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August 30th, 2012 10:27 AM║ Posted By: John Pennington ║ Permalink
║ Schools: Alabama, Arkansas, Auburn, Florida, Georgia, Kentucky, LSU, Mississippi State, Missouri, Ole Miss, South Carolina, Tennessee, Texas A&M, Vanderbilt
Tags: Auburn, Gary Stokan, jersey, TV
Longtime readers of this website know that this particular writer wants more colleges to play one another while wearing their actual school colors. Meaning: Dump the white unis whenever possible.
A product of the black-and-white TV era, most schools continue to play by outdated rules… home football team wears the dark jersey, road football team wears the white jersey. That's reversed come basketball season, for some reason.
Well, the NCAA recently changed the rule allowing schools to wear their home unis against one another if they both agreed to do so. Southern Cal and UCLA were the first to push the notion and they should be saluted for it.
Now the Chick-fil-A Kickoff officials are getting with the program, too. According to the official website for this weekend's games, Tennessee will wear its orange jerseys and NC State its red jerseys when the two teams meet tomorrow night in Atlanta. On Saturday, Auburn will wear its blue jerseys and Clemson it's orange jerseys.
Amen, hallelujah! This is how college football looked for its first 50-60 years of existence.
Via statement, the president of the Chick-fil-A games, Gary Stokan, says this will be a new tradition for the Georgia Dome events:
"This new tradition is going to create an even more electric atmosphere at a venue already known for being one of the loudest and craziest in college football. It's going to give both games a really unique look, and we know the fans will get behind this, to help create a great visual effect both in person and on TV."
The website tips a hat to HD television for helping to make this switch possible:
"The general rule of one team wearing a dark-colored jersey and the other wearing mostly white is in part due to the early days of black and white television when you needed the added contrast to tell one team from the other on the screen. Today's high-definition televisions with ultra-crisp pictures essentially take that away as long as there is enough difference in the colors of the jerseys. The dark and light uniform combinations have been adopted by nearly every sport and have been the norm for generations.
But on Friday and Saturday, the Chick-fil-A Kickoff Game will break that rule."
Oh, you can disagree with the politics of the game's title sponsor. Heck, you might not like the pickle on Chick-fil-A's sandwiches, either. But only a true fuddy-duddy would disapprove of teams returning to the days of school color versus school color.
Nice move, Mr. Stokan. Hopefully your groups is starting a trend.
That's not to say schools shouldn't be allowed to make a choice when it comes to wearing white or not. (We at MrSEC.com are very pro-choice on uniforms.) Some schools have come to like their "road" looks. And now that schools enjoy selling 40 different jerseys to their fans for the extra revenue — call it the Oregon Factor — there's a financial reason to keep the whites around, too. But for those schools that want to wear their dark unis every week, we'd sure support 'em.
In fact, if the SEC needs another way to grab just a few more ratings each week, maybe Mike Slive can convince his league's presidents to become the first conference in the country to encourage darks versus darks whenever possible.
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Medina Journal-Register — ALBION - Celebrating Senior Night, Albion posted a 25-9, 25-17, 25-22 victory over Lyndonville in a non league match Monday.
Halle Jurs had a total of 23 service pouts, including 10 aces, and Cady Messmer had seven spiking kills and five aces to lead the way for Albion which improves to 11-4.
Meghan Hurley served up points 15-19 and Dakota Zimmer 21-25 to spark Albion to a 25-9 win in the first set which also included three kills by Kelsee Soule.
Jurs dominated at the service line in the second set as she served up points 2-11, including three aces, and points 20-25, again including three aces. Messmer registered a total of six kills in the set including three during Jurs' early run and one for the set winner.
Lyndonville did rally into a 15-15 tie midway through the set as Abigail Feldman served up points 5-10 to lead the Lady Tigers rally.
Messmer served up four straight aces early in the third set to spark Albion out to a 9-6 lead.
Two aces by Jurs upped the Purple Eagles lead to 20-12.
Feldman answered with four in a row (15-18) to pull Lyndonville to within 21-18 but the Lady Tigers could get no closer.
Albion next visits Newfane in the Niagara-Orleans League finale this evening.

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Made these for thanksgiving dinner and they were a huge hit. I used the sour cream option instead of the regular cream. Everyone raved about the flavour in them. We have a lot of people in our family on a low carb diet and they all had second helpings of the potatoes. I also made these ahead of time and let them sit in the slow cooker to keep warm until dinner was ready...worked out great made for a less hectic kitchen!!!
Doubled the recipe and it didn't come out right. Used sour cream and milk instead of the light cream (like many suggested). We had to add a lot of butter and garlic to salvage it...it ended up being ok.
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There's nothing like creamy mashed potatoes! It's comfort food at its best. I never tried it with chicken broth before, I usually just did the traditional milk and butter stuff with maybe some sour cream mixed in to make them even creamier. This was a nice alternative. I used a bit more butter, half and half instead of cream, and added a bit of garlic powder.
I make these almost every Thanksgiving, only using sour cream in place of the heavy cream.
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Series: World Series, Game 3, Giants lead 2-0
Time: 6:30 p.m. EST
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Starters: Jonathan Sanchez (2010 postseason: 0-1, 2.93 ERA; 2010 regular season: 13-9, 3.07 ERA) vs. Colby Lewis (2-0, 1.45 ERA; 12-13, 3.72 ERA)
The Rangers come home trailing 2-0 in this Series due to a near-total collapse in the first two games in San Francisco. Yes, they scored seven runs in Game 1, but five of those came after they were down 8-2, and as a team they are hitting just .227/.293/.303. Only Bengie Molina and Mitch Moreland have had multi-hit games, both doing so in Game 1, and Ian Kinsler is the only other Ranger with more than one hit in the series. Josh Hamilton and Nelson Cruz, the team's leading hitters in the ALCS and regular season, are a combined 2 for 17, and though Kinsler came close with his Game 2 double, the Rangers are homerless in the Series. C.J. Wilson was fantastic for six innings in Game 2, but a reoccurrence of his blister problems forced him from the game in the seventh. Cliff Lee was lit up in Game 1 and the Rangers bullpen has allowed 11 runs in 7 1/3 innings, 14 runs if you include the inherited runners they have allowed to score.
Manager Ron Washington deserves some of the blame for that last bit. His decision to play Vladimir Guerrero in right field in Game 1 gave the Giants three extra bases in their three-run eighth inning, and his management of his bullpen in the Giants' seven-run eighth inning in Game 2 was utterly inexplicable. Guerrero's defense won't be an issue with the Series moving to Texas, where he can return to his usual role as the designated hitter, but Washington's bullpen management is still a major concern.
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The good news for the Rangers is that they're coming home and have Lewis on the mound. Lewis dominated the Yankees in the decisive sixth game of the ALCS and hasn't allowed more than two earned runs in any of his last eight starts. The key for Lewis will be to work deep into the game. He failed to complete the sixth inning in three starts prior to his Game 6 gem, but pitched eight full innings in that clincher. With Guerrero safely stashed away at DH, Lewis can help keep Washington from being a decisive factor by limiting the bullpen's exposure altogether.
Lewis's mound opponent will be Sanchez. The lefty lasted just two innings in his last start, in the decisive sixth game of the NLCS against the Phillies, evidence that Bochy has that killer instinct for hooking struggling pitchers that Washington has thus far seemed to lack. Sanchez was wild in that game, but Bochy lifted him early enough that the Giants were able to come back and win. In his previous two starts this postseason, Sanchez pitched quite well, striking out 18 men in 13 1/3 innings against just four walks while limiting his opponents to three earned runs.
Outside of Jeff Francoeur going 2 for 14 (.143), both singles, against Sanchez, there is no significant history between either pitcher and the hitters he will face on Saturday night. The Rangers as a team fared better against right-handed pitching than left-handed pitching during the regular season, but big righty bats Cruz and Kinsler combined to make five trips to the disabled list, and Bengie Molina didn't arrive until July. With righties Cruz, Kinsler, Molina, Guerrero and Michael Young all in the lineup tonight, one imagines that, regular season numbers aside, facing a lefty, even one as good as Sanchez, could help jump-start the Rangers' offense. An even bigger factor, however, might just be returning home to Texas, where the Rangers scored almost a run more per game during the regular season than they did on the road.
Of the 51 teams that have fallen behind 0-2 in the World Series, only 11 have come back to win. The last club to do so was the 1996 Yankees, and they offer some encouragement for the Rangers. Texas was outscored 20-7 in the first two games, but the Yankees were outscored 16-1 at home in Games 1 and 2 of the 1996 fall classic, but turned the Series around on the road against a Braves rotation even better than that of this years' Giants. However, no team has ever rallied from 0-3 in a World Series, and only one club in baseball history has ever overcome such a deficit in any best-of-seven series. That makes a Game 3 win essential for the Rangers to keep their title hopes alive.
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March 14, 2013
A Leon County grand jury has decided deputies who shot Carlos Cespedes were justified in their use of force.
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February 14, 2013
Court records show Carlos Cespedes made his first appearance before a judge this morning.
Cespedes is accused of pointing a gun at deputies and killing a k-9 named Koda back on January 31st.
This morning the judge denied bond on the attempted murder charge that led deputies to chase Cespedes in the first place. He was suspected in a shooting on Stuckey Avenue earlier in the day.
The judge did set a bond on charges stemming from the police pursuit and gunpoint confrontation that followed.
Arrest papers say deputies followed Cespedes with lights and sirens from a Circle K near Lake Jackson to a home clear across town off South Magnolia Drive.
Arrest papers say Cespedes drove between 40 and 50 miles an hour during the chase and ran several red lights and stop signs along the way.
Arrest papers say after Cespedes shot the dog, he briefly put the gun to his own head, but then lowered it.
Arrest papers say Cespedes turned and looked at Deputy Ronn McMullen with the gun raised chest height and that's when Cespedes was shot in the head.
An LCSO Spokesman says Cespedes is being held in the jail's medical unit for now.
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Tallahassee, FL - A wanted man's run from the law ended with a shot to the head in his family's front yard.
Leon County deputies opened fire when they say the man pointed a gun at them and then shot and killed a K-9 named Koda.
The wanted man, Carlos Cespedes, survived.
Carlos Cespedes and deputies exchanged gunfire right near the corner of Magnolia Drive and Seminole Drive.
You can still see neon paint marking the spot.
Deputies say it was the end to a lights and sirens pursuit that started clear across town near Lake Jackson.
"We heard seven or eight gunshots and then about 30 seconds later, we heard some police sirens and the next thing we knew we were surrounded by police cars," neighbor Helen King said.
Cespedes was wanted for attempted murder. Tallahassee Police reports say he was wanted for shooting a man on Stuckey Avenue earlier the same day in an argument over a woman.
LCSO spotted Cespedes at a convenience store on North Monroe Street at about 8:45 Thursday night and when he refused to stop, they gave chase.
An LCSO spokesman says when Cespedes got to his mother's house on Seminole Drive, he got out with a gun in his hand.
When deputies let loose a K-9 named Koda to chase him down, Cespedes started firing, deputies.
"Koda was directly in that line of fire and Koda was ultimately shot and killed," LT James McQuaig said, " both deputies fired mulitple shots and the suspect was hit in the head."
The two deputies who fired on Cespedes - Ron McMullen and Tyler Epstein - are now on administrative leave with pay pending an internal affairs investigation.
The flag at LCSO is at half staff, black wreaths hang on the door and flowers continue to arrive for McMullen's partner ... a highly trained k-9 with five years on the force.
"We have lost a very valuable part of our team and deputy McMullen has lost a five and a half year partner that's been with him day for day for over five years," McQuaig said.
At last check, Cespedes was hospitalized with non-life threatening injuries.
Deputies say when Cespedes is released from the hospital, he'll face a long list of charges including a felony for shooting and killing a police dog. That alone is punishable by up to five years in prison.
By: Julie Montanaro
New details have emerged in a shooting that claimed the life of a K-9 last night.
According to the Leon County Sheriff's Office, the shooting occurred in the front yard of the suspect's mother's home.
Carlos Cespedes was wanted for the shooting and attempted murder of another man on Stuckey Avenue earlier the same day.
Tallahassee Police reports indicate that shooting was during an argument over a woman.
Leon County Sheriff's Office Release
At approximately 8:42 p.m. on January 31, 2013 the Leon County Sheriff's Office attempted to stop Carlos Manuel Cespedes, 31, near the intersection of North Monroe Street and Fred George Road.
Deputies received information that Cespedes was in the area and had outstanding warrants for Attempted 1st degree Murder, Aggravated Battery with a Deadly Weapon and Discharging a Firearm from a Vehicle.
When deputies attempted to stop Cespedes, he fled in a silver Pontiac Vibe. Deputies pursued Cespedes to the area of 2115 Seminole Drive where he drove through the yard, exited the vehicle with a firearm and began firing at the deputies.
K-9 Deputy Ron McMullen deployed his partner "Koda" as he and other deputies attempted to apprehend Cespedes. The suspect fired multiple shots at the deputies, shooting "Koda." Deputies McMullen and Tyler Epstein fired multiple shots in return, striking Cespedes in the head.
Deputies transported "Koda" to a local animal hospital where he died from a single gunshot wound. "Koda" was a 5 ½ year old male German shepherd who served with the Leon County Sheriff's Office since 2008.
Sheriff Larry Campbell stated, "Last night the Leon County Sheriff's Office lost a valuable member of the agency. LCSO K-9 "Koda" was killed while protecting his partner, Deputy McMullen and other deputies from an armed violent fugitive. "Koda" was a fearless and loyal partner. He was trained to serve and protect and that is exactly what he did."
Deputies McMullen and Epstein were placed on Administrative Leave with pay, pending the completion of an internal investigation per LCSO policy.
Cespedes was taken to Tallahassee Memorial Hospital's Emergency Room where he is being treated for injuries sustained during this incident. Upon his release, he will be transported to the Leon County Jail.
By: Julie Montanaro
Tallahassee, FL -A wanted man shot and killed a K-9 officer in Tallahassee late last night and deputies responded with gunfire.
At least two deputies shot the suspect; we are still not sure the extent of his injuries.
In the wake of last night's events, WCTV visited the Leon County Sheriff's Office. The flag is at half staff there and there are black wreaths on the front door, all for Koda, the 51/2 year old officer dog shot and killed last night.
Deputies were out all night working at the scene - taking photos, doing interviews and gathering evidence.
The man, Carlos Cespedes, was wanted for attempted murder and more. When deputies tried to pull him over last night, he took off, and they followed him all the way to the corner of Magnolia and Seminole Drive.
Deputies say when Cespedes got out of the car, he had a gun in his hand and opened fire, not only on the charging dog, but on the deputies too.
Cespedes killed the dog, and at least two deputies opened fire.
Cespedes was shot repeatedly and taken to Tallahassee Memorial, but neither the hospital nor the sheriff's office is releasing any information about his condition right now.
31 year old Carlos Cespedes. He is 31 had a warrant for his arrest out of TPD for attempted murder, aggravated battery and discharging a firearm.
WCTV checked his rap sheet, and according to court records, he's been arrested five times since 2008, including arrests for drug possession, concealed weapons charges, domestic battery and resisting arrest.
Those court records also show he was just in court January 3rd and was sentenced to probation and community service.
By: Jason Kahn
Tallahassee, FL - According to police, at approximately 8:42pm this evening, officers attempted to stop a driver who was being pursued for attempted 1st degree murder, one of three charges.
After the pursuit was initiated, Carlos Manuel Cespedes, a Hispanic 31 year old male, failed to stop for police. Cespedes eventually pulled off on the side of the road on Magnolia Drive.
Cespedes then exited the vehicle and opened fire on the officers, fatally shooting a K-9 officer, Koda.
Police opened fire on Cespedes and he is now being treated at Tallahassee Memorial Hospital; the extent of his injuries are unknown at this time.
Cespedes was wanted on 3 charges, 1st degree attempted murder, battery, and discharging a firearm at a vehicle, and now he will add, amongst other charges, murder of the K-9 dog, which is considered murder of an officer.
According to Leon County Sheriff's Office, there has been a shooting in the area of Seminole Drive and Magnolia.
WCTV has a reporter on the way, and will bring you updates as they become available.


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Medicare ruling approved; quick benefit soughtBy Gordon Dritschilo
Staff Writer | January 27,2013Advocates hope Vermont Medicare patients wont have to wait a year to reap the benefits of a class-action lawsuit that was settled last week.
Vermont Legal Aid and the Center for Medicare Advocacy settled a class-action lawsuit against the federal government over Medicare coverage of maintenance therapy. When U.S. District Judge Christina Reiss approved the settlement Thursday to cover such treatment, the government said it would set out to revise its relevant policies and prepare a three-month educational campaign for the Medicare system.
Full implementation will take a year from today, Michael Benvenuto, director of Vermont Legal Aids Medicare Advocacy Project, said Friday. Because they have agreed this is what Medicare should always have been, were going to be pushing that changes should be taking place faster.
Benvenuto said the case was over Medicare coverage of therapy to maintain a patients condition or to prevent deterioration, rather than just treatments aimed at improvements.
Medicare never wanted to cover people just to maintain their present condition, he said. The impact on your grandmother would be if she needs a skilled nurse to come in every two weeks to maintain her position, that should be covered.
Vermonts position in the national class-action lawsuit was unusual, Benvenuto said, in that the Vermont Medicaid program often covers such treatment. Providers will be able to get reimbursed more by billing Medicare, he said, and the state will save money with those claims no longer going to Medicaid.
Benvenuto also said the decision would apply to preventive services, reducing overall costs from hospitalization and complications.
The lead plaintiff in the lawsuit was a Vermont woman, Glenda Jimmo of Lincoln. Blind and diabetic, Jimmo was denied Medicare coverage for home health care because her condition was deemed unlikely to improve.
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American enfant terrible Harmony Korine's characters are all so self-absorbed that they never quite realize just how freakish they are. The sideshow characters in "Spring Breakers" are prettier than Korine's usual protagonists, especially when compared to the Halloween-mask-clad stars of his last film, "Trash Humpers." But that difference only accentuates the joke that Korine ("Gummo," "Mister Lonely") leans too hard on throughout "Spring Breakers": here are attractive monsters. Their primary aspirations in life are to doff their clothes, take drugs and generally push themselves to new levels of MTV-approved Bacchanalian debauchery.
So, Korine's latest is a characteristically serious film about inherently ridiculous characters, but it's too montonous to be really thoughtful or funny. Korine genuinely loves the amoral posturing of his bikini-clad, thrill-seeking co-ed protagonists, but eventually it all feels like too much of the same thing. "Spring Breakers" has moments as provocatively clever as Korine's better works, but its mainly attractive for its abundant superficial pleasures.
Four nubile college students dream of bass-heavy pop music, day-glo bikinis, and booze-soaked simulations of sex. They want to be objectified, to put themselves in positions where they're assumed to be naive and insanely over-sexed eye candy. Spring break is, as Faith (Selena Gomez) puts it, the girls' chance to see things that they've never seen before, an understatement given how lost in the Floridian funhouse they eventually get.
The girls save up money, but discover that they don't have even half of what they need. So, out of sheer boredom and desperation, and armed with balaclavas, hammers, and (realistic-looking) toy guns, they rob a nearby diner. This is the first transgressive act that the quartet commits, and therefore the most shocking. Maybe the these girls-behaving-badly aren't as phony as they seem. They tease each other and the people around them but only because they ironically treat the real danger that they routinely put themselves in like, as one girl puts it, a video game. While easily ignoring the fratboys who routinely hit them up for sex, the girls become prey for more serious thugs, like James Franco's Alien, a gun-toting rapper who gives voice to the group's mantra: "Spring break forever."
At what point does simulated/learned behavior end, and innate personality take over? That's the most exciting thing about "Spring Breakers" — not just the role-reversals, but the characters' uneasy attempts at becoming the people they're posing as.
Still, even that main theme gets annoying after a while because Korine doesn't develop it; he just repeats it. The click of a lighter as it heats up a bong, amplified to the point where it sounds like a gun being cocked, makes for an effective transition between scenes — but it loses impact after three, four, then five times. By that point it's apparent that the noise is just a meaningless gimmick.
Likewise, the members of Korine's quartet are pretty much interchangeable. Faith, The Virginal One, is the only one who really stands out. Faith is inevitably the first to bridle at Korine's image of spring break as a lascivious day-glo gauntlet of throbbing body parts. "Spring Breakers" doesn't follow a conventional plot, but each new encounter tests the girls' collective resolve until they eventually become supporting characters in their own story. At that point, Alien becomes the film's main subject since he assumes he's an idol to the girls. But as a grill-sporting hustler who crows about the bundles of cash, weed, and guns he owns, Alien's just an intermediary step between the girls and Archie (Gucci Mane), the drug dealer/pimp who taught Alien how to be a real "gangsta" (ie: to treat Brian DePalma's "Scarface" as both a masterpiece and a way of life).
By refusing to out-and-out say that Alien's role model is just as inauthentic as he is, Korine proves that his film's ideas about authenticity are mostly reliant on titillating suggestion. It doesn't really matter how Archie learned to act phony because by the time he shows up in "Spring Breakers," Korine's pretty much made his skimpy point. There are effectively disturbing — part-funny, part-scary — scenes throughout the film, as when Alien heartily fellates two guns leveled at his head, or when Alien and the girls perform Britney Spear's "Everytime" in a musical montage that has them singing on the beach, and robbing people in a video game arcade at the same time. But that's all the movie has to reveal: a food-chain of fakers.
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Are Multivitamins Worth the Cost?
A pill packed with lots of nutrients-a multivitamin-may seem like the perfect shortcut to healthy living. Chances are, though, you're already getting all the vitamins and minerals you need from the foods you eat. So unless you have a nutritional deficiency, multivitamins may not provide much health benefit.
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A recent review of 21 studies on multivitamins found that they don't improve overall health. Most notably, they don't help protect against heart disease or cancer. Another recent study echoes that conclusion-at least for your heart. Researchers followed more than 14,000 men over an average of 11 years. Men on multivitamins didn't have a lower risk for heart disease. Yet those same men were slightly less likely to develop cancer.
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Regardless of the research, it's still a good idea to be cautious about multivitamins, especially if you are otherwise healthy. That's because too much of some nutrients can be bad for you. Consider iron. Many of us consume enough iron each day through food alone. But if you take a multivitamin loaded with iron, you may overdose on this valuable nutrient. High levels of iron can damage your liver and other organs.
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Nearly three-quarters of people who choose to take a supplement do so without their doctor's recommendation. That may not be the best approach. Your doctor can help you decide if a supplement is right for you based on your personal health history and dietary needs.
Always talk with your health care provider to find out more information.
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Dietary supplements are more than vitamins and minerals; they include herbs, amino acids, even enzymes-basically anything that adds to your diet. Some people, such as pregnant women or older adults, may benefit from certain supplements. If you choose to take one, be smart about it:
Talk with your doctor about any supplements you are taking. He or she can help ensure you avoid any adverse reactions.
Don't buy supplements that contain more than the daily recommended amount of any vitamins and minerals. Taking too much of certain nutrients can raise your risk for serious side effects.
Beware of words like "natural" on the label. Some supplements may contain products that are natural, but that doesn't mean they are safe for you.
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Friday, June 26, 2009
Self Publishing & Other Friday Topics
First up, novelist JA Konrath posted an article called "Should You Self Publish?" and I know many authors ask this question - Should I self publish my book? In fact, just yesterday I met with an aspiring author and did my best to field this very question for her. So check out the blog post, it presents some interesting perspective on the topic. And I'm curious, what is your general response to the idea of self publishing? Is it lame? Would it work for you? Is perspective on self publishing changing?
Konrath begins with the thesis that the answer to the post's titular question is, "It depends." He writes:
"There are no short cuts, no easy paths to success, no matter how you publish. You're going to wind up marketing, promoting, and working hard whatever you decide. Traditional publishing has the advantages of big money and a huge distribution network, though you might not get either even if you are traditionally published. Self-publishing is an alternative, but at the time of this writing it still lacks in too many areas compared to trad pubbing, except in some circumstances. Your job is to figure out what it is you want, and then decide on the best way to get it. Should you self-publish? It depends."
More on his blog.
Next, another video from the wonderful TED speaker's series. Yes, I am in love with the TED presentations, and the one below is no exception. Celebrated novelist Amy Tan speaks on creativity and the helpfulness of childhood trauma....huh? Yeah, she's funny.
Finally, a link to a Michael Jackson-themed bit of interest, at least to me. I remember watching the Jackson's "Smooth Criminal" video over and over and wondering how he was able to lean over so far on the dance floor. I thought it was trick photography, but no!
Apparently Jackson patented a pair of special leaning shoes for that move that he then went on to use on his lives tours. See them here along with a video of Jackson performing the move live. Rest In Peace Michael.
Have a great weekend.
5 comments:
- Lady Glamis said...
Great post! It's nice to see that no matter how we publish, it's going to be very hard. And I love the TED videos, too. If you haven't seen this one, with Elizabether Gilbert, check it out! I listen to it all the time when I'm depressed about writing.
- Anita said...
Yours are some of the few links I click. Great resources, interesting stuff. Thank you!
- kate keeley said...
Thank you for another inspiring journey into the mysterious world of writing. I'm going to spend some time contemplating the questions I'm here to answer because I have long felt that writing--fiction, non-fiction, faction, or whatever--needs to be a gift to the reader. You have been one of my random events that gives me focus. I appreciate that!
- Kori said...
I'm rather of the opinion that self publishing is crap, as is e-publishing, but then, I'm a hard-core booklover with a lot of stock put in books from TOR, Del-Rey, Random House, Ballantine, and Daw. (Er... not literal stock. The stock market is one of the Great Mysteries of Life to me.)
When I write (and I write for myself, but I also keep the vision of walking into my preferred book store and finding my name on the shelves clear in my mind) I want it to be... official. Getting the recognition of publication by a major publishing house is for me the equivalent of a major athlete standing on top of the mountain they've just conquered and screaming HERE I AM! Anyone can 'self-publish.' But only the worthy pass the many trials and tribulations involved in trad pubbing (to thief your word from you).
- thepix said...
Oh, Yay! Amy Tan! I just love her.
That was an amazing talk! Thanks so much for posting it!


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Genomics of Cultivated PalmsBy
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Bioinformatics offers novel tools and resources to analyze plant genomes and genes. The complete genomes of two important commercial palms (dates and oil palm) have recently been sequenced. This offers scope for many computational tools to decipher the synteny, collinearity and common and unique genes of palms.
This book reviews the latest developments in this field.
Graduate students, teachers and researchers of genetics, biotechnology, bioinformatics, horticulture, and molecular biology
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Published: December 2011
Imprint: Elsevier
- Chapter 1 Introduction
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Piedmont Holiness Church brought baked goods as did Heather Smyth and her Taekwondo group. Senior citizens began serving chili at noon and served for the rest of the day.
Word said he was thankful the rain held off for the parade, which was at 5 p.m.
"By 4 o'clock, there was no rain," he said. "Not even a mist. It actually ended up being a perfect day for a parade."
The parade started at the National Guard Armory and ended at the civic center. Calhoun County Commissioner Rudy Abbott was the grand marshal.
"Just as he does in anything," said Word, "Rudy did a good job for us."
Parade entries were down this year because of the weather. According to Word, there were 50-60 entries instead of the usual 75-85, a number he said he's happy with.
"Everything ran smoothly," he said. "You couldn't have asked for it to have been any better. Some who had signed up didn't show up because they weren't sure what the weather was going to do."
Word said parade units included scouts, churches, businesses, Piedmont High School's band and cheerleaders, beauty pageant winners, two fire trucks, two rescue squad vehicles, two fire trucks from the White Plains Voluntary Fire Department, the Piedmont Throttle Kings, and the Cherokee Car Cruisers, which he recruited several years ago. Also in the parade was the city's new John Deere Gator, used for search and rescue, which was purchased with a grant.
After the parade, everyone adjourned back to the civic center, where more chili was served by senior citizens and Word announced the parade winners.
The most original entry went to Bethel Family Worship Center, whose pastor is Rev. Sherry Donaldson.
The Pool Doctor won in the best theme category.
Best overall entry was Friendship Friday Youth Group of River East Baptist Church in Gadsden.
Honorable mention went to Seventh Day Adventist Church, whose pastor is Ricky Blythe.
Ben Singleton and Carl Hinton coordinated the parade, while Dan and Carolyn Freeman were in charge of the festival at the civic center.
When Word was asked to chair the parade in 2005, he said he immediately recruited Ben Singleton. Health problems caused Word to miss being master of ceremonies in 2011. He came back in 2012 and has been onboard for the past two years, sitting in on meetings prior to the parade and festival.
"I enjoy doing it," said Word. "It's one of my social networks now that I'm retired."
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Career Profile: Ann Bykerk-Kauffman
Ann Bykerk-Kauffman. Photo courtesy of Ann Bykerk-Kauffman.
California State University-Chico
California State University-Chico is a public comprehensive university.
Ann Bykerk-Kauffman
is one of the leaders of the 2006 Preparing for an Academic Career in the Geosciences Workshop. Prior to the workshop, we asked each of the leaders to describe their careers, for the benefit of workshop participants, by answering the questions below.
Click on a topic to read Ann Bykerk-Kauffman's answer to an individual question, or scroll down to read the entire profile: Educational background and career path * Current job responsibilities * Best part of the job * Challenges and strategies * Qualifications * Balancing work and life * Advice
Briefly describe your educational background and career path.
BS: Grand Valley State University (a small 6000-student public 4-year college when I was there; it is now a much larger comprehensive university). MS and PhD: University of Arizona. I began teaching at CSU Chico immediately after receiving my PhD.
Briefly describe your current job responsibilities, perhaps by describing a typical day, week, or semester.
I am in the classroom about 12 hours/week. I teach 3 classes/semester (includes labs). I talk one-on-one with students about 4 hours/week; e-mail takes an additional 2-3 hours/week. I spend an average of 4 hours/week doing committee work and attending meetings. Class preparation and grading take up about 15 hours/week during the semester; I also spend several weeks before classes start and after they end doing class preparation and grading.
What do you like best about your work?
The flexible work hours and the freedom to choose how I teach, what research I do, what I publish on, what what committees I serve on. Turning students on to science. Watching and helping students mature into true professionals. Sabbaticals.
What is the most challenging aspect of your work? What strategies have you developed for tackling that challenge?
The demands on faculty are high and are continually increasing. There just isn't enough time; some things are simply left undone. To tackle that challenge, I say "no" to a lot of requests on my time. I try to stay focused on what I really want to do and what I consider truly important.
What qualifications do you think made you competitive in your job search(es)?
Big-name university and advisor, publication in both Geology and the Journal of Geological Education as a graduate student.
Many of the graduate students and post-doctoral fellows in these workshops are interested in balancing a family and career, in dual career couple issues, and in how other personal choices affect the search for a fulfilling career. Please share information about your situation, your ideas and experiences.
My husband is a software engineer. We lived on my salary alone for five years while he was a full-time student; it was very hard to make ends meet. We are now a dual-career couple with a good situation. He has the high-paying job; I have the secure job. We both work flexible (albeit LONG) hours and can work at home a lot, which makes it possible to be with the children and get them to and from school, soccer practice, music lessons, doctor's appointments, etc. I had one child while writing my dissertation and one during my first sabbatical. The 8-year spacing actually works very well. Choose a place to live that makes it easy to do the things you want and need to do. I squeeze in exercise by bicycle commuting (to work, to my children's schools, to shopping); living in a bicycle-friendly town has made a HUGE difference in my quality of life.
What advice do you have for graduate students or post-docs preparing for academic careers in geoscience? What do you know now that you wish you had known as you started your career?
Get as much teaching experience as possible; as possible, take an active leadership role the classes you teach, developing lab activities, doing some lecturing, overseeing other graduate students, etc. Give lots of presentations at professional meetings. Develop relationships with researchers at a variety of institutions. Completely finish writing the journal articles on your dissertation before starting a teaching job but, if you have a job lined up when you graduate, don't submit them for publication until after you start teaching (that way, you will probably receive credit for them when tenure comes around).
Times have changed for public higher education. Most public universities are very strapped for funds. The job of raising money is increasingly falling onto the shoulders of faculty. Location and lifestyle are very important, perhaps more important even than the job itself.


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This pump works really well because you can easily angle the shield around your nipple while pumping which you may need to do to get as much milk out as possible. It can be discreet and easily put on and off. You can you things with your other hand while pumping and walk from room to room if you need. It is very difficult to do anything with the hands free pump because you can only move away as far as the tubes or the cord from the pump and it is not easy to do things in frotn of you with two big plastic contraptions hanging off of your chest. The only disadvantage is you can only do one breast at a time, but I find that to not be such a drawback since I can still do things with the other hand. I have even nursed my baby with the other breast while hand pumping the other easily.
I tried both manual and electri breast pumps. I was able to express more milk with this maual pump using a L breastshield. I am a larger woman (36DD).
I have both the Pump In Style and the Harmony, and I absolutely love the Harmony. It works incredibly well in my experience and is small enough and compact enough that I can just throw it in my bag if I'm going out and am not sure whether or not I will need to pump. I am now using it for my second child and I haven't had to replace any parts except for the white valve cover, which is to be expected. Whenever people ask what manual pump to get I always recommend this one.
Love this product so much. Did not work well for my 1st baby but works great when I have my 2nd baby. Maybe because my milk is not much at that time. Able to get same amount of milk in less time compare my other brand of electric pump.
I love this product! I bought a Medela Pump In Style before my son was born, I used that pump for awhile however it did not keep up my milk supply so I tried the Manual pump that the hospital had given me which was this product, it has worked so much better. My nipples felt so relieved I felt that the electric was too rough on my nipples, with the manual you have better control. I went out and bought another one from the store so I have one in my diaper bag and one at the house. I am able to keep extra milk in the fridge all with a $40 product. The double electric was too many parts and not convenient for me the Harmony is simple to put together at 2 in the morning when I am not functioning. When I am pumping at work I don't have to lug around a bunch of parts and a motor, this product makes everything simple. People think Manuals will hurt your hand however I have not had one pain in my hand from pumping with the Harmony. Buy this before you buy an electric don't waste money on an electric.
It only took two sessions to master this little wonder! I used the piston model, the hospital sends home, for over a month. I rented a hospital grade pump with my previous son. This model is simple, small, quiet, quick, and takes very little effort to operate. I'm at 2 months with this model. I still love it and it's extremely easy to clean! Thanks for making products I can trust to help, instead of frustrating me further!
I breast fed my baby for a whole year even though I returned to work when she was 7 months! this pump is excellent I really used it everywhere. I even managed to go abroad on a one-day trip w/o my baby and just with the pump! I expressed a good amount for a 24hrs supply for my baby using Medela Harmony and I do recommend it. I used to breast feed my baby from one breast and meanwhile express from the other breast and this was one of the great things I do not regret I bought - value for money!!
I am able to get more milk out with the Medela Harmony in a shorter amount of time than I can using my double playtex pump. The 2 phase expression really works. I still have to miss a normal feeding to get enough to make it worth while but I have started using it between feedings to try and build my milk supply and can usually get a feedings worth out throughout the day.
I have travel electric single, and 2 Medela Harmony pumps. My Harmony gets more BM out than the single electric pump. I love it so much! Best quality and I recommend to every one.
My one complaint about this product is that the O-ring has broken twice on my pump (I don't use it a ton). It is a very small but very important part, the pump does not work very well at all without this small piece. The problem is medela only sales this little piece with the diaphragm, puller and o-ring and that costs $20 dollars and you can only buy it online. I called Medela 3 times and they haven't been very helpful. The reason I Love this pump is because when it has that piece and works, it works really well and is comfortable. We travel quite regularly and it is very convenient to be able to pump and feed on the go or in a place with no power outlets. I take it everywhere with me but I am very frustrated that I have to spend $20 on a little o-ring that keep breaking and that i have to order it online (not very helpful when I am traveling). other than that I love my medela harmony breastpump. Just wish the company would help me out a bit with this little piece that keeps breaking.
The diaphragm/o-ring piece that creates the suction has cracked TWICE in 6 months. I use it once a day, which I was told by Medela customer service is considered light use, so I'm not overusing it. The first time it cracked, I immediately noticed the decrease in suction and my 10 minutes of pumping turned into 40+, although I didn't know why at first. Upon inspection, I discovered the crack. Called customer service (who were very helpful and sent me a free replacement next day shipping). Was very satisfied. Then, it cracked again! 3 months later. Same exact thing happened. I called again...this time, they refused to send a replacement and told me I had to buy it (20$) which, if I recall, is about 1/2 the cost of the entire pump starter kit. To say the least, very unhappy that the company would not replace an obviously poor quality or poorly designed piece. Even more frustrating that they don't seem to have the understanding about how frustrating it is to be a full time working, breastfeeding/pumping mother, who uses this product every morning before work and COUNTS on it to work quickly and efficiently (which, normally it does, when it is not cracked) to provide morning milk for my baby when she wakes up and I'm at work, and to help keep up my supply. At work, I use the electric pump, so I don't want to use it in the morning and have to take the time in the morning to clean all those little pieces since I will need it later in the day. The hand pump is so quick and convenient to bang out a bottle or two right when I wake up. Anyways, happy with the product when it is working (works great!)- very dissatisfied that the diaphragm keeps cracking, and that the company will only replace it once when it is clearly a flaw in the product! Keep that in mind when choosing your brand of breast pump.
I have had this pump for 3 weeks and have used it maybe 6 times and already its lost its suction. Please fellow consumers don't be fouled by nice reviews like I was, this pump is a piece of S***.
I have been pumping for 9 days and it has stopped working. This was a complete waste of money.
I am surprised to see any good reviews on this product. It was a complete waste of $40 for me. I do love my electric double pump though.


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Soooo, I jailbroke my ipod and got the Safari download plugin 2.0 from cydia. I also got the FileViewer app from cydia to view the downloaded files. After trying to download some videos from dailymotion.com I encountered the following problems:
1) When I tried to download the video, it downloaded some 50kb of data, not nearly enough to be the 10min long video.
2)When I tried to simply stream the video, I got an error message saying that the video could not be played. This started after installing the safari download plugin, and it works fine if it is uninstalled.
3)When I went to try and view the "video" that I downloaded in the var/mobile/library/downloads directory, the file that should have been the video was instead the entire web page, excluding the video itself. Where the video was supposed to be there was the small cube icon usually displayed where a flash file is, even though dailymotion uses quicktime for its videos.
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Here's an ambitious goal: improve the nation's voting systems. Why wouldn't that win in a landslide? Because no partisans would favor reforms that appear to advantage their opponents.
Fair enough. That's why Make Voting Work, an initiative of the Pew Center on the States, approaches its work thoroughly schooled in the center's strategy of moving issues forward based on nonpartisan, rock-solid data and information.
"Elections should be a time to celebrate the strength of our democracy, but the 2008 elections find the rules of the game in flux," says Michael Caudell-Feagan, director of Make Voting Work. "Policies, practices and technologies, despite good-faith efforts, are being instituted and discarded without an adequate base of evidence. As a result, the integrity of our elections is relentlessly questioned."
To help fill the knowledge gap, Make Voting Work and the JEHT Foundation have joined to fund projects seeking new ways to measure the health and performance of elections and develop and evaluate pilot projects offering innovative approaches to improve the election process.
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The Arts Council today announced that it has awarded €3.3m in bursaries over the past three years to allow 375 Irish artists develop their full potential and create great work.The positive impact of the funding was recognised today at a special outdoor concert in Merrion Square Park where An Taoiseach, Enda Kenny TD, delivered a keynote address which celebrated Irish artistic talent, creativity and potential. The Arts Council, the body responsible for funding, developing and promoting the arts in Ireland, hosted the event.Throughout the day, there were a range of onstage performances from internationally renowned Irish artists such as Julie Feeney, Iarla Ó Lionáird and Anne Enright, many of whom received Arts Council bursaries or other help at the beginning of their careers. There was also a special tribute to the late Seamus Heaney who was himself an Arts Council bursary award recipient. Each year, the Arts Council receives hundreds of applications for financial assistance from emerging artists, as well as those already becoming established but not yet commercially successful. The artistic talent is so significant, and resources so scarce, that the bursaries scheme is highly competitive, with just one artist succeeding for every seven that apply.The Arts Council bursaries, which are up to a maximum of €15,000 per annum, help artists who have no other income to alleviate the financial pressure of pursing their talents. Speaking at the event, Pat Moylan, Chairman of the Arts Council, said: "Turning potential into success requires three elements - talent, time and funding. The talent Ireland possesses is unquestionable. However, no matter how talented an individual is, it may take time for their potential to be realised and it certainly requires money, especially at the beginning of a career. This is the reason that Arts Council bursaries are so important to those who receive them. They offer the breathing space which is so necessary in order to allow ideas to flourish.Artists have been receiving Arts Council bursaries for decades now and rarely have they been as important as they are today, with many people under financial pressure. The purpose of an Arts Council bursary is to support professional artists at all stages in their careers and in the development of their arts practice. The aim of the award is to allow artists, working in any context or in any art form, to buy space and freedom to concentrate on a body of work that will ultimately benefit the wider community." Speaking today, Orlaith McBride, Director of the Arts Council, said:"Ireland's artistic future is represented through the bursary winners here today. Throughout the world, this country is recognised as a hub of imagination and creativity. It is by nurturing and encouraging this creativity that we are able to retain and enhance our reputation on the global stage.
By supporting indigenous talent, the Arts Council is ensuring that communities across Ireland will continue to benefit from great art many years from now. I would like to highly commend and thank each one of the bursary award recipients here today for their rigorous devotion to their craft."
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