.
But what if we engaged the Word of God rather than passively "absorbing" it? How much more could the Eucharist impact us and how much more committed would we be with disciples?
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"What is government if words have no meaning?"
— Jared Lee Loughner
The Arizona legislature closed its first session after the Safeway shootings having deemed the Colt Single-Action Army Revolver the official state firearm and cutting $510 million from the state's health care budget, including services to the mentally ill. It also attempted to make it legal to carry a gun without restriction on a college campus, a bill vetoed by [Governor Jan] Brewer, who said the language was too ambiguous and might have made it legal to carry a gun onto a high school campus. There was almost no discussion at all about reforming the state's starving mental health network.
— Tom Zoellner
PROMISING IN HIS AUTHOR'S note to A Safeway in Arizona that, having used the tools of journalism, he will "arrive at a few conclusions," journalist Tom Zoellner further offers that his personal biases make this ambitious and deeply moving case study cum memoir something other than "objective journalism in the traditional sense." For this readers should be grateful, and for Zoellner's bravery in taking on the subject at all. I'll get to the book's main conclusion — a simple if sincere recommendation that readers behave as the impossibly brave and open-hearted Congresswoman Gabrielle Giffords herself, with empathy, respect for others, selflessly — but just to say up front that as a personal friend of Giffords the author no doubt hesitated writing at all on a "subject" that could be seen as exploitative.
But who better than an Arizona native who'd watched the story develop? Who better than a once alienated kid from the neighborhood grown up to be a reporter who'd covered state politics for years, a talented veteran writer who, tragically, got a story assignment from Fate he could not refuse but clearly needed to write. The shooting, the state, the lives of assassin, reporter and Congresswoman provide a context, a reflection, an instructive exaggeration of the "national posture" — poor posture indeed — and the chance for one man to organize it. Zoellner imagines, as his clumsily vulnerable subtitle indicates, that the shooting one year ago in Arizona can indeed tell us something about what he calls the "American disaster tableau." In so involving its author in the book — a meditation, finally — the reader is invited to find herself, himself. To take it personally.
A Safeway builds on an all-too-necessary Chekhovian narrative arc. Hung on the wall in the first act, the handgun, a Glock 19, goes off immediately. But it never stops going off, ricocheting, and hitting every problem that defines what's wrong with the 48th state of the Union. The socio-political-historical survey is both subverted and amplified by the sound of Loughner killing and wounding, and killing some more. To reach, too easily, for the other available literary allusion, Zoellner holds that story to our heads, forcing us, as the old lady in the short story, to be good, and not just angry or sad.
"What is government," asked the arguably apolitical killer, native Arizonan Jared Lee Loughner himself, "if words have no meaning?" He really did ask the question of Giffords years earlier, in person, at another public forum. It is a reasonable one, hard enough to answer if you are sane, what with "death panels," "socialized" medicine, Kenyan birth, a candidate simultaneously vilified for being in the grip of a Black Marxist Christian minister and being a closet Muslim. It might be appreciated as objection to the deterioration of discourse and lack of civility, if turned terrifying and miserable by a sick man-boy with a weapon and the opportunity to use it on innocent people.
And what is government as against gun culture? Zoellner visits a shooting range with a resident who routinely carries multiple concealed weapons — legally — because carrying guns, the fellow explains, allows him to experience life in a heightened state he calls "Condition Yellow," described to Zoellner as "just a little more alive, a little more mentally primed, a little more observant of the expression of those strangers around you." It would be a mistake to confuse this "condition" for, say, empathy. The gun-toter imagines that his concealed weapon affects strangers — his fellow citizens, he claims, divine that he's packing invisible heat and so refrain from aggressive or violent behavior. This is a familiar thesis, that armed citizens make us all safer. But this gunman (to offer a more aggressively inclusive take on that tired word) goes farther, explaining to Zoellner that he wishes he "had been there at that Safeway."
That Safeway was, of course, the iconic site of the shooting by a mentally ill gun owner experiencing his own heightened state, taking six lives and wounding thirteen, among them the US Representative who happened to be Zoellner's friend. The attack's anniversary came and went, almost nobody embracing an opportunity to talk gun control, not in an election year. Instead, California Republican Assemblyman Tim Donnelly — Tea Partier and booster of the failed anti-California Dream Act Initiative — was stopped at Ontario Airport with a you-know-what in his bag. Apparently Donnelly timed out of his own heightened state. (He carried, he explained, due to threats to his safety by — wait for it — Mexicans trying to kill him because he opposes financial aid for their college kids. Right.)
Difficult, of course, to respond to the premise offered by Mr. Condition Yellow and difficult to ignore the politics of bigotry that elected Donnelly, who got parole and a fine. But let's try. Sincerely. I'll cease with the easy revolverum ad absurdum long enough to recall what we have agreed to call another "mass shooting," this one in Irwindale. It occurred at a So Cal Edison facility where three people were, to use a phrase no one has agreed on: publically executed. That attack came two months after the killings, shootings, executions in Seal Beach at, of all places, a hair salon. Citizens respond to these and myriad other murders with mourning, memorials, stuffed animals, flowers, tributes, prayers, and vigorous prosecution of the surviving madman. An all-too-familiar scene. Do not even supporters of liberal handgun laws anticipate a tipping point, welcome or not? Will the real horror and grief experienced by Irwindale, Seal Beach and Tucson and, yes, Sanford, Florida and the vicarious horror and grief experienced by the rest of us ever — to get to my point — cause us to finally actually do something?
Such action would result, conceivably, from the adoption of a public program of not just weeping and shaking our heads — or, as I am constantly tempted to exercise, easy sarcasm and anger — but of collective preemptive empathy. Empathy is the project of democracy or, as the activist and public intellectual Cornell West preaches, justice, which, he says unshyly, is what love looks like as expressed in public life. Tom Zoellner argues that this was exactly the project of the moderate Democratic representative, for whose election Zoellner himself worked twice. He admired, even loved her, for being both a remarkable and generous individual and an exemplary elected official who inspired Zoellner with her personification of "a better citizenship than I'd ever had before: a deeper version of citizenship; an attempt to take ownership of our problems and make our flawed state just a hair's breadth better."
Here's the problem. Everything Zoellner writes, and writes well, in A Safeway assumes as desirable and necessary this vision, this practice of citizenship, of civic intellectual curiosity, of empathy, of "telling" as witness, and, finally of the appreciation of context which, he insists, "must always be taken into account, because events are otherwise meaningless."
Especially in Arizona, with its laxest gun laws in the country (no permits required, concealed carry allowed), anti-tax retirees, diminished mental health services, cuts in public education, soulless just-add-water suburban real estate tract homes, the notorious anti-immigrant SB 1070, weird right-wing elected officials including "America's toughest sheriff" Joe Arpaio and the perpetually flummoxed Governor Jan Brewer. Behind it all, and loud, the bullying and uncivil corporate AM shock talk backlash against the election of the nation's first Black president, the ascendancy of the Tea Party and the privatization of nearly every element of everyday life, all of it adding up to a case study in "systematic loneliness" and a dearth of real community, reinforced in poll results from the optimistically titled Center for the Future of Arizona: only 12% believe the people in their community care about one another, not to mention those embracing the supernatural powers of concealed weapons.
A Safeway argues, carefully, that the attack on one particular elected official was connected to the larger attack on government, on community, on democracy that these facts about Arizona portend. In a glaring illustration of an alienated, atomized, impoverished corporatist culture, citizens desiring to meet a congresswoman (or kill her) gathered in a commercial supermarket parking lot, the lowest common denominator of consumer life rather than in a public schoolhouse, seniors center, park, or any such temple of democratic self-governance. Fine. This has been pointed out in other books, with familiar denials by the Right, pooh-poohing from media, and impotent shrugging from liberals. The challenge of Zoellner's quietly remarkable book then is the ambitious demand of its author that we learn from this massacre to embrace the Other, as he himself tries to do, and as he perceived Giffords did. This is a tough pill to swallow.
Zoellner raises the stakes on what might otherwise be only another liberal critique. His book is a personal plea for radical empathy, because the achievement of a democracy is empathy, nothing less. He shoots right past wise-ass political anger like mine to a more ambitious if, I am inclined to believe just now, nearly impossible ideal, one where generosity and justice and reasonableness and, yes, love prevail. He depends on the admirable if bewildering assumption that our shared appreciation and understanding of our full context will, indeed, bring meaning. And that finding meaning is desirable, moving us toward empathy. Empathy trumps the purposeful, well-armed meaninglessness it replaces. It is not much to ask for, to work for. It is too much. But it is all there is.


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By dialing 211 or visiting the 211 website, users can easily and quickly connect to the social, health and community services they need, anywhere in the province, regardless of where they're located!
Search ADHD for example and up pops all my groups front and center! (copy and paste the link below)!
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Betoota's Australia (2017)
A relatively comprehensive guide to the Great Southern Land by Australia's oldest newspaper. Now in its 11th edition, this full-colour guide to contemporary Australia has been touted as the most comprehensive insight into the lucky country since Microsoft's Encarta. Initially written for those venturing for the first time beyond Betoota's city limits, Betoota's Australia has become the go-to bible for anyone looking to uncover the real Australia behind the headlines.
The places, the people, the politics, the language, the sport and much more are here perfectly articulated by what is arguably our country's oldest newspaper, The Betoota Advocate, which can boast more readers than The Australian.
It's the type of quality publication we've come to expect from a news organ never hamstrung by editorial standards and features pictures, profiles and fairly up-to-date maps, as well as some frankly incredible facts and stats. Compiled by the paper's editors - former News of the World deputy editor Errol Parker and the home-grown Clancy Overell - Betoota's Australia brings the Great Southern Land to life.
About the Author
The Betoota Advocate is edited by former News of the World deputy editor and first-generation Betootan, Errol Parker (Editor-at-large) and the homegrown Clancy Overell (Editor).
Audience: General
Format: Paperback
Language: English
Number Of Pages: 192
Available: 23rd October 2017
Publisher: ABC Books/HarperCollins Australia
Country of Publication: AU
Dimensions (cm): 26.6 x 21.7 x 1.7
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About UMass Lowell Navitas GSSP
The UMass Lowell Navitas Global Student Success Program (GSSP) provides an excellent opportunity to achieve Undergraduate and Graduate degrees while supporting students through necessary adjustments to university culture and preparing students for a rigorous academic curriculum.
- Study at the University of Massachusetts campus in the vibrant city of Lowell
- Become UMass Lowell Student from DAY ONE
- UMass Lowell is ranked in the top 160 on U.S. News & World Report's 2019 rankings of national universities.
The University of Massachusetts Lowell campus.
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18,000 U.S. & International students from all over the world!
- Apply through a UMass Lowell representative in your country.
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Welcome to UMass Lowell Global Student Success Program, where you will have a unique opportunity to attend an amazing, dynamic university a short drive from historic Boston, renowned as the educational center of the United States.
You will be a university student from day one with the opportunity to enroll in undergraduate degree programs, graduate programs, and intensive academic English, as you pursue your dreams of completing a U.S. bachelor's or graduate degree program.
We are committed to your success and ensuring you attain your goals. I look forward to personally meeting you on campus.
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This place is perfect for dinner and late night outs. For people who love the mood that the evening brings then the Departure rooftop area is a very ideal place to spend time with good friends.
The place can be a bit noisy so people have to prepare their moves and be ready to stand and dance any time. This place will really drown all worries and stress for the day and allow people to just have fun and enjoy all through the night.
People can make a reservation since the bar can be full packed because it is pretty popular, especially among locals.
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- Address: 525 SW Morrison Street, Portland, Oregon 97204
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International Cooperation
Overview of cooperation universities worldwide of the Carl von Ossietzky University Oldenburg.
Database (search function) of the worldwide partnering universities.
Cooperation with universities within Europe and worldwide gain importance for students, young scientists and researchers. The University of Oldenburg offers through its International Student Office and its International Relation Office councelling on study and research periods at partnering universities abroad and the given funding opportunities.
Bedsides these two offices the Master course Postgraduate Programme Renewable Energy has an active Alumni network and cooperation with universities worldwide.


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Raise your hand if you're perfect. Everyone makes mistakes and everyone has been nervous or anxious about a job interview, right? Managing editor of CNBC Jenna Goudreau highlights the 11 most common interview mistakes she's seen as an interviewer. Are you guilty of any of these errors?
- Arriving late
- Arriving too early
- Appearing unpolished
- Not bringing a résumé
- Displaying low energy
- Focusing too much on themselves
- Seeming unprepared
- Not having any questions
- Asking weirdly personal questions
- Forgetting to follow up
- Following up too aggressively
Learning how to walk confidently into an interview can make all the difference of getting or not getting the job. So, what do you need for a successful interview? More punctuality? Preparedness? Knowing the right questions to ask?
To read the full article, click here. and for more assistance, visit a one of Goodwill of North Georgia's career centers.


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French troops to progressively leave Afghanistan
President Nicolas Sarkozy announced Thursday the progressive withdrawal of France's troops from Afghanistan - on a timetable matching the U.S. troop pullout that starts this summer.
The withdrawal of France's approximately 4,000 troops will take place in coordination "with our allies and with Afghan authorities," and "in a proportional manner comparable to the withdrawal of American troops," a statement from Sarkozy's office said.
Word of the French plan came on the heels of President Barack Obama's announcement of a staggered U.S. troop withdrawal from the country.
Obama announced an initial drawdown of 10,000 troops in two phases - with 5,000 troops coming home this summer and 5,000 more by the end of the year. An additional 20,000-plus are to follow by September 2012.
With France having a much smaller number of troops in the region than the U.S., the pullbacks would be equally far smaller.
The French statement said Obama called Sarkozy to advise of the American drawdown because of "progress obtained in Afghanistan." Sarkozy shares the American approach, noting successes in the fight against terrorism and the death of al-Qaida chief Osama bin Laden.
Sarkozy "confirmed that France will remain fully engaged with its allies at the side of the Afghan people to take the transition process to its end," the statement said.
German Foreign Minister Guido Westerwelle welcomed Obama's announcement, saying his country shares the goal of reducing the German contingent of 4,900 at the end of this year. However, Germany has not yet settled on details of a pullback.
Sarkozy, like Obama in the U.S., is in election mode ahead of the French presidential vote next year, although he has not formally announced he will try to renew his mandate.
There have been 62 French fatalities in Afghanistan.


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Join us for summertime movies at Carnegie! We will be showing a variety of family-friendly films on Tuesday afternoons. All movies are rated G or PG.
Families are welcome!
We ask that groups register by calling 517-788-4087
Popcorn will be provided, feel free to bring a covered drink of your choice.


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It's hard to believe that one man revolutionized the operating system business in the 2000s, converting Windows' extraordinary market dominance into the reviled seven-year ditch that is Vista, and squandering billions on confused advances into ill-understood peripheral markets like video gaming and music hardware. No wonder some people worship him like a god. On the other hand, stories of his epic mid-morning bacon blowouts and viscous duckwebs of greasy sweat are legendary.
Wired.com's Leander Kahney cuts through the salt-ringed tide marks that surround him to unearth secrets to his unbelievable results. It reveals the real Steve.
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Here's the start. Not much of a sketch but that's not needed much in painting...it's all done on the fly and with color.
Painting in the base colors of the rocks and water. I try to do 2 things here...get it as close to what I'm looking for and to fill up the canvas fast so it seems like you are making progress, haha. You are painting over these base colors so the sooner they are in the sooner I can begin the "real" painting.
Adding detail to the rocks while the water sets up a bit. I don't like working wet on wet so I will move around to let areas get as tacky as they can.
Adding the water detail and shaded foam of the wave. This is the beginning of dialing it all in which really is more of the work. As this stage progresses things get altered and changed around quite a bit to get the finish I want. In looking at the final image you can see how many changes were made from this stage.
The final painting. In the upper stage you can see how the rocks vary in color. In my final version I went back over some of them to tie them in more with a tan/reddish tint leaving only foreground rocks grey. The last two marine paintings were primarily blue colors so for this one I wanted something different...reddish grey water, tan rocks with a reddish tint and an overall lighter value to the painting.
"Morro Bay Surf"
12" X 16" Oil on Panel


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After hours of enjoying amazing bands, there are few things more gratifying than going ham on some, um, ham and devouring grits and hash browns until you pass out in a dizzying swirl of cheese-infused, breakfast-y bliss.
That's why this year Fuse News is covering Bonnaroo by taking over Waffle House #152, aka the beloved breakfast joint that sits right across from the festival grounds. (To imagine what it's going to look like, see the sweet artist rendering above.) On Wednesday, June 12 through Saturday, June 15, anyone in Manchester, TN, can stop by the Fuse News Waffle House, sponsored by Trident, for not only free food, but also exclusive live performances from some of the festival's most exciting bands.
Yup, Fuse is building a stage at the Waffle House! Stop by for sets from British dance-punk band Foals, theatrical alt-rock group Twenty One Pilots and Cincinnati indie rock band Walk the Moon.
For those of you stuck at home, special Bonnaroo editions of Fuse News will air on Thursday, Friday and post-festival Monday at 8/7c. Between bites of waffle, anchors Alexa Chung and Matte Babel will interview bands and report on the latest breaking festival news.
Don't forget to follow @FuseTV for updates on artist schedules and tweet with #FuseWaffleHouse.
Also look for the Fuse street teams at Bonnaroo passing out free Waffle House gift certificates to help festival-goers get smothered, covered and/or chunked. Oh and, as we mentioned above, Trident's chipping in on this one too, so even if you're getting your hashbrowns with onions and peppers, you won't need to worry about your breath.
For everyone heading to Bonnaroo, here are the exact details:
Where: Waffle House, 69 Expressway Dr, Manchester, TN
When: Wednesday, June 12 & Thursday, June 13 from 9 am to 5 pm; Friday, June 14 and Saturday, June 15 from 9 am to 1 pm
Performances: Check out the announced performers below! Be sure to follow @FuseTV on Twitter to get up-to-the-minute announcements and to find out who the special guest is.
Thursday, June 13
Walk The Moon -- approx 2pm
Friday, June 14
Twenty One Pilots -- noonish
Foals -- approx. 2pm
Surprise Guest -- approx. 3:30pm
Want to join us in syrupy goodness? RSVP at our Facebook page.


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Tabbouleh is a Middle Eastern salad typically made of fine-ground bulgur, parsley, tomatoes, green onions, mint, olive oil, and lemon juice.
I made this tabbouleh to go with my freshly baked pitas!
The Perfect Tabbouleh
vegetarian, vegan, soy-free, dairy-free, peanut-free, tree nut-free, seed-free, sugar-free, shellfish-oil, fish-free, bean & legume-free
- 1 cup bulgar wheat
- 1 1/2 cups boiling water
- 1 tsp salt
- 1/4 cup lemon juice
- 1/4 cup olive oil
- 2 garlic gloves, minced
- 4 scallions, minced
- 1 cup parsely, minced
- 15 mint leaves, minced
- 1 large tomato, diced
- 1 green bell pepper, diced
Combine bulgar and boiling water in a bowl, cover, and let sit for 30 minutes, until bulgar is tender.
Add salt, lemon juice, olive oil, garlic, and mix. Stir in remaining ingredients and refrigerate covered for 30 minutes before serving.
This tabbouleh went perfect with my pitas! Soooo good!! 🙂
I've made taboulleh before, but to serve with your freshly baked, home made pitas?! Extra impressive and Deeeeeee-lish! 🙂
I cooked this meal for Brittany tonight,she thought it was delicious.
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On May 5th, the humanitarian community in Sudan officially launched the "Humanitarian Response Plan 2015" to provide assistance to 5.4 million people across the country with a total cost of over US$ I billion.
Almanar Voluntary Organization has an extended history of working in providing legal aid and legal awareness-raising. On 12 May 2015, Almanar signed a memorandum of understanding with Sudan's Ministry of Justice-Legal Aid Department.
Mariam Hussein is a 52-year-old, displaced mothermother of five children. She was born in Gadarif State to a mother from Gadarif and a father from Nyala, Darfur State. She was first introduced to Almanar in 2010 in its adult literacy program.
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The ABCs of Health Literacy: Understanding to be Understood
By Nancy Meyer
The healthcare sector spends millions of dollars on advertising, but how much of what is being communicated is really being understood?
When one considers that as many as half of all American adults have limited literacy skills and even more—as many as 9 out of 10—have limited health literacy skills, the issue becomes more acute. Numerous studies document a mismatch between patient reading skills and the readability level of health materials.
When the vast majority of the population can't understand complex health information, changes need to be made.
It's been found that clearly written content, uncluttered websites, and simple navigation dramatically improve the performance and experience of web users, including those with limited literacy skills. Clean layouts and familiar language are more usable for everyone.
We believe that for marketers, health information literacy needs to be a core consideration in every communication developed, and integrated into the user experience and content development process.
To that end, many resources are available to help write easy-to-read health materials and design sites for better usability and comprehension. The U.S. Department of Health and Human Services' Office of Disease Prevention and Health Promotion (ODPHP) provides a research-based how-to guide for creating health websites and web content. It offers an overview of how to:
- Deliver online health information that is actionable and engaging.
- Create health websites that are easy to use, particularly for people with limited literacy skills and limited experience using the web.
- Evaluate and improve your health website with user-centered design.
Other resources include:
- NIH Class – Promoting Health Literacy Through Easy-to-Read Materials
- MedlinePlus' guidelines to help create easy-to-read health materials.
- NIH Senior Health, to help the aging population understand health information
- Plain English provides plain language
- The Clear Language Group (CLG) is a consortium of health literacy, plain language, and cross cultural communication specialists.
- MAXIMUS Center for Health Literacy develops easy-to-read print materials and easy-to-use websites so that governments and public health services organizations can communicate effectively with their consumers.
- Health Literacy Institute is a group of national experts in the fields of health literacy, plain language, and health communications, including three of the founding members of the Clear Language Group (CLG).
Improving health literacy entails the application of evidence-based best practices in user-centered design, web design principles and clear writing together. There must be a widespread movement to provide health content, tools and resources online and in emerging digital technologies that are more accessible to low health and digital literacy populations.
"Literacy matters in healthcare because life-threatening or potentially harmful mistakes may happen when people cannot read or understand written information," says Helen Osborne, author of Health Literacy from A to Z, consultant and founder of Health Literacy Month, which is marked each October.


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Last night I returned home from a day trip skiing at Seven Springs to find my cat, Cleo, dead. She was curled up in one of the cat beds in my bedroom, as though she were just sleeping. I knew something was wrong when I walked into my bedroom, calling her name, and she did not respond with her customary "Ew" nor did I hear the purring that always began the moment anyone said her name.
I guess I'd been prepared for this for the last year, since she was first diagnosed with diabetes (last March?). At first, I didn't think much about how it would decrease her life span, only that it caused a major inconvenience in my life to have to give her twice daily shots, and find someone to do it whenever I went out-of-town. I thought I would have trouble learning to give her shots, but it turned out to be quite easy. I was annoyed at how much the diabetic food cost. Still, I was up for the challenge of taking care of her. For the most part.
The medicine never really seemed to work. She still was urinating a lot more than normal (always in the litter box, good kitty!). Whenever I did manage to give her a glucose reading, it was usually too low. I took her to the vet once and we adjusted her medication down from 3 units to 2. But she still didn't seem to improve much. Taking her to the vet was a hassle, and I probably should have kept trying, but I didn't. I didn't take readings from her either because I couldn't consistently get a good reading. The only place you have to prick a cat to get a blood sample is the ear and it's EXTREMELY HARD to get enough blood to get a reading.
So my laziness, in the end, probably killed her. I feel horrible. Like a negligent parent. Someone more responsible might have made her live longer. Someone less selfish with less of a social life.
Cleo's health had been deteriorating for the last month or so. She stopped grooming herself and I couldn't brush out all the snarls in her hair. I had to move the litter box upstairs into my office because she twice pooped on the floor of the office while I was in there. I hate having to bring litter boxes into human living space in fear of being that crazy cat lady with a smelly house. So that annoyed me too.
Over the last several days, she seemed even worse than normal. She was even more listless and she seemed like she had a cold. I heard lots of sneezing and her eyes were a little runny. She didn't seem well. I think I felt it coming to some degree.
It wasn't very surprising that she didn't greet me when I came into the house. She didn't always do that any more. But she usually ambled over to the kitchen by the time I'd taken off my coat. When she hadn't done that, I immediately started looking around for her. This wasn't the first time I'd done this in panic. Usually, though, it turned out she just hadn't felt like walking out to greet me. The bedroom was the first place I always looked. At first, I thought she was just cuddled there as usual. But then, I knew, when she didn't look up when I turned on the light.
I touched her, she was still a little warm. But her eyes were half-open and, admittedly, there was some oozing of some kind around them. I touched her back several times to feel for the rise and fall of breathing just to be sure she wasn't just sick. But I knew.
Still, there is a disbelief when a person encounters something dead. You have to be sure. You have to keep checking, just to make sure you didn't make the wrong determination. So I went back about three or four times to touch her body, half afraid of "death coodies"–things I didn't want to see about a body that might be beginning to decompose.
After 15 minutes of trying to figure out if I should call an emergency vet to take her in right away for cremation–because the thought of having a dead body around my house creeped me out even more–I got an empty cardboard box from my closet. I lifted her out of her cat bed. Her body was stiff and stuck into the O-shape of a curled cat. Of course she was dead. She hated being picked up and if she were alive, she'd surely have struggled. I set her into the box, assuring myself that because she didn't move to get out of the box, she really, really was dead. I then left her in the box for 20 minutes more, just to be sure, as I furiously corresponded with my friend Mindy on Facebook to figure out what I was supposed to do now. Thankfully, Mindy talked me out of going immediately to the emergency vet and convinced me to wrap Cleo in two garbage bags and put her somewhere safe outside. I set Cleo on the work bench in the garage, worrying that it wasn't cold enough in the garage to prevent her from decomposing… and smelling up the place… (God, why am I so selfish about everything?)
Once I did all that, I teared up a bit. I didn't full-on cry. I don't know yet if I'm going to do that.I felt bad because when Tanya died in 2006, I bawled my eyes out in a private examination room in the vet's office where they left me alone with her recently dead body (she stopped breathing after having some sort of breathing problem that caused me to rush her to an emergency vet at midnight). Tanya was not even an affectionate cat. Cleo and Nicki had always been my favorites because they were affectionate and liked to be around people. Tanya was like a stereotypical cat–aloof and temperamental. Yet I cried buckets of tears for her.
Maybe it was because Tanya was Mike's cat. They'd always had a special relationship with each other. Mike was the only one Tanya would let approach her on his terms. Mike loved her fierce independence and stand-offishness… Maybe those were just a quality he enjoyed in the female gender (for he picked me as a mate).
I guess when Tanya died, I felt like yet another piece of Mike was gone from me. I loved that cat more for what she represented to me than what she was. I was taking care of something of Mike's that he loved. It made me feel closer to Mike. I didn't realize it at the time, but when I called my mom at 2am to tell her that Tanya had died, my mom pointed out that it was Mike's birthday that day. Tanya died on Mike's birthday. Serendipity, I suppose.
All of the cats were our children, though. Nicki and Tanya came with Mike–they were a set before I even knew Mike. Cleo, however, was our adopted cat–the one we got together shortly after we were married–after days and days of searching through kennels and shelters for "the perfect kitty." We always referred to our cats the way one would their children. We even gave them their own mailboxes on our voice mail. So the loss of each and every cat should punch me the same way.
We found Cleo at the Humane Society of Greater Akron. We loved her because she had spunk. They had kept her in the room with cats who can socialize with other cats but she was in a cage by herself that had a hammock. She was always a butterball. She sat on that hammock with a look of nonchalance on her face. She seemed calm and wise. I pet her for a little bit, then moved on to look at other cages, but she let out a quick meow that sounded to me very spiteful, like "Fine! Go over there! I don't care."
I turned back to see her sitting in the hammock, the same look of nonchalance. I fell in love with her at that moment.
Mike told me I could name her (since he had named his own cats already) and then he urged me, with a wicked grin, the name her Aurora because he hated that name and didn't want me to use it for a future daughter. I refused to fall into that trap and called her Cleo because the little white spot on her black chin reminded me of an Egyptian empress like I saw in pictures of tombs. Okay, that was a little stereotypical, but it's true. We ended up nicknaming her "Boogie" because we thought she had a "Boog face" which was something of an inside reference from my family… (My dad used to call a face I made the "boog" face.)
My dad called Cleo Jabba (after Jabba the Hutt). My friend Gwenn called her Pillow Kitty. My cousin Angy's husband called her Roley-Poley Kitty. She reminded me of Miss Cleo from those late-night astrology commercials and I used to say that if Cleo was human, she'd look exactly like Miss Cleo. She was the favorite of at least two of my ex-boyfriends and possibly a third. Everyone loved her spunk. When I tried to tease my cats with a mini remote control car that my ex-boyfriend T gave me for Christmas, Tanya and Nicki ran away. But Cleo, she walked right up to it and knocked it over with a paw. She wasn't going to take no crap from a little remote control car!
I did love her. I'm sorry that she possible died from low blood sugar or something awful. Preventable with a more diligent parent? Probably. I should have done a better job of taking care of her. I should have struggled to help her lose weight way back when she started to get fatter. I should have leash trained her and made her walk around. It would certainly have helped get her used to the outside world so that I could take her to the vet without her crapping in the carrier every time.
I got the impression, though, that Cleo was a little agoraphobic. She never tried to leave the house and when I did set her outside every once in a while, she would moan like an overwhelmed person until I put her back in the house. She hated every move I made–both across country and across towns. She was probably happy when I finally settled down in one place in Ohio in 2005.
I don't know if I will cry. I will say that the house seemed kind of different this morning. Like some part of it was missing. I hugged Nicki fiercely to me last night in bed, even though she inevitably drove me nuts in the morning as she always has. Nicki wouldn't stop pestering me this morning as I got ready for work. So I stopped and hugged her a few more times before I left. It's just me and her now. I've come a long way from a small condo that once contained a husband and wife and their three cats to a new house where only a sometimes lonely widow and a single, waving cat remain. Nothing ever stays the same, does it?
I admit that the night was a little rough. I kept thinking about the box in the garage. What if I'd made a mistake? That always comes to haunt you when you face to death, the acceptance of the reality of it. I imagined that I was wrong, that she was merely in a deep sleep, and that I'd come to the garage in the morning to find claw marks from where she'd tried to get out but couldn't and suffocated in the plastic of the bags. There was such a spell of relief that washed over me when I walked out into the garage this morning to find bagged box exactly as I'd left it.
I put the package containing Cleo in my car. In the trunk. Because, again, I was worried about smell, but it was an open hatch back so it's not like we were separated. I drove to the vet before work. I paid to have her cremated and the ashes returned to me. I'm going to put some of them in my current backyard and then save the remaining for a future trip up Mt. Elbert. She was still Mike's cat, after all, and he'd like to have what remains of her physical form with what remained of his. I put all of Tanya's ashes there in 2008. Call me sentimental. Even an agnostic feels the need to complete an unfinished circle.


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Oriza was founded in 1720 by Fargeon Elder, but it truly entered the perfume industry under the ownership of Louis Legrand in 1858. During the remainder of the nineteenth century, Oriza L. Legrand as it was now known was well respected in the French perfume industry, which is shown by the continued importance placed on their 1914 fragrance Chypre Mousse. However, it fell into administration around 1930 after being heavily affected by the war. Jump forward to 2009 and it was a chance observation of the company's name by Frank Belaiche that set him on a course to buy and eventually reopen the historic house.
When Frank Belaiche purchased the name of Oriza L. Legrand there were unfortunately no archives that came with it. They had been split up and sold when the original company was liquidated and so Frank set about tracking down as much material as he could find. Some formulas were located, rare perfume samples were found for analysis, and even period descriptions of the original fragrances. Add to this a wealth of imagery and advertising and you can see just how much detective work was carried out before the first fragrance was reissued in 2012.
In some instances the company took an advertising description as a source, placed it in an historical context with ingredients that were available or fashionable at the time, and even took inspiration from period reviews and imagery. Some of the scents simply don't exist anymore as a sample or formula, so it is the company's perfumers that truly deserve the credit. Using educated guesswork alongside the research, they have recreated modern interpretations that are still very firmly anchored in the time that they were originally created. They will never be described as "commercial" which is why niche lovers are in for a real treat.
Gentry Jockey Club is described as "a day at the racetrack" and it absolutely delivers. The fragrance opens with a refreshing burst of bergamot before a saffron and clove enriched rose literally gallops straight at you. The birch-heavy leather notes arrive next and are given an added darkness with a very strident patchouli and vetiver, before sandalwood and tonka bean provide a wonderfully traditional shaving cream smoothness to the scent. With a mix of waxed leather saddles, hot skin and unisex florals, Gentry Jockey Club really is "the perfume of victors" and I cannot recommend it enough.
Gentry Jockey Club is priced at 120€ for 100ml and a full list of stockists can be found on their website at orizaparfums.com


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Welcome to our SAM Inc. web site. We hope you like it and come back often. We're working hard to make it as useful to you as possible.
In cooperation with the School District and other advisories, SAM will be closed when school is closed.
Registration for the fall term is now open. Click here to register.
We've just added a photo gallery! It shows our Arts & Crafts and our recent trips and events. We'll be adding more to it shortly. Click here to check it out.


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Croppola: A Super Smart Image Cropping Tool
An important part of taking a fantastic picture is what you do with it after. Lining up the shot is all well and good, but cropping the image to make it just right is another skill in itself. Of course, we cannot all be professional photographers, and sometimes we need a little help to make our pictures look as good as they possibly can be. That is where Croppola is incredibly helpful. It takes the pictures you upload and uses a computer algorithm to give them the best crop possible.
All you need to do is click the big button that says "Select Files to Upload" and it will begin the process. Right below the button to upload your images is an option to select the aspect ratio for the cropping. If you do not select this option, it will crop it with the same aspect ratio of the original image. Besides the original aspect ratio, there are 6 other choices available.
Using the uploader, you can add multiple files at a time. Once the files are finished uploading, it will show the crop that their computer algorithm recommends. Of course, you can change this if you like, but I found that it did a very good job of improving my images with well placed crops.
- Upload images to be cropped quickly and easily.
- Uploader allows multiple images to be uploaded at once.
- Choose the aspect ratio of the crop.
- Edit the crop if you are not happy with it.
- Similar site: EasyCropper.
Find Croppola @ www.croppola.com
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Get the Most out of Feedback on Your Writing
Everyone knows that many college assignments are written papers, but in an online learning environment nearly all assignments include writing. Instead of face-to-face discussions, online students write discussion posts. Class assignments, which can't be presented "live," instead tend to take the form of blog posts, short answer questions, and written assignments of all lengths. With all the writing you do, you're bound to receive a variety of feedback on that writing. Feedback is meant to help you grow and develop skills. In order to put feedback to work, however, you have to know how to get the most out of this feedback. Let's explore some common types of feedback.
Instructor Feedback
Students know that instructor feedback is important because the instructor does the grading. But once a grade is entered, feedback on that assignment is still useful. You should use feedback on graded assignments to see what you should focus on improving in the following assignment. If you have a note from your instructor that the research you used isn't as scholarly as it should be, for instance, you know that on the next assignment you should make your research a priority. If your instructor points something out about comma usage in one assignment, you can focus on that the next time around. Use the pages on the Writing Center website to help find whatever information you may need.
The Rubric as a Type of Feedback
Instructors may also provide a type of feedback with the instructions of any assignment: the rubric. A rubric states the expectations for an assignment, along with the traits and descriptions of what student work may look like and the grade that work would receive. You can use the rubric to help as you write. If the rubric includes a section that says at least five sources should be integrated, then you know to pay attention to how many sources you collect while researching. Rubrics are an instructor's tips for how to complete an outstanding assignment.
Writing Center Feedback
The Ashford Writing Center has a 24-hour tutoring service, which allows students to receive paper reviews or live tutoring help. If a student submits a paper for a paper review, the student will receive feedback that includes notes in the margins related to the content, organization, and development of the writing along with APA and grammar tips. All reviews also include an introductory note that can help student writers see what to focus on and where to find more support. Unlike the instructor feedback, Writing Center paper reviews provide notes to apply to the assignment you are currently working on. However, to get the most out of these reviews, take note of at least one topic the tutor mentioned. Make it a priority to learn more about using the Writing Center website pages. Remember improving even one element of your writing from assignment to assignment shows growth. You can also take advantage of the paper review service to ask for help with specific topics. This specificity allows you to help control the feedback you receive.
Friends and Family
Many students find it helpful to have a friend or family member read their writing aloud. While friends and family may not think they are experts in writing or the subject area, they can still give feedback. Friends and family members are unfamiliar readers, which means any typos, awkward phrasing, or minor grammar mistakes will seem more obvious to them. Writers tend to read their own work quickly, because they are familiar with it, and that makes it easy to overlook these types of mistakes. Friends and family, however, can be better at pointing those out. If you are looking for feedback about the clarity of your sentences, these may be the best people to ask.
Overall, any feedback on a written assignment can be helpful. To get the most out of your feedback, see if it can be applied immediately or in the future. Seek out feedback from a variety of sources, and choose something to focus on improving little by little throughout the duration of a course. If you need help navigating writing-related resources, please email the Writing Center: [email protected].
Written by Melissa Sharpe, Learning Services Writing Center.


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Today we welcome FIRE PETAL BOOKS as our Spotlight Awesomest Indie Bookstore in Centerville, Utah! Welcome, guys!
I have to hand it to FIRE PETAL's owner, Michelle Witte. She was amazingly honest and open, and a real pleasure to interview! Kudos also (IMO) for opening a beautiful new bookstore for kids and teens in this ah, challenged economy. And it's doing so fabulously, too! A real dream come true, I think.
The marvelous and talented Michelle Witte!
So enough about me. On to Michelle and FIRE PETAL !!
Oh yeah. The Great Author Wall. Coolness reigns here!
JKB: You're a new independent bookstore. What prompted you to open in the particular area of town, and why this time?
MW: When people ask why I'd do something so crazy as open a bookstore (a dying entity) during a recession, my only thought is: There's never a good time to take a risk like this. Why let one excuse or another stop you from following your dreams. The thought that originally kicked me into gear with the store was, someday will never happen if I don't make it happen.
As for the location, I'd lived in Centerville, but had to move away about a year ago. I love this community for many reasons, but the two biggest for locating a store here are proximity to Salt Lake City and the neighborhood feel of the community. Since we're only 10 minutes north of Salt Lake you'd think it would be much like the city, but it's really not. Plus it's the only real independent bookstore between Salt Lake and the next large city, Ogden, which is about 40–50 miles away. I say "real independent" because there are some children's boutiques and game stores that also sell books, but the retail space devoted to books is much smaller than that devoted to other items.
JKB: Do you do special events for the youngsters?
MW: Of course! That's one thing indies can bring to a community that larger retailers can't—the active participation in literature and events. We're still feeling out what would be best for our store, but we plan to do traditional events storytime and book groups. In addition we'll have writing groups for teens, writing classes, author discussions, signings, and pretty much whatever we can imagine. Since I own the store, I can do pretty much whatever I want, and I love doing fun, crazy, quirky things.
JKB: How do you get the word out about your fabulous bookstore?
MW: Ooh, I like the sound of "fabulous." Publicity is actually a tricky thing, especially for a traditional establishment (bookstore) in an evolving world. I used to work as a journalist and editor for newspapers, so I understand how to get the information you want in front of the media. The thing is, newspapers are dying. I don't say that lightly. The paper I used to work for just laid off nearly half of their staff—including the entire copy desk. So traditional forms of advertising just aren't going to be as efficient as they were in the past.
Another path is to use the internet as marketing tool. It has a lot of pros and plenty of cons as well. How do I find my target audience? And, more than that, how do I make an impression on locals in my target audience. But viral marketing is cheap (other than my time), and I can reach a wider audience. But as I mentioned, how do I narrow that to people who will actually walk into my store? I'm still working on that.
I don't know the magic answer (please email me if you do), but I'm experimenting in a lot of different ways to figure out what really works. So far, I'm seeing it'll have to be a combination of traditional media mixed with online venues. The ideal situation would be for the mix of marketing to spark a word-of-mouth frenzy. Actually, the most interested customers walking into the store come after recommendations from friends and family. Those who walk in off the street might be interested, but there's a higher likelihood of them walking right back out again after a quick browse. It's the personal connection—the community—that will bring customers to our door and keep them coming back.
JKB: Could we have your website? Twitter account? Facebook? (Note to readers: showing support online is just as awesome as dropping by! You can even purchase books online through FIRE PETAL, I'll tell you more about that in a bit)
MW: Do you really want the list? This could be dangerous—and much more than you asked for.
JKB: Hit me.
MW: Well, here goes:
JKB: What are some upcoming events we all can look forward to?
MW: Starting Friday, Oct 15 at 3 pm, we'll be having a weekly storytime. The next two weeks, storyteller Jeff Bond will share ghost stories with kids age 8–13. We also have writing groups for Teens and YA writers – check out our website for details!
JKB: I also understand that FIRE PETAL will shortly have a way to order books online through the store…so make sure to swing by and support your local indie – EVEN if it's online, EVEN if you aren't local! By buying independent you support the fabulous book economy…doncha want to do that?
And if you're in the area, have a FANTASTICAL KID'S birthday party at FIRE PETAL! Details here.
Thanks again, Michelle, for stopping by The Mixed Up Files! You are amazing, and FIRE PETAL rocks!


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Cam Jansen's real name is Jennifer Jensen. But when her parents found out she has a camera in her head they began call her Cam.
**Note: Cam is short for Camera.
Other: Great Book. Nothing too Violence.
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oh, hudson street
it took me too long to find you
this morning.
i thought i'd be smart
and i got off at city hall
because i thought i needed the exercise.
but i watched a girl in a
gray skirt and lavender tights
make phone calls on her cell phone
and i got lost.
i ended up by the river,
the hudson river, hudson street,
and i looked at jersey and sighed
and i walked into the meat packing district
where all of the clubs were closed
and i couldn't find one single tranny.
is new york city lying about them?
oh, hudson street
i was becoming late for a meeting
and i didn't want to miss the free food
because my belly's been hungry for years
and something has to fill it, right?
might as well be free food.
and i needed a drink, hudson street.
i knew the white horse was somewhere up you
and i thought maybe if i could find it
all my problems would be solved.
but i only found greenwich street
and the white horse would probably be closed.
the white horse.
home to dylan thomas' and jack kerouac's ghosts.
the white horse
where i cried in the bathroom too many times
orchestrating my death over
expensive beer and lackluster food.
the white horse
where some fucking idiot asked me
if i made art on my 30th birthday
as dale nuzzled her and ear and declared
he was off boys for good this time.
oh, hudson street
i look at this poem and i think i'm reading
too much allen ginsberg lately.
it doesn't sound like me.
i go by allen's apartments sometimes
and ring his bell
but he's not there
just post no bills signs
and construction that has stopped because
the economy is for shit.
i can't even find his ghost.
hudson street
i don't usually write things like this
as i said
i'm much less discrete
i usually spill myself onto the page
and ask that someone else clean up the mess
but there's something about you that
got me modest
and no it isn't the cock and cunt shops
on christopher street
or the fact that i'm sitting at home
high on three scotches and waters and no food
hudson street
i think it's because i hate america
and i think you know it.
you can tell it every time i walk you.
hudson street
you see the way i glare at the people
and the way i despise their commonality
hudson street
i'm going to choke on celebrity news and worthless talk.
i want to shake everyone and scream WAKE UP
i want someone to just once get through a weekend
without sweeping something under the rug
without cleaning their goddamned house.
hudson street
i'm such a fucking liar that i'm ready to explode
so watch me
1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 9 ½ , 10...boom.


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A 22-year-old Gardnerville man, with a juvenile record for sexual assault, received a suspended sentence Tuesday for failing to register as a sex offender.
District Judge Tod Young sentenced Chase Warren to 36 months in prison, suspended, and ordered him to register, or face imposition of the felony sentence.
"You've had your mess up," Young said.
He put Warren on five years probation.
"You need to take care of your life better than you have," Young said. "As I look at your background, I understand you've had some difficulties, but quit putting rocks in your own road."
Warren faced up to four years in prison and a $5,000 fine. According to the criminal complaint, Warren was convicted of first-degree sexual assault of a child under 13 on March 20, 2006, in Walworth County, Wis.
He committed the offense at age 14.
The case came to light when Warren was taken into custody in May accused of stealing food and drinks from Walmart in Douglas County.
Deputies ran a criminal check and discovered the Wisconsin conviction, and that Warren had not registered.
He reportedly moved to Douglas County in January to live with his family, said Warren's attorney, Kris Brown.
Prosecutors said Warren had a history of not reporting or registering as a sex offender when he moved to a new address.
Brown said he failed to register when he was released from the juvenile detention facility because he didn't know what to do.
"I understand what I did was a mistake," Warren said. "I'm done being a criminal. I am done looking over my shoulder to see if a cop is there. I want to prove to my family that I can follow the rules."
■ A Carson City woman pleaded guilty Tuesday to possession of methamphetamine and agreed to testify truthfully against her codefendant in a plea agreement with the district attorney's office.
In exchange for her guilty plea, Angela Dawn Cannon, 41, will not be charged with trafficking, a more serious offense.
She pleaded guilty Tuesday following her arrest July 26 with David Daniel Johnson, 51.
He is charged with three counts of trafficking in a controlled substance, and conspiracy to violate the Uniform Controlled Substances Act. He is in Douglas County Jail on $56,783 bail. Johnson's next court appearance is Aug. 21.
According to reports, Johnson and Cannon were arrested at 6 p.m. July 26 as they were leaving a home on Leonard Road in Gardnerville.
A search of Johnson turned up numerous small plastic bags inside a larger bag with a zip closure. Several small crystals were located in the bottom of the larger bag indicative of methamphetamine.
Deputies also found $590 cash in Johnson's pocket, a tin box with more bags containing resident consistent with methamphetamine and rolled smoking paper containing marijuana.
Deputies searched Cannon's purse and found hypodermic needles, methamphetamine, cotton, plastic bags and other items.
Cannon's attorney, Kris Brown, said her client had been an intravenous methamphetamine user and was requesting admission to Western Nevada Regional Drug Court.
The state won't oppose a diversion program if Cannon qualifies, and would recommend probation if her sentencing is not deferred.
She faces up to four years in prison and a $5,000 fine.
District Judge Tod Young ordered Cannon held in Douglas County Jail until her first appearance at drug court on Monday. Young said he was reluctant to put an intravenous user back on the street.
"She needs some more sobriety time, or she is going to fail the program. Let the drug court judge decide when to release her," Young said.
Young said he would recommend that Cannon complete in-patient treatment before she gets out of custody.


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DAMASCUS, SYRIA (2:35 A.M.) – Fierce clashes continue in Raqqa city as Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF) attempt to advance inside the de-facto Syrian capital of the so-called "Islamic State".
The designated terrorist group, however, puts up stiff resistance not willing to concede the city.
As a result, counterattacks by IS jihadists inside the city and on its outskirts have been usual thing for the past several days.
One of such counterattacks took place on Sunday in Sina'a district, eastern Raqqa, when IS jihadists raided SDF positions catching the latter's fighters off-guard:
Two SDF fighters were killed, their temporary location burned, before IS militants retreated to their starting positions.
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You don't have to take a week off from work or spend hours in the bathroom to detox your body. One of my favorite rituals is the ancient practice of oil pulling. Swish away during your daily grooming for an oral hygiene overhaul. Your dentist may not mention oil pulling, but I've found it to be more effective than flossing!
Why Oil Pulling Works
The body has several ways to dump toxics into the salivary glands. Oil pulling revs up the secretion of saliva and traps toxins, so you literally spit them out.


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55-foot Sea Ray Yacht_________________________________________________________________________
Busch IV's boat gets towed at the Lake of the Ozarks
July 26, 2011
BUSCH BOAT: Guess whose 55-foot Sea Ray broke down at the Lake of the Ozarks last night and had to be towed to shore? Bingo if you guessed August Busch IV. Busch and a friend named Yolanda were on the yacht when the engine stopped and they called to be towed in.
Busch stayed below deck while the yacht was hitched to another boat and brought in to shore. When they got to the dock, Yolanda came out to pay. The cost was more than $1,000. Yolanda asked the boat captain if he would accept cash and when he said that would be fine, she peeled bills off a roll so thick it didn't make a dent.
The yacht is named Waymo after IV's female mastiff.
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IPv6 Bootcamp: Get Up to Speed Quickly
Many involved with networking are declaring 2012 the year of IPv6. This presentation is focused on an introduction to IPv6 and how to start using it quickly. Topics covered include IPv6 addresses, stateless and stateful auto-configuration, address management, planning a migration and comparing and contrasting IPv6 to IPv4. In addition, it covers what transition technologies to pay attention to and how and why they are used and what problems they address. Finally, a checklist of tasks and recommendations is provided for deploying IPv6 with solutions like DirectAccess, Microsoft Exchange Server 2010, Windows 7, and Windows Server 2008 R2.
The Discussion
Can we have a video, please, Ed?
It should be the same as for TENA:
Will the slides be made available?


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When you're dealing in an industry built on disaster, it's good to have a sense of humor. Not like a "these credit default swaps are going to collapse the global economy" funny, or "we'll just call these bonuses 'retention pay'" funny. More like a ha-ha funny. As in, insurance advertisements.
Make no mistake: There's plenty of irony to be culled from the infamous AIG commercial in which a precocious little boy who's losing sleep over his family's financial security is calmed by his father's reassurance, "We're with AIG." But then again you're probably not laughing if you were actually with AIG, and now your own precocious little boy gets beat up everyday at his new public school.
So while Congress sorts out the mess of misappropriated bailout bucks, let's cheer the little guys who may care no more or less about actually securing our future, but who clearly have a better sense of humor about it.
Insurance for Women
It's a testament to how far feminism has come that what started with men giving women the right to drive has turned into women denying men auto insurance because they play deadly pranks on one another. It's like, "Hey ladies, let's not forget that the car-off-a-cliff trick cuts both ways." (Thelma & Louise, anyone?) But I guess it's like the old saw goes: "It's all fun and games until a carload of your friends plummet to their death."
Acupuncture Whoops
It's hard to get a read on the central message here. Is it that Centraal Beheer insurance will cover your expensive alternative medicine treatments even though they could kill you? Or that having Centraal Beheer insurance means you wouldn't have to pursue dangerous holistic approaches in the first place? Either way the dude's toast. It's like "Centraal Beheer. Because you're fucked."
Prison Protection
This is exactly why it's so important to have foresight and preparedness. Because you never think of adding that "rectal integrity" clause to your policy until it's too late.
Jolly Good Fellow
You can go ahead and call this commercial totally morbid, but goddamnit I want life insurance that's so good my policy benefactors want to sing and toss my corpse in the air after I die. After all, nothing helps a person deal with the grief of never being able to share a special moment with a loved one again like a crapload of cash.
It's probably safe to assume that this woman's car wouldn't need repairing if a gigantic eagle hadn't just landed on the roof. Or that instead of laying an egg on it, Eagleman simply could have told her about the great deals he was offering. But the moral of the story for AIG customers is clear: If you're going to get shit on by an insurance company, at least get shit on with low rates.
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"If the regular refs are here, we know how those calls will be made. That should be the case but it's not the way it is right now."
– Ray Lewis (September 16, 2012)
ONLY A FOOL WOULD PUT any stock into what their eyes see in preseason results, but everyone on the Ravens' coaching staff loved what they saw when the team's first unit annihilated the Jacksonville Jaguars first unit in Baltimore during the third preseason game on August 23, 2012, a 48-17 whipping. Keep in mind that the Ravens were humiliated by the Jags nine months earlier in a game that counted, a 12-7 loss widely remembered as the night that a healthy Ray Rice touched the ball just 13 times and Flacco looked lost along with the rest of the offense. It was one of four hideous road defeats for a 2011 team that played out Jekyll & Hyde for all to see. Jekyll at home. Hyde on the road for long stretches of the first years of the Harbaugh-Flacco era.
But on this hot, sticky Baltimore evening it was a purple demolition act as Flacco carved up the overmatched Jaguars defense, ending the night 27-of-36 for 266 yards and two TD throws to Anquan Boldin and Vonta Leach. The defense forced five punts in the first half, and it was a night where the starters inspired the backups, who came on in the third quarter and continued the domination.
Throughout the lead up to the season opener vs. Cincinnati, the feeling inside The Castle was: if we can play like that every week, this team could be really good.
And despite the death of Art Modell just four days before the opener and the weekend of memories and tributes for the Ravens' founder, the team was focused on the task at hand – beating the Cincinnati Bengals on the season opener of Monday Night Football.
After an emotional tribute to Modell, the Ravens came out flying against the Bengals. Flacco threw a bomb to Torrey Smith down the middle of the field and the opening drive resulted in a Justin Tucker 46-yard field goal. On the next drive, Smith took an end-around handoff and blew by the Bengals with some trickery. On a 4th and 1 from the 20, Flacco threw a pass to Ray Rice at the sticks and the drive ended with Rice scoring on a 6-yard run. New addition Jacoby Jones caught his first pass on the next drive for a 25-yard pickup. Two plays later, Flacco split the seam down the middle of the defense and dropped a perfect pass into the arms of Boldin in the end zone.
Despite dominating much of the first half, the Ravens' defense allowed Bengals quarterback Andy Dalton to drive down the field in a two-minute offense behind a big catch and run by Andrew Hawkins. On a 3rd and 1 from the 7 with 30 seconds remaining, Ed Reed knocked down a Tucker pass in the end zone and the Bengals had a tough decision on fourth down. Down 17-3, head coach Marvin Lewis sensed a chance to get back in the game and BenJarvus Green got the first down and pushed across a TD on the next play to make it a 17-10 lead at the half.
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I saw this blog, posted August 27, 2011 at 09:30PM from GalleyCat
Kathryn Leigh Scott Celebrates Her Novel & Dark Shadows
My mother loves Dark Shadows. She had all the paperback book stories from the original series and when I was growing up, these were some of the first adult-level books I read. Maybe that's my challenge!


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First a quick update--My computer, glasses, and camera are all doing much better. *crossing fingers, and knocking on wood* As for my motivation, we shall see in the coming weeks.
Now on to something more important:
This issue came to my attention today! Basically, from what I understand, a proposal under consideration by the Bureau of Land Management's Wild Horse and Burro Program may result in the death of at least 33,000 wild horses. It seems that their land was taken away, so they are being held in captivity. The horses are healthy, and are breeding more frequently. So in turn, I guess some would like to sentence these beautiful creatures to death. Please read the press release below from The Cloud Foundation. Then please contact your representatives, here--it's easy, and tell them to do something quick before these wonderful animals lose their lives.
Press Release from the Cloud Foundation. November 11, 2008
For immediate release
A proposal under consideration by the Bureau of Land Management's Wild Horse and Burro Program could result in the death of 33,000 wild horses the Bureau has removed from public lands and placed in holding facilities. Citing a "budget crisis" the BLM says they can no longer afford to feed the animals they have rounded up and are considering euthanizing them.
"This solution to a crisis of their own making is unacceptable and unthinkably cruel," stated Ginger Kathrens, Director of The Cloud Foundation, named in honor the wild stallion, Cloud, whom she has documented for PBS's Nature series since his birth in 1995.
The Bureau of Land Management has reduced the population of wild horses on American public lands by 40% since 2000 according to the recently released Government Accounting Office report. Because of the massive scope of round-ups over the past eight years, the BLM now has over 33,100 wild horses in holding, and the costs for feeding the animals are literally eating up their budget. The BLM currently spends a projected 74% of their taxpayer-funded budget to hold wild horses that have been removed from public lands.
The reason BLM often gives for the massive round ups is a lack of forage on the range. "What a cruel irony," Kathrens states. "The BLM has led the public to believe that round ups are necessary because the horses might die of starvation on the range. All you have to do is look at the pictures at these round ups. The horses are in great shape, but now may die, not because of a lack of food on the range, but because of BLM mismangement."
Wild horse advocates have long contended that the BLM has bowed to pressure from livestock permittees who want public lands for cattle grazing and not for wild horses or other wild life. Now oil and gas development further threatens the few remaining wild horses. Only about 25% of wild horse herds are currently large enough to be considered genetically viable.
The National BLM Advisory Board for the Wild Horse and Burro Program will hold a meeting on Monday, November 17th in Reno, Nevada and will discuss the BLM euthanasia plan. The public is encouraged to attend and share their comments.
"This board is stacked against wild horses," says Carol Walker, equine photographer and author of Wild Hoofbeats. "It is possible that they will condone euthanasia for healthy wild horses that belong to the American people,"
Over 19 million acres originally designated for wild horse use are currently empty of horses. The Cloud Foundation recommends the return of healthy wild horses to these ranges wherever possible. "Without immediate action to stop the BLM from continuing to mismanage wild horses, America may lose its mustangs forever," Kathrens concludes.
Wild horse footage and photos available for media use upon request
Update: Madeleine Pickens, wife of T. Boon Pickens, is arranging to adopt most or all of the horses that are kept in the holding pens. Which is upwards of 30,000! What an amazing woman. Read more here.
Remember that the remaining horses still need our help to keep them safe, and free.


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St Catherine's skiers dominate slopes at national titles
St Catherine's finished with 158 points, well clear of Melbourne Girls' Grammar (85) and Methodist Ladies' College (71).
In Division 1, St Catherine's stamped its mark on the crosscountry classic race with teams from the school finishing second and third.
Willow Burrell and Claudia Richardson both recorded top 10 individual performances.
The Division 1 Alpine team also secured a top three finish, with snowsports captain Arrabella Houghton finishing ninth.
In Division 2, the Skier X and Alpine teams placed second and third. Amelia Maisano finished ninth in the Skier X.
The girls cross-country classic team also performed well, finishing third overall with Annelise Cody recording a seventh placing.
Annabel Lees finished inside the top 10 in the moguls event.
In Division 3, St Catherine's demonstrated its strength as it dominated the division.
Amelia Jones led by example, putting on a masterclass of skill as she recorded national championship victories in the Alpine and Skier X.
Catherine Chen also put her skills on show, finishing second in the moguls.
Both helped their teams to a silver medal.
The Skier X team of Amelia Jones, Madeleine Hooker and Claudia Coombe-Tennant were first overall in their event.
The school's Snowboarder X team also made it onto the podium in third place with Jessica Yang finishing in the top 10 in both snowboard disciplines.
The school's cross-country team of Zara Bongiorno, Chloe Joubert and Emily McAllister, was first overall in the classic race while Zara Bongiorno, Madeleine Hooker and Ava Lansell claimed silver in the cross-country skate relay race.
The school's primary team had a 54-point win over second-placed Canberra Girls Grammar with Matisse Stafford crowned the individual Division 4 Alpine and Skier X national champion.


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The man convicted of a hit-and-run that killed a retired Stockton police investigator received a maximum sentence of four years Wednesday.
Sergio Chavira, 57, was arrested in December 2014, just days after he hit and killed Jimmy Pendergrass.
Pendergrass was once a full-time traffic investigator for the Stockton Police Department. Before his death, he had been working part-time in background investigations.
Dozens of loved ones read impact statements at Chavira's sentencing.
"I'm being forced to grow up in the real world without him," Pendergrass' granddaughter, Faith, told Chavira. "I don't think you understand the pain you've put my family and I through and I also don't think you care what you have done to us."
"I accept (the prison sentence) because it's the law of the land ... should he get more? Absolutely," the victim's son, Brian Pendergrass, said.


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Rail Budget: Montek hails Railways move to create tariff body
Plan panel Deputy Chairman Montek Singh Ahluwalia welcomed the initiative to set up a Rail Tariff Regulatory Authority for rationalising fare and freight rates, in the Railway budget.
Ahluwalia has been pitching for setting of such authority for long and on many occasions advocated an hike in passenger fare for mobilising more resources for the Railways.
"I am happy that there is some acknowledgement. That is a very good initiative if they carry it through," Ahluwalia said when asked whether he is satisfied on this development.Union Budget 2012-13: Complete coverage
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Image: Plan panel Deputy Chairman Montek Singh Ahluwalia.
Rail Budget: Montek hails Railways move to create tariff body
While presenting the Rail Budget for 2012-13 in Lok Sabha, Railway Minister Dinesh Trivedi announced constitution of a committee to look into the proposal of setting up an independent Rail Tariff Regulatory Authority.
Trivedi said there have been suggestions for creation of such a body but since it requires serious debate, he had decided to set up a body of experts to examine it.
He said he was contemplating a system of segregating fuel component in the cost associated with passenger services and call it FAC (fuel adjustment component).
Rail Budget: Montek hails Railways move to create tariff body
"The FAC will be dynamic in nature and will change in either direction with the change in fuel costs," he said.
He also informed the House that there had been no hike in passenger fares in the last eight years.
Though Ahluwalia refrained from commenting on passenger fare hike, he said his view on the issue has not changed.Union Budget 2012-13: Complete coverage