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2/24- Next Performance – Mixed Bag series at Beans in the Belfry on Wed 3/11…come on down! The first set (7pm) is a duo with Steve Olson/drums and the second set (8pm) is a duo with Wes Crawford. The support for the series has been fantastic.
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- An Italian priest has refused to wed Tom Cruise & Katie Holmes because Tom is twice-divorced. Oh, and because their relationship is a sham. But let's go with that divorce thing, okay?
- Kevin Federline has turned to cigarettes and alcohol to help him get over Britney Spears. Of course, since all Kevin did when they were together was smoke cigarettes and drink alcohol, it's unclear as to whether this technically qualifies as a coping mechanism.
- Val Kilmer confessed he'd rather get with Oprah Winfrey than Nicole Richie. In other news, hey! Oprah producers! Val Kilmer is totally available and would love to do the show sometime. Did you hear him say that he'd f**k her? Come on, give him a call.
- Two frat boys who made racist and sexist comments in Borat are prepared to sue 20th Century Fox for making them look stupid on camera. This follows the lawsuit filed against their parents for making them look stupid in life.
- Cameron Diaz wants a nose job because she can't breathe. Coincidentally, that's the same reason Justin wants to dump her.
Best Night Ever: Thursday, November 9th!
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- COCK ROCK: Having bored with boning metalheads who play the guitar, Jenna Jameson has created her own. It turns up to "69″. (Idolator)
- MYSPACE BULLETIN: Some crappy blues-rock band from Louisiana called Bones got their MySpace page hijacked by the even crappier Sci-Fi show from Fox with the same name. (Wired)
- RHETORICAL QUESTION: Will Michael Jackson's comeback performance be a 'freak show'?" (The Scoop)
- CAVE-DWELLER: Lindsay Lohan, for "not knowing anything" about Britney's divorce. I guess she's too busy planning her next strategic Paris Hilton name-calling move. (TMZ)
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Bill Maher Is the Perez Hilton of Smug Lefty Comics
Last night on Larry King Live, political comedian Bill Maher decided to "out" RNC Chairman Ken Mehlman, claiming the conservative is gay. While I tend to agree with Maher's political opinions more often than I don't, and while I always delight in seeing a "homophob-ocrite" (new word!) squirm, there's just something so obnoxious about the way Maher conducts his nasty little bit of business. First of all, his ever-present "got it all figured out" smirk makes me want to beat him mercilessly with Ann Coulter's shoe, and the "infinitely omnipotent" tone his voice always seems to take falls somewhere between "my parents humping" and "nails on a chalkboard" on the scale of sounds I enjoy hearing. And where the hell does someone who the bimbos at the Playboy Mansion privately refer to as "Sleazy B" get off sounding more self-righteous than Michael Moore in a room full of mentally retarded right-wingers? Maher, unable to simply enjoy this week's electoral victories with any amount of quiet dignity, ostensibly went on TV and gloated obnoxiously by calling some GOP dipsh*t a "fag". Classy, Bill – why not just start a blog on which you use MS Paint to draw crude slurs on pictures from The New Republic, offer editorial insights such as "Dennis Hastfart is so totes a junkie homobooger, bitchez!" and annoyingly refer to yourself in the third person? Either way, you're today's Daily Douche.
Top 10 Things To Remember Ed Bradley By
We want to take a moment from our regularly snarky schedule to reminisce all the thing we loved about Ed Bradley, the 60 Minutes anchor who passed away this morning at only 65 years of age. We weren't aware Bradley suffered from leukemia, so his death caught us completely off guard. To honor the great newsman, we've put together a list of the 10 things we'll miss most about him.
10. His Love of Jazz. As a young man, Bradley earned $1.50 an hour spinning jazz records at night while teaching during the day. His love of jazz continued for the remainer of his life, and even while working the 60 Minutes shift, Bradley still made time to host the Jazz from Lincoln Center radio program heard on NPR. You can learn basically all about his love of jazz here.
9. His Moxie. Bradley earned an Emmy Award for exposing sexual abuse in the Catholic Church in June of 2002, and scored the only televised interview granted with Oklahoma City bomber Timothy McVeigh. Bradley also broke the news that the authority failed to catch various pieces of evidence that could have prevented the Columbine school shooting massacre. He wasn't afraid to expose people or things and confronted controversy head on.
8. His Affinity For Brightly Colored Hawaiian Shirts.
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- Stereogum posts a cover of "Billie Jean" that leaves us wondering when Chris Cornell became John Cougar Mellencamp and, worse, why we secretly kind of like it.
- Speek of Dark asks why Girls In Hawaii are guys who look like they're freezing.
- Instrumental Analysis has the lowdown on some hot little new indie band who's calling themselves The Beatles (We get it – "Beetles", except spelled like a music beat. Real clever.)
- A Camera In the Crowd finds a track from the new album by Joanna Newsom, who still sounds like she's composing a soundtrack to the latest Zelda game.
- I'm digging this new Robbers On High Street track over at INDIEBLOGHAVEN, and I think you will too.
UNEMPLOYMENT CHECK: Emma On Ellen
Time to let you in on a little secret; while you're working hard all day we're watching televison. Corny soaps, angry judges, blabbering talk show hosts– we're on top of it. Those of you working 9-5′s, stuck in high school, or enrolled in a college class that actually enforses an attendance policy really don't know what you're missing. That's why we want to share our favorite daytime TV moments with you. Moments like this one, from yesterday's Ellen. It's not everyday you see a two-time Oscar winner pole dancing to "I'm A Slave 4 U" while a lesbian talk show host throws dollar bills at her, is it? Yeah… didn't think so.
Thanks Ellen. And thank you, Emma Thompson. The Academy approves.
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SIZZLER: Lohan Calls Paris A Crotch-Related Epithet, Uses Less Imagery
Unlike Brandon Davis, who's the Shakespeare of shouting pointless drunken celebrity insults at nearby cameras, it would appear that Lindsay Lohan prefers her prose to be more short and to the point – sort of like a Hemingway of the ho-bag set. In this latest club-departing battle in the starlet's ongoing Whore War with Paris' Posse, Lohan calls Hilton a c*nt, then giggles and says she's "just kidding" and that she "loves Paris". Did Lohan really mean what she said, or could the young poet have finally discovered the literary device known to the rest of us as "irony"? And if she is wryly satirizing her own image in the tabloids, can the world really withstand the philosophical ramifications of someone like Lindsay Lohan becoming self-aware on such a metaphysical plane?


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Athlette [sic]: Kim Jong Il must be a much better leader than Joe Arpaio, according to your logic, because his approval rate is nearly 100%, MUCH higher than Joe's- right? That is true of all tyrants who are in power. Name one case where it's not true.
This journalism you hate is about a documentary. Have you seen it? Do you want to tell Joe and Lisa that they didn't actually say the things they were filmed saying? Joe has been found to not be following the law- by multiple courts, multiple judges- do you know whether they are all Dems? Is Rick Romley a Dem? I doubt that you know. But you know more, having sat through exactly none of the court proceedings- because someone said so, right? It's someone you trust. Could it be possible that you trust people who are not trustworthy?
Which of the facts stated in this story do you take issue with? Prove otherwise. There's nothing wrong with facts, right? Look at the number of deportations, and the number of people crossing the border over the last 10 years. Informed people are not impressed by your political talking points.
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Arrowhead's Haase wins 200th game
Veteran Arrowhead boys basketball coach Craig Haase reached a milestone last Friday night when the Warhawks scored a come-from-behind 47-42 nonconference victory over Milwaukee Morse/Marshall/Juneau at the Terry Porter Classic at Milwaukee South. The win gave the 1989 Arrowhead graduate his 200th victory at AHS.
Haase, in his 13 years running the boys program, has put together an impressive career mark of 200-87. He has the highest winning percentage (69.6 percent) of any boys basketball coach in the 58-year history of the school and also the most wins.
Despite playing one of the toughest schedules in the state each year, he has never had a losing record since taking the job prior to the 2000-01 season.
He's taken seven of his first 12 teams to the WIAA sectional and has been to the state tournament twice in the last seven years. The Warhawks won the Division 1 state championship in 2009-10, finishing the year with a school-record mark of 25-3. In 2005-06, Arrowhead advanced to the state tourney and lost in the semi-finals to the eventual state champion Oshkosh West.
Haase also led the Warhawks to five consecutive WIAA sectional appearances starting in 2002, a school record.
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Traditional style Country Cottage. Very spacious and comfortable with all facilities. (Approx 192m2 of indoor living area) Sleeps 2 to 6 people.
Self-catering basis, 3 bedrooms with 3 double beds and 3 piece suite in lounge. Bathroom, dining room, lounge and kitchen. Private outdoor swimming pool. 1 terrace on upper floor and 1 terrace to the front of the property. Outdoor area with BBQ, garden and fruit trees. Parking within property grounds.
Cooker, dishwasher, fridge, freezer, microwave and many kitchen appliances. Range cooker. Indoor bread/pizza oven and open BBQ. Marble work tops and island. Iron/ironing board.TV, DVD,
Hi-Fi and UK Satellite TV. Slipper bath with overhead shower and separate large walk in shower in bathroom. Fully furnished terraces. BBQ, swimming pool (10m x 5m) with tiled area. Large private garden.
Included: gas, electricity, water. Weekly change of bed linen and towels. Laundry service on request.
Linen and towels provided. We do provide beach towels and we also provide a drinks welcome pack.
Located in a quiet rural village, this privately owned Cottage is a perfect base for exploring the West coastal region, North of Lisbon. The Cottage is less than 1 hour by car from Lisbon Portela airport, 20mins to Peniche, 15mins Lourinha and It is a 10min journey by car to the nearest beaches of which there are plenty to choose from, some quieter than others, supermarkets or restaurants. There is a village shop & cafe within walking distance. It is essential to hire a car.
Tourist Attractions & Activities
The West Coast-Land of Sea & Vineyards
The Cottage is the perfect location to explore & enjoy both the coast of Lisbon & the most Westerly Coast of Europe.
Local activities include: walking, cycling, horse-riding, swimming, surfing, golf & water sports. Local attractions include: miles of beautiful beaches, museums, monuments, handicraft/pottery markets & shops. Village festas which take place mainly in the summer, with their religious processions, dancing, traditional dress, eating, drinking and fireworks late into the night. Festivals, markets & excellent restaurants serving locally produced wines.
Slightly further away, but easily accessible by car are numerous famous Portuguese towns such as Nazare, Tomar, Alcobaca, Caldas da Rainha, Fatima, Torres Vedras & many more.
Peniche is 20kms from the Cottage and is a busy fishing town with a bustling harbour and small marina. The main road has a huge variety of very affordable fish restaurants overlooking the harbour, popular with both locals and tourists. Peniche is a great place to go fishing, walking along the coastline or visiting the many attractions such as the fortress, walls and museum, the lace making school, the churches, and beaches with water sports, beautiful gardens and gothic springs.
Berlenga Island, formed of rosy granite lays 6kms off the coast of Peniche. It is a protected bio-genetic reserve. The island is a bird lovers paradise and has more than 80 species of flora. A beautiful place which is popular with artists and overnight campers. The waters around Berlenga also offer some fabulous diving sites. There are several boat companies offering tours to the island at a reasonable cost from Peniche harbour.
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The town of Lourinha is 10kms away where there is a theatre, gym, and club, a variety of shops, tennis courts, restaurants, cafes as well as tourist attractions including the dinosaur museum, park, convent, church and font. The beaches around Lourinha offer miles of coastline to sit and relax on or to enjoy the many water sports available.
The walled town of Obidos is an absolute must for all visitors to Portugal. With its narrow cobbled streets and high walled gardens this town has been destroyed and rebuilt throughout history. This beautiful town has many churches, craft shops and views over the surrounding areas, viaduct, monastery and sanctuary. The Lagoa de Obidos are close by. The beautiful lagoon is the largest in Europe where you can enjoy a BBQ in the pine woods overlooking the lagoon where there is an abundance of wildlife and water sports are available.
The capital of Portugal is less than an hour away by car from the Cottage. The cosmopolitan town of Estoril-renowned for its beaches, golf courses and the largest casino in Europe. The fishing town of Cascais is home to excellent restaurants and bars, a busy marina with a lively atmosphere and superb shopping. Ancient Sintra has beautiful buildings and monuments such as the famous Pena Palace. All within 1 hour travelling by car.
Secluded Quinta With Private Swimming Pool And Large Mediterranean Gardens
Peaceful Rural Location, Close To Beaches, Golf, Restaurants And Lisbon Airport.
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3 bedrooms, sleeps 6
Bedroom 1: 1 Double bed
Bedroom 2: 1 Double bed
Bedroom 3: 1 Double bed
Room for 6 in the living area
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- Nearest beach: 8km
- Nearest bar: 8km
- Nearest restaurant: 1km
- Nearest supermarket: 4km
- Lourinha: 10km
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Dear Family NyeThank you for the lovely review. We do appreciate the time and effort that you have made to put it on the website. We do like to hear what customers have to say about the Quinta to ensure that we are providing a good service.We are really pleased that you all enjoyed your stay in Portugal.Kind RegardsA. S
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Dear DavidThank you for taking time to write a review for the Quinta in Moledo.We are pleased that you found the property peaceful but also within easy access of local amenities.It is always a pleasure to meet new customers which we enjoy both meeting and looking after.Kind RegardsA. S
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Dear Chris & AnnetteThank you for the review of the Quinta. We are pleased that you enjoyed your stay in Moledo & that the photos gave an accurate picture of the house. We really do not want to have a single dissappointed customer and try our best to give accurate information & images.We hope to see you both again in the near future.Kind RegardsA. S
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Dear Peter & Neil Thank you for the review of the Quinta in Moledo. I am pleased to hear that you both enjoyed your stay in Portugal. I always try to make customers stay as pleasant as possible. Next year I aim to make further improvements to the property to give even better value and hopefully an even more enjoyable stay at the Quinta in Moledo. Please watch the web site for details that will be amended.Many ThanksA. S
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how to clean a large area rug...???
One of the big dogs escaped from upstairs and took a "dump" on my large area rug...
Even after cleaning it...it still smelled...so Barb...Jeff's girlfriend took it out on the porch and sqirted it with the hose and scrubbed it.
She left it out there to dry...
I think some bad kitty's came by and left their mark on it...(nothing smells as bad as a male cat mark)
Last night I brought it in and fill my big bath tub with water and lots of the blue color PineSol....scrubbed it and rinsed and rinsed...then even poured heavily Downy(ed)water over it...
This morning it still smells pretty catty if you get the drift...
Is there any way to neutralize that smell?
If not I'm going to have to toss that rug. I hate to. It's one of those large oriental rugs.
Patti, same thing happened to us- I took an 8 x 10 rug outside to clean it and some cheesy cat peed on it. Ended up pressure washing it and then dousing it with one of those pet odor eliminators, letting it dry, pressure washing it again to get THAT smell out (blech, so perfumy, it was killing me) and then soaking it with white vinegar and letting it dry again, in a place where the cats couldn't get at it. It took about 2 weeks, with all the drying that had to occur, but it came out perfect.
The pet store products specifically for that purpose work well in my experience. I also have my rugs professionally cleaned on occasion by a rug cleaner (not someone who comes into the house to shampoo carpet) but in the interim those other products seem to work well.
You need a live bacteria product. Try looking in the yellow pages for a janitorial supply company. They will have it.
The live bacteria in the product actually digests the bacteria in the carpet causing the odour. And when you use it, keep it wet for awhile. Once the carpet is dry the bacteria die off and stop eating.
Patti-This WORKS!
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Mix together and soak area, leave on till completely dry if a white residue appears it can be vacuumed or brushed away.
Just mix it up and pour it on the areas where the cat sprayed.
Vala-The reason you can't get the smell out of your carpet is because the urine has soaked into the padding.If you don't get the padding clean the smell will still be there.If you will use the formula above and saturate the carpet all the way to the padding,the odor will come out.When I had a cat that peed on my carpet,I had it professionally cleaned and the odor didn't come out because steam cleaners and other commercial cleaners don't saturate the pad.You have to get to the pad with the cleaning solution.I found this formula,used it and it worked.Try it!


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Fluffy pyjamas and a day at the beach
Something happened today that has never happened before. Mother wanted to go out and visit Lepe Beach. We used to go there years ago; it's a place she has loved for years. Today, I told her she either had to change her clothes, or remain in the car at all times.
Yeah, I was embarrassed.
This has never happened before. Although she's never been the height of fashion, Mother would never have gone out in loud tartan fleecy trousers that look like pyjama bottoms. These days she doesn't seem to care as much as she did. When I told her I would not walk down the street with her dressed like that, she was a little put out. We laughed about it, but she did end up staying in the car.
Some might think me harsh, but I see it as a little sign that she has begun to give up her hold on life. She's 83 and due to her obesity, she's quite disabled now. It's as if, one by one, the little things that symbolise how we cling vibrantly to each moment of life, are being let go. She used to care how she looked when she went out in public. She used to take care to dress smartly and appropriately for a large woman, and we both used to express disdain at how women we saw out and about, were dressed. "I would never go out like that," she would often say.
Well now she is, and it's not just that I don't like her dress sense. It's what lies beneath that worries me. Do I keep trying to encourage her not to let herself go any more than she has done already, or do I just let her give up little by little? She's a grown up after all, and has the right to make her own choices and live by them. It's just a shame to see how far she has fallen. It is true that there is no dignity in ageing, and even less in death.
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This is the perfect word for today. It has been a mutable day. I did have plans, but due to other people's plans changing, mine had to. I have accomplished today though, just not what I had intended. Instead of a busy day, I've had a day relaxing at home and just doing home stuff.
Mutable is a more sophisticated way of saying changeable, but one must be careful when using it in a novel. The type of character who would use this word would be someone with a good education and of a certain class. This word brings to mind mature scientists and scholars, definitely not the type of expression an uneducated redneck might use.
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What kind of a day have you had, and what is the most sophisticated way you can think of to describe it?
On becoming a superhero
Are you a woman under fifty? If so, prepare to receive a surprise gift on your fiftieth birthday. This gift is something you may have spent your younger years wishing for, and believing you could never have. It is however, something you will find out is nowhere near as cool as you think it would be. I love a superhero movie as much as the next person, and have often thought it might be cool to fly like Superman or Ironman, have X-ray eyes, or the power to become invisible. Well you can become invisible, and you won't have to undergo any horrible painful tests, there will be no need to drink a nasty tasting concoction, and no scary injections of dreadful chemical mixtures. What must you do, I hear you cry? It's simple, just be a woman over fifty.
This phenomenon creeps up on you without you realising until it's too late and then, bam, you're invisible with no way back. Like a spectre you glide into crowded rooms unseen by those present until you throw a cup across the room and scream. You queue in stores and fast food joints and when finally you get to the front of the line, the sales person looks right through you and serves the guy behind you. Your fifty plus year old joints complain more and more, but you will never get a seat on a bus because no one knows you're there.
Hoping to get yourself a younger toy boy? Forget it sister. Unless you walk down the street stark naked, singing a falsetto rendition of The Ballad of Bilbo Baggins to get their attention, Most men will cease to notice you. There are some men who will notice you, but that will most likely be for all the wrong reasons. The fat, balding, paunchy, toothless, beer swilling, farting sofas will notice you, but only because they know that the younger and better looking chicks won't give them the time of day. They're trying to 'settle for second best' by trying it on with the invisible older women, and assume said women will be grateful for the attention.
I turned 53 a couple of weeks ago, and I've been aware of my superhero status for a few years now. My 83 year old mother and I have discussed this topic often and she reports to having noticed the same thing happening to her from middle age. She also informs me that this superhero status, once gained, is permanent. Once invisible, you can never hope to be seen again. You are doomed to wander through your winter years like a ghost wandering a lofty mansion, the occasional grunt or shriek to shock people into wondering what the hell that noise was, and if their house is haunted?
This new found ability does have one or two advantages though, that help to temper the shock and disappointment. No longer must you spend hours wondering what to wear. No longer do you have to spend hours applying layers of make up. You don't even have to bother shaving your chin or plucking your eyebrows anymore. Your middle aged spread can wobble unashamedly, and you can relax about the diet. After all, you're now way passed such concerns. No, your priorities now are tracking down cut price life insurance deals, funeral plans, and dealing with bladder problems. The younger generation don't know how sweet their life is, do they?
But of course, this is what society wants us to believe.
Why should we suddenly become invisible? What is wrong with our society, that a woman who has worked hard bringing up children, working, caring for elderly parents and useless husbands, is rewarded for her efforts with indifference and a yawn? Without us, the younger generation would not exist to enjoy the life they take far too much for granted, so why can't they be grateful? Because that is the way of life today, that's why. Old is a dirty word, something to be afraid of and avoided at all costs. In choosing not to notice us, they are admitting their fear of confronting their own mortality and the march of time. We cannot all be Judi Dench and Helen Mirren, with enough money to hire clever people who can help us come out from behind our cloak of invisibility. Most of us just have to accept that we no longer exist, and some of us will end our days alone, not found for weeks. Our mouldering corpses will still be sitting in front of the tv and finally, for a moment, we will no longer be invisible. The younger generation will shake their heads and mutter, "What a shame, how could an old person go unnoticed like that."
Its seems the only way to stop this unwanted new superhero ability, is to become the neighbourhood weirdo, the crazy cat lady at the end of the street, the old bat who talks to her plants and probably has a body hidden in the cellar, "so the guy in bar told me." Not all of us fancy any of those roles for ourselves. Most of us would like to be just as visible as we were when we were thirty years younger. We're not asking for wolf whistles, (although that might be nice once in a while), we don't want to be thought of as man eating cougars or new age converts embracing veganism. We want to be ordinary women, just like always. We want a smile, a nod, a "good morning."
Is that really beyond the realms of possibility for a civilised society?
Happy New Year
I can't believe how fast 2014 went by. I always thought it was an old person's thing to comment on how fast the time is going, but now I'm doing it myself. Maybe that means that I'm now old instead of just middle aged. I don't feel like an old person despite being 53 in a couple of weeks, I still feel 25 inside my head. I often look back and think, "where the hell has the last week gone?" It's not just me experiencing this either, many people I speak to say it too.
2014 saw some changes for me, most of them welcome. My beloved car finally broke down and had to be sold as I could not afford to get it repaired. The head gasket had gone and I don't have that kind of money. Having no transport meant I could no longer keep doing my job, which entailed me driving to different peoples' homes to clean their house. This meant I've had to start claiming benefits, which is a laborious process designed to make you feel like a scrounger. It is taking forever, but I hope it will be all sorted soon.
My health problems have caught up with me more than ever before, and I spend a lot of time in pain. I have what is called a Pars Defect in my lumbar spine, which is now affecting my life far more than ever before. It seems to me that being forced to give up my job, which was very physical and left me in agony most days, was timely. It is nice having more time at home. Being able to lie in is a treat I haven't experienced for years. It is a blow to my ego to have to use a walking stick, but it does help a little so I try not to complain. I never realised how difficult it is to go shopping with a handbag, several bags of shopping, and still be able to effectively use a walking stick. It's impossible, so I often find myself unable to use my stick. Luckily I can do the greater part of the grocery shopping online, which saves me having to haul too many bags on the bus. That's another thing, the bus fares around here are criminal!
2014 also saw my mother sell her house in Cornwall and move up here near me. I've been trying to persuade her for ages and am delighted that my persistence has finally paid off. She now has a lovely ground floor flat a couple of miles away, in a nice area near to all the amenities she did not have in Cornwall. It will also be nice to have someone to pop in for a coffee and natter a couple of times a week or go for a meal on a weekend. When she first announced she was moving away down to Cornwall, I felt very abandoned for a long time. It was weird and not something I expected to feel. It was not pleasant and although I got used to being so alone, I was always aware of how alone I was. She has been away visiting relatives for Christmas and New Year, so we will be out buying her some new furniture the moment she gets back.
My other excitement is that I am now a proud cat mommy. I named him Samelan, after the main character in my Sinclair V-Logs science fiction novels. He's a beautiful stripey tabby and has the most hilarious nature. He has a foot fetish and will bite my feet and toes whenever I go barefoot, he likes playing football with his toys (and is a very skilled dribbler too), and is toilet training with the Litter Kwitter system. He doesn't meow very often, but 'trills' all the time, and will reply when I talk to him sometimes. Every morning at 7am he wakes me up by trilling and batting me with a paw, after which he sits by my alarm clock as he knows I always reach for it to check the time before getting up. I'm fully expecting one day for him to learn to press the button on the top which lights up the clock face. I cannot express how much of a difference it has made to my mood, having someone pleased to see me, seeking my company, and eager for me to get home just to spend time with me. I'm sure he's saved my life.
So what of 2015? I did make a New Year's resolution to give up chocolate, and I am determined to stick to it. Rather than go on a typical diet as such, I have tried to introduce permanent healthy food habits, one at a time. Years ago I gave up sugar in tea and coffee. A couple of years ago I gave up milk in tea and coffee. Last March I gave up smoking, and this year I intend to stop eating chocolate in any form. It is an education trying to find desserts and sweet things that don't contain chocolate. This substance seems to have infiltrated into every area of our diet. It's even in breakfast cereals now, crazy. At the same time as I shall be learning to do without chocolate, I shall be eating more fruit and veg, which I already love so no problems there other than the cost of them. Once I have eliminated the worst stuff from my diet, I can turn my attention to reducing portion size. I hope to end this year with a far more healthy relationship with food, even if I have not lost a significant amount of weight (which would be nice too).
So far I have 2 novels to publish in the coming year. One is finished to first draft and the other will be finished to first draft within the next couple of days. I shall probably participate in the July Camp Nanowrimo, as I have done in the past 2 years, which will take me to 3 books this year. I like to do 3 a year, it's a comfortable workload for me.
I want to pay a little more attention to marketing this year. I am in the process of building a list of tweets that I can use with the new drip feed app I've found. Due to Feed 140 breaking down, I had to find another drip feeder, and Dropial is the only one I've found that allows you to build a list that will drip in a continuous loop. The only downside to Dropial is that it insists on the list containing a minimum number of tweets, so I'm busy building it at the moment. Once that is done, I want to blog more, and use all the other social media I am part of, a bit more often. I cannot afford to pay for advertising, so free social media is my shop window at the moment. I would like to do interviews, but no one is asking – unless you'd like to interview me or do a spotlight for me?
One other thing I want to pledge to this coming year, is to begin re-editing and re-releasing my backlist. As time has gone on I have learned more, and I can clean up the early books and make them slicker and more error free. There is also one I want to do a new cover for. I want to do at least 2 of my older books this coming year.
As for other 2015 bucket list items, there's always the following:
Meet Dwayne Johnson
Meet Vin Diesel
Meet Misha Collins
Have Peter Jackson talk me into allowing him to turn one of my books into a movie
Win more than a million on the lottery
Become a best seller for at least one of my books on Amazon
If anyone would like to help me achieve any of those items, let me know. In the meantime, I wish you all a prosperous, educational, and happy 2015.
U2, 'That' album, and the problem every indie author faces
Anyone with an iTunes account will have received a free album courtesy of Bono and U2 in the recent past. This act of generosity has been dogged by outrage ever since and has resulted in Bono issuing a public apology.
He said it was, "a drop of megalomania, a touch of generosity, a dash of self-promotion and deep fear that these songs that we poured our life into over the last few years mightn't be heard. There's a lot of noise out there. I guess we got a little noisy ourselves to get through it."
Bono's comment touches upon a very pertinent point for us self published authors – how to get our voice heard above the din.
The sheer weight of stuff out there from which the customer can choose is so immense that the chances of your book being chosen are extremely thin unless you are already famous. As Bono's comment illustrates, even that doesn't guarantee what you have to sell will be chosen above anything else that is out there, nor even that it will be noticed at all.
If someone as world class as Bono and U2 are worried about it, then the rest of us should start wringing our hands immediately. This ultra famous supergroup couldn't even give their album away, so what chance do the rest of us nobodies have?
What is the answer? I haven't the faintest idea, and neither has anyone else. Oh people will of course spew forth with their own opinion based upon nothing more than the delusion of their own superior knowledge, but no one has a definitive answer because there isn't one to be had. The only thing we do know is why it's happening, and that is the advent of self publishing. It is so easy to publish your own book now that everyone and their neighbour is doing it, most of whom really shouldn't be bothering. The problem is that they are bothering, and all are convinced that their work is the best the literary world has ever seen. Before self publishing, 99% would be turned down by the few traditional publishing houses and would spend their lives dreaming of being an author. Back then, the number of books out there was much lower and the reader with money to spend was not so spoiled for choice.
So what can we do? I don't know. You can of course throw money at the problem, but most of us don't have access to enough funds to finance a big international marketing campaign. Advertising space is a premium product now and the cost of those precious column inches, website pixels, or mailing list placings, is prohibitively high. If you want a day on someone's mailing list, not only do you have to pay a very high fee, but most demand your book has a certain number of reviews at a certain star rating. Failing that, you could pay for a billboard or a TV ad but that is mega dollars. No, that kind of ad campaign is way beyond the means of most hard working self published authors who don't make enough sales to be able to live off their writing.
Me? Well I'm taking the zen approach. I'm sitting back and waiting for the bubble to burst. It will do of course sometime and when it does, the books I'm writing in the meantime will give me an impressive back list. I've backed off from trying to market my books and am concentrating on writing. One day this monster we've created will die, and when it does, I'll be there.
You will have to find your own way through that suits you, but as Bono found out, sometimes you can't even give it away.
Cover reveal – Psychomanteum
My brand new horror is now available in both paperback and ebook formats for you to enjoy.
Psychomanteum – by Merita King
From Wikipedia – A Psychomanteum – often called "mirror gazing," is a mirrored room, specially set up to communicate with the spiritual realm. Reflective objects or surfaces, such as blood or water, were considered a conduit to the spiritual world in ancient times.
A story of one man's interest in genealogy, and the dreadful horror that his attempts to connect with his one famous ancestor brings forth.
Everyone is interested in finding out about their history these days, and it seems as if everyone is researching their family tree. There is also a great deal of interest in the paranormal and communication with the deceased. Ghost tours and ghost hunts are are common events nowadays, and it is no longer thought of as weird to have an active interest in communicating with the spirit world. We cannot know of course, whether our attempts at such communication will bring forth the results we desire, or something far more terrible..!
How not to get fat
I read this article by Duncan Swallow, which reflects the way I've thought for years. Everyone is so quick to blame everything other than their own lack of will power. It's time to take off the rose tinted glasses and see the truth, however ugly and scary it may be.
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An interesting piece of information from the University of Edinburgh. Dr John Menzies from the university's Centre for Integrative Physiology announced this week that the whole idea of fats and sugars being addictive is nonsense. He said, and I quote, 'It's easy to blame food. Certain individuals do have an addiction-like relationship with particular foods. But…(we could make more progress) if we think of this as a behavioural addiction rather than as a substance-based addiction.' In other words, it's not foods that are addictive, but the very act of eating. The only foodstuff that is truly addictive is caffeine. Sugars, fats? No. Absolutely not. Nobody exhibits withdrawal symptoms if deprived of sugar or fat. They may get grumpy because they like them, but they are not truly addictive.
This is not good news for those seeking an excuse, is it? Suddenly, the old 'I'm addicted to food' get-out-of-jail-free card has…
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Negotiating the maze that is the stock photo site
If, like me, you're not blessed with an A-list income, then you will be familiar with the anguish that comes with the search for cover art stock photos.
These sites are huge, but their search criteria are nonsensical, and the results you get often bear no resemblance to the words you type into the input box. You type in 'spooky corridor' and you get pictures of grinning kids playing on a beach, and you think, "what the fuck has this to do with a spooky corridor?" Much sighing and scratchings of the head later, you give up in disgust or settle for something you know is not what you wanted.
The problem is caused by those who upload the photos. When they upload their photos, the site asks for keywords. These keywords are the words you and I use as search criteria and should reflect the subject of the photo to make sure we get what we search for. They want you to pay to download their photo above anyone else's. To try to make sure this happens, they will type in keywords that bear no resemblance to the subject of the photo, so that as many searches as possible will bring their photo up on our screens. It's a bit like authors putting their horror novel into the 'historical romance' or 'chick lit' categories to make sure more people see it when they search Amazon. It's bad practice and it should be illegal. The stock photo sites should punish these people buy banning them from using the site.
There are many stock photo sites out there, and a lot of the same photos will appear in them all. Finding the right stock shots can be a lengthy procedure, so don't leave it until the last minute. Make a list of every single word and phrase you can think of that describes the image you want, even vague abstract terms such as 'spooky, gloomy, sad, otherworldly' etc. As soon as you find something that is near what you're after, click on the shot to get to its download page. Lower down that same page, there will be a 'see similar images' option. Click this and you will get a new search of images similar to that one. By this method of searching similar images, you can often find your way eventually to the shot you want. Download comp images before paying for the final shot, and play around with your photo manipulation software. Only when you are happy that the images give you the final result you're happy with, pay to download the full size version.
I am going to be self publishing a horror novel in time for Halloween this year, and the search for stock images for the cover was causing me much despair. I searched and re-searched both stock sites I usually use, to no avail, and in the end I searched a site I usually avoid due to its high costs. Within minutes I found the perfect shots and was so relieved I actually did dance around my living room with glee. Never rule out a site because it's too expensive, keep it for last resort searches. It's better to pay a little more for the right shot, than less for one that doesn't really fit. A few hours with Gimp and I have a cover I'm happy with, and one that is near to what I originally imagined for the book.
Stock photo sites are a nightmare to negotiate, but with time, planning, and strategy, you will find what you need.


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Pontiac, Michigan -- Oakland County taxpayers will save an estimated $100 million if the Board of Commissioners approves County Executive L. Brooks Patterson's request to refinance the county's outstanding balance on Certificates of Participation (COPs) at a lower interest rate. The COPs were issued in 2007 to fully fund the county's retiree health care obligation. They will be refinanced through limited taxable general obligation (GO) bonds.
"Oakland County consistently retains its AAA bond rating because of our prudent fiscal management," Patterson said. "My Budget Task Force says now is the time to take advantage of a new state law and low interest rates to save taxpayers tens of millions of dollars."
The savings will occur in part because interest rates have dropped since 2007 from 6.2 percent to 2.9 percent now. In addition, because of the growth in investment value of the county's two retiree health care trust funds, the county will be able to pay down principal on the outstanding COPs balance by at least $75 million. This will leave the combined trust funds 110 percent funded (assets in excess of accrued liabilities).
Municipal Financial Consultants Incorporated, the county's financial adviser, indicates that with the issuance of GO bonds for the outstanding COPs balance of $438.2 million, the annual debt service for Fiscal Years 2014-2027 would generate a savings of $8.1 million a year for all county operations, $6.5 million of which would be attributed to General Fund operations. The county presently pays $48.5 million a year in debt service for the COPs.
The GO bonds will be issued in two series in August 2013 and December 2013. As part of his request to the commissioners, Patterson has asked the board to enable the administration to react quickly - before August 2013 - if interest rates were to move in an adverse direction or investment values in the retiree health care trusts were to falter.
"Given the new legislation, favorable bond interest rates, and current market value of the investments in the two retiree health care trusts, responsible fiscal management dictates that the county should refinance the outstanding balance of the COPs," Deputy County Executive Robert Daddow said.
Working in conjunction with Oakland County, its bond counsel John Axe, and other interested county and local governments, the State of Michigan recently passed Public Act 329 of 2012 which was effective Oct. 9. The law gives certain local units of government the authority to issue GO bonds in lieu of COPs.
On July 31, 2007, Oakland County issued $556,985,000 in COPs to fully fund retiree health care benefits and pay the cost of closing the defined benefit retirees' health care plan while shifting newly-hired employees to a health savings account. Under the program, the county achieved huge savings. The retiree health care debt service became roughly $48.5 million annually for 20 years versus the pre-COPs annual contribution of $60.2 million over 30 years. This difference has already saved taxpayers more than $100 million during the funding period. This is in addition to the $100 million taxpayers will save if the commissioners approve Patterson's request. Today, all county employee groups' new hires are under a defined contribution plan for retiree health care going forward.
The Board of Commissioners Finance Committee will meet at 9 a.m. Thursday, Nov. 15, in Committee Room A of the BOC Auditorium, 1200 N. Telegraph, in Pontiac to take up the administration's request.
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