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The studios & apartments "Ta Pefka", completely refurbished from February to April 2013, are located on the south-east coast of Paros, in the picturesque village of Drios.
Built according to the Cycladic architecture are surrounded by a beautiful garden. The natural beauty and diversity of the island, combined with the warm hospitality of "Pefka" owners promise unforgetable holidays.
All studios and apartments have bathrooms and are equipped with private A/C, ceiling fun, in room safe, refrigerator, kitchen,
kitchen-ware table-ware, microwave oven, toaster, coffee making machine and kettle for hot water.
Almost all studios and one apartments have sea views. All have large verandas.
The apartments are located in the centre of Drios in a quiet place close to the community's playground and very close (20 meters) to supermarket, restaurants, bakery-pastry shop and bus terminal. Visitors can also have immdediate access to car and bike rental agencies.
The beach of Drios, awarded with the EC blue flag for its clear waters, is 200 meters from the apartments.
|Sleeps up to 5, 12 bedrooms
|Nearest beach
|Drios beach 200 m
|Will consider
|Long term lets (over 1 month)
|Car not necessary, Wheelchair users
|Nearest Amenities
|20 m
|Nearest travel links
|Nearest airport: Airport to Drios is 17 km. Not bus service availab 17 km
|Family friendly
|Great for children of all ages, Suitable for people with restricted mobility
|No pets allowed, Yes, smoking allowed
Features and Facilities
|Internet access
|Air conditioning, TV, Safe, Wi-Fi available
|Kettle, Toaster
|Microwave, Fridge
|12 bedrooms, 1 bathrooms of which 1 Family bathrooms
|Double beds (1), Single beds (2), Cots (1), Dining seats for 4, Lounge seats for 4
|Linen provided, Towels provided
|Balcony or terrace, Shared garden
|Parking, Wheelchair users
About this location
The Cyclades region
Paros is the third largest islands of the Cyclades with a 120 km long seaside front. Paros was famous from ancient times for its marble, that is still quarried up to now. The capital of Paros is Parikia and the harbour due to its central place in Cyclades has many connections with adjacent islands. The island can be reached from Piraeus harbor within 2,5 hours (high-speed ferry) or 4 and half hours (normal ferry). Paros has very good and very well maintained roads that go around the beaches and also reach all the traditional and very special Cycladic villages that well worth visiting.
Several of Paros villages as Naoussa, Parikia, Lefkes and especially Marpissa mounted on a hill in the east of Paros are perfect examples of Cycladic architecture. Many of the houses are more than four hundred years old but still inhabited. Walking through their narrow windy streets sends us back in history that at the same time is now.
During summer there are almost daily excursions by boat to nearby islands as: Delos and Myconos, Naxos and Koufonisia, Sifnos and also Santorini.
Golden Beach
Drios is a picturesque seaside village located at the east coast of Paros. Due to the very nice nearby beaches Drios was developed to a nice seaside resort. Drios, like all eastern beaches, is protected from the frequent in the summer strong north winds. We must also note that all nearby beaches are awarded the EC blue flags for their clean and clear sea waters.
The centre and seaside area of Drios has many amenities as supermarkets, bakery shops, restaurants, tavernas, bars, car and motorbike renting points, etc. From Drios square there are busses going to Parikia and Naousa several times per day.
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Flagler ARES Weekly Net Notice.
The next session of the Flagler ARES weekly training net will be held this Thursday evening at 1830hrs local time.
The Flagler ARES weekly training net is held every Thursday evening at 1830 hrs local ( minus the second Thursday of each month and major holiday's) all licensed amateur operators are invited to check in.
This weeks net will be held on the 146.745/R – 600 offset PL 123. Please note the change in frequency for this weeks net !!
All ARES members are encouraged to check the Event/NCS schedule to make sure nets are covered and we are meeting on the announced frequency
This weeks NCS is KD2AU – George
Flagler ARES Monthly Meeting Reminder.
Hello All,
Just a reminder that our monthly meeting will be held this Thursday evening (Feb 12th) at 6:30pm.
We will meet at the Flagler County Emergency Operations Center in training room A.
The Flagler County EOC is located at 1769 East Moody Blvd Building 3. Behind the Government Services building.
Our talk in frequency for the meeting is the 146.715/R – 600 offset PL123.
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Field Day Opportunity at the EOC
Flagler County Emergency Management will be welcoming any and all amateur radio operators to participate in the 2015 ARRL Field Day exercise, to be held at the EOC on June 27-28, 2015.
This will be a COMBINED event for all those who choose to participate – with a prime objective of giving all amateurs from different groups an opportunity to work together in a unified fashion, to promote the benefit of Amateur Radio to the community and to the Emergency Services operation of Flagler County. We will operate under a single FCC Callsign – in keeping with the theme of unity of operations.
We will be welcoming County and City officials to visit he venue and to see, first-hand, amateur radio operators working together toward a common goal – in support of the EOC. Also, in conjunction with the Emergency Services aspect of the event, we will be operating the event under ICS best practices – starting with an IPM (Initial Planning Meeting), as well as IAP's during the exercise period (Incident Action Plans). Also consistent with ICS, we operate under a single Command Structure.
I encourage all of the groups and your respective members to participate, as this will be an event that will have wide visibility – and will be an opportunity to work together for the benefit of the community.
Please RSVP of your intention to participate, or not – with REPLY-ALL, so that we can get an early gauge of who will likely be participating. Our IPM will likely be in the month of March, with follow-up planning meetings as necessary so that we have all the logistical and tactical support required.
I hope that all of you can join – and look forward to working with each of you..!!
Best regards,
Mike – AA6ML
Mike Lee, CPA COML COMT APCO-RT FCC-1CRTT/RE/AE FCC-AE
Interim Radio Systems Manager
Flagler County Board of County Commissioners
1769 E Moody Blvd Building #3
Bunnell, FL 32110
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Recruiting Notice.
Flagler ARES is actively seeking licensed amateur radio operators to join our organization.
If you have an active license and a passion for public service please consider attending one of our monthly meetings to find out what we are all about.
Flagler ARES meets the second Thursday of each month at 6:30 PM. Our meeting location is the Flagler County Emergency Operations Center.
The Flagler County EOC is located at 1769 East Moody Blvd Building 3 behind the Government Services Building.
Our talk In Frequency for meeting nights is the 146.715/R – 600 offset PL 123.
Flagler ARES also holds a weekly training net every Thursday night ( minus the second Thursday of each month and major holiday's) at 6:30 PM. All licensed amateur operators are invited to check in.
Our net frequency is 147.075 +600 offset PL 123. There is also an echolink node of 130077.
To learn more about Flagler ARES or to join please contact Flagler ARES Emergency Coordinator Jason Writtenhouse at firstname.lastname@example.com
Flagler ARES Weekly Net Reminder
The next session of the Flagler ARES weekly training net will be held this Thursday evening at 1830hrs local time.
The Flagler ARES weekly training net is held every Thursday evening at 1830 hrs local ( minus the second Thursday of each month and major holiday's) all licensed amateur operators are invited to check in.
This weeks net will be held on the 147.075/R + 600 offset PL 123. We also have an echolink node of 130077.
All ARES members are encouraged to check the NCS schedule to make sure nets are covered and we are meeting on the announced frequency
This weeks NCS is KG4HUF – Robbie
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ARRL School Club Round Up
The ARRL will be hosting the annual School Club Round Up Feb 9th -13th. This is a great contest as it gets our youth involved in amateur radio.
Please be sure to get on the air and help those students make QSO's. Below is an excerpt of details from the ARRL website.
About School Club Roundup:
Objective: To exchange QSO information with club stations that are part of an elementary, middle, high school or college. Non-school clubs and individuals are encouraged to participate.
Sponsored by the ARRL, its Hudson Division Education Task Force and the Long Island Mobile Amateur Radio Club (LIMARC) to foster contacts with and among school radio clubs.
Award certificates will be issued for the following US and DX categories:
Schools: Elementary, Middle/Intermediate/Junior High School, High School and College/University
Non-school Clubs
Web Submission of Scores and Logs: Click here for the SCR score entry website. Scores and logs for any School Club Roundup may be entered from the time the contest begins through the log submission deadline published below. A logs-received page is also maintained and provisional scores will be published immediately following the log submission deadline. Thanks to WA7BNM for creating this new score reporting and publishing web site.
Multipliers: Note that a station can only count for a single multiplier as described in Rule 5 below. i.e. a contact may count for a "School" or a "Club" but not both. A "school club" counts as a "school" only. Contacts submitted claiming both multipliers will be scored according to the log submitted by the station contacted.
Post Photos and Stories: One of the best parts of School Club Roundup is showing off your team members and station. Other participants will enjoy hearing about how you did and reading the story of your contest. You can upload photos and text via the ARRL Soapbox web page. (The October 2014 contest will be added to the list of supported contests shortly – it is currently unavailable as of Oct 25 – we apologize for any inconvenience. Please check back on Oct 27th or after.)
Stay updated on SCR. Send an email to: firstname.lastname@example.com.
The full results write up for the October 2013 and February 2014 contests is now available here. (Version 1.1) Click here for the online results table. Click on a call sign in the results to see more information about the entry. Certificates have been emailed as PDF files to all participants who provided an email address. If you did not receive a certificate or wish to receive a paper certificate, contact firstname.lastname@example.com.
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Flagler ARES Weekly Net Reminder
The next session of the Flagler ARES weekly training net will be held this Thursday evening at 1830hrs local time.
The Flagler ARES weekly training net is held every Thursday evening at 1830 hrs local ( minus the second Thursday of each month and major holiday's) all licensed amateur operators are invited to check in.
This weeks net will be held on the 147.075/R + 600 offset PL 123. We also have an echolink node of 130077.
All ARES members are encouraged to check the NCS schedule to make sure nets are covered and we are meeting on the announced frequency
This weeks NCS is W1GNS – Norm.
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January 2015 Section Manager Message
Good Morning, and Happy New Year!
The January 2015 Newsletter is posted to the NFL Section Web Page at http://arrl-nfl.org/ – PLEASE DISTRIBUTE THIS TO YOUR GROUPS, CLUBS, ASSOCIATIONS, AND SOCIETIES AS WIDELY AS POSSIBLE – please pass that NFL Section Web Page link around too!
The results are in!!! This month's issue reflects the new name that members voted for.
Lou Mecseri KE1F in Palm Coast will be receiving a 2014 ARRL Handbook for his winning submission – "QST NFL" – congrats Lou!
I had the honor of attending a few of the closer holiday banquets that were held in in December in our section. I had a great time, met lotsa' friendly folks, and watched with appreciation all of the participants enjoying the camaraderie and friendship of the "social" aspect of the Amateur Radio Service. I did a short summary on each that you can read in the Newsletter.
Like most folks, January 1st always brings New Year's Resolutions…..so here's mine for the NFL Section:
– Get the NFL Section Communications Plan updated by the end of this year
– Get an up-to-date net & repeater listing on the NFL WebPage (January
– Attend the Orlando Hamcation all three days (February)
– Attend the Playground ARC Hamfest in Ft. Walton Beach Hamfest
– Participate in the Florida Statewide Hurricane Exercise (May)
– Participate in my own Group's Field Day on Saturday and visit at least one other groups site on Sunday (Most likely the Spring Hill ARC in Brooksville). (June)
– Participate in the ARRL Set (October)
Coupled with my local group's Daytona 500/Speedweeks Special Events Operation in February; the Florida QSO Party extravaganza in April, and the various contests and field trips, it looks like I'll be quite busy this year! I am also planning on visiting several more Affiliated Club meetings throughout the year in the NFL Section and I still
work……maybe too ambitious?? Nah! I like it busy!! And so far,
it's been FUN! Thanks to all for the warm welcome no matter where I go!
I must say, every hamfest, tailgate, meeting, and banquet – whatever I attend – continues to keep my interest because of the great folks/groups that I meet! Positive people, lots of activity, and great work. I am proud to represent our section, and thank you for the privilege of serving!
Thank you for all of your work and efforts in the past year; I am happy to see our local groups working together and sharing resources.
Congratulations to West Central Florida Section Manager Darrell Davis, KT4WX who starts his term of office today.
Also join me in congratulating Phil Royce KE4PWE from the Gainesville Amateur Radio Society (GARS) who has been recently appointed to the communications section at State Emergency Management.
Have a great holiday, and best wishes for a safe and prosperous New Year!
Steve Szabo WB4OMM
NFL Section Manager
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Flagler Assist REACT Event
FWD: Reminder of event on Thanksgiving
Bob Pickering <bpickering at flaglercounty.org>
Good Afternoon:
This is just a reminder…
The City of Palm Coast has asked for Flagler County REACT to assist with the Feet to the Feast 5K and 15K Race on November 27, 2014. I also told Palm Coast I would reach out to the various groups in Flagler County to see if anyone else would want to get involved.
I wanted to share this to see if any other organizations (ARES, CERT Teams, FECA) would be interested in helping with this. REACT is already booked to do this event. Generally they would be looking for persons to be along the course to help monitor the progress of the runners. There may be some course marshalling, and other support involved. (making sure runners make turns etc)
The race will be based out of the Indian Trails school and feature a course through the woods to US 1, Matanzas Woods Parkway and to Belle Terre before reversing back towards the start.
The times would be from about 7 AM thru noon or so.
If anyone is interested in sending a few people to assist OR having your organization send a team of people to assist please contact me. Participating members should have GMRS capability, if we get enough who are hams we can work that in too.
FYI this is not an FEMV function I am sending it out as an FYI to see if any organizations would be interested and to give them the opportunity to get involved.
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"If he comes running in here now and says, 'God, I can play!' I'll say, 'Well, let's talk about it,'" said Williams, frustrated with the continued questioning about the nation's assist leader. "But he's in a frickin' cast and I cannot give you any answers. I've given everybody all the answers I can give, because I have said honestly, 'I do not know.'"
Williams said Marshall, who is averaging 9.7 assists per game, did go to classes Tuesday, meaning he would likely be able to fly with the team to St. Louis when it leaves Wednesday night.
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Chipper Jones has made it clear this will be the final year of his 19-year big-league career, all of which has been spent with the Atlanta Braves.
Mariano Rivera, who has spent all 18 of his big-league seasons with the New York Yankees, initially indicated the possibility he could retire at season's end, as well. But after he was carted off the field with a knee injury earlier this season, Rivera said he wanted to "walk" away from the game healthy and retirement plans could be put on hold.
Jones and Rivera are among 37 players ever who spent at least 18 seasons in the big leagues and all with the same team. In addition to Jones and Rivera, Yankees shortstop Derek Jeter is in his 18th year wearing pinstripes, although he has not talked about calling it quits. Jeter has an $18 million guarantee remaining on his contract for 2013, and a player option for $8 million in 2014.
Do Jeter, Jones and Rivera signal the end of an era? Nope.
LONG HAULTake a look at which players landed baseball's lengthiest contracts.
There are often moans that there is no loyalty in baseball anymore, and free agency is singled out as the cause for a lack of loyalty between teams and players. Truth is that 21 of the 37 players whose careers spanned at least 18 seasons with one team played during free agency, which began after the 1976 season.
Before 1946, there had been only seven players to spend a career of as many as 18 years in the big leagues and play for only one team.
There will be more to follow Chipper, Rivera and Jeter, a fact underscored by the recent willingness of teams to extend the length of contracts to their key players and ensure they will not have to fill a void created by free agency.
The difference between baseball today and pre-free agency is the players, not the teams, can determine whether they stay or go, particularly key players.
KEEPING UP WITH JONESTake a look back at highlights of Chipper's impressive career.
Before the 2007 season, the Colorado Rockies were ready to trade Todd Helton. The first baseman, however, had signed a nine-year contract extension before the 2001 season that extended his contract through 2013. So, when a deal couldn't be worked out with the Boston Red Sox — the only team he would approve for a trade — Helton was assured of finishing his career where he started.
Just this spring, the Cincinnati Reds gave first baseman Joey Votto, who had two years remaining on his contract, a 10-year, $225 million extension that will bind him to Cincinnati through 2023. At that point, he will have slightly more than 16 years in the big leagues, all with Cincinnati, and odds will be against him leaving for a final fling somewhere else.
Who's in charge?
The hiring of Jerry Dipoto during the offseason to be general manager of the Los Angeles Angels meant a decrease in power for manager Mike Scioscia in the decision-making process, and it has become apparent.
That was underscored by Dipoto's decision to fire hitting coach Mickey Hatcher last week. Hatcher, a former teammate of Scioscia, had been the team's hitting coach ever since Scioscia was hired for the 2000 season. He also served in that role for Scioscia at Triple-A Albuquerque in 1999.
Scioscia's reaction to Hatcher's departure?
"We were not in an offensive funk because of Mickey," Scioscia said. "We'll move on. I've said enough about that. . . . I've said what I'm going to say. I respect the decision, and we'll move on from that.
"I said it: Mickey's a terrific teacher, a great hitting instructor. We respect the job a general manager has to do in evaluating some things, and you have to respect his decisions."
The move with Hatcher came after the offseason signing of Albert Pujols to a 10-year, $240 million contract, which is believed to have been done because owner Arte Moreno wanted to make a splash, not because it would fill a major void on the team. Pujols is one of the elite hitters in the history of the game, but the Angels had multiple needs to fill — and first base wasn't one of them.
Mark Trumbo, who stepped in at first base as a rookie last year, has bounced from first to third to designated hitter to left field and right field this season. He went into Sunday leading the Angels with a .352 average, .611 slugging percentage and .412 on-base percentage. The Angels are hoping he can evolve into being able to fill a void at third base because Pujols has a lock on first base and Kendrys Morales is limited to DH duty.
Obviously, things aren't going well for the Angels, whose $154.5 million Opening Day payroll ranks fourth in baseball. Their 18-23 record at the quarter-point in the season was 22nd-best in the big leagues, and they were just a half-game ahead of the last-place Seattle Mariners in the American League West.
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With that in mind, consider that Fowler, despite hitting primarily eighth, ranks second among Rockies regulars in on-base percentage at .344 and leads the team with 17 walks. He is tied for third on the Rockies with four home runs and fourth with 18 RBI. He is third in batting average with runners in scoring position, at .364, behind only Carlos Gonzalez (.438) and Helton (.393).
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Worker Advocate to Testify before Congress on the Dangers of the NLRB's New Ambush Election Rules
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Washington, DC (March 3, 2015) – Tomorrow morning, National Right to Work Foundation staff attorney Glenn Taubman will testify before the U.S. House Subcommittee on Health, Employment, Labor, and Pensions on the dangers of the National Labor Relations Board's (NLRB) recently-enacted regulations that will further give union organizers the upper hand over independent-minded employees during unionization campaigns.
The Subcommittee, which is chaired by Phil Roe (R-Tenn.), will focus on a series of election rule changes designed to dramatically shorten the time individual workers have to share information with their coworkers about the effects of unionization. The regulations also require employers to hand over workers' private information to union organizers, including their phone numbers and email addresses.
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"The NLRB has once again resuscitated these draconian election rules designed to make unionization campaigns even more one-sided in an effort to boost union bosses' forced dues ranks," said Mark Mix, president of the National Right to Work Foundation. "The Obama Labor Board's latest give-away to Big Labor will ambush unsuspecting workers into union ranks and encroaches on the privacy rights of employees who may oppose unionization in their workplace."


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Thursday, March 19, 2015
Collaboration: generalizing from a limited sample.
Note that collaborating with another writer is completely different from being on a writing team. I have been part of the writing team for over a dozen campaign books, scenario books, players' guides (to equipment/character creation/NPCs/settings/etc.) and rule books for assorted role-playing games. I've been on the editorial team for nearly as many more. On one occasion I was the leader of the editorial and writing team – "herding cats" does not do the experience justice. In a team setting the degree of collective brainstorming and/or who's involved in the brainstorming varies during the development stage varies widely from project to project, but once the general structure is set, each writer is assigned sections to write and each editor is assigned writers to edit and from that point on everyone pretty much works independently. In a collaboration the writers work together on every aspect of the project from brainstorming to final edit.
From my limited experience I think there is one criterion vital to a working collaboration. With this criterion in place it's possible to overcome any creative or stylistic differences. Without it, it's impossible to complete anything worthwhile no matter how well the skills and artistic vision of the writers involved might compliment and support each other. It's not a new revelation, or one you haven't heard applied in a dozen settings, but it's one that can be overlooked or taken for granted. The indispensable foundation of an effective partnership is mutual respect. But not too much.
By "too much" I mean, way too much – which pretty much means it's not actually mutual. The writer who reached out to me with the collaboration offer from which I fled, positively gushed about my work. They'd had a couple of stories published to date and their question about collaboration included a high concept for a novel that was intriguing enough for me to ask to hear more. They sent a three-paragraph narrative summary that was fairly solid and showed clear thinking – but it was accompanied by three more paragraphs describing how honored and blown away they were by the fact I was even considering working with them and how much they hoped to learn from me and that, who knows?, we might develop into a lifetime writing team like Ellery Queen. There was no way the real me would ever measure up to the fantasy me this person had created. I told them that, regretfully, my schedule was to jammed to take on another project for at least a year and encouraged them to develop the novel on their own. It's been four years and I haven't heard from them.
In the collaboration that didn't work my partner and I worked out a detailed narrative summary and seemed to be in agreement as to what we were doing, and our skillsets seemed to be compatible. He was well versed in what we were writing about and lived in the area in which the story was set, but wrote in a wooden, passive, academic style ill suited to storytelling. I was almost but admittedly not quite as familiar with what we were writing about, had lived in the setting area in the 1970s but not visited for any length of time since (so everything I remembered was either no longer there or useless to our purpose), and wrote like a storyteller. Somehow this translated into each of us being under the impression that we were the more knowledgeable, more experienced, and more naturally the leader of the team. Worse, when it became apparent early on that we had different visions as to what the final product would look like, we both moved forward with the internal conviction that once the other person saw how it was going to be he'd come around to the correct view. Everything became a power struggle – or rather, everything became a teachable moment in which we each tried to enlighten the other. Not surprisingly, what we ended up with was not what we'd set out to do and was at best 33% as effective as it should have been.
The collaboration that worked began on a fiction site. A reviewer who'd given me glowing reviews of the sort that indicate some understanding of the craft (pointing out how skillfully I'd placed Chekov's gun in an opening scene, for example) mentioned he wanted to write and would be studying my work, along with that of a few others, to see how it was done. I said the encouraging things I usually say to new writers in response, directed him toward a couple of useful writers' blogs, and suggested he look around for serious writers' groups in his area. He told me he really appreciated my guidance, but that last would be difficult because he was in the Army and deployed in Iraq. At which point I realized the appreciation was flowing in the wrong direction and broke my rule about never entering into private conversations with fans. I did not offer to read or edit his work, but I did encourage him to write, offered a few tips and strategies, and browbeat him into submitting his stories. Which got published. And were good. And weren't anything like my stories. For all his saying he was copying me, he'd developed his own voice. We kept in touch, mostly about writing, via emails through his Afghanistan deployments and moves between bases in the US. We met only one time, when he and his wife drove down from Fayetteville for one of my few bookstore signings. Recently I was given the opportunity to pitch for a military science fiction project, and I had an idea for which I'd need help: the story of a battle – including the events leading up to it and the aftermath – told in two narratives from the trenches on both sides. He was game, we hammered out a high-concept pitch, the pitch was greenlighted, and we're now in the throes of actually writing the thing. Our narrative voices are distinctly different – which in this case supports our premise. Our writing methodologies are diametrically opposed. I work mostly in my head – occasionally blurting bits of dialog at the dinner table or mowing the flowerbed as I build bridges between plot points. I may have little more than notes on graph paper in hand when I sit at the keyboard, but I already know the story I'm telling. He makes detailed plans and maps things out. (Literally – he's drawn maps of the major events of the battle that will be in both narratives so the choreography and rhythm mesh; I had to download a pdf of NATO military symbols to read them.) We sometimes seem to speak completely different languages when discussing the project. But. Each of us respects the other as a writer and, more importantly, as a person. And that makes working together possible.
Monday, March 16, 2015
Old Habits Die Hard
Since writing that article, my personal circumstances have changed. For those of you joining our programming already in progress, I made the leap last summer to writing full time. Now, instead of having to scrounge for a few hours after a long day of work, shuttling kids to and from school or after-school activities, yard work, and so on, writing now has the opportunity to occupy my prime working time.
My current weekday schedule typically is bracketed by my kids' bus times to and from school. I normally have a plan of what I want to accomplish, which usually consists of a daily word count for one or two writing projects, any blogging I want to do, and various "administrative tasks" such as reviewing contracts or manuscripts or editor's notes. My goal is to finish my daily "Writing To Do List" before my kids get home from school. I still might work on something after dinner, depending on the evening's schedule, the proximity of a looming deadline, or if I just feel like "tinkering."
Yet, more often than not, I'm still working that 11pm-2am shift. You'd think I'd be diving head first into my bed to enjoy some of that...what do they call it?
Oh, yeah: SLEEP.
Nope, not me. That'd make too much sense.
Heck, I wrote this blog post right smack in the middle of that window. Why? Because that's when the mood struck to write the thing.
I'm still getting that burst of energy after everyone else has gone to bed, and I end up just riding the wave for as far as it will take me. The key difference these days is that it usually ends up being "bonus" writing time, rather than my only or primary opportunity to make my day's writing goals. Even though I'm still hit by the need to be "productive" during this time, I'm not feeling stressed about it. I'm therefore having more fun with the entire process, rather than having to treat it as the work it was required to be at this point last year.
So, as I said with the title: "Old habits die hard."
How about you? Have you had a reason to try shifting the time you do the bulk of your writing? How's that working for you? Have you embraced the new paradigm, or do you find yourself falling back into old routines?
Saturday, March 7, 2015
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Wednesday, March 4, 2015
The Best Times to Post on Social Media
While nothing is set in stone and there are variables, I have found that during certain days and times, some of my social media posts receive more activity than others. Of course it also depends upon the content of the post, but if you've ever wondered what times might be best to post a particular book related topic, event, question, etc., it could help to know when the social media pages receive the most clicks.
My Internet research, based upon reading various articles (one in particular that tracked the habits of 14 million social media users), seems to indicate that it's best to post content on Facebook and Twitter in the daytime. Users are more consistently sharing between 9 a.m. and 12 p.m. EST, and clicking between 3:00 p.m. and 5:00 p.m. EST.
Yes, it showed that most users share on Facebook and Twitter in the morning when at work, and clicking can happen more often in the afternoon, until people get off work. In both cases, traffic is heavier during employee break times. I do believe it's true that more people are on social media while at work than we think, but employees also log on once they get home, some catching up on what they've missed, and some who cannot use their cell phones during work hours, or because they just don't have the time when at work.
As far as peak days of the week, Thursdays are busier on Facebook, and Fridays are busier on Twitter, still at the same times, mornings and afternoons.
Personally, I find that evenings, Monday through Thursday, are good times. Surprisingly, users are engaging during the times when people are also watching popular TV shows, like Scandal and Empire, because so many people are online chatting about it. Friday evenings and weekends are slower, with the exception of maybe Sunday nights.
So, it's really a two-sided coin. Whatever works for you is what you should stick to, but being that visibility in this business is so important, and so much revolves around the Internet and our social pages, I feel this would be a cool thing to think about if you're promoting a new book release or sharing a blog page, or just staying in touch with your social media friends.
The more engaging you are and the more popular your page is, Facebook, in particular, is more likely to see to it that your post spreads among your network. It's all part of the Facebook algorithm, and newer users, or less active users, are less likely to have their posts shared to other feeds. If a post receives a lot of likes, shares, and/or comments, it will bubble up to the surface of other people's feeds.
With Facebook, you obviously want your posts to show up often in the stream or news feed. A new post will do that, but also, an older post will as well if you share it later, plus it moves up to the top of your page. If you post while fewer people are on the site, the chances of people seeing it are obviously slimmer, but also, when someone likes your post, shares it, comments, etc., your post appears in various places of your friends' news feeds. Even likes will allow the post to reappear. Have you ever noticed that as soon as someone likes an older post of yours, others begin to like at and comment as well?
Much of this is not rocket science, but it is social media science, and it's food for marketing thought.
Write on and post on!!
Sunday, March 1, 2015
STEM to Kids - an excellent opportunity for authors
When Lynelle and I published our children's novel last year, I sent it to a colleague of mine for review. That colleague just happens to be a Senior Advisor at the Brain Science Institute and Science of Learning Institute at Johns Hopkins University and the Creator of Curiosityville. She is also a children's book author. Not only did she give a glowing review, she introduced us to the people at Port Discovery Children's Museum. They saw the value of the book as an excellent learning and teaching tool and invited us to participate in the "STEM in Spring 2015. During Maryland schools spring break, the STEM in Spring exposes thousands of children to Science, Technology, Engineering and Mathematics by workshops, activities, and exhibits in a hands-on interactive manner.
Port Discovery Children's Museum is ranked among the top five children's museums in the country and is one of the leading non-traditional educational resources of the Mid-Atlantic region serving hundreds of thousands of children per year with educational and fun activities. They focus on child development and learning through interactive play. We were delighted for this opportunity to partner with Port Discovery, because the museum normally partners with large institutions who sponsor programs, workshops and exhibits as well as community outreach programs.
Since "Zapped" is about children who are shrunk and zapped into a biological cell for an exciting adventure, we proposed a workshop where we recreate the journey of the main characters of the books through the cell. The purpose of this is to familiarize children with the biological cell and the structure and functions of the parts of the cell while they are having fun. We decided to convert an 18'x34' space into a cell – a really exciting and fun project that requires lots of child-safe materials. The only set back is we have to fund the project ourselves. No problem if you're a large institution with access to a lot of funds. Daunting if you're two struggling authors.
We started looking at ways to fund this project. We first reached out to the college where I worked, but of course with all the bureaucracy that will take more time than we have. So we turned to gofundme.com, a secure crowd funding website that allows us to raise funds online. Gofundme is really nice in that it automatically posts to your websites, emails, Facebook etc. There is no administrative cost to donors, and unlike some other crowd funding websites, we get to keep the donations even if we don't reach our goal. We calculated that if each of my 800 Facebook friends could give as little as $5, we would be well on our way to making that workshop a reality. While we've had some wonderful donations, we are quite far from our goal of bringing STEM to the kids at Port Discovery Children's museum.
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Saturday, February 28, 2015
Guest author P.I. Barrington: HEROINES: Girls and Guilt
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Nope, we're going to talk about heroines. In case you're wondering that falls under the category of characterization. I have a beta reader, a live one not a muse, who is great at predicting what story is potentially great but also honest enough to tell me when I'm getting repetitive. When I hear the "r" word, I freak. Usually she is referring to my "style" so I can calm down a little since mine is a bit on the different side.
Still I have that other girl, the muse girl, sitting on the right or left shoulder, her choice, tugging on my earrings to make me step back and look at my main female characters. I dread the thought of using a mental cookie cutter to create them and so I'm constantly on the lookout for anything repetitive. And so is she.
How do you create heroines that differ from one other? Well, first and most simply, the physical description. I've had a character tall and powerful and brunette as well as two petite ones with black and blonde hair. That's the easy way out. But it's also the opportunity to layer that character a little too. Do their physical attributes affect their view of life? For my work, that's most of the time. My tall and strong heroine, Khai Zafara, from Inamorata Crossing, never thinks about it. She's a dedicated soldier at least at the start and takes her physicality for granted; for her it's a positive attribute.
Payce Halligan and Isadora DayStar are both small and petite; one blonde, the other black haired. One ignores her size until it becomes a problem and then she responds with feistiness. The other sees herself as a tiny person in her universe, her worth even less than her size. But that's the superficial layer.
It's the deeper layers that truly differentiate characters. How they respond to themselves and their conflicts is the key here. Anger, revenge, fear are some of the conflicts characters have to and should be dealing with in their stories. But there's one other conflict that many authors don't include. I've said this before, a bazillion times: guilt is a powerful motivator. Not only that but it's a fairly common motivator for readers as well. In other words, guilt is also a fairly universal experience. I give my characters a ten foot duffle bag of it to drag around.
How each character deals with it is the conflict. It's the major differentiation between female characters. To give you an example let's look at Payce and Isadora again. Both Payce and Isadora have major guilt over almost the same thing but on different scales. Payce deals with it by withdrawal and obsessive target practice as if reliving the trauma over and over and attempting to recreate it with the right outcome each time. Yes, I know that sounds like the recipe for insanity, but it isn't. She isn't so obsessive that she can't function—she uses target practice also as a form of self-therapy—to make sure she doesn't make the same mistake again.
Isadora on the other hand, tries to bury her past to the point of desperate addiction to kill her memories and her guilt and any emotions attached to them. To that end she debases herself completely and horrifyingly for the drug, thereby confirming, consciously and subconsciously, that she has no real worth whatsoever. Her guilt overwhelms her and just surviving becomes a suicidal struggle.


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Oh, med school! It has been a ride and it's very quickly coming to a close.
After interviews in seven states, lots of prayer, deliberation, compiling a rank list, and waiting and waiting and waiting. . .
Today was match day! The day when all the fourth year medical students find out (if they matched) where they matched, for residency. Want to know the results of our match?!
We discovered we will be living the next three years in ---------->>>
This program was our #1 choice! I'm so proud of Squire for all he has accomplished. The family medicine residency at ISU is a perfect fit for Squire and what he wants to learn to be a proficient rural family practice physician. He's so happy and I'm so happy for him! I'm looking forward to being able to keep pet chickens and try my hand at small town living! (We'll see if this hippy city girl will fit in!) Pocatello is a nice midpoint between both our families, too, so hopefully we will be able to see more of them.
It'll be quite the adventure to start from square one again. We will miss all of the dear friends we have made here in Tucson. It's amazing how about 4 years ago, when we moved to Arizona, we knew nobody at all. And now, we will be leaving what has become home to us. It's a bitter sweet day. With blogs, facebook, and cell phones - we're really not so far away though, right?! Right?!
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If its straight juice then yes.
I'd reduce them some for whole fruit but not juice........
"What the large print giveth, the small print taketh away". Tom Waits.Oh, and here's some blog stuff!
I add nutrient to every non-beer fermentation.
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We are offering this beautiful Vintage Hoosier Glass Vase which measures 10" tall and 8" in diameter. Hoosier Glass is art glass made by Indiana-based Syndicate Sales, a glass-blowing company that was active in Kokomo, Indiana, in the 1970 and '80s. There are no chips, cracks or fractures on this piece.
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Emergency Physician, Internist
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Dr. Stephanie Abbuhl, FACEP, MD is board certified in Emergency Medicine and Internal Medicine.
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We are doing some major dust making remodeling, and have lots of concrete dust in the air. Can anyone recommend a good air cleaner that has washable filters? I feel like even though I have done extensive cleaning I am still breathing in all the dust. Thanks.
I have a Hamilton Beach HEPA filter. It doesn't have washable filters but they last a while before needing replacement. I love it because it tells you what the air quality is while it's on. You can watch it go from "poor" to "excellent". Whatever you do, don't get the Ionic Breeze.
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