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The long-simmering question of how to elevate the status of women writers when it comes to major review coverage and awards drew scores of smart comments and many new faces in a rousing discussion on November 13, 2009, with the #followreader and #fembook hashtags on Twitter.
Intially prompted by the sidelining of important books by women from various year-end "best books" lists and awards, the #followreader #fembook conversation explored some reasons why women writers may be judged differently from men; which books by women rightly deserved major attention this year; and whether or not a women-only literary award might help draw greater attention to the best women writers in the U.S.
Tweets came fast and furious, leaving my guest, Bethanne Patrick (@thebookmaven), host of WETA's The Book Studio and a National Book Critic's Circle member, and me (@charabbott) — doing our best to keep up. By the end, many participants said they would like to revisit the topic, in a discussion focused on possible solutions to the problem…and not just for women's history month!
For highlights from the #followreader #fembook conversation, keep scrolling.
Keeping Score on Women Writers
For those who are curious about the how women writers have been faring in the weeks since the #fembook discussion was first sparked by announcement of Publishers Weekly's all-male Top Ten Best Books of 2009 and Amazon's male-dominated Best Books for 2009, here are some updates.
No women writers won a National Book Award this year, but there were a number of very strong female finalists, including Bonnie Jo Campbell, who talks here about her novel American Salvage, and Jayne Anne Phillips, who talks here about her novel Lark and Termite. In nonfiction, there was also Adrienne Mayor, who talks here about The Poison King: The Life and Legend of Mithradates, Rome's Deadliest Enemy.
On a much more encouraging note, four of the five novelists on the National Book Foundation's "5 Under 35" were women: Ceridwen Dovey, author of Blood Kin; C.E. Morgan, author of All the Living; Lydia Peele, author of The Reasons For and Advantages of Breathing; and Karen Russell, author of St. Lucy's Home for Girls Raised by Wolves.
On Library Journal's list of 31 Best Books, 11 were by women, or about one third of the list. That's marginally higher than on the PW and Amazon long lists, where women were 30% and 25% of the total, respectively, as EarlyWord.com pointed out.
On the Atlantic magazine's Best Books list, two women were on the list of the year's top five writers (A.S. Byatt with The Children's Book and Alison Light with Mrs. Woolf and the Servants: An Intimate History of Domestic Life in Bloomsbury). Nine women were on the Atlantic's long list of 25 authors, which amounts to a 36% showing for women. That's the highest percentage of women on the Best Books lists we've seen.
EarlyWord also noted that there was little consensus between the "best books" on the Atlantic, PW and Amazon lists, except when it came to women. Interestingly, four books by women got the nod from two of the three lists – making them slightly more critically acclaimed than the books by men that appeared on only one list. Here are the favored women:
- Byatt, A.S., The Childrens Book — Amazon #88 and Atlantic Top Five
- Davis, Lydia, Collected Stories — Amazon #56 and Atlantic Runner Up
- Mantel, Hilary, Wolf Hall — Amazon #3 and Atlantic Runner Up
- Munro, Alice, Too Much Happiness — Amazon #30 and Atlantic Runner Up
Highlights of the #Followreader #Fembook Discussion
Why Do Men Get the Lion's Share of the Critical Attention?
@thebookmaven: I interviewed Mary Gordon today, and she said "Notice WHO REVIEWS." #fembook #followreader
@jenwgilmore I had a prof-and this was grad school-tell me women didn't write big books. except ship of fools,and that was a mess! #followreader #fembook
@thebookmaven See? That prof and others like him are why I think we need to keep talking about this. #fembook #followreader
@CapitolClio No "domestic details" and the home = no 19th century literature. No Austen, Trollope, Thackeray. #fembook #followreader
@bookladysblog Reactions to work by Wally Lamb if he = female? #followreader #fembook
@charabbott When Roth and Updike write domestic novels, they are praised for their versatility! #fembook #followreader
@toofondofbooks Yeah, THIS IS WHERE I LEAVE YOU by Jon. Tropper is totally "family fiction!" #fembook #followreader
@bookladysblog What about THE CORRECTIONS. If that's not family fiction… #fembook #followreader
@Wordlily Robert Morgan writes some family/domestic fic too. #fembook #followreader
@words_lover: The Corrections, East of Eden, Faulkner, Cheever – all "family fiction" #fembook #followreader
@Eugenia_Kim MEMOIRS GEISHA also interestngly compounded as Asian female story by White Male #fembook #followreader
@hmccormack Would be interesting to do male/female writer book pairings in book groups. See how common themes are handled #fembook #followreader
@hmccormack I, for instance, would pair Carson McCullers' Heart Is a Lonely Hunter w/Lester Bangs's Psychotic Reactions & C Dung #fembook #followreader
Women and Awards
@charabbott Three women won the Nobel in last 6 years, but there were v. few U.S. reviews of Elfrede Jelenik's work #fembook #followreader
@charabbott Also, I don't see male critics and readers putting Jelenik, Lessing and Muller on their must-read lists. #fembook #followreader
@bostonbibliophl I've heard more ppl say Muller didn't deserve to win than say kudos. #fembook #followreader
@thebookmaven Those big wins…NOT IN THE U.S. — which is kind of why I'm here today. We need to woman up! #fembook #followreader
@charabbott Yes, the U.S. is far behind the UK and Canada, where many women contend for major awards every year. #fembook #followreader
@DavidRozansky: Many prize juries read manuscripts without names, race or gender, though. #fembook #followreader
@charabbott Awards comms are mixed & still pick male aus -deeper issue is assumption that men are more important #fembook #followreader
@charabbott It's the same on Twitter: men have more followers and RTs, even though Twitter is female-dominated. #fembook #followreader
@DavidRozansky Prize submissions should be stripped of author ID. #fembook #followreader
@charabbott Elaine Showalter says that since 1850s, women have dominated US book market & men have had more literary esteem. #fembook #followreader
@Bookgirl96 I think it's interesting, all this focus on prizes. They don't seem to help book sales. #fembook #followreader
@batpoet What a great #followreader #fembook disc.! More women reviewers, bloggers, booksellers will help equalize too.
Would a Women's Award Help?
@charabbott Would a prize for women writers like the Orange Prize in the UK help address this problem? #fembook #followreader
@charabbott I believe that this is part of the solution. #fembook #followreader
@Wordlily I'm loathe to think separate prizes are the best answer. #fembook #followreader
@charabbott I am genuinely surprised that we don't have a national prize for women's lit already. #fembook #followreader
@FlossieTeacake: Continuity now noticeable between Orange lists & other prizes later in the year (cough, Booker) #fembook #followreader
@charabbott But some worry that an award for women only, will ghettoize women's writing #fembook #followreader
@thebookmaven I have thought about that, about separate prizes reinforcing this gender gap. BUT! #fembook #followreader
@thebookmaven I think in order to get past the gap, to jump over it for good, we may need a US women's lit prize. #fembook #followreader
@charabbott Let's hear from those who don't like the idea of a prize for women – why?
@Wordlily It could ghettoize female writers, & assumes they won't win major prizes. May keep from winning "majors"? #fembook #followreader
@thebookmaven It hasn't done so for women in UK. But that doesn't mean you don't have a point. Need to keep discussing. #fembook #followreader
@Wordlily Just that it's separate, in some ways means not equal. #fembook #followreader
@jenwgilmore yet there's a Jewish Book Award, Asian Book Award,etc. You think these bad? Anything to get bk noticed. #followreader #fembook
@Wordlily I can def see US women's lit prize as a potential part of the solution, but it can't be the only thing. #fembook #followreader
@jenwgilmore although: I have felt ghettoized by the Jewish book stuff, but that's a whole other thing. #fembook #followreader
@charabbott Why can't the two co-exist – effort to make existing awards more fair, and also prize for great women? #fembook #followreader
@myfriendamy Maybe separate prizes says….we realize you won't acknowledge us but we aren't going to be quiet #fembook #followreader
@charabbott Wouldn't a women's lit prize draw more attention to excellent women's work, if judged by high standard? #fembook #followreader
@rosewhite22 ideally yes, but i think there's the danger of it not being taken seriously, like we can't compete #fembook #followreader
@charabbott If women's writing is as good as men's, why wouldn't women's award use same standards? #fembook #followreader
@Wordlily Hopefully the two efforts (natl women's prize + changing system) can coexist. Just a danger, I think. #fembook #followreader
@charabbott Would look pretty bad if other prizes said, "Women have their own award now, we can ignore them!" #fembook #followreader
@thebookmaven With prizes, we enhance visibility. Must know that a prize is simply that. More to be done. #fembook #followreader
@hollowaymcc: Wouldn't a women's prize be a natural step in "vertical" marketing? #fembook #followreader
Women to Read
Bookgirl96 Who would you pick as top 5 women writers today? #fembook #followreader
thebookmaven Thanks for asking! GREAT question. World, or US? #fembook #followreader
thebookmaven US: Toni Morrison, Lorrie Moore, Jayne Anne Phillips, Jane Smiley, Annie Proulx…that's five, but NOT all!! #fembook #followreader
@thebookmaven World: Hilary Mantel, Kiran Desai, A.S. Byatt, Elfriede Jelinek, Sarah Waters. #fembook #followreader
@thebookmaven Also: I heart A.L. Kennedy. #fembook #followreader
@jillmwo Consider reading Joanna Russ' excell work, How to Suppress Women's Writing (http://bit.ly/20pR7l); #fembook #followreader [Changed my life]
@Bookgirl96 Two of my favorite female writers: Carol Shields and Susan Minot. #fembook #followreader
@janiceharayda Top 5 female writers not mentioned by others? Joan Didion, Nadine Gordimer, Wislawa Szymborska #fembook #followreader
@nicholemcgill Other female writers who rock: PD James, Marie Helene Poitras, Lynn Crosbie, Evelyn Lau… #fembook #followreader
@nicholemcgill More female writers who rock: @halseanderson, @pinkmeringue, @zoewhittall, Claudia Dey, Elina Hirvonen…#fembook #followreader
@thebookmaven I'd also like to recommend Kristoff/WuDunn HALF THE SKY to all of us here today. Great book about women. #fembook #followreader
Women's Writing Stuffed in a Nutshell
@charabbott I was an avid reader, but never read a black woman novelist until I got to college. #fembook #followreader
@jenwgilmore right,but I bet you'd read the Bell Jar. (great book, but reinforces women as crazy!) #followreader #fembook
@jenwgilmore The Bell Jar is totally great. But it's an unstable woman story, that was my point.I'm a big Plath-head. #followreader #fembook
@SarahABA Today's #followreader makes me appreciate all-female (by chance) AP Lit class and all-female (on purpose) college #fembook
@nicholemcgill I went to school post-sexual revolution and believe me, I am thankful! So all should be. #fembook #followreader
@Bookladysblog I think 1 problem is women's fiction is automatically considered commercial. #fembook #followreader
@Bookgirl96 Very true. Hard to market a woman who writes literary fiction. #fembook #followreader
@thebookmaven We shouldn't! I think women are sometimes PUSHED towards those genres, consc or unconsc #fembook #followreader
@thebookmaven I think that in US, women often get diverted from developing as fiction writers. #fembook #followreader
@thebookmaven We are a Puritan nation; woman "taught" to do industrious things. Fiction can be cast as frivolous. #fembook #followreader
@adevries18 When do we get to blame (or praise) Oprah? #fembook #followreader


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A Prescott couple was arrested Tuesday on suspicion of using and dealing heroin, Arizona Department of Public Safety investigators said.
The Prescott Police Department SWAT team assisted DPS in serving a search warrant in the 700 block of Solano Drive.
SWAT officers took 30-year-old Adam Armandi and his girlfriend, 24-year-old Heather Seaholm, into custody without incident.
The residence was turned over to DPS investigators to collect evidence related to the couple's criminal activity.
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TechNavio's analysts forecast the LPG Vehicle market in Europe to grow at a CAGR of 10.67 percent over the period 2011-2015. One of the key factors contributing to this market growth is the increasing gasoline and diesel prices. The LPG Vehicle market in Europe has also been witnessing technological advancements in OEM and conversion LPG vehicles. However, competitive pressure from alternative fuels could pose the biggest challenge to the growth of this market.
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The dynamic duo of Hooman and Marcus Osborne review: 'Thor: The Dark World' (Marvel Studios)
Chris Hemsworth and Natalie Portman are reprising their roles from the first installment.
Following the events of "The Avengers," Thor finds himself squaring off against the vengeful Malekith (Christopher Eccleston) and his legion of baddies bent on plunging the world into darkness.
Faced with no other option, Thor ends up turning to help from an unexpected source, Loki (Tom Hiddleston), the villain from "The Avengers" and the first "Thor" film.
Check out the trailer below to see the unlikeliest of pair-ups.
The "Thor" sequel is just one in a series of Marvel's Phase II series of films.
"Thor: The Dark World" opens on Nov. 8.
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Mats Sundin is back in town this week.
Not to sign with the Maple Leafs. Don't get carried away.
The big Swede is here to attend to some personal and business ventures. All the while, his hockey future remains up in the air.
Sundin's agent, J.P. Barry, said his client has not made a decision. On and on it goes.
At the same time, Barry said yesterday he still strongly believes Sundin will return to the NHL this season. It is a stance Barry has maintained for weeks now.
"I have said all along I personally believe that Mats will play in the NHL this season," Barry said via e-mail.
"Of course, I have the benefit of looking him in the eyes every few weeks when we get together to discuss the future. From experience, I know the look of the eyes of a player who is retiring. That's not what I see with Mats."
The Vancouver Canucks, Philadelphia Flyers, Ottawa Senators and New York Rangers are all said to remain interested in Sundin's services. The Leafs, meanwhile, still have enough cap space available to accommodate Sundin should he opt to return to Toronto.
Jeff Finger's injured foot continues to be a nagging problem.
To that end, Maple Leafs general manager Cliff Fletcher does not expect the steady defenceman to accompany the team on its trip to New York Friday for a meeting with the Rangers followed by a visit to Pittsburgh's Mellon Arena on Saturday.
"When we met after the St. Louis game (Monday), that was the thinking, anyway," Fletcher said. "We'll see if there is any improvement, but right now it does not appear as if he will be going on the trip."
Finger still is waiting to make his regular-season debut as a member of the Maple Leafs. He was signed to a whopping four-year, $14-million US free-agent deal during the summer.
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The Earth's climate is changing. In the past, the climate warmed and cooled due to natural processes. Now humans are changing the climate by burning fossil fuels and permanently deforesting landscapes. Many of our wildlands are being stressed beyond their natural ability to adapt to these dramatic changes, and the full extent of how to deal with these changes remains unclear.
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Ryheem Lockley has picked up offers from in-state schools UVa and Virginia Tech, and as you might imagine the Cavs and the Hokies have been recruiting him the hardest to date.
However, earlier this week Lockley went on the record and said that Georgia and West Virginia are his two favorites.
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"I want to go to as many camps and unofficials as I can this summer," Lockley said.
"Of course I want to go to UVa, Virginia Tech and West Virginia. I also really want to get to North Carolina, North Carolina State and Maryland. I'd also like to go to Southern Cal, too."
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RAJNEETI has recorded by far the best opening of the year by collecting nearly 10.50 crore net on its first day. The collections are just huge in Mumbai, Delhi/UP, East Punjab, CP Berar, CI and Rajasthan with South being good but lower comparatively.
This is the second highest opening ever after 3 IDIOTS (12.98 crores where we need to remember 25th December was the opening day). RAAJNEETI is closely followed by KITES (10.04 cr) and HOUSEFULL (9 crores).The collections are the second highest first day total however with 30% lesser shows at multiplexes than films like KITES and HOUSEFULL which were the second and third biggest first day openers respectively before RAAJNEETI.
The film has surpassed all expectations and may be on its way to being the first big smash hit of 2010 in India.
Great Job Prakash Jha!!! Well done to the entire team
I am sure most of you guys must have watched the movie by now. What is your say on this???
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great post! i'm bookmarking this!
i just love acting of ajay he is the best negative role hero of bollywood……….
told you i knew this movie would be a huge hit. i thought all the actors were good. katrina did a good job. ranbir did a GREAT job. it was an amazing movie!
i loved this movie raajneeti very nice.kat and ranbir lookks fab together they make the perfect match.
I wouldn't say Ranbir's better than Shahid, but they're both really good. I thought Raajneeti was very well done, and that Ajay Devgan, Arjun Rampal, and Ranbir Kapoor seriously stole the show. Nobody in this movie was a good guy, many were unfaithful. The movie shows the dirty game of politics, and that too in a tremendous way.
I thought MNIK was the top grossing movie. Rajneeti looks good but hate Kat and Ranbeer.
after watchin rajneeti i can say tht ranbir is way better actor than shahid kapoor. i bet shahid wouldnt able to do a role like ranbir done it. Ranbir is makin his own name in bollywood. good to no tht. love Ranbir and Katrina <3
The whole was GOOD.
Rajneeti outshone Kites by far. All the actors were absolutely brilliant especially Ranbir, Arjun and the best Nana Patekar. Katrina had a very small role in the movie and did not make much of an impact…
I am simply dying to see Rajneeti..must make it this week..for the # 12,13,14..who would you have rather seen do the job..? Just curious..I saw the promos..and I am sure she was great…and as I see from the comments, other BIG actors rule that film..I think that is why its a hit..Prakash Jha would never make a film of this stature based on Ranbir & Kat only…so go see it..you will miss a great opportunity.
Actually, she annoys me.
Agree with #12
I dont want to watch it because the actress in it does not know how to act
superb movie and a must see one…. not jus once … ajay devgan, arjun rampal were awesome…. kat n ranbir too… overall one of the best movies i ve seen
Manoj Bajpai overshadows all the other actors, good film.
the best movie of 2010…..loved manoj bajpai and ajay devgan….
Loved it!!
Movie is the best….everyone did the superb job….
Very good film indeed. The actors mainly Manoj Bajpai and Ajay Devgan were very brillant.
Simply fantastic, awesome, incredible!!! :-)All the actors were superb…especially Arjun Rampal and Ranbir Kapoor. Just loved the movie!
Well havent seen it yet but looking forward to watching it after i finish my exams lol let see how good it is .
RAAJNEETI.. SIMPLY BRILLIANT,MINDBLOWIN.BEST MOVIE SO FAR OF 2010. well done mr.prakash.
One of the best films of the year…
Ranbir is the backbone of the movie… and Manoj simply rocks… AJAY KATRINA AND ARJUN are very good… Nana patekar is brilliant…
Best Film of 2010 and manoj was brilliant……..He Must get the Best Actor Award I have no Words to say about his acting Superb…… I wish to See you in more Films manoj sir


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Things To Do In Dallas Tonight: Apr. 23
If you don't want to blow your ears out with Mogwai, there is an architecture lecture at the DMA.
How's the middle of your workweek going? Having a stressful day? Did you perhaps forget about a really important meeting? I have just the thing for you: Deafeningly loud instrumental music.
Mogwai—the Scottish band who practically defined the post-rock genre during the 90s—is playing at the Granada tonight. Any critic worth his or her crumpled notepad has at least one cliched story about how some band's show is "still ringing in the ears," and Mogwai is probably mine. I saw the band perform at New York's Irving Plaza once upon a time, and they were so earth-shaking that I thought the venue's stairwell was going to collapse.
For a far quieter evening, the Dallas Architecture Forum is hosting a lecture at the DMA, featuring the world-renowned Gregg Jones. Jones is principal of Pelli Clarke Pelli, who designed Hong Kong's International Finance Centre, which towers over all other skyscrapers in the vicinity. Jones is currently head of a project with a bit more of a direct impact on your daily life—the monumental work taking place in Uptown, over on McKinney and Olive. That sloping edifice will eventually be a mixed-use hub that will significantly change Uptown, as the area hasn't seen development of this scale since the high-flying 80s. You can find more info here.
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Catch Monday Night Football tonight with me at Hooters and maybe win this classic 1 of a kind hat! Hellyeah are definitely one of the hardest partying bands I've ever met. We've had some great times together and now they've come up with the coolest party accessory EVER!
They sent me a few of these to coincide with the release of "Drink, Drank, Drunk" and I'm giving this one away tonight (12/3/12) during the Monday Night Football game at Hooters!
Stop by for all you can eat wings, beer specials, the Hooters girls and a chance at the hat! You have to specify that you "want to win the hat" when you see me tonight at Hooters!!
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Jennie Bailey takes pride in her spelling.
That changed on a recent vacation in California, when she had trouble typing text messages on her phone. She also had bouts of dizziness and lingering headaches.
After returning to Lubbock, she was diagnosed with Stage IV Glioblastoma, a form of brain cancer.
When she went to Dallas to begin treatment, former Tech football running back James Gray sat with her through her entire appointment. Baron Batch, now with the Pittsburgh Steelers, reached out to her when he was in town for the recent Lubbock Arts Festival. She's heard from former head football coach Mike Leach.
A fundraiser at Nick's Sports Bar earlier this month raised $30,000 — three times initial goal.
In her 27 years with the Texas Tech athletic department, Bailey touched countless lives. All these years later, those lives returned the favor.
Bailey's role in the lives she touched
When football recruits visit the Red Raiders' team facilities, Bailey is one of the first people to give them tours and a part of their future support network.
To many Tech players, she's an on-campus mother figure away from home.
"When you're at college and you have to make decisions, she's the kind of person to guide and help you in the direction you want to go," said LaToya Jones, a former Tech student and Raider Recruiter. "She guides us in the decisions that we make. That's what Mrs. Bailey gives to each and every person that she meets on a daily basis."
The diagnosis
"They came in telling me I had brain cancer. It was stage IV and they didn't know how long I had to live," Bailey said. "They told my husband that there was probably not a doctor in Lubbock that could handle this. We needed to get a doctor outside of Lubbock to deal with this."
The diagnosis came after a few weeks of noticing constant dizziness and headaches.
The week before taking a vacation to California with her neighbors, Bailey visited her primary care physician. He scheduled an MRI the following week and told her to enjoy her vacation.
The trip
"We drove," Bailey said of the trip to California. "Every time we had to stop and get out somewhere, I would have to stop and get my balance about me.
"At one point on my iPhone, I was logging in the dates and times of my headaches. I kept a constant record of it to tell the doctor when we got back."
While in California, Bailey enjoyed as much as she could without letting her constant headache and dizziness affect her.
"I'm a very good speller," Bailey said. "Things that I was texting were not coming out right. I don't remember texting those people. During this time, I was having mini seizures and we did not know it."
A brief reprieve;
getting the bad news
When Bailey returned home, she felt better and went back to work. A trip to the doctor later that day showed things were OK.
But two days later, things got worse. After awaking with virtual double vision, Bailey called in to work — a rare act.
"I called my husband," she said. "He knew when I didn't go to work that something was wrong."
A few hours later, Bailey's son, Geoffrey, took her to the emergency room. The MRI initially scheduled for Thursday was performed a day early, she said.
"As they were bringing me out, I asked the little man, 'How did it look?,'" Bailey said. "He said you need to talk to the doctor. Primary care physicians started drilling me with questions trying to figure out how we didn't catch this. He turned the monitor around. I could see the mass."
News traveled across the country. In South Carolina, Jones and her husband, Brandon — a former center for Tech — said they found out around 5 a.m.
"My husband got the call from one of the coaches on staff that morning," LaToya Jones said. "They let us know that Bailey was in the hospital. I went back and read my text message. My first reaction was disbelief. I thought they were going to come back and say it was benign and nothing. Then we found out it was cancerous."
Common ground
Tamara Jolee, a former TV anchor, Red Raider and Raider Recruiter, said she heard of Bailey's diagnosis on Facebook.
"We have a tight-knit community of staff and coaches," she said. "We all found out at once."
In 2009, Jolee was diagnosed with Stage IV Lymphoma and was given five to seven years to live. Jolee said Bailey was a rock for her then.
"Jennie has been ... a giant light of encouragement," Jolee said. "I was heartbroken when I heard about her situation. She has been there for so many of us."
Jolee's cancer has now returned at the same time Bailey's situation has unfolded.
"Our relationship is deeper than football, Texas Tech and cancer," Jolee said. "It's about two women who will fight until our last breath to make sure our family and friends realize how much they are loved."
The surgery
Bailey had surgery to remove the brain tumor on March 22. An MRI after surgery showed more pieces of the tumor remained so she had another surgery March 23.
She was released on March 25 to reduce chances of infection and to begin recovery.
Bailey began chemotherapy and radiation treatments in Dallas on April 22. The "Praying for Jennie Bailey" Facebook page shows one week into her chemo she has had few of the negative effects, like nausea, which were initially expected.
Bailey will continue to take the chemo pills for two years. She'll finish her first six weeks of treatment then have another MRI to check her progress, she said.
"I always knew my Mama was a fighter," LaToya Jones said. "We're actually trying to slow her down on a bunch of stuff."
The cost of getting better
Costs for Jolee's first year of cancer treatment added up to about $400,000. This was one of the motivating factors for the Tech alumni to come together and plan a fundraiser for their beloved Mama Bailey.
On April 20 following the spring football game, a Blitzin' for Bailey benefit was held at Nick's Sports Bar.
The event was organized by Jones, Jolee, former Tech football player John Norman, and others.
Jones said her goal was to raise $10,000. People were lined up around the building to donate to Bailey's cause.
"I was blown away at the amount of people that signed up and the people that showed up," Jones said. "I've never seen anything come together that fast. ... Mrs. Bailey has definitely — from Idalou Wildcats to the Texas Tech football team — touched so many lives."
The benefit raised more than $30,000 — three times the original goal.
Jolee said the money raised is a healthy amount, but from personal experience, it's not enough.
Jones said a bracelet fundraiser is currently under way. She said other fundraisers are in the works for Mama Bailey, but dates have not been set.
The benefit was the first step in establishing a foundation called Raider to Raider Foundation in honor of Tamara and Bailey, Jones said.
Mrs. Bailey
Asked if he was surprised at the turnout for the benefit, Norman said "not really."
"To me, Mrs. Bailey, she touched a lot of lives," he said. "It's funny because I hadn't been there since 2000. She was like that with everybody, not just me. All the kids. We have 100 and something kids come through there a year. Shoot, over just 13 years, that's a lot of people. You can't help but to love Mrs. Bailey's attitude about everything – about life, about being a Red Raider. Mrs. Bailey really cares about us. It's genuine."
Bailey said she's been overwhelmed at the number of people that have reached out to her.
"I've heard from people I haven't heard from in years — coaches from old staff, players, that's just it. ... When I was in intensive care and all, I think my husband was just blown away from the amount of people contacting him."
Since she's been out, Bailey said her husband Randy, son Geoff and Spirit, her new Great Dane and friends have been great support.
She's focused on having a fast recovery and getting back to her dream job, she said.
"I love football," Bailey said. "They probably couldn't have written a better script of a job for anything ever. It is my dream job. I'm going to do everything I can to get back there."
Norman said he has great faith Bailey will pull through.
"She's a woman of God," he said. "She's loving and caring to everyone she comes in contact with. It doesn't matter who you are, where you came from. …She has tremendous faith. I believe that she will be healed form this. She'll come through it and have a testimony to tell everyone."
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Jazz jam
The St. Augustine Jazz Society jazz jam continues from 2 to 6 p.m. today at The Abby, the old Finnegan's, next door to the Red Frog at 5543 A1A South. Featured will be musicians Ed Hersom, Don Durkee, Gil Surette, Frank Kapec, Bill Doyle, Greg Wier, Eddie Trestor and Ted Tedesco, and vocalists Wanda Nord, Marge Ordway, Joyce Lundgren, Robbie Moore, Dan Burns, Lori Gibbs and Em Dinopol.
Theme will be Mardi Gras.
Book sale
The Friends of the Library at the Main Library will conduct a "Buy the Inch" book sale Friday, Saturday and March 5. Hours are from 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. Friday; 10 a.m. to 6 p.m. Saturday; and 10 a.m. to 2 p.m. March 5. A special preview sale, open only to members of the Main Friends, will be held from 3 to 5 p.m. Thursday.
Here's how "buy the inch" pricing works: A selection of hard and soft cover books is stacked, the stack is measured vertically, and however many inches tall the stack is, the price is $1 per inch, with a $1 minimum. Mass market paperbacks and VHS tapes are 50 cents; children's books are 25 and 50 cents; these items are not part of the "buy the inch" promotion. There will also be a selection of special price items at higher prices. These items include signed, collectible, local interest and "coffee table" books.
March 5 all remaining items, including special price items, are on sale at half-price from 10 a.m. to 2 p.m.
All the money raised goes towards library collection building, and children's and adult programs.
Traveling plants
The Sisterhood of the Traveling Plants is returning to the Ponte Vedra Beach Branch Library at 2 p.m. Saturday to present "Spring Flowers", a program open to all and free. At this program, the Sisterhood will demonstrate how to use food and flowers to create spring arrangements for home, the office, and for tea parties and have fun doing it. This program is sponsored by the Friends of the Ponte Vedra Beach Branch Library and light refreshments will be served. Raffle tickets – if attendees wish to purchase any — will be available for attendees to win the arrangements the Sisterhood makes!
People's law school
A free one-hour People's Law School class is offered at the Southeast Branch Library, 6670 U.S. 1 South, presented by the St. Johns Legal Aid staff. The next session, at 4 p.m. March 6, will be "Is Probate a Dirty Word?" Sessions continue through May.
■ WAC — Women Against Crime seminar is planned from 6 to 9 p.m. Monday and Tuesday at the St. Augustine Police Department, 151 King St. Females 14 and older are invited to attend to learn how to be more assertive and how to avoid, deal and survive a violent confrontation.
The seminar will include lecture and physical instruction.
The fee is $25 per person; or $35 for mother/daughter. For information, contact Officer Mark Samson at 209-3456 or email firstname.lastname@example.com.
■ The Hohne Family will have a family reunion Saturday at the St. Augustine Boating Club starting at 1:30 p. m. Contact Don Hohne, 829-5954.
■ Be A Pack Leader Dog Walking Club will meet at Princess Place Preserve at 9:30 a.m. today. All dogs must be vaccinated, non-aggressive and on a 6-foot leash. Bring clean-up bags, bug lotion, wear comfortable shoes and bring plenty of water and a snack for you and your dog. For information, call Julie at 471-5579 or go to www.beapackleader dogwalkingclub.com.
■ The next Sunset Moonrise event at the St. Augustine Lighthouse continues from 5:30 to 7 p.m. March 7. Tickets are $25 for non-members ; $20 for museum members. Reservations are required. Call 829-0745, ext. 218.


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Elemental: War of Magic - Third Quarter 2010 Release Planned
Big Download has a bit of an update on the estimated release date of Stardock's turn-based strategy title, Elemental: War of Magic.
While the game's pre-order listing on the Impulse web site shows a February 15 release date, Big Download has confirmed with Stardock's PR rep that the game won't make that date. Instead the game is now set for a release sometime in the third quarter of 2010 (between July and September).
Third quarter of 2010 sounds realistic given that in their December update, the devs mentioned that the beta process still had several iterations to go. For those interested in more information on how multiplayer will be handled, there's a recent developer post on the official forums with videos and explanations, as well as a look at the tribulations of the beta testers.
Source: Blues News
Information aboutElemental: War of Magic
SP/MP: Single + MP
Setting: Fantasy
Genre: Non-RPG
Platform: PC
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Green shores of Lake Victoria, Uganda. Shot at Speke Resort Monyonyo.
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maderlock (174) 2005-05-28 6:22
It looks ike it might be a nice view, but there are lots of things in the way. Too much clutter for a foreground focus. Also, there is a lot of grass and sky. These are not the interesting parts of a shot and could be cropped out. I'd suggest you get closer to the lake.
While the aliased levels in the sky are interesting, it's not very realistic (and realism is what this site is about - try TrekLens if you like more PP :). I don't know how it's happened, but you may have converted to an indexed image (.gif perhaps) before saving as a jpeg. What this does is to restrict your palatte of colours to 255 colours, so gradual gradients such as the sky look worst as they require lots of colours to look natural.
I've done a workshop to try to crop a more view from this shot. However, most of the detail left is in the grass at the front, so the quality of what is left when the grass is removed is not great :)


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It's almost time for the PlayStation community to cast their votes for the best PSN games of 2011. I know that may seem a bit strange considering we're staring March right in the face, but just hear us out. Tomorrow in the PlayStation Store, you'll be able to vote for the best games in 10 categories. The winning games will be announced on March 6, and will also be given 30% and 50% discounts. Naturally, PlayStation Plus members get the highest discount.
Each vote you cast in nine of the 10 categories will net you a free XMB theme. The 10th category is for Best PSN Indie game. You'll be sent a voucher code to download its accompanying theme instead of downloading it right on the spot.
Some of the games up for awards are PixelJunk Shooter 2, Assassin's Creed: Brotherhood, inFamous: Festival of Blood, Chrono Trigger, Pac-Man Championship Edition, Limbo and Plants vs. Zombies. The nominees were selected based on PlayStation Store ratings, so we only have ourselves to blame if our favorite game isn't on the list.
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Infrastructure at Scale
Many operations teams are tasked with competing goals of quickly delivering reliable infrastructure and also ensuring high uptime for all infrastructure components. By the time an organization has more than 50,000 hosts, this process is very well defined, usually the result of some very expensive mistakes made along the way. The purpose of this talk is to share best practices and lessons learned as we have scaled many organizations from tens to thousands of servers. We'll ask, and answer, questions like:
- How & what should we automate?
- What metrics matter?
- When does change control process become important?
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Writing on deadline: Preparation, efficiency are key
The lesson that's done the most for me in the short time I've been in the Bleacher Report Advanced Program in Sports Media has been about writing on a tight deadline.
The week that covers breaking news was difficult for me and caused a lot of frustration, but as I moved along, I started to enjoy it.
The breaking news part of the program challenges you in multiple ways. You're assigned one to three topics per shift, and you have no idea what those topics will be until you sign on, so you don't have the luxury of doing research before your allotted time.
You also have a short time to write, which means less time for research, writing and proofreading.
Luckily, from doing a lot of writing previous to this week of the program, I knew where to start in finding they key information I needed for the stories I was assigned. For example, I've found that while doing NFL writing, footballoutsiders.com has a great database of advanced statistics. For the NBA, my go-to stats site is basketball-reference.com. It's baseball-reference.com for MLB coverage.
I would suggest becoming familiar with these sites, or whichever ones help you the most, and bookmarking them. It's helpful to have a starting point when writing on a deadline.
After gathering research, the next challenge is to put together a well-written story that effectively draws in an audience. This is tough because of the tight deadline. Writing well in a hurry is a key to this profession, and this chapter of the program is a big help.
I've learned to quickly find statistics to back up my points, and the feedback and editing have helped me improve my writing.
Before joining Bleacher Report, I already had a little practice meeting deadlines with my school paper, The Indiana Daily Student, but those deadlines were for a newspaper, a completely different beast than online media.
When meeting deadlines for online stories, you often have a tiny window to get your stories done, especially with breaking news. By the end of the week, I felt like I could effectively write a breaking news story in around 30 minutes.
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Dan Matney is a member of the Fall class. Follow him on Twitter @Dan_Matney.
One Thing You Need to Know is a series in which we ask members of the Bleacher Report Advanced Program in Sports Media to write about just that: One thing they've learned that they would pass along to other aspiring writers.


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Fortimo LED Strip allows you to design high-performance, slim linear LED luminaires without having to compromise on design freedom, quality of light, or total cost of ownership. The systems are ideal for use in luminaires for direct lighting in offices, banks, schools, public buildings, supermarkets and anywhere where fluorescent lighting is the dominant choice and a small, flexible form factor is appreciated.
This fourth-generation LED Strip offers best-in-class module efficiency up to >180lm/w and the range has been extended with a 1ft 650lm and 2ft 1300lm LED Strip with symmetrical lay-out of the LEDs. This fourth-generation LED Strip also has additional holes in the PCB enabling the design for having a connector on the backside, these are however not part of the standard portfolio and available on request for quantities >10kpcs per SKU.
In the course of the fourth quarter the range will be further extended with 1150mm and 1450mm LED Strip, separate announcement will follow. As there will be no upgrade of the 102mm 375lm and 1ft 650lm Gen3 modules, these will be phased our slightly later at the end of 2016.


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Written on: 23/07/2013 by VicPoole (2 reviews written)
During the initial phone call - I was advised that £600 would cover ALL costs associated with my immigration matter. Upon paying this - I was advised that I would have to pay another £835 for the fee . . . I was misled right from the start. They requested an exhaustive list of items that they needed to handle my case. I sent them everything. Next thing I know - I get someone calling me and asking for me to send them the items I had already sent them! I feared my documents lost at that point… Read Full ReviewGet Great Holidays Deals From Expedia
Written on: 07/09/2013
Any contact with UK Visa and Immigration is now handled by UK Immigration Barristers. Same people, same trick. Upfront fees and no proper service provided. Three of them were in Court this week for a similar thing they ran at three solicitors' practices.
This is on such a masssive scale and so organised, SOCA should be investigating. Instead any investigation is being done by the Bar Standards Board who have absoloutely no powers to close down this outfit.
Written on: 02/04/2013 by veroa1401 (1 review written)
I contacted them to obtain a sponsor license to be able to employ foreign artists and pay £1200 of fee upfront. Not only they did not support me but their intervention actually hindered the process: with their involvement I had the license refused 4 times, I then decided to apply on my own and was accepted straight away. ALl along the process they proved irresponsive, unprofessional and with little understanding of the whole Tier 2 and 5 licensing process, which is a basic for a company… Read Full ReviewGet Great Holidays Deals From Expedia
Written on: 06/01/2013 by disgruntledimmigrant (1 review written)
If I were to describe this company verbally, to a friend, it would laced with a long list of prane nouns and adjectives. For those on the internet, here is a mild description. As I called the company the first time, the director with his charm was quick to demand my money, take it and then never answer the phone again. The first case worker that took on my account was quickly fired after 5 weeks. The remaining case workers were absolutely disgraceful in manners, were terribly slow to answer… Read Full ReviewGet Great Holidays Deals From Expedia
Written on: 17/01/2013
I am going through same pain right now and kind of advice i have got seems 100% bad....there is no barrister at all.
How UK law can soare these kind of guys.
Written on: 19/12/2012
i would not recomend them,they took money and passport after i never heard from them,only silence.nasty people… Read Full ReviewGet Great Holidays Deals From Expedia
Written on: 01/11/2012
i cant get this compamy to reply to my emails amd calls i dont no whats going on i paid good money any one help me ishbel… Read Full ReviewGet Great Holidays Deals From Expedia
Written on: 02/11/2012
this company are they useing new name now i think they should be charged with fraud as this is so upsetting for people and they dont understand what it dose dose any one no the new name they are going under
Written on: 05/11/2012
The police are investigating both companies - UK Visa and Immigration, UK Immigration Barristers. Seems like there are a lot of personnel who are tied to both companies. Neither company comes under OISC regulatory body for Immigration advice.
Written on: 05/11/2012
The police are investigating both companies - UK Visa and Immigration, UK Immigration Barristers. Seems like there are a lot of personnel who are tied to both companies. Neither company comes under OISC regulatory body for Immigration advice.
Written on: 04/10/2013
Written on: 09/11/2012
UK Visa and Immigration in Liquidation
The Commissioner has been informed that the firm is now in liquidation. As such, you should contact the Official Receiver regarding any matters concerning that firm. The person in the Official Receiver's office dealing with this case is (name removed). His contact details are as follows:
Official Receiver's Office
2nd Floor
4 Abbey Orchard Street
Written on: 13/11/2012
so guess thats all my money lost now and no visa what a set of conns my heart broken do they no what they have done to people and how its left the good people feeling got a word for thses people but cant say on here
Written on: 05/11/2012
Read all about it! Such a shame to hear that is its happening still.
Written on: 13/09/2012
I first contacted them last year, has two of my visa applications were refused. This company promised to arrange all paper work and help to prepare documents and the application. They sounded so helpful at the start, then they wanted there £1200 upfront. Then the problems started, we was given FALSE and MISSLEADING information, and emails went unanswered, phone calls ignored. The problem went on for many weeks, all the we was given false information, I even sent TWO letters of complaint to… Read Full ReviewGet Great Holidays Deals From Expedia
Written on: 14/09/2012
The group UK Visa and Immigration Scam has now been blocked on facebook - seems they did a pretty good job at knocking a hole in the income of the likes of UK Visa and Immigration (no longer registered with OISC) (winding up order against them) now seems to have transferred business to UK Immigration Barristers.
Written on: 17/01/2013
I am going through pain of waiting for my application, they just said because of data protection you can not talk to Barrister who is handling your case. I have idea is it true or not??
I just got name of Barrister in my control panel and nothing else, its been 1 month and there is no proceedings in my application. Kind of document they asked and I replied is seems generalised and nothing related to my case.
Till now it seems to me a complete SCAM, if I am not convinced then definitely I will not dispatch my original documents with them.
Samje36's can you please find out if these guys has legal right to file my immigration case using their credentials etc.??
Written on: 01/11/2012
what can i do i paid good money and got nothinf from them
Written on: 02/10/2012
I have experienced similar story here,they lost contact since I tryied to reach them this Aug,untill one month wainting and made several calls to any contacts that I could reach for yesterday,I totally realised this company is gone....I am feeling very upset and do not know what should I do next.
They took my money and gone.................
Written on: 20/09/2012
We had the same problem.
The only person i managed to eventually receive any reply from by email was (name removed) ..... Which quickly came following a threatening telephone conversation with UK Immigration Barristers (which I believe is the new company).
We managed to get all of our documents back but still waiting any refund that was offered to us.
Google search him & you will find quite a tangled web (also search any of the names you were given in communications while you dealt with this rip-off company.
Do any of these names ring any bells:
(Name removed) (dealt with us briefly)
Name removed) (our "case worke!" - LLB (HONS) AT MANCHESTER METROPOLITAN UNIVERSITY
Specialties - IMMIGRATION LAW
Global Immigration Consultants Ltd)
(Name removed)
I am currently investigating these people & locations & when I gain more information I will post on here or on Facebook page "UK Visa scammers uncovered"
Written on: 20/09/2012
Toni8307 - in response, UK Visa and Immigration have had a winding up petition served and appear to be trading under the name UK Immigration Barristers, For more info I suggest you check out a group call Action Fraud and report your case to the police as others have done.
Written on: 20/09/2012
Hi Toni8307's,
With regards your comments about address,
UK Visa and Immigration,
Newland House,
4th Floor,
137-139 Hagley Road,
(Name removed) was the general manager, (name removed) was our contact ..
The company has address in Manchester, but these are just post address. I noticed some one wrote that there is a company called UK Visa barristers, same logo same website page, HMM. Well I sent them an email with regards there company's past experiance with me, and guess what, they did not reply. I have passed the new information on to the OISA .
Written on: 20/09/2012
is this ukimmigrationbarristers? Which company is this?
Written on: 19/09/2012
Hey, i would like to you when you visit them and what address if you don't mind tell me. Im having a night mare with them.
Written on: 14/09/2012
This msg from BBC:
I work at the BBC and would be really interested to chat to people about their experience of UK Immigration Barristers. Best wishes,
Written on: 01/11/2012
hi i paid them good money to help me with visa for fiance cant get any respons from them can you help me please thank you
Written on: 05/11/2012
Please read thro this blog and the following comments:
The police are now investigating, but in the meantime, I suggest you do as carrspaint did and call them up telling them that you will sue them.
Neither UK Visa and Immigration OR UK Immigration Barristers are registered with OISC the regulatory body.
Written on: 01/11/2012
hello, I have terrific experience of using Uk visa and immigration office, as well as making complaint to OISC and home office as they lost all our documents. No responsible people and to restore documents will cost more then £10 000! would be happy to discuss issues
Written on: 01/11/2012
hi i have been riped of by this company to my name ishbel can you contact me as i dont no what to do now thank you
Written on: 05/11/2012
we are still dealing to them as between this company and home office they lost our passports. first of all i requested document return from home office-to be able to prove the case status. then i will write complaint to home office.
i also complained to OISC,although they would not proceed claim as visa and immigration service are already suspended (even we sent documents in december when they acted under OISC legislation. we also written a letter to local MP, who contacted home office on our behalf.as last measures we are going to talk with police and media. good luck. if you lost money you can talk with your bank too, i know some people got their money this way
Written on: 26/08/2012 by r3za (1 review written)
Hello All, What a 4 weeks stressful we had with these idiots in ukvisaandimmigration. I finally could get my document from home office but I thought I add my experience and it may help someone else with the same issue. Basically company is busted and there is a wind up petition against them in court for early October and they are closed from 11 July 2012. You can see in this link: http://www.london-gazette.co.uk/issues/60205/notices/425/all… Read Full ReviewGet Great Holidays Deals From Expedia
Written on: 30/08/2012
Thanks 4 the info - these guys still have their website up and running, they have passed the business on to UK Immigration Barristers, Global Immigration Consultants Ltd., trading as UK Immigration Barristers
Written on: 23/07/2013
Hi there
Can anyone tell me, how they went about getting their documents back from that company asI have just found all this out and need to get back my documents and feel like after 6hours of phone calls I am still at a dead end?
Thanks in advance for your reply
Written on: 06/08/2013
Nevermind, I managed to track down the company who siezed all the files and documents and am happy to be getting mine back, if anyone is still having difficulty, i have a direct contact, so let me know if you need info xx
Written on: 22/09/2012
this is the correct link
UK Visa and Immigration was the trading name of UK Visa Specialists Ltd
Written on: 21/09/2012
I checked your website, and it came up emptry. Said the page could not be found.
Written on: 13/09/2012
Uk visa and immigration solicitors, Newland house,
Birmingham. Were the WORST solicitors I have used.
They lied to us, gave false information and stalled for time.
I made an offical complaint to the immigration commissioners, and have just received a letter to say that the solicitors have lost there licence and there registration with the OISC has been cancelled.
I lost £1200 with them.
Written on: 10/09/2012
They are called now UK Immigration Barristers. Check both websites and you'll see that are identical.
Written on: 31/08/2012
yes but as a business which is quite vital for customers, they need to change the voice mail and options , leave a note on website or shut it down and inform home office. but they have failed all above.
Written on: 09/08/2012 by jaybrai (1 review written)
i have had the application for my wife and daughter for eight months exactly today and the uk visa don't care and they don't want to enquire and never answer my emails or tel calls. to sum it up it's a terrible service… Read Full ReviewGet Great Holidays Deals From Expedia
Written on: 21/08/2012
Join forces with all the others who have duped - many missing documents still, and ALL paid a great deal of money to line the director's pockets. check out Facebook
Written on: 25/08/2012
terrible service never did what was promised so I lost my appeal and now I cant get back my documents......
Written on: 01/11/2012
yes i have been riped of to been trying to get them since agust called them emailed the over 30 maybe more times and sent 2 letters so how can we get our money back from theses nasty people ishbel
Written on: 05/08/2012 by Crown67 (1 review written)
If it was possible to give UK Visa and Immigration zero stars, I would. Never, ever in my life have I come across such an incompetent bunch of people, who are paid to provide 'professional and expert help' on matters of immigration. They have absolutely NO IDEA how the UK Home Office/Border Agency works and certainly are no help what so ever in assisting one secure any sort of visa. The ONLY thing they were quick to do was to take my money! I ended up doing all the paper work myself as… Read Full ReviewGet Great Holidays Deals From Expedia
Written on: 24/01/2013
Hi, did you get all your papers back? And money? What number did you use to ask for advice from the home office? I did sent my application last dec 2011.. Only last dec that we've found out that ukvai is closed!!! Now I got a letter from the h.o. Asking for some follow up documents.. Is it advisable to file it directly to h.o. Or rather look for another immigration experts? Can u help? Many thanks.
Written on: 24/07/2012 by ChristopherK (1 review written)
They took close to 15 months to prepare an application that was worse than I could have done myself. They wasted so much time by not giving us all the information we required to obtain the correct supporting evidence then at the last moment switched the type of visa we were applying for which was denied by the UK border control. When I reached out to advise them they have yet to respond. These people are only interested in taking your money and provide a terrible service… Read Full ReviewGet Great Holidays Deals From Expedia
Written on: 04/08/2012
i was a client of this company and paid them in advance for work they will now not complete. they have had their licence revoked thru bad practice. they now trade as UK IMMIGRATION BARRISTERS, however im sure not all staff of this company would be aware of the link. i have made a formal complaint to the OISC and the police, both are now investigating my case. i intend to do all i can to bring this fraudulent company to account.
Written on: 31/08/2012
The NFIB (National Fraud Intelligence Bureau), where all reports of fraud are sent, considers the situation to date to be too small to investigate!
We urge all victims to report their cases to ActionFraud so that more information will get through to the NFIB and they will reconsider....if not these fraudulent charlatans will be able to continue their lies!
Written on: 19/08/2012
join others on fb to save others being fleeced by this company
Written on: 13/07/2012 by Visaless (1 review written)
Will take your money straight away, but afterwards are very much left in the dark. Poor communication, wrongly informed about visas and so sloooooow to get back to you. Results: 1 year wasted, 600 quid spent, no refund, no visa :(… Read Full ReviewGet Great Holidays Deals From Expedia
Written on: 17/07/2012
Written on: 24/07/2012
i was informed of the fact by a staff member of a completely different and unrelated firm. view web and facebook pages, writing and layout nearly identical. i have been trying to post an informative link here but it will not allow me. search facebook for uk visa and immigration scam.
Written on: 24/07/2012
@ Jean69: how did you find out that they are now part of uk immigration barristers?
Written on: 13/07/2012 by jean69 (1 review written)
i have been trying for 2 weeks to make contact with this company. all emails and calls go unanswered! substantial fee already paid in full! their failings are too numerous to mention....i will be reporting them to the OISC… Read Full ReviewGet Great Holidays Deals From Expedia
Written on: 24/07/2012
Very bad company, no support and yet taken £900 for a settlement visa. I done 90% of the work in order to get my girlfriend visa with British Embassy in Moscow.
Find another company if you want support, advise and help in obtaining a visa- is this what this company should be advising?? LOL
Written on: 08/11/2012
Hello... ukvisaandimmigration have started business with the new name ukimmigartionbarristors... i have posted a review of them on reviewcentre. please post your review and warn other people beofre they scam money from them...
Written on: 08/11/2012
yes that is true....as well as other company names....
Written on: 08/11/2012
this site will not allow me to post helpful links...hmmm...
stevesurve, search google...the fraudulent behaviour of both companies is readily found...along with the investigations into them...
Written on: 25/07/2012
the company has gone bust. you will not be able to get in contact. i have reported them to the OISC and the police. you are not the only person who's documents are missing. i cant put the link here....but please search facebook for "uk visa and immigration scam" it is my page and is legit....i intend to do all i can to hold this firm to account.
Written on: 24/07/2012
I have spent the last week trying to contact them and no luck. Ever number that I have for them is either a recorded message telling me to email or is no longer active. When I email, I get no response.
I did a bit of checking and there was still activity on their Facebook page. So i sent them a private message asking why i can no longer get in touch with them and that I had requested a call back and no-one had got back to me. They responded with a message asking when I requested the call back to which i replied 'yesterday'. The afternoon of that same day, i checked their Facebook page and it had been deleted
To get in touch with them, I have even pretended that I am a new customer and requested numerous call backs and no one has contacted me.
I have a feeling that they have gone bust, been shut down or are no longer available and have no idea what to do next. They may have my visa and passport, they may not... I have not had a clue.
Have you had any further look with getting in touch with them/finding out what is happening? Have you reported them to the OISC? Please comment even if you have nothing yet as I want to start investigating this further.
Lets keep this thread going and see if we can find anything out
Written on: 24/07/2012
never known a company with such blatant mismanagement and dishonesty.
Written on: 02/07/2012
One of the worst service providers in the UK when it comes to advice on immigration matters. They do all the sweet talk in the beginning, take the full amount and then vanish. Expect very late or no response at all from their case workers. There isn't much you can do once you have paid them upfront. In fact on many occasions I received wrong advice. I am in the process of reporting them to the Bar Association and also to UKBA for their conduct. Better STAY AWAY then sorry… Read Full ReviewGet Great Holidays Deals From Expedia
Written on: 12/07/2012
agreed. only wish i had known of their failings sooner.
Written on: 30/05/2012 by prissya (1 review written)
Thanks to UK visa and Immigration my children got their UK visas to come and join me in the UK after their mother had passed away. I did not know what was going to happen to them and needed to get them here quickly. I contacted UK visa and immigration for urgent help and they acted so quickly. My caseworker was so helpful and did all the paperwork for me and now I am the happiest man in the world because my children arrived safely in the UK and can stay permanently and legally without having… Read Full ReviewGet Great Holidays Deals From Expedia
Written on: 30/04/2012
Although these folks are a legal firm, they operate with the efficiency of a really good website business. I didn't need to have to meet them face-to-face as I was able to complete much of the process online. I spoke to an Immigration expert via the live-web-chat, sent my documents through the post and paid via telephone. Much of the info I needed about my Visa was online and they offered a number of ways for me to get in touch. The process could be quicker if they had an online payment… Read Full ReviewGet Great Holidays Deals From Expedia
Written on: 20/04/2012 by garthh (1 review written)
Every other service that I had called to help me all wanted to charge by the hour or charge an extortionate amount for me to get a marriage visa. I simply didn't have the budget to pay hourly fees or some of the prices that I was being quoted and I was all set to give up searching. I was given the information about this service by a friend who had used them before, met them in person and had been given an information pack. When I flicked through the information pack I was immediately drawn in… Read Full ReviewGet Great Holidays Deals From Expedia
Written on: 13/03/2012 by viza (1 review written)
they are just money grabber be careful with them i used them give me wrong advice about my wife visa and took my money and failed to deliver they are crap .so WARNED KEEP AWAY FROM THEM,just go to any your local solicitor will do better than them… Read Full ReviewGet Great Holidays Deals From Expedia
Written on: 27/02/2012 by tobysquash (1 review written)
All started well when i contacted the company! Wanted to get My Wife Sister over for a visit from Thailand. Went through all the requested process's of obtaining documents,sent them off for checking etc. Went to and fro with documents for a few weeks. I left it for a period due to business commitments. Then decided to contact them to finish the application. Got all the required documents returned from them, with a note to say an appointment had been booked. Sent all the relevant info over… Read Full ReviewGet Great Holidays Deals From Expedia
Written on: 23/02/2012 by zackstone05 (1 review written)
I use the UK Visa and Immigration website regularly to keep up-to-date with the news that they post on their site. I came across an article that was talking about increased Visa fees in the UK and this affected me because I come to Britain regularly for Business purposes and I soon had to apply for a business visit visa. Thanks to the news on the website I was able to avoid the increased charges for my next Business Visit Visa. What's great about their service is that they appear to have the… Read Full ReviewGet Great Holidays Deals From Expedia
Written on: 22/02/2012
I needed a Visa extension really quickly as I had totally forgotten to renew mine after its six month expiry period. I knew that there was no chance that I would get this done by myself, so I contacted UK Visa and Immigration. I was worried at first that they may not be a real company so I called their bluff and asked if I could make an appointment to come and see them in their London office, which they had listed on their website. They didn't have a problem with that so I visited them and I… Read Full ReviewGet Great Holidays Deals From Expedia
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and what a difference from my previous A3 Forum looks great, looking forward to the "learning" lol.
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Going through safety precautions to protect yourself against a sabotaging co-worker is a wise move. Identify and conform the source of damage. If you suspect that a co-worker is getting credit for your work or undermining you in other ways, then make sure it is really happening, and not just all in your head. In doing this, you should maintain written records of your job responsibilities and the ideas you contribute. Most of time, workplace stress may skew perspectives, so make sure to take a step back and look at the situation objectively.
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Killzone 2 is one of this spring's highest-profile games for the PlayStation 3. For the title sequence, developer Guerrilla Games contacted Dutch motion graphics designer Joost Korngold -- aka Renascent -- to put together an exciting way to finish off the game. Set against Killzone 2's highly regarded in-game graphics, the titles use a stripped-back, simply textured approach for a striking, unusual look.
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Korngold's original brief was to design a graphic style for the credit roll, which the team at Guerrilla would use to create the final roll once the full list of credited personnel was finalized. However, Korngold also proposed to the team that he should utilize his skills to create a more dynamic animation for the lead artists, developers and managers. This list was already fixed, so Korngold could create an elaborate title sequence that wouldn't need to be changed later, and which would follow on into the simpler main credit sequence that Guerrilla could modify.
Having worked with Korngold before, the team at Guerrilla were happy for him to "go wild" with the games assets -- including 3D models of characters, weapons, vehicles and other level materials -- to create the sequence.
"I first started working on how best to visualize these assets," says Korngold. He began by "stripping their original textures and playing around with some new ones. I tried face mapping them -- a single texture that deforms to the triangles/quads of the 3D model -- and I felt the result was really fresh, as it had the feel of organic wireframes that could have been drawn by hand rather than tight straight ones that feel too technical."
Korngold used flat-shaded colours to accentuate certain parts of the geometry, as well as flat-shading some surfaces with a print pattern. He says that his intention here was to make "stills seem like post-modern printouts with an analoque quality to them."
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I ordered the asymmetrical pullovers in silk and wool to wear over button-down shirts (which always pop open when I'm sitting down). These work well... a big snug, but they serve their purpose. I received loads of compliments when I wore the black over a lavender shirt with black pants. Folks (and I did, too) liked the unexpected asymmetricality of the sweater. I like its light weight, breathable warmth, and fashion that is casual, yet appropriate for business.
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Experience aids variable-rate technology
Technology fine-tuned to
soil zones is catching on like wildfire on the prairies, according to a
fast-growing Canadian company of ag consultants that has just opened satellite
offices in the U.S. and Russia. Farmers Edge founder and president Wade Barnes
claims that variable-rate technology enabled prairie growers to reduce
fertilizer inputs by several million pounds in 2010 in western Canada.
The variable-rate edge
generated by Barnes's composite of past and present field information produces
a surprising result. "If you blanket a field with fertilizer, you're going to
get an average return," Barnes says. "If you strategically place it, you're
going to get more yield."
Farmers Edge uses a process
that includes:
Creating a perimeter map
on individual fields.
Gathering data about the
field including satellite imagery, aerial photos, soil maps, topography maps,
and yield maps.
Identifying soil
management zones using this data.
Testing soil in each of
these zones.
Establishing yield targets
for each zone.
At the end of this process,
a computer map is prepared for guiding variable-rate application with a farm's
rate controller.
Five years after beginning,
Farmers Edge is providing variable-rate maps at $10 per acre for close to
750,000 acres in Canada's prairie provinces. The firm is also rapidly starting
up U.S. markets like the Kansas City Farmers Edge, which opened in January.
Outlets in other regions of the U.S. are being investigated. The firm is
establishing consultations in Russia, Europe, and South America.
A Word Of Caution
Don Flaten, University of
Manitoba soil scientist, says such variable-rate technology alone is not
sufficient for driving management decisions.
"I do get concerned when
people infer we can more or less farm by satellite," Flaten explains. "There
are all sorts of extraordinary challenges we face in management that require
on-the-ground knowledge and personal experience from agronomists and producers
Precise information about
field history, present fertility, and location is good if it is balanced with
interpretation. Weather, in particular, deserves close attention.
"If you have precise
geographical information but don't have a hot clue whether you're going to have
a wet year or a dry year, it's like you're measuring one part of your
crop-management system with a micrometer and then chopping it off with an axe,"
Flaten says.
Experienced Interpretation Is
A soil's ability to supply
nitrogen from organic reserves, for instance, is highly variable from area to
area and from year to year, and it needs interpretation. Therefore, a highly
variable landscape requires experienced interpretation.
Even then, an oddball
season, "Can really knock your bottom line backwards for a variable-rate
fertilization program if low areas are assumed to yield more than high areas,"
Flaten says. "In the hands of a competent agronomist and an experienced farmer,
it can be a very useful tool. My personal belief is that we're not ready to
farm by satellite alone."


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Hi Denise - I finished the the other day, but rushed of & forgot to say Hi !I have to confess I get a bit lost with my comments - I can never remember what I said to who! Old age creeping up I guess - well galloping in my case :) Trust you are well & enjoying a rainy day, I rather like the rain after the problems we had with water restrictions etc a few years ago, it also gives me the excuse not to do the gardening! Dog is well and we are getting very good at hiding slippers! Thanks for all you lovely puzzles, I do think you are all so clever being able to draw & design, Cheers, Janet


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Kyle Reynolds
Kyle is thrilled to be a part of the BackBeat City team! Kyle holds two bachelor degrees from Central Connecticut State University in Organizational Communication and Theater Performance. Kyle has performed in several theaters in Connecticut including Thomaston Opera House, The Warner Theater, Seven Angels and even The Palace Theater of Waterbury…Learn More