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As writers, we're allowed a moderate amount of neuroses. If stereotypes are to be believed, we're all just one glass of wine and an eccentric hat away from Bedlam anyway. What non-writer don't always understand, however, are the things that actually make us nuts. We can give ourselves ulcers, just debating whether or not to use an Oxford comma. (For the record, I'm #TeamOxComma.)
Personally, I've been spending a ridiculous amount of time lately thinking about transitions. Transitions from one chapter to another. Transitions from scene to scene. I've even been musing on transitioning my characters from ballroom to garden. They've just been feeling so unnatural lately.
I can only freak out for so long. Eventually, it starts making my left eye go all twitchy. That is not a good look for me. So, I read.
This time, I read the Curse Workers series by Holly Black. She's the queen of efficient prose and quick pacing. These books read like an urban fantasy homage to 1940s detective novels. Even better for this situation? They're full of brilliant transitions. Studying a master is like its own little mini-course in writing, don't you think? After a week immersed in Black's works, I felt worlds better about transitions. It was much easier to see where I was going wrong, in comparison.
This isn't the first time I've read a favorite writer for study.When I first started seriously writing, I would go through my favorite books and mark them up. They looked just like my old AP US History book - all highlighted passages and scribbled little margin notes. After all this time, I now have a favorite author or two, for each area of writing.
Setting: Deanna Raybourn, Libba Bray
Pacing: Lisa Lutz, Ally Carter
Dialogue: Julia Quinn
Characterization: John Green
I swear, these authors should get paid tuition, for how often I've sought their help. It's amazing what a little close reading can do. Who would've thought it? My high school English teacher would be so proud.
Do you study your favorite authors? What are some books you go to, when you need a little jolt of craft inspiration?
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- Nikki McIntosh said...
Interesting that you phrase it that way - I hadn't thought about it, but when I need inspiration I always go back to the same authors. Helen Fielding, Nick Hornby and ... Stephen King. Which is an odd fit ... :)
- May 28, 2012 12:31 PM
- Anonymous said...
Whenever I get discouraged, I actually go and read books I hate. After that I'm so freakin' annoyed, I actually don't mind my own writing.
- June 24, 2012 11:07 PM
- Katie said...
I do have authors I go back to over and over...but a new one has entered my life that I just adore. Maybe not every story, but I love her sentences. They have been crafted. They are on purpose. They are fabulous. Kate Morton. My new love affair.
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I'm so sad to report one of the bloggers we feature in our top blogs section (right side of home page) has passed away.
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Thanks to pro-lifers Michelle Wolven and Catherine Davis, a small group of us have been on this story for weeks.
While Michelle and Catherine were digging through online records of Georgia abortion clinics, they stumbled on the fact that Attorney General Eric Holder's wife Sharon Malone Holder (both pictured right) co-owns with her sister an Atlanta area abortion clinic building.
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True to their word, pro-life activists in Winter Park, Florida, have sued the city government for passing an ordinance banning home protests.
City commissioners (minus the mayor, who voted to protect free speech) enacted the ban after pro-lifers picketed the home of Jenna Tosh, CEO of Planned Parenthood of Greater Orlando, on August 18.
The ban prohibits protests within 50 feet of any home.
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'Night and day' difference for Arizona Cardinals' Larry Fitzgerald
TEMPE, Ariz. -- Like the offense as a whole, Larry Fitzgerald appeared more comfortable as the 2013 season progressed.
It was a bit of a bounce-back season for the Pro Bowler, whose 82 receptions were the most he'd had since 2010 and his 10 touchdowns his highest total since 2009.
About to enter his 11th NFL season, all with the Cardinals, the 30-year-old admits he's more comfortable now than he was a year ago when he was being asked to learn new positions and a different offense by a first-year coaching staff.
"It's light years ahead, so much more comfortable," he said after an OTA Tuesday. "With the play calling and what my assignments are. And not only what my assignments are, but what conceptually what everybody's doing and what everybody has and hots and sights and stuff like that.
"It's night and day."
It's the difference between year one and year two in a new system, and it was apparent as last season went on that Fitzgerald, who caught 46 passes for 484 yards and five touchdowns over the final eight games, six of which were Arizona victories.
That success has translated into momentum that has carried over to this offseason.
"We watched the tape from last year at this time, there's a stark contrast, so it's great to see guys flying around knowing exactly what they need to do," he said.
So perhaps it should not come as a surprise that there is no shortage of confidence at this point, which is a time of year where some players, especially veterans, may find it tough to stay completely motivated.
That's not the case in Arizona, Fitzgerald said, noting that everyone in the locker room believes in each other and has no complaints about what they're being asked to do, even if it means working out in the desert sun, which nobody else in the NFL has to deal with.
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December 3, 2007
How Do You Know When You're Ready to Move to the Next Level?
Liz published this at 10:00 am
Moving To The Next Level
by Sheila Scarborough
Most entrepreneurial online "digital creatives" find that their business moves through a progression.
At first, many writers, Web designers or other content providers often take most any job as long as it pays. In the quest to amass a decent portfolio or group of clips, it's easy to succumb to the siren offers of "revenue sharing" or "exposure" or "future growth," rather than demanding a higher per-word or per-project rate.
Blog for $50/month and post 5-7 times a week? Sure!
Heck, blog for nothing and hope for some ad revenue? Sure!
Anything to get a toe-hold as a freelancer.
There comes a time, however, when the digital entrepreneur is ready to truly make a living in his or her area of expertise, maybe even to be able to drop the side job that actually pays most of the bills.
How do you know when you're getting ready to move to the next level?
I've asked myself that question a lot lately, as I approach two years as an active freelancer (a writer and blogger, in my case.) Here are some benchmarks that I've stumbled across at this juncture; you may find some similarities to your own situation, or as a newbie you can look forward to someday grappling with these turning points:
1) You can't work by the seat of your pants anymore.
Perhaps you have more than one blogging commitment, plus offline work and some clients and consulting. Life starts to implode, you meet all of your deadlines but just barely, you gain twenty pounds, the house is a wreck and upon awakening you think, "Oh, no, I have no idea what I'm blogging about today, plus there's a client meeting that I'm not ready for this afternoon and an article deadline by close of business."
It's time for a schedule, because it's time to admit that this is your job and you've gotta get organized. Big wall calendar, some online software, a PDA, an old-school Filofax, whatever — you're at the stage when you must get a grip on the madness. It's time to hire a CPA for taxes, it's time to buy Quickbooks or other bookkeeping software to track invoices, it's time to buff up that blog/Web site, it's time to….move into the bigger leagues.
2) You are ready to build a specific or at least semi-defined expertise.
At first, entrepreneurs will do most anything to make a buck, even if it isn't what they like or isn't what they're very good at. For a PayPal transfer or an actual check, I'd write about most any topic when I first started out, for any publication that was halfway legitimate.
At some point, however, you know which subjects really make your heart sing, which ones call forth your best work, and it's time to begin to focus and hone your expertise and creative efforts.
For writers, this is the moment to say, "You know, I write mostly about X, Y and Z. Someday I'd like to touch on A and B, but right now, I specialize in X, Y and Z."
This is different from what you said in the beginning, which was roughly, "I'll write about anything."
3) Your time and effort are worth something to you.
At first, many digital creatives are so eager to succeed, they'll leave no stone unturned to get their business off the ground. They sign up for every e-newsletter and magazine that seems professionally helpful, they have a gazillion RSS feeds, they go to every meeting that seems like a good networking opportunity, and the answer to every problem is to throw more work hours at it.
I personally have reached the point of admitting that I can't know everything. I can't read it all, can't track all the feeds, can't answer all the emails and memes, and most importantly, I should not feel horribly guilty about it.
To do my best work, I can no longer allow myself to overload my own brain. It's time to prune the RSS feeds, not follow everyone on Twitter who follows me, unsubscribe from emails that I don't really read nor care about, all so that I can concentrate on the information flow that is most helpful in my work.
It's also time to be paid what I'm worth (for a writer, that's no less than US$0.50/word and preferably US$1.00/word, and roughly $20/post for blogging) and to cast an unfriendly gimlet eye on work that may require a lot of wheel-spinning for a monetary pittance. Some occasional work may be worth lower or even no pay, for a variety of reasons, but my going-in position has shifted to an expectation of decent pay for the work that I do, rather than pleased gratitude that anyone pays me at all.
It's scary to realize that your baby, your business, is at a turning point, but the good news is that it's time to make some tough career focus decisions because….you've done well and are ready to do even better!
–Sheila Scarborough You'll find Sheila and her blogs at SheilaScarborough.com
Isn't Shelia amazing? So why not tell her? How will you know when you're at the next level? Could you be there already?
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12 Comments to "How Do You Know When You're Ready to Move to the Next Level?"
December 3rd, 2007 at 11:29 am
SunnySchlenger said
This is good information that I haven't seen summarized anywhere else. Even though this is not my particular trajectory, I do have clients that are working in this direction.
I will pass this along. Thanks!
December 3rd, 2007 at 12:40 pm
Yoav said
Shelia, you are amazing.
And I would have said that even if Liz didn't ask
December 3rd, 2007 at 2:04 pm
Sheila at Family Travel said
Thanks for the kind comments, and to Liz for letting me "hog the microphone" on Successful Blog.
December 3rd, 2007 at 3:00 pm
Mother Earth said
this post speaks to me BIG time, thanks for describing the I will write anything for a resume piece example ( hello – — me !) and for detailing what might be fair to be paid — it's exciting to imagine getting paid for my writing and I feel blessed that I didn't sell myself short( or too short anyway ) in the few things I have done so far.
It's very nice to meet yet another friend of Liz's and someone who's experienced what I am about to embark on and who can share it so effortlessly
Mother Earth aka Karen Hanrahan
December 3rd, 2007 at 8:20 pm
Lisa said
Ahh, me. This is a fabulous piece. So much what we need to hear. Thank you Shiela!
December 4th, 2007 at 3:41 pm
Anita Bruzzese said
Speaking from personal experience, you're right on the money. And, I think it's important to stress that you will come to this same conclusion in different ways as time goes on. You will one day decide that it's time to shift priorities, and give your time and attention to another area for a while. That's OK. The point is to not beat yourself up for the things you're NOT doing, but instead pat yourself on the back for all that you do accomplish. The key is staying focused on your goals…not becoming confused and disorganized by other things. Always remember to take a break from hacking through the forest to climb to the top of the trees and look where you're going.
Anita Bruzzese
December 5th, 2007 at 4:40 am
Kiwiwriter said
Great post Sheila and boy can I see myself in what you are writing…the first steps when you just grap out for anything that lets you write anything and everything… to the slow realization that you have to find a way to structure and plan not only what you are going to write about but also how to get paid what it's worth…the turning point…
thanks for writing such a thought provoking post…
December 6th, 2007 at 8:26 am
Sheila at Family Travel said
Thanks for all the feedback, and also to Kiwiwriter for featuring this post on her own great blog about writing….
My Year of Getting Published at http://writetotravel.blogspot.com/index.html
December 9th, 2007 at 4:37 pm
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I lost my job in WA when the university I was working for moved our entire department to a different campus a long way away. I was laid off. After a few months I decided I needed to look elsewhere for employment so I moved to CA. Still looking for work but just received notice that my state unemployment has run out. They told me to contact the CA UI Office. For my particular situation (living in a new state) I am not allowed to just file online. The CA website instructed that I must call their office. I've been calling repeatedly for three days now and I just get the recording that they are too busy & then it hangs up
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Matt Taibbi, the profane, provocative reporter for Rolling Stone, is a larger-than-life figure in modern political journalism. That's both literally true (he's a big guy: he once played for the MBA—that's the Mongolian Basketball Association) and figuratively true: he writes in a scorching, contemptuous style that gives the best of his work a cast of fire-breathing grandeur. Known primarily for blaspheming the Pope, labeling Goldman Sachs a "a great vampire squid wrapped around the face of humanity", and more recently, slinging a mug of hot coffee in the face of a Vanity Fair reporter, Taibbi is clearly a man of outsized emotions. His new book Griftopia: Bubble Machines, Vampire Squids, and the Long Con that Is Breaking America [Spiegel & Grau] is a stinging new history of the financial crisis that heralds a return of Mencken-esque, dirt-under-the-fingernails American journalism. Griftopia delves into the shadowy world of collateralized debt obligations, credit default swaps and sovereign wealth funds, but he navigates the turgid money stuff with soaring sentences like "Greenspan's rise is…a tale of a gerbilish mirror-gazer who flattered and bullshitted his way up the Matterhorn of American power, and then, once he got to the top, feverishly jacked himself off to the attentions of Wall Street for twenty consecutive years." No one is spared. GQ caught up with Taibbi in a dark corner of a downtown Manhattan café to discuss the new book, the Great Recession, the upcoming midterm elections and what lies beyond.
Here we are, two years into the Great Recession—most Americans are by now worn out and hopelessly confused by the financial crisis. Your new book starts out at a Sarah Palin campaign rally in 2008 and takes us back through the vortex.
When I first started covering the financial crisis I would go around the country and ask people about this stuff and nobody knew anything. Now, one out of five people understands what's going on. It's slowly getting there. But on the other hand, if you look at the foreclosure crisis and the way that's being covered, there's literally the same mis-coverage that we saw two years ago. There was a story in the Wall Street Journal last week where they're basically blaming the lawyers who are working on behalf of people who don't want to pay their mortgages for causing the foreclosure crisis. People believe this stuff. The problem with the mortgage crisis is that: you hear the word 'mortgage' and you don't even want to listen. The Republicans were the only ones who were really loud about this: they said the reason everybody got a mortgage is because the government was forcing banks to lend to people. That wasn't the real explanation. The real explanation was that the banks had figured out a way to take these subprime mortgages, chop them up into little bits, and then repackage them as AAA-rated investments and sell them to people who didn't know what they were. It's basically like selling oregano as weed. What's the first thing you do when you find out you can get away with that? You go out and buy or grow more oregano.
In a recent Rolling Stone piece, you wrote about the Tea Party: "their desire to withdraw from the brutally complex global economic system that is an irrevocable fact of our modern life and get back to a simpler world that no longer exists is so intense, it breaks your heart." What are they withdrawing to?
While I was working on the Tea Party story, I interviewed a guy who was talking about how we need to reform Wall Street because they've gone into every corner of life, how we deal with them fifty times a day when we're buying gasoline or whatever. He said, "I don't need to use gasoline. I can burn wood at home." But commodities prices affect food. Are you going to not buy food? "Well, I can grow my own food," he said. People don't realize the extent to which all this shit snakes out into every corner of our existence. They don't want to have to deal with it, it's just too complicated. They want to retreat. The big lesson I want people to get from this book is that you can't retreat. We've entered this new world of bureaucratic complexity. Your political future is now determined by how much of this shit you're going to be able to understand. There's no going back—it's here. The problem with the Tea Party is that it's been used in a way that scares people into supporting an agenda that's counter to their own interests.
Why are Americans so squeamish about going after the wealthy?
In other countries they have histories with revolutions and class movements. In America, people don't like to think of themselves like being in a lower class. They all like to think of themselves as potential millionaires. So when these politicians get up and say "We need business and the producers to be free, in order to create jobs for everybody"—people think of themselves as being on the side of the rich guy. They don't think of themselves in being in that other group. That's the genius of the Tea Party—you take these people who are all themselves middle class or below, and you make them focus on poor minorities so they think they're above somebody else.
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Bottom Line - Is Linux Mature Yet?
Sep/Oct 2003 by Sam Williams
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It's been 12 years since Linus Torvalds uploaded the first version of the Linux kernel, five years since major businesses such as IBM, Hewlett Packard and, yes, Novell made their first major investments in Linux, and at least a full year since Wall Street banks began swapping out their Unix servers with low-cost, reliable Linux servers.
And yet, for some reason, the doubts still linger.
A cynic might point to a few companies with a vested interest in stoking those doubts, but that devotes more attention to the people paid to out-talk Linux vendors and less to those in a position to weigh what Linux has to offer. For the purposes of this article, it seems better to focus on the customer side and to accept any lingering doubts as evidence of larger uncertainties in the IT marketplace.
Given these uncertainties, it seems strange that some corporate technology strategists have moved so decisively to embrace an operating system and development model that others still dismiss as "immature." What do these companies see that others do not?
Setting aside game theory and all its attendant lessons on "early adopter" and "late adopter" strategies, let's take a look at the basic facts common to both sides of the Linux debate.
Fact #1
There's More Than One Linux
This may seem like a common sense statement to anybody who has followed the Linux phenomenon over the last decade, but it's something Linux evangelists and their opponents in the Unix and Windows worlds quickly push to the background.
Those weighing Linux on a strategic level would do best not to make that mistake.
In just 12 short years Linux has leapfrogged from its original, native environment-Intel 386 microprocessors-to bigger and better chips: Pentium, Alpha, ARM, StrongARM and even the various RISC architectures favored by Apple and Sun.
This colonization pattern is not unprecedented. Unix followed a similar cross-platform proliferation in the early to mid-1970s. Still, in the current marketplace, where most commercial operating systems cleave closely to their native hardware platforms, the Linux growth pattern is noteworthy. Where Unix once fragmented into a host of proprietary, closed-source spin-offs, Linux for the most part, has retained the image of a single, solid entity.
This image rests on two fundamental tenets of the Linux design philosophy: 1) Torvalds & Co., having learned from Unix history, has explicitly avoided any development pathways that would cut off a significant sub-section of the operating systems marketplace and 2) The GNU General Public License, the license that regulates Linux development, forbids proprietary offshoots while at the same time encouraging the free exchange of ideas and innovations from all corners of the Linux marketplace. Simply put, developers of device- or application-specific Linux variants have a high incentive to retain cross-platform compatibility with other Linux variants.
The end result: Customers can buy SUSE Linux with Ximian applications for the desktop, Red Hat running Apache server for enterprise-scale applications and MontaVista's Hard Linux for embedded applications demanding hardened "realtime" availability.
This situation is similar to the one encountered by Microsoft Windows users. Companies buy Windows 2000 for the desktop, Windows NT or Windows Server for network-based services and Windows CE for handheld and embedded devices.
The only major difference, of course, is that Microsoft is a single company and a strict guardian of Windows source code, whereas Red Hat, SuSE and MontaVista are three distinct companies forced to compete on the basis of issues rather than source code access.
When it comes to maturity, one would never throw a blanket characterization over the entire Windows franchise. Why do the same for Linux? Breaking the Linux marketplace into three major sub-realms: desktop, embedded and servers systems, one quickly encounters a sliding scale of maturity and robustness. Most IT experts would give Windows the edge at the desktop level, noting the dominance of certain office application standards. When it comes to servers, a marketplace where no single application or suite dominates, however, most agree that Linux is equally suited for mission critical tasks.
"Linux on the server level has gone through the knee of the S curve," says Robin Bloor, president of Bloor Research, an IT analysis & consultancy firm. "It's getting bought without much resistance or concern."
Bloor credits this acceptance to a number of factors. Chief among those factors is the ability of companies to give Linux a full test run before implementation. Thanks to the GNU General Public License, the Linux operating system's governing license, source code on all variants must be freely available. Whether borrowing the software from another user or purchasing from a vendor, this availability gives systems administrators the ability to tinker and tune the operating system for customized use.
Since then, however, Bloor, like many other executives, has come to accept Linux as a stable platform, especially for server-based applications. These applications, he says, are key to the operating system's growing name recognition at the CTO/CIO strategic buying level.
"At the end of the day, it's applications that sell boxes," Bloor says. "The wealth of applications [on Linux servers] right now is second only to Windows and it will probably overtake Windows in a couple of years."
One customer who can vouch for Linux maturity at the network server level is Garner McNett, president of Dallas-based Cargo Data Management Corp. McNett's company made the switch from UNIX to Linux in the midst of a pre-Y2K overhaul for a main client. Since then, the company has taken on a major new account, Internet-based accounting and cargo tracking for Philippines air carrier Cebu Pacific Air, without a hitch.
"You've got people on these islands out in the Pacific using a dial-up connection, sending data back and forth," McNett says. "You could not do that in Windows. This is a character-based system with a terminal emulator. It's extremely fast, extremely functional and there's no overhead to drag around. Best of all: it never goes down."
Fact #2
Cost Is Subjective
Thanks to the GPL, Linux has long enjoyed a highly favorable cost profile. Indeed, one of the factors that sped Linux adoption in the late 1990s was the ability of individual systems administrators to download and install free copies for the management of corporate networks on a trial basis without running those decisions past purchasing departments.
Recently, however, some have called the operating system's low-cost reputation into question, perhaps prematurely. Numerous studies stretching costs over a three-to-five year period have given Windows 2000 the edge over Linux in terms of "total cost of ownership." The primary reason: an extended time horizon puts greater weight on salary and service costs and certified Linux specialists, like their UNIXbrethrenn, tend to pull down higher salaries than Windows specialists.
However, an independent 2002 Robert Frances Group survey of IT executives in Global 2000 companies provided the following average salary breakdown: Solaris $85,844, Linux $71,400 and Windows less than $3,000 behind at $68,500.
But when the study looked at total cost of ownership, however, it found that the number of Linux servers managed per employee was four times higher than the number for Windows. It also found that Linux servers experienced less downtime and fewer debilitating security problems than Windows servers. As a result, per node costs for Linux were $12,010 compared with $29,509 for Solaris and $52,060 for Windows.
"The three factors that seem to be coming up over and over again are reduction in server counts (doing the same job with half as many boxes), hardware savings (this is usually the Sun to Wintel comparison), and finally, software cost savings and flexibility of choice," says Chad Robinson, senior research analyst at Robert Frances Group. "Companies can buy Red Hat and then use Red Hat's commercial support channels. They may also download a free distribution and choose a support vendor from a growing array of commercial options. This flexibility of not being married to a specific vendor's 'stack' or 'road map' is adding to the growing popularity of Linux in the enterprise."
Finally there is the issue of vendor choice. In Your Open Source Plan, an article in the May, 2003 issue of CIO magazine, E-Trade executive Josh Levine notes that his company slowly made the switch from Unix servers, each costing $240,000 with a $25,000 yearly maintenance contract, to $4,000 Intel servers with minimal maintenance charges, thanks to Linux.
"We get to manage the [hardware] vendor as opposed to the vendor managing us," Levine says. "They can't hide behind an operating system."
Fact #3
Linux Involves A (Slight) Change In IP Philosophy.
As noted above, the GNU General Public License is a radical departure from other commercial software licenses. Those who embrace Linux as a cornerstone or even as a significant piece of their IT strategy would do well to familiarize themselves with both the language and philosophy that underlies the license.
Companies that do so must adjust their thinking to accommodate the liberal agenda of the free software movement, the collective architect of both the GPL and the many software elements that go into Linux, with its emphasis on the rights of developers to share and modify all software programs. Once through this political prism, however, many will experience the quiet epiphany that Red Hat Chief Technology Officer Michael Tiemann first noted when reading the free software movement's "urtext," Richard M. Stallman's GNU Manifesto. "On the surface it read like a socialist polemic," notes Tiemann in the 1999 book Open Sources. "But I saw something different. I saw a business plan in disguise."
Driving that business plan, as Tiemann goes on to note, is the economic efficiency that comes with offloading a major cost center-operating system development-onto a community of motivated, talented programmers, while retaining more profitable corners of the software marketplace-applications, services and support-for better targeted exploitation.
The GPL's implications vary. For the application developer, the GPL's implications are not so radical. Based on the same copyright foundation as all commercial software licenses, it draws its strength from the mutual respect most companies and creators already show for existing software licenses. In other words, applications that don't borrow Linux source code can still be made Linux-compatible without the need for relicensing.
"From a licensing perspective, there's no real difference between building an application for Linux and building an application for Windows," notes James Bottomley, software architect for SteelEye, a company that offers business continuity solutions and services for both platforms. "It's as easy to sell proprietary applications atop a Linux platform as it is to sell proprietary applications atop a Windows platform. In fact, we do both." From a Linux services perspective, the GPL is best seen as a market generator. By making it impossible for any single company to declare ownership or bar access to the Linux source code, the GPL pushes companies to compete in other realms such as quality of service and overall usability.
"The GPL is designed to benefit the customer, not the vendor," notes Bob Waldie, chairman of SnapGear, a company that develops Virtual Private Network firewall applications for Linux.
Which brings us back to the original perspective: you as a customer trying to assess the maturity level of Linux. If a license designed to encourage, rather than discourage, competition for the end-user dollar seems hard to believe, then maybe Linux isn't the proper choice just yet. For a growing number of companies looking to guard those dollars, however, Linux has proved itself more than ready to handle the enterprise IT load.
"You're witnessing a product in severe evolution," says Bloor, who likens the lingering uncertainty over Linux to the lingering uncertainty that surrounded relational databases in the late 1980s.
"If you remember back then, there were still doubts about transaction processing capabilities," Bloor says. "By 1995, nobody was asking the questions anymore, because relational databases had proven their capabilities. The same is happening for Linux. Every time you look at it, you'll be able to find things it doesn't do, but because of several factors, those things will soon be buttoned up."
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By Tony Hicks
Tuesday, September 25th, 2007 at 3:50 pm in Uncategorized.
I just had an encounter with a wild animal in my front yard last night. And I'm pretty sure Gary Bogue would approve of my methods.
Then again …
There was a ruckus next door, and my roommate came in from the front yard, saying the neighbors reported a possum was trapped on the fence, between the top and some lattice on my neighbor's side.
Well, I wasn't about to stand for that – especially since I used to tackle alligators for a living with Steve Irwin in Australia.
I climbed up on the fence, which may have startled my neighbors some, since they were keeping a safe 500-yard cushion between themselves and the beast. I surveyed the situation. Yep, there it was. A possum. A small possum. A hissing possum.
A possum with really sharp teeth.
I observed it for a few minutes, initiating a brief conversation with the animal, during which it refused to tell me whether it was actually trapped or not. So my next move was straight out of the official textbook of how to handle wild animals in or around your house.
I poked it with a stick.
The possum apparently didn't like that. It hissed, then growled something in possum language to the effect of "Get that stick away from my arse, or I'll be forced to eat the skin from your face." But it also wasn't trapped anymore. The last I saw of my little friend, he was running down the fence toward my backyard, screaming expletives until swallowed by darkness.
I don't recommend anyone else try my methods for saving wildlife. I'm a professional.
I probably also have an angry possum moving into my backyard, biding its time …
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All of these mega-trends consume enormous amounts of bandwidth.
Movie downloads have been bandwidth killers on many campus networks for a few years now.
Both stations are leaving some amount of bandwidth on the table.
Open-mesh allows you to restrict the amount of your bandwidth available to your neighbors.
The days of all-you-can-eat bandwidth appear to be numbered.
No matter how much bandwidth is installed, it will be consumed.
We spend a lot of time and bandwidth using client apps and closed platforms.
But there are many ways to measure the bandwidth wealth of nations.
Officials believe faster bandwidth could mean more information transported in real time.
Second, the biggest block of bandwidth to be sold comes with novel conditions attached.
Open-mesh allows restricting the amount of bandwidth available to neighbors.
People across the planet slurped up more bandwidth than ever last year.
Otherwise, by consuming my bandwidth they are making me pay to receive their ads.
To be sure, the program has its faults: there are times when bandwidth is stressed, resolution is delayed and you're logged out.
Today the same is happening in everything from bandwidth to storage.
It might also bring the possibility of increasing bandwidth due to eliminating potential signal degradation.
In the end, the more bandwidth that becomes available to customers, the easier it becomes to develop new content offerings.
Whether such expedients will serve in the face of ever-growing demands for bandwidth remains to be seen.
Meanwhile, digital computers are increasing exponentially in processing power, memory storage and communications bandwidth.
Bandwidth is a complicated concept because it combines instantaneous bursts and continuous throughput.
Bandwidth is expensive, and many sites are thought to be losing money.
We need enough bandwidth to be able to download software, have online meetings and seminars and quickly download media.
The ability to use low bandwidth is a big selling point for them, obviously.
Take out hardware, software and bandwidth costs, and enough might be left to support two employees or so.
The combination of high bandwidth and maneuverability opens up many new options for seafloor exploration.
It can guzzle bandwidth and carriers have been hesitant to support the applications.
People are using a lot more bandwidth than they did in the past on other things-often without realising it.
The machine connections between us are accelerating in both speed and bandwidth.
However, the simple total bandwidth model is the one that's become popular.
Lack of bandwidth has forced the company to abandon its plans to carry on its site videos of weddings that it has organised.
Copying costs participants both storage space and bandwidth.
The amount of bandwidth they must take up is incredible.
In practice, this meant taking ever bigger bets, such as trading telecoms bandwidth.
The bandwidth with which government is able to interact with society is key.
Normal bandwidth and usage charges apply as detailed in your service agreement with your wireless carrier.
Then there are the costs of running such a site-video requires a lot of bandwidth and storage.
The first is that networks will soon have access to much more bandwidth.
Digital cable transmits digitized signals through the wires, which take up less bandwidth and provide better picture quality.
The best way to avoid going over your bandwidth caps is the make sure you know exactly how much you've used.
The trick is that the router shares a part of your bandwidth on a public-facing connection.
Adjusts video quality continually to match available bandwidth.
Yes, many million more folks will have access to high bandwidth.
They compete with one another for limited resources: brain time or bandwidth.
While a myelin coating greatly accelerates an axon's bandwidth, it also inhibits the growth of new branches from the axon.
If there was little interest in this service, then paying for servers and bandwidth makes little sense.
Look at the bandwidth of your consciousness for example.
Anything else wastes your attention, the advertiser's money, and the world's bandwidth.
Going forward, the best way to increase the bandwidth available to mobile phone users is actually to shrink the cell.
Adding bandwidth capacity would be a little too late, and cost too much.
Each one has only a few links, mainly to other large servers through high-bandwidth connections.
Imagine the video games, virtual worlds and shopping experiences that kind of bandwidth could offer cable customers.
Governments could help by, say, encouraging broadcasters whose audiences are dwindling to relinquish more of their bandwidth.
If the user decided to use their bandwidth for phone calls that's their prerogative.
And they use privileged bandwidth that could otherwise deliver unimaginable broadband applications.
Skype with the web cam is, in my mind, pushing the limits of bandwidth.
Amtrak blocks streaming video and other bandwidth-suckers from its wireless, which seems reasonable.
Also driving the need for more bandwidth are new sources of data, such as networked sensors.
While increasing the overall bandwidth, these antennas also enable a technique called beam forming.
First functionality, then bandwidth, and finally search were the key characteristics of good websites.
But the explosive growth of smart phone use means that carriers need new ways of boosting bandwidth.
More devices are on the home network trying to use the same bandwidth to do more things.
The media channel desire and narrow the bandwidth of our preferences.
What data exists, however, shows that heavy downloading has little relation to a cable company's bandwidth costs.
As for bandwidth, its cost shows no sign of diminishing to zero.
On the contrary, higher bandwidth has meant higher monthly fees, and that trend shows every sign of continuing.
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I don't know how else to put this, but DAZ Studio 4 is horrible. Whoever decided it would be a good idea to scrap the intuitive interface of DAZ Studio 3 needs to have their position in the company re-evaluated. As an artist, I am befuddled by the extreme difficulty of even getting the hang of the interface. The interface is counter-intuitive and often disruptive to my focus and what I want to do. Just to set the camera at an angle, I have to reach all the way over across the screen. Just to pose the figure, I have to reach to another part of the screen to click on a tab and run through a barrage of totally consummate options that simply do not get to the point.
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Life is always about choice and the choices we make at any given moment in time defines who we are and how we live our lives.
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How far out on the limb are you willing to go to get what you want? Just say YES instead of "NO, let me think about it" or any other excuse you give yourself not to face your fear?
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On my website, one of the more powerful quotes is from Dr. Martin Luther King: "Faith is taking the first step even when you don't' see the whole staircase"
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Tim Cook has been very busy running Apple the past 12 months. There have been a lot of changes and new products that have helped make Apple the most valuable company ever. There have also been a lot of controversies, and headaches along the way. The road hasn't been all smooth sailing, but we think Tim has done a great job in his first year as CEO of Apple.
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Cairo — ANHRI expressed its resentment due to the arrest of some students by the Sudanese police forces in Darfur as a result of the clashes erupted between them and the national conference students due to the tuition fees.
The Sudanese police forces arrested number of the university in Darfur among them, Abduallah Eisa Saleh, the head of the student of Darfur coalition in the university, Issach Abdulkarim, the former head of the Darfur's students coalition, Tag El Deen Almeen Barakah, Faysel Ahmed Fadel Allah and Omar Suileman. The police ordered a lot of the Darfur students to get out of the university and go to the dormitory as well as not leaving it until further notice.
The police forces intervened to disperse the clashes erupted by the Darfur students and the students of the national conference; as the administration forced the Darfur's students to pay for the tuition fees, they are already pardon of it by virtue of Abouja and Doha charter.
The administration of "Sinar" university and university of "Yacht El-Rada", already called the police forces to disperse the students demonstrations in relation with the tuition fees they already pardon of it.
ANHRI siad "the intervene of the police forces in the campus must have limits. In addition to "the police forces arrested the students of Darfur is a severe intransigence and serious violation to the freedom of expression, while it allowed the coalition students to enter with Molotov and batons but it did not arrest any of them".
ANHRI called on the release of all the detainees students and investigate the incident and define its reasons and reveal who involved in it from the police elements and bring them to justice.


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As the American Legislative Exchange Council (ALEC) comes under increasing scrutiny and both corporate and legislative members sever ties with the organization, the Koch-funded Americans for Prosperity (AFP) has jumped in to help.
Multiple Wisconsin legislators tell the Center for Media and Democracy they have received identical emails, under the subject line "Stand Up for Free Market Policies" or "Say No to the Extremists Attacking ALEC," from people who say they are constituents "troubled by the recent attacks on the American Legislative Exchange Council (ALEC)" and claiming "the organization is critical to the free market in our state." The text of the emails is identical to a petition being pushed by AFP chapters across the country.
Now compare the text in that email with the petition language from AFP (see bottom):
As CMD has documented, ALEC has been reaching out to members and the right-wing media in recent days for support.
AFP is a member of ALEC, and both ALEC and AFP have received funding from the Koch family foundations. And, of course as is widely known, David Koch is the chairman of AFP, which he helped create. As part of ALEC's PR counter-offensive, AFP has announced a "Stand with ALEC" website -- a concept familiar to Wisconsinites since AFP launched a similarly-named "Stand with Walker" campaign in 2011.
Given ALEC's historically low public profile and its closed-door operations it seems unlikely that the Tea Partiers sending AFP's pro-ALEC email really know much about the group they are supporting.
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ALEC Gets Support From Koch-Funded Americans for Prosperity
Koch-funded Americans for Prosperity (AFP) has jumped in to the rescue!
ALEC has been demonized because......they ARE demons. ALEC is reaching out its tentacles to its right-wing reptiles. Oh boo hoo hoo. The poor Kochtopi.
I believe Mr. Fischer is being kind in saying that ..."it seems unlikely that the Tea Partiers sending AFP's pro-ALEC email really know much about the group they are supporting." The Tea Partiers have their heads buried you know where. They don't know that they are being wanked by the K Bros.


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That's somewhat of a Norwegian specialty. Aamodt and Kjus even did all five. It cost them in total World Cup wins, generally beaten by event specialists, but paid off handsomely in World Championship and Olympic Games medals.
That's actually a surprising fact, but maybe explained by the thing that event specialists get good points from victories whereas great all-rounders can't get enough points from more competitions yet getting lower points in them. On the other hand, major championship medalists should be able to get good points all season long. I've been wondering this, are Norwegian Alpine skiers more World Ch'ships/Olympics-oriented than others, Norwegians always do well in major ch'ships? Could that be because Nordic skiing is more prominent in Norway and major ch'ships are very important in Nordic skiing?
Right now Svindal is taking another dominant victory, this time in super-g. He leads Adrien Theaux by 0.85 sec.
And Ligety is on fourth position, losing only 0.06 sec to Theaux. He can be a dangerous contender for the overall Cup if he continues like this in super-g and dominates giant slalom.
And a nice 7th place coming for Finland's Andreas Romar in today's super-g, going to be his best result alongside 7th pos. in last year's Val Gardena super-g. And yesterday's downhill was his best downhill performance, 16th.
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Breakfast and Early AM Pastry in London
Hello all,
Making my first trip to England at the end of June and will be spending 9 days in and around the city for Monty Python, Wimbledon, and Black Sabbath plus all the typical tourist sites. All in all I'll be doing a lot of the high end - already have reservations for Ramsay, Hedone, Kitchen Table at Bubbledogs and also planning to add Ledbury, Fat Duck, plus perhaps Ducasse and Sketch as reservation windows open.
As an early morning runner, what I'm looking for at this point is breakfast options - things open by 7:00am for either pastries or something more substantial. I've already eyed Laduree, Carvan, and Duck and Waffle plus it appears many of the hotels offer pricey (questionable value) breakfasts. Any specific recommendations for top notch pastry, scones, or proper breakfasts would be greatly appreciated - particularly things not so common in the states.
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I'm familiar with Paul - didn't try it when in Paris, but may on this trip. Things opening by 8ish are fine, as well - I generally have run and am showered, ready to go by 7:30-8:00 and accounting for travel and such I have leeway.
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Sadly, the last two croissants I have had at Patisserie Valerie have been a real disappointment, stodgy and in one case clearly the day before's. Shame, I used to really like them but I am not sure they are managing their fast expansion well.
There's also Le Quotidien chain - very good breakfast food, and I think they open fairly early. You didn't say where you're staying, but there is one of these on Marylebone High St. - right across the street from Patisserie des Reves (sorry don't know their hours).
Honey & Co opens at 8:00am and then there is The Wolsey at 7:00am. St John Bread & Wine is good for a bacon butty opens at 9:00am. And at he weekends markets like Borough will have breakfast option.
Good coffee places do pastries/breakfasts: Monmouth is one, Lantana another, and Workshop another.
For a very comprehensive set of reviews, including a good British fry up - "The Full English" (which is essential), this link maybe of interest: http://londonreviewofbreakfasts.blogs...
My take on hotel breakfasts is that if you go upmarket you pay but the quality is good - however avoid if the cooked breakfast is not cooked to order. The chain hotels, even the big expensive ones, tend to do breakfast buffets which ain't the same.
The bakers already recommended are OK but they are French....! so to balance this try and find a Gail's a English baker with branches across London (I know the owners are not British but they did meet in London). http://gailsbread.co.uk/about-gails/
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St. John looks like an excellent Sunday breakfast spot - pastry and savory alike.
Thank you for the links - VERY helpful, and yeah - no buffets.
It seems scones are more an afternoon tea treat, which I have plans for, but anywhere doing them early AM?
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Gail's does scones all day. Another option in st. Martins lane, Covent Garden is Timberyard, which also does great fruit bread toast. More south, Albion near Tate Modern does good and substantial breakfasts.
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Excellent - thanks!
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Just south of Central London - but more than willing to travel for good food.
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For perfect trad English The Shepherdess in City Road cannot be beaten. But I'm guessing it will take you 45+ minutes either way. In rush hour:
Working locals only.
The smarter places already mentioned are mainly very good, but 90% of the customers will be visitors and the fare will be identical to that available in any modern city in the western world.


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Robert L. "Roc" Wilson, 79, died Saturday, January 4, 2014, at McLeod Regional Medical Center of Florence. Funeral services, conducted by the Rev. David Woods, Jr., were held Thursday, January 9, 2014, at the Oak Grove Missionary Baptist Church of Salters. Burial, directed by Redmond-Richardson Funeral Home, followed at Crossroad Cemetery of Salters. Mr. Wilson was born October 27, 1934, in Williamsburg County, the son of the late Robert Wilson, Sr. and Alice Easterling Wilson. A son, Kenneth O'Neal Wilson; four siblings, Alvin Nelson, Earline Shavers, Willie Mae Driffin, and Lucille Haynes, preceded him in death. He was a lifelong member of Oak Grove Missionary Baptist Church of Salters, where he served as a trustee and as an usher. He attended the public schools of Williamsburg County. He worked most of his life as a farmer and was employed by Drexel-Heritage Furniture Company for 30 years. Survivors are: his wife, Lerline Epps Wilson of the home, five daughters, Angela Moore (Michael) of Rock Hill; Ellen McLeod (John) of Vass, North Carolina; Frances Dalton of Salters; Judith Battle (Richard) of Fuquay-Varina, North Carolina; and Teresa Wilson of Pinehurst, North Carolina; one brother, Charles Wilson, Sr. (Susie) of Kingstree; one sister, Estelle Boggan of Salters; nine grandchildren; and six great-grandchildren.
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Uruguay striker Luis Suarez has ended speculation regarding his future by signing a new long-term contract with Liverpool.
Suarez had been linked with a move to Juventus, with the Italian giants reportedly planning a double swoop on the English Premier League by also poaching Arsenal's Robin van Persie.
But despite occasionally troubled times on Merseyside, the Uruguay international has given new Reds manager Brendan Rodgers a boost ahead of the new season by committing himself to the cause.
Suarez, back in training at Melwood today following his recent involvement in Uruguay's failed bid for Olympic gold, has confirmed he could not be more content with life on Merseyside. "To sign a new contract with Liverpool is unbelievable for me because I am so happy here at both the club and also in the city," Suarez told liverpoolfc.com.
"That is important for me and I am very happy with my new contract," he added. "When you are a kid, everybody wants to play for Liverpool. I am here now and it is a dream for me, and now I am a Liverpool fan. I am happy off the pitch because the people of Liverpool are good with me and my family.
"I try my best on the pitch and when you are happy off the pitch, you are happy on the pitch," he went on. "I want to say thank you to the fans because they are our 12th player. The supporters of Liverpool are unbelievable. Five or six years ago I watched on TV the stadium and the club, and now I play here and the supporters have helped me. That's very important for me."
Liverpool accidentally broke the news on their television channel earlier in the day before the report was swiftly pulled, citing a 'temporary fault.' A short announcement confirmed Suarez, who has scored 21 goals in 52 matches for Liverpool, had put pen to paper on the deal today.
It was not until another four hours later, at 6pm BST, the club finally confirmed Suarez had pledged his future to the Reds. Despite the gaffe, Rodgers is naturally delighted to be working with a player of Suarez's calibre.
"When you have the opportunity to work with world-class players it's fantastic," said Rodgers. "There were certainly a few clubs who were interested in him, but over the off-season he and I communicated well and he's committed himself for the long term here now. He's really looking forward to playing in this way of working. As a manager and for the supporters, I'm delighted because I know how important he is for them."


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Some time ago, Peter Zaitsev posted a blog titled "How well does your table fits in innodb buffer pool?" He used some special INFORMATION_SCHEMA tables developed for Percona Server 5.1 to report how much of each InnoDB table and index resides in your buffer pool. As Peter pointed out, you can use this view into […]
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Every year, giant manufacturers release new models of smartphones. Every five years, there are new inventions introduced in the market. This is the most perfect illustration how technology evolved. But did you ever ask how it began? For most average or non-techie people, a semiconductor is a term familiar to them, but they do not know the uses and applications. They viewed it as a traditional technology that became phased out in the market, which is totally wrong. Basically, a semiconductor is the most powerful element. It has a wide range of applications. It was invented centuries ago, but has continued to grow and expand. Without it, our life isn't as good as now.
The Flexibility of a Semiconductor
You are probably reading this article using your computer, mobile phones or any kinds of devices. Without semiconductor you won't be here. Whether residential or commercial products, semiconductor can be found anytime, anywhere. Useful info on Test Socket. Semiconductor devices are contained in portable radios, television sets, stereo equipment, and much more. Despite of its small size, it becomes a part of our daily lives. When there is semiconductor, there is technology.
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Science and industry heavily relied on semiconductor devices. The research laboratories in science use these devices in all electronic instruments in order to perform measurements, tests, and several other experimental tasks. Automatic telephone exchanges and industrial control systems also use semiconductors. Even today's heavy-duty versions of rectifier diode are used to switch large amounts of power intended for electric railroads. Some of the largest consumers are solid-state devices, computers, data processing equipment, and space systems.
The different types of modem military tools and equipment are filled with semiconductor devices. Most communication, radars, and airborne tools and equipment have also been transistorized through semiconductors. Data processing units, data display systems, aircraft guidance-control assemblies, and computers are also bets illustrations of electronic equipments that utilize semiconductor devices. When experts of the industry list down all the applications of semiconductor devices, it would become an impressive list. In short, semiconductors are used expansively in different commercial industries, products, and the military.
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To conclude semiconductor application would mean performing all the usual functions of amplification, rectification, oscillation, switching, sensing, and timing. To simply state, these devices perform basic functions, but they perform more economically, efficiently, and for a longer period of time. So, it comes without a surprise to see that these devices are used in preference to electron tubes. Physically speaking, tubes are larger than semiconductor devices. According to the research, some commonly used tubes together with semiconductor devices have similar capabilities. Therefore, when miniaturization is conveniently or required, transistors are preferably favoured over tubes.
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Semiconductors make it possible for the world to move forward and expand. You have to be thankful that it exists as it makes our life convenient. It enhances our skills, education, business and living. Semiconductors are a key to future invention. When it comes to making impressive lists, semiconductors will make a cut.


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Recording Format Requirements
On January 1, 2002, new standardized formatting requirements for documents to be recorded with any Missouri Recorder of Deeds will take effect. House Bill 606 and Senate Bill 515 repeals Sections 59.310 and 59.313 RSMo and enacts new Sections 59.005, 59.310 and 59.313, which allows recorders to reject non-conforming documents and provides for a penalty fee of $25 to record non-conforming documents. The following information is based on the text of the statute and the practical interpretation thereof by the Recorders Association of Missouri (RAM), Missouri Bar, Missouri Bankers Association and Missouri Land Title Association. Document formatting samples can be found here.
What Standardization Does:
- Changes document formatting requirements for recording real estate documents
- Does not change statutory requirements
For Standard Documents
Size and Ink
- 81⁄2" x 11" size paper
- White, light-colored, 20# paper without watermarks or logos
- Printed in black or dark ink on only one side
- No continuous forms or permanent binding, but document may be stapled for presentation
- Minimum 8 point type. (Note: Nonessential information within any margins is exempt from this requirement.)
- Signatures must be in black or dark ink to insure reproduction from record.
- All signatures must have the name typed, stamped or printed underneath.
- Attachments to a page may not be stapled or taped other than a securely attached bar-coded label or as required by law. (Note:"Attachment" does not refer to an Exhibit, but to additions to a document page.)
- Top 3" vertical space of the first page only of each document is designated for the recorder=s certification. All recorder=s certificates will be placed in this area.
- All other margins on first and subsequent pages will be a minimum of 3/4"
- Nonessential information contained within the margins does not have to comply with the 8-point requirement. It should be noted that the recorder is not liable or responsible for insuring that nonessential information is archived. Examples: page numbers, form numbers, return addresses, etc.
First Page Designations
Every document (except plats and surveys) containing any of the following items shall have such information on the first page of the document below the 3" margin:
- Title of the document
- Date of the document
- All grantors' names
- All grantees' names
- Any statutory addresses
- Legal description of the property
- Applicable reference book and pages if required
If there is not sufficient room on the first page, the page reference within the document where the information is set out shall be stated on the first page. If one of the required fields begins on the first page and continues uninterrupted to subsequent pages, that meets the page requirement.
Designations (First Page)
- Grantors and grantees must be designated in order to be indexed. There is no limit as to combinations or exclusions, but must include the words "grantor" or "grante". Note: It is the responsibility of the filer or preparer to make the designations.
- Statutory addresses must be designated, i.e., "Grantee's Mailing Address".
- The address of the property shall not be accepted as a legal description.
- Book and page references required on certain documents, i.e.. release deeds, assignments, etc. must be designated.
Cover Pages
- A cover page for the document is not required, but a filer may choose to present a cover page at any time. It will be recorded as the first page of the document. The cover page must have the 3" top margin and include first page designations.
- If a document is presented for re-recording, in addition to all other requirements, there must be a new first page or cover sheet with the top 3" margin and the required first page designations.
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- Documents signed prior to January 1, 2002.
- Military separation papers.
- Documents executed outside the United States.
- Certified copies of documents, including birth and death certificates.
- Any document where one of the original parties is deceased or otherwise incapacitated.
- Judgments or other documents formatted to meet court requirements.
- Fixture Filings on National Approved forms.
- Standard: Documents that meet both the statutory requirements and formatting standards will have only the per page recording fee schedule applied, i.e., $24 for first page and $3 each additional page.
- Non-Standard: Documents that meet the statutory requirements, but do not meet the formatting standards will have the per page recording fee plus an additional $25.00 per document penalty applied.
- Exempt: Documents that meet the statutory requirements, but are exempt from the formatting standards will have only the per page recording fee schedule applied.
All documents that are rejected must be returned with a reason for the rejection. The Recorders Association will develop a standard rejection form that can be used or adapted by any filing officer.


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The Army sent Brig. Gen. Kurt Ryan to Joint Base Lewis-McChord to build a new headquarters full of senior sergeants and veteran staff officers responsible for supplying troops at home and overseas.
The death of Army nurse Capt. Jennifer Moreno in Afghanistan last month devastated her teammates. They told themselves they should have been the ones to take that dangerous mission with a team of Army Rangers instead of the feisty medic from San Diego with the broad smile.
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