text: In this Issue: Staff News 10th Annual October Conference PubMed Search Tip: Using My NCBI Filters Journal Changes in 2007 Consumer Health Information Upcoming Workshops Volume 1 Issue 3 January 2007 Biomedical Libraries Administration 650-1662 From the Director centers for life-long learning. William Garrity As information technology advances, it demands its own space—space to bring you Director of Biomedical Libraries The nature of together with technology and our expert libraries as staff that help you find, retrieve, and physical places manage information. The library is an Dana Biomedical Library is changing. important locus for the application of infor- Monday-Friday 7am - 12mid This is no sur- mation technology. (I credit my colleague Saturday 9am - 12mid prise, given the Jim Shedlock, at Northwestern, with this Sunday 9am - 12mid increasing observation.) availability of At Dartmouth, specifically, there are Circulation 650-1658 digital informa- changes coming that affect your Biomedical Reference Desk 650-1660 tion and the Libraries. Construction of the McLaughlin Computing and lessened preva- Residential Cluster added 350 undergradu- lence of print. I Media Services 650-1663 ate beds immediately to the south of the believe that Dana Biomedical Library. The new dorms Fax 650-1354 Bill Garrity health and life have been open just a few months, but sciences libraries—Dartmouth's included—are already we're seeing more undergraduates transitioning to "information commons" for than in years past. Matthews-Fuller Health our clients—researchers, Sciences Library clinicians, students, and patients and An undergraduate Life Sciences Building will be built just to the north of Dana; the Monday-Thursday 8am - 11pm patients' families. building should be occupied in March 2010. Friday 8am - 6pm According to Wendy Pradt Lougee (in The Class of 1953 Dining Commons is Saturday 9am - 5pm Diffuse Libraries: Emergent Roles for the planned for just west of Dana, with occu- Sunday 1pm- 9pm Research Library in the Digital Age—http:// pancy scheduled for March 2009. And the www.clir.org/pubs/reports/pub108/ Medical School's existing Remsen and Vail contents.html), libraries are shifting Circulation 650-7658 laboratories are being renovated. Reference Desk 650-7660 · from emphasizing the value of So, the Dana Library will be at the center of Fax 650-4372 collections, to emphasizing the value a newly active north campus. The renova- of expertise tions described in the last newsletter are an · from supporting information description initial step to make Dana an information and access, to taking responsibility for commons for the campus. greater information analysis For Newsletter inquires contact: · from serving as a support agency, to There will be changes affecting the Cindy Stewart 650-4967 serving as a collaborator Matthews-Fuller Health Sciences Library, email@example.com · from a facility-based enterprise, to a too. Much of the Medical School's growth in campus-wide enterprise. faculty and research is at DHMC. Construc- Lora L. Thompson 650-1683 tion of the Koop Medical Science Complex firstname.lastname@example.com I don't think libraries are disappearing. They (KMSC) will begin in late summer 2007, with are physical spaces and digital services. I occupancy in fall 2009. We're planning on Marcia Welsh, Editorial Assistant envision a library as a place where librarians deploying Biomedical Libraries staff within collaborate and consult with many of you— the KSMC to be close to our clients in this David Izzo, Photographer researchers, clinicians, and students. Our important new initiative for the medical libraries are places where biology, medical, center campus. Best wishes to you for the nursing, and resident students study, both New Year from the staff of the Biomedical individually and in small groups. Patients Libraries. We look forward to working with and patients' families come to us to find you during 2007. information and be educated about health and wellness. Libraries are, at the core, http://www.dartmouth.edu/~biomed/ Dartmouth College Library Page 1 Staff News The 10th Annual Bill Garrity, Director, Biomedical Libraries, attended October Conference the Association of American Medical Colleges For the 10th consecutive year, the Biomedical Libraries (AAMC) annual meeting October 27-November 1, planned, organized, and sponsored a day-long regional in Seattle. conference for librarians. While this annual event typically attracts librarians from New England, there has On October 15-17 Biomedical Libraries staff at- been increased participation from individuals traveling a tended the annual conference of the North Atlantic greater distance, including attendees from the mid-west, Health Science Libraries (NAHSL) organization. and presenters from Alabama and California. The con- These included: Heather Blunt, DHA Consulting ference is limited to 120 attendees and this year it was Librarian and Research and Education Librarian; full just one week after opening registration. Cheryl Wheelock, Library Operations Supervisor; The October Conference is dedicated to in-depth cover- Marcia Welsh, Library Services Assistant; Peggy age of a single practical topic for librarians to utilize in Sleeth, Cindy Stewart, and Lora Thompson, Asso- their various institutions. At this year's conference, ciate Directors; and Bill Garrity. NAHSL is a profes- called "Cool Tools and New Technologies," we explored sional group of health sciences librarians from the new online tools, software, services, and hardware. New England region. Presentation topics included RSS feeds and readers, wikis, blogs, iPods, emerging mobile technologies, social Peggy Sleeth, Associate Director/Information Re- networking, and tips on technology integration. sources, attended the Charleston Conference, The keynote speaker was Roy Tennant, User Services November 8-11, 2006. The Charleston Conference Architect with the California Digital Library at the Univer- is an annual gathering of librarians, publishers, sity of California. His presentation titled "Never the electronic resource managers, consultants, and Same River: Libraries and Technological Change," took vendors of library materials in Charleston, SC, to the audience through a comparison of white water rafting discuss issues of importance to them all. and the process libraries need to go through to support technological change. We looked in awe at the pictures Cindy Stewart, Associate Director/Health Sciences and learned how to foster rapid and effective changes in Library, reviewed web-based resources focused on technology. spirituality in cancer, for the Spring 2006 issue of For additional information and to view the PowerPoint the Journal of Cancer Education (J Cancer Educ. presentations go to: http://www.dartmouth.edu/~biomed/ 2006 Spring;21(1):4-5). services.htmld/OctCon2006/ Marcia Welsh attended a NorthEast Regional Com- puting Program (NERCOMP) workshop, "Train the Trainer: Graphic Design for Printed Materials," on November 14, in Amherst, MA. We are sorry to announce that Jill Wilcox is not returning to her position as Stacks Supervisor at the Dana Biomedical Library. Prior to joining the Biomedical Libraries in June 2000, Jill worked at the Storage Library for two years and for Dartmouth Dining Services for several years before that. We thank Jill for her service and wish her well. Roberta Donahue has retired from Dartmouth College. Roberta was Document Delivery Special- ist from May 1963 through December 2000—that's 36 years!—and on leave since January 2001. We all wish her the very best. http://www.dartmouth.edu/~biomed Page 2 PubMed Search Tip: Using My NCBI Filters to Group Your Search Results The PubMed interface for searching the Medline database offers additional services beyond just searching the litera- ture for journal articles. They are part of "My NCBI" (NCBI is the National Center for Biotechnology Information, a divi- sion of the National Library of Medicine at the National Institutes of Health). My NCBI is free, and it includes a variety of features. This article focuses on My NCBI's filters feature that groups search results by areas of interest. Note: To use My NCBI, your Web browser must be set to accept cookies and to allow pop-ups from NCBI Web pages. My NCBI allows you to customize up to five search filters that can Registering for My NCBI (takes less than five min- automatically organize, sort, and limit search results. Using filters utes!) gives you the option to quickly review all articles or just those limited to a specific grouping. Once you've selected your filters, To use My NCBI, you must first register for an account. Simply click "Register" on the My NCBI your results with their respective "counts" for the current search are header on the PubMed search page. automatically displayed as tabs, next to the "All" tab (total results). The other default filter is publication type, "Review." There are many Next, fill in the boxes in the online registration form. Enter a user name (3-10 alpha-numeric more filters from which to choose to customize your results, includ- characters) and a password (6-8 alpha-numeric ing: characters). Choose a security question and an- ·Dartmouth (limits retrieval to articles available from Dartmouth swer so that if you forget your password, you can get it reset. in either electronic or print format) Signing In to and Out of My NCBI ·Therapy/Narrow (limits retrieval to randomized controlled trials Once you have registered for My NCBI, you can using PubMed's Clinical Queries feature). The filter limits immediately begin to use it. will show up as separate tabs at the top of the search • Click Sign In from the My NCBI header. results display screen. • Enter your user name and password. ·English • Click the Keep me signed in unless I sign out ·Human Subjects checkbox to create a permanent cookie so that after you sign in, My NCBI will be available from To change your filter selections: your computer without signing in again. 1. Sign in to My NCBI. 2. Click the tool icon to the right of the filter tabs to link to the Quick Pick list of commonly-requested filters (e.g., filter for articles published in English, filter for research with human subjects). 3. Click in the boxes to select or deselect filters. 4. To view additional options click "Browse" or "Search" for additional filters: a. "Browse" to browse filters by category. Filters in the Link Out category separate results by full text providers, libraries, and other outside resources (e.g., you may want to add a filter lab for your Dartmouth's holdings to your search results); the Links category lists filters available for items that have links to other Entrez databases, e.g., gene, protein and structure information; subject-related filters are under Properties, with over 70 filter options which characterize properties of the research or publication, including those also found on PubMed's Limits screen. b. "Search" to search the filter names and descriptions. c. "My Selections" to display the active filters and icon settings. 5. Your filter selections are in effect only when you are signed in to My NCBI. Note: When you click on the filter tab a tack symbol will appear in the tab. Click the tack to append the filter to your search. The information in this article is from the My NCBI Help web page: http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/books/bv.fcgi?rid=helppubmed.section.pubmedhelp.My_NCBI. For more information contact the Biomedical Libraries Reference Desk at 650-7660 or 650-1660 or send email to firstname.lastname@example.com http://www.dartmouth.edu/~biomed Page 3 Journal Changes in 2007 Each year, the Biomedical Libraries' subscription lists are examined to see where trims might be made or other economies achieved. This helps us to cope with the high rate of inflation for journal subscriptions and consider adding titles that might better meet our mission to support the research, education, and patient care activities of the College, Medical School, and Medical Center. New journal subscriptions beginning in 2007 Disease-a-Month Cell Cycle (online-only) DNA and Cell Biology Child and Adolescent Psychiatric Clinics of North Gastroenterology America (print at MF) Infection and Immunity Clinical and Vaccine Immunology (online-only) Infection Control and Hospital Epidemiology Clinical Gastroenterology and Hepatology (online-only) Inquiry Clinical Microbiology Reviews (online-only) Integrative and Comparative Biology Eukaryotic Cell (online-only) IUBMB Life Foot and Ankle International (online-only) JOGNN Frontiers in Bioscience Journal of Alternative and Complementary Medicine International Journal of Biostatistics Journal of Bacteriology Journal of Patient Safety (online-only) Journal of Clinical Microbiology Journal of Sustainable Forestry (print at Dana and Journal of Family Practice online) Journal of Field Ornithology Journal of the International Neuropsychological Society Journal of Forensic Sciences (online-only) Molecular Imaging (online-only) Journal of Infectious Diseases Nature Protocols (online-only) Journal of Investigative Surgery Prehospital and Disaster Medicine (print at Dana and Journal of Law, Medicine and Ethics online) Journal of Medicine and Philosophy Research Practitioner (print at MF) Journal of Plankton Research Worldviews on Evidence-Based Nursing (online-only) Journal of Rural Health Journals cancelled as of 2007 Journal of the American Dietetic Association Advances in Insect Physiology Journal of the History of Medicine and Allied Sciences International Ophthalmology Clinics Journal of Toxicology and Environmental Health Journal of Interferon and Cytokine Research Journal of Urology Pathology, Research and Practice Journal of Virology Phytopathology an International Journal Journal of Wildlife Management Progress in Nucleic Acid Research and Molecular Journal of Women's Health Biology Laboratory Investigation Systematic Botany+ Medical Teacher Journals transitioning to online-only in 2007 Medicine Conflict and Survival Acta Oncologica Microbiology and Molecular Biology Reviews Acta Paediatrica Molecular and Cellular Biology Advances in Neonatal Care Molecular Biology and Evolution Ambulatory Pediatrics Neuroepidemiology American Journal of Epidemiology Otolaryngology, Head and Neck Surgery American Journal of Human Genetics Pediatrics American Naturalist Perspectives in Psychiatric Care Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences Physiological and Biochemical Zoology Antimicrobial Agents and Chemotherapy Progress in Cardiovascular Diseases Applied and Environmental Microbiology Psychopathology Behavior Therapy Psychotherapy and Psychosomatics Biophysical Journal Quarterly Journal of Experimental Psychology British Journal of Neurosurgery Quarterly Review of Biology Clinical Infectious Diseases Research in Nursing and Health Clinical Pediatrics Respiration Critical Reviews in Biochemistry and Molecular Biology Scandinavian Journal of Clinical and Laboratory Critical Reviews in Microbiology Investigation Current Problems in Pediatric and Adolescent Health Scandinavian Journal of Gastroenterology Care Scandinavian Journal of Infectious Diseases Seminars in Oncology Nursing http://www.dartmouth.edu/~biomed Page 4 New! Consumer Health Information Journals from the in the Matthews-Fuller Library American Society for Microbiology Looking for a place to send your patients for credible and reliable information about their disease or condi- Beginning in 2007, Dartmouth/DHMC users will be able to access the full-text content of both current and tion? Do you want to find easy-to-understand health archived articles from 11 American Society for information for yourself or a family member? Then Microbiology (ASM) journals. Prior to 2007, only articles older than an embargo period (generally 12 come visit the Consumer Health Library located in the months) were available. For those titles that the Matthews-Fuller Health Sciences Library at DHMC. Libraries formerly received in print, the print will no longer be received. Three of the titles are new The Consumer Health Collection contains books, subscriptions for the Biomedical Libraries. videotapes, and DVDs on a wide variety of consumer The ASM journals are: health topics, such as heart disease, cancer, child Antimicrobial Agents and Chemotherapy health, prescription drugs, aging, and much more. Applied and Environmental Microbiology Material in the Consumer Health Library is indexed in Clinical and Vaccine Immunology the Dartmouth College Library Catalog Clinical Microbiology Reviews (http://libcat.dartmouth.edu). Eukaryotic Cell Patients, family members, and members of the Infection and Immunity general public may check out up to two items from this Journal of Bacteriology library for one week; registration and presentation of Journal of Clinical Microbiology identification are required. Dartmouth College and Journal of Virology DHMC faculty, staff, and students may check out Microbiology and Molecular Biology Reviews books for four weeks; videotapes circulate for one Molecular and Cellular Biology week. For more information about the ASM package, or Links to consumer health web sites (http:// about any of the other journal changes for 2007, contact Peggy Sleeth, Associate Director/Information www.dartmouth.edu/~biomed/resources.htmld/ Resources, 650-1635 or email conshealth.htmld/) are available from the Biomedical firstname.lastname@example.com Libraries Web (see below). These sites have been selected by librarians, but the resources presented here are intended to provide public access to a wide Attention range of health and disease information and should PubMed/Loansome Doc Users not be construed as medical advice or be used as a If you have been ordering copies of articles found in substitute for consultation with a health care profes- PubMed by using "Send to Order" and Loansome Doc, sional. watch for an email announcing important changes in the system. We anticipate that beginning sometime in The Consumer Health Library is available during all mid- to late-February, your article orders will go directly hours that the Matthews-Fuller Health Sciences from PubMed into Dartmouth's DartDoc system and Library is open (see page 1). Library staff are happy to that Loansome Doc will no longer be used. assist patients and their family members with locating Current Loansome Doc users will be emailed detailed the information. For more information, contact the instructions when the new system is ready. Matthews-Fuller Library at 650-7658. http://www.dartmouth.edu/~biomed Page 5 Upcoming Workshops Using NCBI For additional information and to register, please go to Molecular Biology Resources: http://www.dartmouth.edu/~biomed/, and click on A Lecture and Hands-On Workshop Workshop Calendar under General Information. PowerPoint Presentations: Advanced Tips and Tricks Thursday, January 4, 12-1:30 Wednesday, March 21 SurveyMonkey: Introduction to Creating and Managing Online Surveys on the Dartmouth College campus Tuesday, January 8, 12-1:30 Web of Science: Strategies for Effective Searching Lecture: 9 am—noon Friday, January 12, 12-1:30 (Filene Auditorium, Moore Hall) Refworks: Managing Citations and Bibliographies Computer sessions: 1—3 pm or 3:15—5:15 pm Monday, January 15, 12-1 (Baker-Berry Library) MEDLINE: Getting Started with PubMed Tuesday, January 25, 12-1:30 PowerPoint Presentations: Getting Started Bioinformatics training specialists from the Thursday, February 1, 12-1:30 National Center for Biotechnology Information Copyright and Fair Use: What Clinicians and Educators Need to Know (NCBI) will present their highly-regarded Wednesday, February 7, 12:30-2:00 Google Explorations: A Fun Overview program, "A Field Guide to GenBank and Thursday, February 15, 12-1:00 NCBI Molecular Biology Resources." The pro- MEDLINE: Advanced Strategies for Effective PubMed Searching Tuesday, February 20, 12-1:30 gram consists of a 3-hour morning lecture EndNote: Managing Citations and Bibliographies followed by a 2-hour instructor-led computer Tuesday, February 27, 12-1:30 workshop. During the afternoon session, PowerPoint Presentations: Advanced Tips and Tricks Friday, March 2, 12-1:30 participants will gain hands-on experience Collectors, Gentlemen, and Scientists: with the resources at the NCBI site and will Exploring the History of Science through Anatomies and learn how to apply these resources in their Cabinets of Curiosity Tuesday, March 6, 12-1:30 specific research area. Refworks: Managing Citations and Bibliographies Wednesday, March 14, 12-1 The course provides practical information MEDLINE: Getting Started with PubMed Monday, March 19, 12-1:30 about GenBank, RefSeq and the integrated PowerPoint Presentations: Getting Started genome resources, as well as the other data- Thursday, March 29, 12-1:30 bases maintained at the NCBI. It also pro- Library Grand Rounds 2007 vides instruction on effective use of Entrez and Blast, the two main database search Monday, March 12: Guest speaker Tom Luxon, Cheheyl Professor and Director of the Dartmouth Center for the Advancement of tools. Learning Tuesday, May 29: Collaborative Tools, presented by Susan Fliss, Dartmouth College Library Director of Education and Outreach, For more information and to register for this and Karen Odato, Biomedical Libraries Research and Education free workshop, see: Librarian http://www.dartmouth.edu/~biomed/ ncbi_seminar.shtml Tuesday, September 4: tba Tuesday, December 4: tba For questions, contact Lora L. Thompson via blitz or at 650-1683. Check the Biomedical Libraries Web for times and locations. http://www.dartmouth.edu/~biomed Page 6


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Hair – if you are a mammal, you have it and you may be interested in nutritional ways to keep it healthy and looking good. Think about your pets and livestock. You can really tell when they are in good shape by looking at their coat. A good shiny silky coat on an animal reflects good internal health. The same is true in humans.
Let's think about animal care for hair. When one of my pets has a rough coat, the first thing I do is worm them. Typically that fixes the problem. If not, I add a trace mineral supplement and some omega 3 oils to their diet (my pets stay on these.)
For animals, the issues tend to be relatively simple because they usually eat diets that are good for them. For humans the issues tend to be more complex because there are so many foods we can eat that can really upset our metabolism over the long run.
The simple things to do to improve the look of your hair are to fix digestion and add trace minerals and omega 3 oils. By fixing digestion, I mean to make sure that you are actually able to assimilate the nutrients in your food and in any supplements you may be taking. This typically means adding a digestive enzyme and sometimes doing a whole body cleanse and a parasite cleanse. It does not mean taking anything that blocks stomach acid. Stomach acid is necessary for health and for assimilation essential nutrients such as those that help make healthy hair.
Another issue with hair is acidity. If the pH of the body is too acid, hair will fall out. The Atkins diet is a great example of an acid diet. I have met many who had hair loss on the Atkins diet. You can get the pH of your body more balanced by eating more vegetables and cutting out the really acid forming foods in your diet. The most acid forming foods are the artificial sweeteners, sugar, and coffee. You can also balance your pH by taking coral calcium.
The hardest issues to deal with on hair are hormonal. Hypothyroidism is a common cause of hair loss, particularly in women. The most prevalent reason for hypothyroidism is heavy metal toxicity. There are good natural supplements that help the body detoxify heavy metals and there are good supplements that help nourish and balance the thyroid gland.
For men, the hormonal issues tend to be a renegade form of testosterone which can be managed with supplements like chrysin and beta-sitosterol. However, if the loss is due to genetic male pattern baldness, I find that you can slow it down, but it is really hard to stop.
Other products that I have seen help with hair include Ho Shu Wu, a Chinese herb whose name translates to something like "full head of shiny black hair". Ho Shu Wu is also known as Fo Ti and is found in the Shen Min products that many people love for hair growth. Horsetail is another popular herb for hair growth. It contains silica, a trace mineral that is an essential building block for hair, bones and fingernails. I have also seen great results with noni and super green food supplements like chlorella and blue-green algae.
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Fortune Teller LyricsArtist: HolliesAlbum: Hollies Went to a fortune teller To have my fortune read I didn't know what to tell her I had a dizzy feeling in my head She took a hold of my palm She said Son you feel kind of warm And then she looked into a crystal ball She said You're in love I said how could that be so I'm not friendly with the girls I know She said when the next one arrives You gotta look into her eyes I left there in a hurry Looking forward to my big surprise The next day I discovered That the fortune teller told me lies I rushed straight back to that woman Just as mad as I could be I said I didn't see nobody Why'd she made a fool of me Then something struck me Like lightning from up above While looking at the fortune teller I fell in love Now I'm a happy fella I'm married to the fortune teller I'm as happy as I can be Now I get my fortunes told for free
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This post mount light by Craftmade comes in a peruvian bronze finish. It is available with clear seedy glass. Works with three 60-watt clear incandescent candelabra bulbs.
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02/27/2015 Women's Basketball Seniors a Seamless and Potent TrioHrynko, Rogowski, McGee will be honored at Sunday's Senior Day game against Marquette 02/12/2015 DePaul and No. 24 Seton Hall Play for First Place in the BIG EASTPirates and Blue Demons tip at 7 p.m. at McGrath-Phillips Arena 02/12/2015 Rogowski Named a Finalist for Senior CLASS AwardMegan Rogowski is one of 10 finalist for the annual national award 02/04/2015 Schulte's Return to Form Sparks Blue DemonsEmergence of sophomore guard helps ease the loss of Rogowski to season-ending injury 01/06/2015 DePaul's Rogowski to Miss the Rest of the SeasonMegan Rogowski tore her ACL and will miss the rest of the 2014-15 season 11/18/2012 Women's Basketball Highlights vs. HowardBrittany Hrynko and the Blue Demons topped Howard, 68-51 on Nov. 17 at McGrath-Phillips Arena 10/19/2012 Player Interviews - DePaulWomensHoops.comDePaul women's basketball player interviews 12/10/2014 DePaul-Notre Dame Photo GalleryDePaul-Notre Dame women's basketball 08/12/2014 DePaul Women's Basketball in FranceThe DePaul women's basketball team traveled to France, Aug. 11-22. 03/29/2014 DePaul vs. Texas A&MMar. 29, 2014 (NCAA Sweet 16) 03/22/2014 DePaul vs. OklahomaNCAA First Round Game in Durham, N.C. (Mar. 22, 2014) 03/10/2014 DePaul vs. Marquette -- BIG EAST SemifinalsMar. 10, 2014 Career Notes: Enters senior season with a .386 (204-of-529) 3-point field goal percentage which ranks seventh among active Division I players... set the DePaul single-season record for 3-pointers as a junior with 114... needs 100 3-pointers to break the DePaul record for Career 3-pointers... BIG EAST honorable-mention performer as a junior... named to the BIG EAST Honor Roll in four weeks as a junior... led the BIG EAST Conference and ranked fourth in Division I with 3.26 3-pointers per game as a junior...set a new McGrath-Phillips Arena record with eight 3-pointers against Providence on Jan. 8, 2014... tied a McGrath-Phillips Arena record by knocking down 5-of-6 triples against Butler on Feb. 22, 2014... 36 career starts including 33 as a junior... 90 career 3-pointers... earned DePaul's Cookie Gavin Courage and Shirley Becker Academic Awards as a freshman... BIG EAST All-Academic Team as a freshman and sophomore... recipient of the Shirley Becker Acadmeic Award as a sophomore. 2013-14 (Junior): Enters senior season with a .386 (204-of-529) 3-point field goal percentage which ranks seventh among active Division I players... BIG EAST honorable-mention performer... named to the BIG EAST Honor Roll in four weeks... led the BIG EAST Conference and ranked fourth in Division I with 3.26 3-pointers per game... knocked down four or more 3-pointers in 14 games... ranked third in Division I with her amazing .452 3-point field goal percentage... made over 50 percent of her 3-pointers in 16 games... knocked down DePaul's go-ahead 3-pointer against Oklahoma in the opening round of the NCAA Tournament... recorded six 3-pointers at Duke in the Second Round... had three triples against Texas A&M... averaged 4.3 3-pointers in DePaul's three NCAA tournament games... set a new McGrath-Phillips Arena record with eight 3-pointers against Providence... tied a McGrath-Phillips Arena record by knocking down 5-of-6 triples against Butler... knocked down 7-of-9 (.778) 3-pointers against Seton Hall which tied for the ninth best (7 minimum) in Division I for the 2013-14 season... career-best 30 points against Providence... DePaul's only 30-point performance during the 2013-14 season.... set DePaul's single-season 3-point record with 114 triples this seasons... the previous record was 94 by two different players... finished second on DePaul's single-season 3-point percentage record by knocking down .452 of her shots from behind the arc... 114-of-192 (59.4 percent) of her made field goals are made from behind the arc... averaged 7.2 3-point shots per game... took a career-high 17 triples against Providence... season free throw percentage of .757 was third on the team... knocked down 29 of her last 34 free throws... went 9-of-10 from the free throw line in the NCAA Tournament. 2012-13 (Sophomore): Paced DePaul in scoring five times -- South Carolina, Northwestern, at Connecticut, against Georgetown and again against UConn in the BIG EAST Championship... missed eight games after breaking her hand against Louisville on Jan. 5, 2013... returned to action at Connecticut on Feb. 10... in the last 10 games of the season, averaged 9.1 points and 19.6 minutes per game... in the final 10 games of the season, shot .405 (34-for-84) from the field which was the third best shooting percentage on the team... first career BIG EAST Conference Weekly Honor Roll on Dec. 3... first collegiate start against Nicholls State and had three other starts... reached double-figures in 12 games including five of the last 10 games... eclipsed the 20-point mark in two games... season-best 22 points against Northwestern... career-high 34 minutes against South Carolina... played double-figure minutes in all by one game. High School: Tabbed one of the best shooting guards in the country... holds Hersey High School's scoring record with 2,365 points and 271 3-pointers... holds 11 school records... scored a career-best 42 points twice... as a senior averaged 23.6 points, 5.8 rebounds, 3.1 assists per game and made 89 3-pointers... all-state and all-area honors... named the Daily Heralds Player of the Year... Associated Press and Chicago Tribune first-team all-state... played AAU ball for the Illinois Hustle. Rogowski by the Numbers: |


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The NaNoWriMo 2014 Status Post, one week in
So: way back in 2009, I had this idea kicking around in my head that I could write a story about a continent that boils up in the middle of the ocean and does two things: throws out every rule of geology, provide a haven for people who love freedom to escape totalitarian governments, and show what governments would do in such a situation.
Anyway, around November third of that year I found out about NaNoWriMo and figured "shoot, that's easy, I can do that! I'll call it The Continent!"
Yeah, sure. Three days later I'd recorded 500 words and decided to quit before I made a fool of myself. I shelved the project and somewhere along the line came up with the idea for Dragonslayers.
That one worked out, as did the projects in 2011, 2012 (The Continent, completed this time), and 2013. Last year was the first draft of Dragonslayers 2: The Hand of Justice, which has been in revision ever since. I'm hoping to complete it by March, and would like to launch it during the week of the Virginia Festival of the Book. By the way, if you want to take part in the early bird beta reader program, you have to be part on the mailing list. Anyway, this year's NaNoWriMo project is Dragonslayers 3 (Insert subtitle here). Let's just say this year's project is off to a better start than 2009.
5014 words the first day, and 5020 the second. So yeah, it's going well. Ten times the performance of the first time I tried it counts as a win in my book. This is the first time I've been significantly ahead since I started the program, and the first time I've been projected to finish early before I reach the halfway point. Right now, I'm headed for a finish on or about November 20th. After that, I'll go back to work on DS2 and finish that up in time for editing and cover design by the end of the year – hopefully.
So if you're feeling like you can't do it, trust me, you can. I know, I've been there, and I've gotten past it. They key is to make Jack Bauer your muse and just write. Save the editing for later, there will be time.
Labor Day Sale! New Cover! Book Festival!
First things first: The Dragonslayers Volume 1 has a new cover.
I've gotten a lot of feedback that the previous cover was too much like a young adult book, which is definitely not the target audience. Perhaps high school juniors and seniors, but definitely not pre-driving age kids. Fiona Jayde Media did a wonderful job and I like the newer, darker mood.
So, all of you who bought the book before today now have a limited first edition. Congratulations. If you want one, your last chance is to get a copy directly from me, which means finding me at the National Book Festival on Saturday, August 30, 2014 in Washington, DC. Copies will be available for a mere $10. Signed, of course. Also, bookmarks will be distributed.
You can get a paperback copy with the new cover here for $11, which is as low as CreateSpace will let me price them. The Kindle version is here, and should be $0.99 by the time you read this. Those prices are good only for this weekend, and will go back up to their regular $14.95 and $2.99 Tuesday morning.
Finally, for all you Nook fans out there, Dragonslayers Volume 1 will be available for your device after September 8th. Merry early Christmas.
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No Longer Free
- HGTV pulling plug on real estate show amid protest: Pulled (probably) because they don't like gay marriage. You will comply with groupthink, comrade.
- Texas cop shoots 93-year-old woman to death while responding to 911 call: Because a 93-year old with a handgun is a threat to a man wearing a bulletproof vest. This stinks, all the more so because it is the officer's second on-duty fatal shooting. Something is not right here.
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- London police to wear body cameras in year-long trial: Here's the official Matthew Maynard prediction: they'll see a decrease in complaints against officers, for two reasons. One, people will be less inclined to make false charges against officers if they know there's video evidence to contradict them, and two, officers will be less inclined to make false charges against citizens if they know there's video evidence to contradict them. For this reason tamper-proof police cams should be standard on every law enforcement officer in the country, period.
Desire Liberty. Seek Freedom. Make Independence.
Character Interview: Col. Steven Reynolds, USMC
- What do you carry in your pockets?
Well day to day I'm in my blue dress uniform a lot, so I don't try to put anything in those pockets besides a pair of keys and a thin wallet. When I'm in the field there's always some piece of equipment or a rifle magazine or something, usually a map. - Do you ever have concerns that when you're defending America, you're defending good and bad people and ideas you may not agree with?
Honestly, no. My oath binds me against all enemies foreign and domestic, and if I end up defending say, a pedophile, it's only from external threats. He'd still have to deal with the law, and I won't defend him against that. That's what lawyers are for. No, my oath does not come with caveats, - What is your strongest quality?
I'm tenacious. There's a part of recruit training where you run into this circular arena and pummel a fellow recruit with a padded stick. When I joined the Corps, I made it to this particular training but I was really tired from the previous evolution, and I got into the arena second. The other guy was waiting for me, and believe me, he laid into me good and hard. I ended up on the ground but I kept blocking his blows, and eventually made it back to my feet and pushed him up against the wall and ended up bloodying his face pretty hard. I got a good chewing out for that, since we weren't supposed to knock each others headgear off, but like I said, I'm tenacious. It just sort of happened, and I was in the moment and just kept going at him. - Of all the places you've been in the Marines, where would you like to revisit?
Well that depends, am I visiting for a deployment or a vacation? I always liked the views over the ocean when I was deployed aboard the amphibious carriers, so I think a sailboat trip would be nice. There are also some places in California and Colorado I'd like to visit, and my wife and I would like to take a trip to Europe some day, maybe. - What are your most important values?
Duty, honor, country. I know it sounds canned and stereotypical, but its true. Some people would put family in there, and I get that, I love my family more than anything and anyone but God. But I have a duty to God and family and the Constitution, so if I always keep duty foremost in my mind, I'll take care of all three while preserving my honor and defending my country. It comes down to a balancing act. - What has your cancer diagnosis revealed to you about yourself?
Um, well, it's been just a week, so … ah. Well, like I said, I'm tenacious. I know I'm going to beat this, despite the odds against me. I guess I'll find out soon enough.
Other Things: why I hate deer
Bambi and her mom and dad are loved by the granola-munching, Prius driving crowd. Me, not so much. As far as I'm concerned, they're a bunch of overgrown rats too stupid to run from things that harm them, like cars. One of them deliberately rammed my car one time after I slowed down to let him cross the road.
Then there is their eating habits. They seem to love the things that grow in my yard, particularly things humans also like to eat. Like tomatoes and lettuce. They'll jump in and start munching away, eating anything that they feel might be tasty. "Daffodils? Nah, man, no thanks," they might say. They also won't touch weeds if there's lettuce around, the little jerks.
You'd think this would build a little animosity in my heart towards these gentle creatures, and you'd be perfectly correct. Compound it with the fact that whenever any of my three dogs see them in the yard they start going nuts, barking madly in an attempt to both scare them off and let us know that they need to be hunted for food. The latter is not as easy as you might think in a backyard of known distance. From back door to treeline is only about 25 yards, and I'm well-zeroed at that range with my M1A. But four things conspire against me and my valiant efforts to reduce the population of deer for the greater good.
First, there's Louisa County. While almost every other county in Virginia allows for cartridge firearms, all hunting in Louisa must be done with a muzzleloader if the caliber is greater than .22. So in other words, unless you're hunting squirrels or rabbits, you have to use a frontstuffer. This would let me take but one deer a year from my backyard, for if a deer saw his pal get shot you'd think he would not come back for the salt lick, no matter how tasty.
Second, there's the neighbors. They're just a bit too close for comfort when it comes to letting lead fly, and the neighborhood association down the street likes to complain when they hear gunshots, even if the firing is far from their little enclave of self-righteous tyranny that is the modern Home Owners Association.
Then there's the deer themselves. Someone nails a calendar to the tree every year when hunting season starts, because I don't think I've seen a buck in my yard in the month of November. There's the occasional doe, but never on doe hunting days. It's like they know exactly when I would prefer to kill them from my backyard and they deliberately avoid it.
Finally, there's my own skill in the field. I'm quite good at shooting, but I'm also remarkable for my tracking skills. At least, remarkable in the lack thereof. I can track animals, in broad daylight, if they've walked by after a recent rain with a bad case of the runs, but aside from that? Not so good.
So I must content myself with the fact that a deer herd will likely not approach my garden if it is close to the house and protected by a four foot suggestion of a fence. And perhaps think about getting a suppressor for the M1A and unilaterally extending the hunting season into October – Walter Mitty style, of course.
Writing Tip: Walking the grounds
There is an excitement at Manassas, a cramped-ness at the Little Round Top, and a simplicity at Appomattox that cannot be experienced without being there in person. I've been to all three, and the experiences have taught me something about writing: you have to go to your setting to understand it, and you can't describe it without understanding it. Knowledge leads to understanding, which leads to descriptions that live in the reader's mind, not just on the page.
The Manassas battlefield is small enough that you can walk the trail for one of the battles (there were two at the site) in a day. It is a bit of a hike, and you need to be in good shape and know where you're going, but it can be done. The first place you start at is actually the end of the battle, where the visitor center is located. Looking out across the expanse of the hills on which the first battle was fought you get an idea of the scale of things in that day, and how large the battle was. But at the same time it prepares you to realize just how small the engagement was, relative to what was to come. A quick trip down to and across Bull Run Creek where the Union crossed and you find yourself emerging on the other side of the battle, behind Union artillery emplacements. Captain Imboden's Confederate guns are barely visible from here, but you tend to forget them as you wrap your head around the scale and start to realize that what was once strictly the realm of artillery is now considered a standard sniper qualification range. It's a long way from Matthews Hill to Henry Hill, but not that long.
At Gettysburg the close quarters of the Little Round Top belie the scale of the battlefield and the impossibility of touring the entire place in one day on foot. The lines of battle for both sides stretched literally for miles and were separated (at times) by miles, yet were still easily visible to each other. The scale of the engagement in Pennsylvania is enormous, but what is most interesting is that the Union victory was possibly sealed on a hill the size of a tennis court. This is a remarkable conclusion to draw for such a large battle and such a small space – it could be a tennis court in another setting – but nevertheless, many historians (but not all) have reached that conclusion. Roughly one hundred men were crammed shoulder to shoulder into a space normally occupied only by squirrels and strewn with boulders, but it would become the setting for a battlefield maneuver still studied at West Point and other institutions that teach the art of leading men into the jaws of death.
Appomattox is the simplest of the three sites, consisting of little more than a small preserved village from before the electrical age with an attached parking lot and National Park entrance gate. There are two main buildings and several smaller ones, all connected by dirt pathways that serve as reminders of simpler times as well as foot-roads. It is walked in an hour with more time standing still and pondering the events and men that came here in April 1865 than spent actually walking. The room in the McClean house where the surrender took place is small as well; if Grant brought half his staff there would have been little room for Lee and his adjutant as is commonly depicted. But it was sufficient to hold the sentiments of the men involved and the words they left behind for us, as well as the rebirth of the nation and the good and bad that came with it.
Of course, walking the grounds does little to help if your story is set on the moon or some other country or some other planet, but that's what historical records and your imagination is for.
No Longer Free, April 21-25, 2014
No Longer Free
- Feds can hide rationale for killing U.S. citizen, judge rules. Not that it boils down to anything other than "because we said so".
- Beer prices could go up under FDA rule that angers farmers, brewers. Bastards.
- IRS to investment funds re: attorney-client privilege: sit on this and spin (PDF). "When a person puts into issue his subjective intent in deciding how to comply with the law, he may forfeit the privilege afforded attorney-client communications." So subjective understanding of the literally millions of words of tax law, as applied to attorney-client discussions, are no longer privileged information. Check.
- Police Chief: Not Wanting To Talk To Police Officers Is 'Odd': Repeat after me: 'Am I being detained, or am I free to go?'
- Ex-sheriff's deputies charged with planting evidence at pot dispensary: The thing in Dragonslayers where Cavanaugh plants drug evidence? Totally made up, I swear.
Fighting Back
- Gun Carry Rights Expanded in Ga. Under New Law: this was the most accurate headline for this story I could find. A better one would be 'Right to self-defense less limited under new Ga. law'.
- Out in the Open: Inside the Operating System Edward Snowden Used to Evade the NSA: Get the tools you need to protect yourself and your data, but don't trust them, even if they're audited and turn up clean.
Desire Liberty. Seek Freedom. Make Independence.
The Chief, Chapter 4
(Previously: Chapter 1 Chapter 2 Chapter 3)
"You promised this would be an easy job, no mistakes. You drew up the plan, picked the crew, laid out everything. And you failed, you fuckwit."
"The Chief Justice was in just in the same place, at the same time. It was an unavoidable coincidence tha-"
"That what? That he had the same height and build as the mark? That he just happened to take the same path to work every day? That he tended to be in the same place at the same time EVERY FUCKING WORKDAY?"
"I told you, I would get the job done, and I will. So who are you to complain, huh? I thought you said the Chief Justice was 'that self-confident ass who couldn't put together the intellect to blow his own nose'. Wasn't he on one of your lists? Didn't you want him out of the way as well? The way I see it, I did you a favor."
"The only favor you did was to fuck up our entire operation. And for that, you won't be getting your payment." [beep]
"Did Robin just flip me off?" Newsome asked his secretary, Rachel Robinson.
"Yes, and I encouraged him to do so. Here, sign these, initial these, and review these, then send them over to Andrew for review before his press conference," she said as she dumped pile after pile of papers into his hands.
"You know, I like you better when you're not doing crap like this. I've got agendas and speeches and … other stuff to review, so unless it's illegal for you to forge my signature on papers no one else is ever going to see again, I'm going to hand this back to you and tell you to hold off for a couple hours, okay?" Travis gave the stacks back to Rachel, turned and entered his office. The TV was still on, and still running nonstop incoherence interference. He reached for the remote, but paused with his thumb over the power button.
"… militia types, who haven't lost any love for this justice? Aren't the militias and freemen and those types prime suspects in this assassination?"
"Well, yes, they are, and I would -"
"Do you think they were responsible for this murder? Because that's what we're talking about, isn't it? A political murder in broad daylight?" Travis had never been impressed with the right-wing political news station, but at least they brought in interesting guests, even if their hosts were interrupting morons.
"I can't speculate on what or who the government has under suspicion at this point," said the first guest, who sported a beard and whose title card said he was 'EX-SF OFFICER'. "But I can tell you that I would put the militias very near the top of my own list, if I were investigating."
"Brian, lemme interject here for a minute," said another guest, giving the host a taste of his own medicine. "I think you're both way off base with this line of thought, I think-"
"Way off base? Off base how? We know that militias are all about state sovereignty, and states rights, down with authority, anything Federal equals bad, right?" Brian Tudder, the show host, responded. He was fiercely territorial with his opinions, and had a reputation for defending them no matter what the cost to his dignity.
"Remember, this justice was the one who ruled last year, by himself, that the states had a right to ignore federal laws that directly violated the Constitution.""
"No no no, that doesn't matter because one, he was wrong, and two, even if he was right, he was still in the minority, all by himself, so his opinion didn't matter anyway." Brian and the unidentified opposition guest droned on, talking over and alongside each other without hardly taking a pause to breathe.
Oh, why not, there were plenty of good arguments out there, and plenty of reason to push the ball down the field, as the President had implied earlier.
"Rachel?" Travis called from his office. "Rachel, find Andrew, tell him I'll have some new talking points for him in about fifteen minutes, and that he needs to incorporate them into the President's remarks."
Writing Tip: Writer groups
There is nothing I've come to appreciate more since I started writing fiction than a writer group.
In measured doses.
Writing groups can be wonderful for encouraging each other to reach your goals and edit your work. They can also be massive sources of distraction and frustration, because just as you may have to tell your family that you need space to write, you may need to tell your writing buddies that too. Writers can be social too, despite their solitary, introverted tendencies – particularly when the plot line isn't coming to you. I've attended write-ins for NaNoWriMo where they only way to get some writers to shut up was to constantly have a word war going on.
But when they are motivated, either by a goal they set or a carrot you dangle in front of them, they can be very well suited to helping you achieve your goals. And of course, the motivation works both ways. Each writer sharpens the other's writing, especially when you let go of your little baby and admit that it needs some help.
There is an inherent trepidation when you do this, much like what a parent experiences when they first give their child into the hands of a babysitter. Then again, a parent can bring legal action against a babysitter who harms a child, but a writer has no such recourse when a fellow writer suggests it would be best if the eight-page exposition on the virtues of [fill in the blank] get cut.
This is where I would post a picture of Ayn Rand if I wanted to make a point about her writing, but I don't, and I think you get the point anyway.
So find a writing group and leverage them to strengthen your writing. Just don't be a taker without being a giver. Value for value, and all that.


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Silvano Ahel
hi, i am from croatia and i am a beginner in the world of photography but am ready too learn. i like taking photos of nature, scenery, old towns and villages ... so i will try to describe my homeland and country in which i live. i have olympus e-520 camera
Colours of autumn
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