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Abercrombie to address UH Hilo Fall Commencement
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Date: Friday, December 5, 2008
Contact: Alyson Kakugawa-Leong, (808) 974-7642
For Immediate Release
Hawaiʻi Congressman Neil Abercrombie delivers the keynote address at the University of Hawaiʻi at Hilo fall commencement, scheduled for Saturday, December 20 at 9 a.m. at the UH Hilo New Gym.
A total of 184 students representing the College of Arts and Sciences (146), College of Business and Economics (21), College of Agriculture, Forestry& Natural Resource Management (14), and Ka Haka `Ula O Ke`elikolani College of Hawaiian Language (3) are candidates for various degrees or certificates.
The graduating class also features 15 graduate level students, including Katarina Edmonds, a Maori educator from New Zealand, who will become the first student to earn the Ph.D in Hawaiian and Indigenous Language and Culture Revitalization. Fourteen others will receive master's degrees.
Abercrombie was originally elected to serve out an unexpired term in the U.S. House of Representatives in a 1986 special election. He returned to Congress by winning election to a full term in 1990 and has been re-elected in every election since then. He ranks 41 among 236 House Democrats in seniority. Prior to his service in Congress, Abercrombie served in the state House (1975-1979), state Senate (1980-1986) and on the Honolulu City Council (1988-1990).
He currently serves as Chairman of the Armed Services Committee's Subcommittee on Air and Land Forces, which oversees the Air Force and Army. He is also a senior member of the House Natural Resources Committee, which has wide-ranging responsibilities over native people's issues and our national parks, forests, wilderness areas, oceans, and the energy and mineral resources they contain.
Abercrombie has used his seniority in Congress to establish relationships on both sides of the aisle and secure congressional authorization for more than $3 billion in Hawaiʻi military construction projects, millions more for transportation infrastructure, and support for Hawaiʻi's visitor industry. Through his chairmanship of the Air and Land Subcommittee and his membership on the powerful House Armed Services Committee, Abercrombie has secured more federal funding for a variety of military research and testing contracts in Hawaiʻi that has helped to grow the local high technology and alternative energy industries and overall State economy.
Born in Buffalo, New York, Abercrombie earned a bachelor's degree in sociology from Union College in Schenectady in 1959. He moved to Hawaiʻi in 1959 and enrolled at the University of Hawaiʻi at Manoa where he earned a master's degree in sociology and doctorate in American Studies.
Abercrombie was an early and key supporter of President-elect Barack Obama. His ties to Obama date back to his college days when he attended classes with and befriended Obama's parents, Ann Dunham and Barack Obama, Sr. He is the only member of Congress to have met Obama when he was a child.
Tara Anderson, an English major on the writing track, pursuing a minor in marine science and a Marine Option Program certificate, is the student speaker. Born and raised in the small Alaska fishing town of Cordova, Anderson is a three-time member of the Dean's list, is a prolific writer, and is a member of UH Hilo's newly formed Freedom Equality Movement club.
Her commencement speech will focus on the capability and necessity for Hawaiʻi to become sustainable and the responsibility of the graduating class to contribute to that effort.
For more information on Commencement, contact Judith Fox-Goldstein at(808) 974-7555 or email email@example.com. For special accommodations, contact Susan Shirachi at (808) 933-0816 (V) or (808) 933-3334 (TTY). Requests should be made at least 10 business days prior to the event.
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Only a few players and the assistant coaches were on the ice Tuesday morning as a somber Dean Lombardi watched at rinkside.
Most of the Kings had taken part in a meeting and left their chilly El Segundo practice facility for the sizzling temperatures outside. Their general manager stayed indoors to watch the youngsters and extra players, maybe for one of the last times this season.
The team Lombardi built to contend for a second Stanley Cup title in three seasons is one loss from elimination, which can occur Wednesday at Staples Center if the Ducks win Game 6 of the teams' Western Conference semifinal playoff series. If the Kings had played their best while the Ducks won three straight games to take the series lead, Lombardi could live with it. What nagged at him Tuesday was the Kings' streakiness and his certainty they haven't played as well as they can.
"I don't think any of them thought even in Games 1 and 2 that we played our game," he said of the Kings' series-opening victories over the Ducks. "There's been pockets of it but not the consistency that we know we're capable of. That's the thing."
Defenseman Alec Martinez said after the Ducks' 4-3 victory Monday at Anaheim that he and his teammates hadn't played "Kings hockey," whose trademark is defensive diligence, relentless forechecking and sure puck-handling. He wasn't wrong.
But much of that comes from the Ducks not allowing the Kings to play the tight, low-scoring games Coach Darryl Sutter preaches. As Sutter himself noted, the Ducks scored 266 goals in the regular season, second-most in the NHL. They know how to finish and they don't usually need many chances to succeed.
In addition, injuries that have taken Willie Mitchell and Robyn Regehr out of the Kings' defense corps have thrown other players into crucial situations and given them more ice time than they'd otherwise get. That has taken a toll on the Kings' penalty killing — the Ducks' power play is five for 12 over the last four games — and overall cohesion.
"I think that's individual stuff," Sutter said. "Normally if you don't play that way you get to watch up where it's cold. But we're not in that position right now. You've got to play."
Lombardi sees some psychological factors affecting the team too. After the Kings' 2012 Cup triumph, he sought advice from general managers and coaches in other sports about how to handle being the defending champions and what they did to keep their respective teams on an elite level. It would be difficult, they told him. He suspected they were right. Now, he knows it.
"The challenge of staying on top and consistently competing with the big boys, the challenge for the club is very different than building," Lombardi said. "I said that two years ago, for all of us, general manager, coach and players … I talked to all those people. They said, 'You're not going to understand it until you go through it.'
"We've got to all learn from it, to get that consistency."
There isn't much time to do that and end the familiar refrain voiced by several players, including winger Marian Gaborik.
"We haven't played our best hockey and I'm sure everybody's going to leave everything out there" on Wednesday, Gaborik said. "I'm confident that we can get back to Anaheim."
The Kings have been through this before, having fought off elimination four times against San Jose in the first round. While losing the third game of that series, in overtime, the Kings found accomplishments to build on and launch a comeback. Their best players were their best, most effective players. And the Sharks lived up to their reputation as postseason underachievers whose big players vanished as pressure mounted. That's not true of the Ducks.
Kings defenseman Drew Doughty, held to one assist in this series, acknowledged he hasn't played "my absolute best," and vowed to reach that level Wednesday. "We know exactly what we have to do and there's no excuses but to do it," he said.
Lombardi said he still believes in his team, as much as he wishes it had learned the virtues of consistency.
"I never lose faith in them. That's the one thing I come back to when we're in this," he said. "I know deep down they care. Even when we were down 3-0 or whatever. They've shown me too many times that they'll figure it out."

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Dec. 4, 2012 — Doctors who practice general internal medicine, known as internists, may be a vanishing breed, according to a new study.
In the new research, few medical residents in general internal medicine programs say they plan to pursue that career path. Instead, they plan to become specialists.
"What this study is showing is, only one in five graduating internal medicine residents is planning a career in general medicine or primary care," says researcher Colin West, MD, PhD, associate professor of medicine and general internal medicine physician at Mayo Clinic in Rochester.
The study is published in the Journal of the American Medical Association.
West used an annual survey that is linked to an exam. He focused on data from nearly 17,000 third-year residents in 2009, 2010, and 2011.
These residents told which career paths they planned to follow.
Overall, just 21.5%, or about one in five, said they planned to pursue a general internal medicine career.
Of those who enrolled in a primary care program (typically with the goal of entering primary care), only about 40% said they still planned to stay with general internal medicine. Of those who entered a traditional "categorical" program, about 20% planned to be general internists.
The others planned to specialize in cardiology, gastroenterology, pulmonary medicine, or other areas, West says.
West and others have long predicted a shortage of generalist doctors. The new study is yet more evidence, he says.
Research published in 1992 found that more than half of all internal medicine residency graduates stayed with general internal medicine, so West's findings have slashed that number even more.
In a 2010 report, the Association of American Medical Colleges predicted that the doctor shortage will reach 91,500 by 2020. It says about half of that will be primary care doctors.
The situation may be even worse than expected, West says, as the provisions of the Affordable Care Act (ACA) go into effect. Health care reform focuses on coverage of tens of million of people in the U.S. who are uninsured.
Internal medicine doctors would be expected to be the caregivers for many.
The ACA includes many provisions to expand the workforce of primary care doctors, writes Mark D. Schwartz, MD, of the VA's New York Harbor Healthcare System, but implementation depends on getting enough money from Congress.
Schwartz wrote an editorial to West's study in JAMA.
While the survey did not ask residents to explain their career decisions, West cites two possibilities.
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The now-ousted treasurer of a Five Towns synagogue pleaded guilty Friday to swindling more than $600,000 from his congregation, prosecutors said.
Isaac Zucker, 49, admitted that he wired money from the accounts of the congregation, Aish Kodesh of Woodmere, into his own, according to prosecutors.
At sentencing, on April 9, Zucker -- an attorney by trade from Woodmere -- faces up to 7 years in prison. It was not clear whether the plea, before Judge David J. Ayres to an indictment of second-degree grand larceny, was the result of a deal calling for less time. Zucker is free on $150,000 bail until sentencing.
His defense attorney, Joseph Grob of Manhattan, didn't return a call seeking comment.
Aish Kodesh's president, Elliot Blumenthal, declined to disclose the new fiscal controls he said are now in place to protect the coffers of the congregation, an Orthodox shul of more than 250 families.
"It's a very sad chapter in the synagogue's history, and one that we'd love to put behind us," Blumenthal said. "We hope that, at some point, we will be able to be repaid for the hard-earned charity money of our members that was taken."
The thefts took place between 2006 and 2011, when Zucker was treasurer, a volunteer position. Zucker's arrest, on June 29, 2011, at a hotel near Long Island MacArthur Airport in Ronkonkoma came days after his wife reported him missing and two weeks after synagogue leaders confronted him about $634,960 in missing funds.
The scheme unraveled because checks meant to pay the congregation's bills began bouncing. Zucker doctored bank statements to make it appear that one of its accounts had $200,000 when the balance was actually $50, prosecutors said. Zucker promised the shul he'd replace the funds, and only when he hadn't did leaders call the authorities, a synagogue official told Newsday upon Zucker's arrest.
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In a statement, Nassau District Attorney Kathleen Rice said: "Houses of worship act as beacons of education, guidance, friendship, and trust and for this defendant to violate that sanctity in order to fill his own pockets is unconscionable."
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The last year has made our situation abundantly clear: President Trump, Speaker Ryan, and their right-wing allies are dead set on forcing their hateful agenda on the country. They've dedicated themselves to undoing decades of civil rights and environmental protections, tearing apart thousands of families with heartless, anti-immigrant policies, taking away healthcare from millions of people who need it most, and all with an eye towards further enriching the very wealthiest Americans.
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I love this image! Wryn reminds me of my daughter (and a little bit of myself). Every spring a bird will build a next in a bush we have next to our front porch. We both loving watching their progress - building the next, laying the eggs, chicks hatching and lastly getting ready to fly away.
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Happy Halloween! Our dojo has training tonight, but I have advised all of our students that they can miss class to go trick-or-treating or to hand out candy at their homes. I didn't want any students to feel like they had to attend training and miss out on a special event.
I feel that children need to be children. Halloween is a fun time for them, as well as for their parents. There is always time for Karate training. Karate is something you do for a lifetime.
I remember that when I practiced Kendo, there would be training even on Christmas in some schools. The only day they took off was New Years. That seems a bit too much for me. I encourage students to spend special holidays with their families and loved ones. One should not neglect family and loved ones because of Karate training.
Halloween can also be a risky time, especially for children. Going out at night presents dangers. Children should be escorted by a parent (or adult) and make sure to have a good light source. Watch out for cars and dogs and other people. Make sure that the children's costumes are safe and non-flammable.
Some years, you might hear about someone putting poison or foreign objects in the candy. You have to watch this carefully. Parents should inspect all candy. And candy is not very good for children anyway. So many of our children in the United States are overweight and this can lead to a host of medical problems. Some parents will trade their children for their candy and give them something healthier (or money or something).
Of course, I cannot tell any parents what they should do. That is up to the parents. These are just some of the things that I think about as a parent of four children who all went our trick-or-treating when they were young.
The most important thing, as Karate students, is to be aware and careful. That applies at all times, not just on Halloween.
Here are two of my candy stories. When I was young, I lived at Misawa Air Force Base in Northern Japan. In Japan, they sold bags of "rock candy" which was big crystals of sugar. I can't think that anything that could be more sweet than big crystals of pure sugar. I could eat the whole bag! Back then (late 1960s), some people still gave out homemade candied apples (the red ones, not the caramel ones). We would eat the apples and lose our fillings.
I loved candy and any sweets. As a result, I was a chubby boy. The way I slimmed down was practicing Judo on Monday, Wednesday and Fridays at the big gymnasium on base. I still liked candy, but the exercise helped me to burn off all the calories.
Happy Halloween! Be safe.
Charles C. Goodin
Happy Halloween -- Be Safe!
Happy Halloween! Our dojo has training tonight, but I have advised all of our students that they can miss class to go trick-or-treating or to hand out candy at their homes. I didn't want any students to feel like they had to attend training and miss out on a special event.
Posted by Charles C. Goodin on Wednesday, October 31, 2007


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The agreement is a crucial step towards the EMFF coming into force later this year to support the implementation of the reformed Common Fisheries Policy (CFP).
Commissioner Maria Damanaki welcomed the agreement: "I am very happy about this outcome, because we can now go full steam ahead and implement the radical changes we have agreed last year to finally put European Fisheries on a sustainable footing once and for all. I now look forward to the finalisation of the adoption process by the European Parliament and the Council so that we can start funding projects on the ground as soon as possible".
The agreement between the institutions brings a fresh start: the scrapping of vessels with public money will be phased out, there will be strict conditions for engine replacement and temporary cessation as well as limiting how much money can be used for these measures.
The EMFF will support the rebuilding of fish stocks, reducing the impact of fisheries on the marine environment and the progressive elimination of wasteful discarding practices. It will fund the improvement of fisheries data collection to allow decisions to be based on robust evidence, and fisheries control programmes to ensure that the rules on responsible and sustainable fishing are respected and complied with.
The EMFF will also support measures in favour of small-scale fisheries, young fishermen and local fisheries. It will boost innovation, help communities to diversify their economies, finance projects that create new jobs and improve quality of life along European coasts and to provide consumers with all the information they need. The fund will also support European Aquaculture so that it can fully develop its potential.
For the first time, the fund will also boost Integrated Maritime Policy. Many measures can be funded for example creating a high resolution map of the European seabed and making marine data available to firms and researchers all over Europe.


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What to check out for Teen Read Week
Teen Read Week is celebrated annually during the third week of October at many libraries and bookstores across the country. This initiative of the American Library Association's young adult library services division encourages teens to read for the fun of it and become regular library users. We hope to accomplish both goals by highlighting new teen fiction.
War orphan and junior cartographer Alina is sent away to join an army with the mission of crossing a land of the Volcra. Their claws, wings and sharp teeth are enough to scare anyone, but Alina stuns the soldiers and herself by accidentally emitting a blinding light that saves their lives.
A mysterious man called The Darkling discovers Alina's gift and forces her to join the Grishna (those thought to have magical powers), a decision that brings adventure, betrayal and danger. Readers will root for Alina and look forward to the next book in this new trilogy.
"ALICE IN ZOMBIELAND" BY GENA SHOWALTEREveryone thinks Alice's father is a crazy alcoholic who constantly worries about monsters and never lets the family go out after dark until the night of Alice's sister's dance recital. On the way home, the family is in a car wreck that kills everyone except Alice -- and that's when she discovers that monsters are real.
Contrary to popular belief, there are teen fiction books that are light, fun reads. They're just hiding among the dark, gloomy, paranormal romance titles. The first line from "Ungifted" is, "I want a refund from ancestry.com." It hooks readers and tells us right away that Donovan, the boy voted Most Likely to Wind Up In Jail, is unlike anyone else. This fish-out-of-water story finds the poster-boy for "don't try this at home" accidentally transferred to a school for gifted students. Even reluctant readers will enjoy this quick read.
As Halloween nears, many readers get in the mood for dark sinister tales.
Try Kenneth Oppel's newest, "Such Wicked Intent," the sequel to "This Dark Endeavor."
The tension and suspense builds from the very first sentence, "The books flew open like startled birds trying to escape the flames ..." Apprentice Victor Frankenstein destroys the Dark Library that includes books of alchemy and remedies and in the process discovers a book that enables communication with the dead.
Ancient myth, forbidden knowledge, disobedient youth -- what could go wrong?
If your kids enjoyed the Percy Jackson books, then they're sure to enjoy the "Heroes of Olympus" series. Mythological creatures? Check. Fast-paced adventure? Check. A seemingly impossible quest? Check.
Book No. 3 is action-packed with adventures of the Greek gods' children of Camp Half-Blood and the Roman gods' children of Camp Jupiter who struggle to overcome the natural inclination to be at war with each other and attempt to combine forces to save the world from the evil goddess Gaea.
Like Riordan's other mythology-based titles, this book grabs the reader's attention immediately and most likely will appeal to a broad audience of readers who like fantasy, readers who like adventure stories and even readers who don't usually enjoy reading.
Watch for other series' new titles this month: "Promised" (Birthmakred trilogy); "Beautiful Redemption" (Beautiful Creatures); and "Ruins" (Pathfinder).
Teen Read Week is a great time to encourage teens to visit the library, so we're hosting several events through Saturday, including our annual film festival, a murder-mystery party and a haunted library event.
We're also continuing our "One County Reads Once Country" programming series that includes a teen book discussion featuring "In the Sea There Are Crocodiles."
Melinda Vest is the children's manager at the Bluffton library, 120 Palmetto Way, Bluffton.


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Fox News anchor Heather Childers wants to know whether her Twitter followers think President Barack Obama threatened to kill Chelsea Clinton in order to cover up his illegitimate birth certificate.
Childers, who co-hosts Fox & Friends First and America's News Headquarters, tweeted this afternoon: "Thoughts? Did Obama Campaign Threaten Chelsea Clinton's Life 2 Keep Parents Silent?" The tweet links to a post from the fringe right-wing conspiracy blog Godfather Politics.
The post claims that Obama's 2008 campaign threatened people to keep the candidate's birth records a secret, and suggests that Obama associates were involved in the murder of Arkansas Democratic Party chair Bill Gwatney, and told President Bill Clinton "that his daughter Chelsea would be next if he opened his mouth."
"From that point on, the Clinton's [sic] remained silent about Obama's birth certificate or lack thereof," the post said.
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Jonas L.A. (previously titled JONAS) was a Disney Channel Original Series created by Michael Curtis and Roger S. H. Schulman, starring the Jonas Brothers.
- 1 Season 1
- 1.1 Wrong Song
- 1.2 Groovy Movies
- 1.3 Pizza Girl
- 1.4 Keeping It Real
- 1.5 Bands Best Friend
- 1.6 Chasing the Dream
- 1.7 Fashion Victim
- 1.8 That Ding You Do
- 1.9 Complete Repeat
- 1.10 Love Sick
- 1.11 The Three Musketeers
- 1.12 Frantic Romantic
- 1.13 Detention
- 1.14 Karaoke Surprise
- 1.15 Home Not Alone
- 1.16 Forgetting Stella's Birthday
- 1.17 The Tale of the Haunted Firehouse
- 1.18 Double Date
- 1.19 Cold Shoulder
- 1.20 Beauty and the Beat
- 1.21 Exam Jam
- 2 Cast
Season 1[edit]
Wrong Song[edit]
- Joe: Do you see what I see?
- Kevin: A cloud in the shape of a rabbit. Cute.
- Joe: No. Lower.
- Kevin: A rabbit in the shape of a cloud. Even cuter.
- Joe: Nick, you always fall, too hard, too fast. It's like you meet a girl, and boom, instant love. And boom you get dumped. And boom broken heart. And me and Kevin are there picking up the pieces.
- Kevin: Aw, it's Nick's broken heart.
- Kevin and Joe: (Pretend cries.)
- Nick: That happened like, one time.
- Kevin and Joe:(In unison.) Six times.
- Joe: Look at them so cozy in there.
- Kevin: It would just be so rude of us to butt in… Oh we definitely gotta do that.
- Dad: Your mother was the twenty third love of my life.
- Kevin: No way.
- Joe: Wow!
- Dad: I was walking down the isle of the school bus and passed twenty-two girls before I saw your mom.
(Nick , Joe, and Kevin in disguise, so they stay low-key at Penny's performance. Nick is dressed like a undercover detective, Joe is dressed like a Engish gentleman, an eyepiece and French mustache included! And Kevin is wearing a grey hair and a grey mustache.)
- Nick: Seriously? How did you get to the oldest?
- Kevin: Nick, I'm not really this old. It's a wig, and mustache taped to my face!
- Penny: Oh, sorry! I completely forget. Um, I'd like to dedicate this song to the coolest, sweetest, grooviest guy on the planet. A guys whose heart is filled with music. My soul mate, Jimmy!
- Joe: (Eyepiece falls out and lands in drink.)
Groovy Movies[edit]
- Dad: Oh, hey. The first Christmas in the firehouse.
- Joe: Do you remember when grandma burnt those cookies and we had to call the fire department?
- Nick: Yeah, and then our phone rang.
- (Laughs)
- Dad: Man, time goes by so fast.
- Joe: (wipes eyes with tissue.)
- Nick: Are you crying?
- Joe: What? No. A bug flew into my eye.(Looks over at Kevin.) Are you crying?
- Kevin: Yes.
- Joe: What do you got there?
- Kevin: It's a little extra present for mom. (Pulls box of cake mix out of bag.) It's a do-it-yourself birthday cake.
- Joe: Very classy. (Take box from Kevin.) How about, we make the cake… for her?
Pizza Girl[edit]
- Joe: That's for me! I ordered pizza!
- Nick: That's for me. I ordered pizza.
- Kevin: That's for me, I ordered pizza!
- Stella: Okay. If I have to keep making your pants bigger, the world is going to have a denim shortage.
- Nick: Have you guys tried sweat pants? There's a lot more... wiggle room.
- Joe: I miss her.
- Kevin: Enough to sing about?
- Nick: Oh yeah.
- Kevin: How do you solve a problem like Maria?
Keeping It Real[edit]
- Joe: I'll wear a disguise. (Picks up near by bow-tie and puts it on.) It's okay. It's still me, Joe!
- Stella: Joe you're a genius!
- Joe: I know.
- Stella: I bet I could disguise you guys enough to sneak you through the fans.
- Kevin: Excellent! I'll go as Joe, Joe will go as Nick, and Nick will go as me!
- Stella: You know that idea is so good, we should save it for the next time we're stuck somewhere.
- Kevin: That's what you said last time.
- Joe: (Walks in the room with sunglasses on.) Hey Nick, do these sunglasses make my head look fat?
- Nick: No. Your fat head makes your head look fat.
Bands Best Friend[edit]
- Dad: Last time I saw you, you were wearing your alien ninja costume. I didn't think you ever took it off!
- Carl: Got it on under the shirt, sir.
- Dad: Wear it proudly. You know Joe still wears his dinosaur underwear.
- Joe: That was one time... including today.
- Macy: I call it a, Joe-tato chip. (Laughs) It was worth every penny.
- Stella: Wait. That fifty dollars you borrowed from me was spent on a Joe-tato chip?
- Macy: Awesome, right?
- Stella: Awesome wrong. I wouldn't have lent you the money if I knew that's what you were gonna spend it on.
- Macy: Wow. I never realized our friendship came with so many conditions attached.
- Stella: Any girl who is the proud owner of a rhinestone incrusted pencil case, should not be criticizing anybody.
- Kevin: You read my e-mails?
- Carl: Only the ones you've opened.
- Nick: I told you "Kevin's password" wasn't a good password.
- Nick: You have something on your head.
- Joe: (Reaches for head and take notepaper off his head.) "Guys, I decided to go home early."
- Nick: (Sounding excited.) Carl went home?
- Joe: "Sorry this didn't work out. I know I can be really annoying sometimes."
- Kevin: You can be really annoying, Joe.
- Joe: I'm still reading the note.
- Kevin: Oh, sorry.
- Joe: "The only cool thing about me is that I know you guys.
- Kevin: Joe, don't say that. You have really cool hair.
- Joe: Still reading.
Chasing the Dream[edit]
- Kevin: I said dogs could hear it. I didn't say dogs would like it.
- Nick: Whose dog was that anyway?
- Joe: I don't know, but he just left a review of Kevin's guitar playing in the corner.
- Nick: She got a frog in her throat.
- Kevin: There's a bug going around.
- Nick: No. She was swimming in a swamp and got an actual frog in her throat.
- Nick: Didn't you tell him we don't have time for songs? Put the guitar down and turn the lights back on.
- Nick: Then there's no symptoms of vertigo of nausea?
- Kevin: No, no. I just got really dizzy then I puked.
Fashion Victim[edit]
- Kevin: Dude, I think your biggest math problem is, Joe plus trash can equals bonkers. And YES! I said it.
- Nick: Ruining all our the clothes, messing up Stella's date, I think somebody needs to be taught a lesson.
- Kevin: If all that fancy talkin' means having fun with Joe, then I am so in!
- Kevin: Joe! She didn't even notice your outfit!
- The Queen of England: Oh, we noticed.
- Joe: It was just a joke.
- The Queen: We are not amused.
- Kevin: Hey Joe, if they throw you in the dungeon, can I have your new guitar?
That Ding You Do[edit]
- Kevin: Anybody have a pen? (He, Nick and Joe check pockets.)
- Nick: No.
- Joe: Hold on. (Walks over to window and opens it. The sound of scream fans flood the place.) Excuse me girls, does anybody have a pen? INCOMING!
(Joe, Nick and Kevin dart behind the bed to avoid the flying pens.)
- Joe: Clear.
(The pens landed in the wall in the shape of a heart.)
- Joe: Our fans are the best.
- Nick: And they're freakishly accurate.
- Joe: Punch me in the arm so I know I'm not dreaming
- Nick: (Punches Joe in the arm very hard.)
- Joe: (Grunts) Not dreaming cause that really hurt.
- Kevin: Unless you're dreaming that it really hurt.
- Nick: This one goes out to Angelina in the strings section. My bro, he's the kindest guy that I know, he likes to take things slow, he's just a regular Joe.
Complete Repeat[edit]
- Kevin: What does make the worst day of a life?
- Nick: So you're saying Kevin had a good idea?
- Joe: It was bound to happen eventually.
- Kevin: Thanks, bro.
- Kevin: Looks like somebody need a nap.
- Kevin: NO! Not Mr. Bumbles. Take it out on the keyboard!
Love Sick[edit]
- Kevin: Yeah, and Dad said there were gonna be a million people watching all at the same time. That has to be a huge TV.
- Joe: I gotta trim my eyebrows. Can't let these caterpillars get out of control.
- Macy: Stella! For someone who's so smart you don't even know what you don't know you know.
- Stella: I know I have no idea what you talking about.
Tom tells a joke and Nick laughs.
- Tom: Oh, thank you.
- Nick: Not you, the book.
The Three Musketeers[edit]
- Kevin: (Says to Joe and Nick after talking about the play.) Plus, we get to wear hats with feathers!
- Macy:It's a little charm that says, "You're #1", and without it I feel like number two.
- Kevin: Hey dude. What happened? You totally skipped the scene where I get to wear my feather hat.
- Kevin: I've never done a performance without it. And I've never been struck by lightning! Now, if that's not lucky I don't know what is.
- Nick, Joe, and Kevin: One for all, and all for one!
- Kevin: And a leather pouch for my turkey leg!
Frantic Romantic[edit]
- Nick: You call her Fifi and she calls you Pookins.
- Nick: If Fiona thinks being connected to you makes her look cool, then what if you weren't cool?
- Joe: But I am.
- Nick: But what if you weren't?
- Joe: But I am.
- Nick: But what if you weren't?
- Joe: But I am.
- Joe: Kevin, give me a blueprint of the school.
- Kevin: Why would I have one of those?
- Joe: How 'bout a scale model of the school?
- Kevin: You got it!
- Joe: It's just like whatever I try, I just can't get detention.
- Kevin: Just give me the word man. I can have twenty goats here by lunch.
- Mr. Smetzer: I want complete, and utter silence. Am I understood?
- Joe: Yes sir.
- Mr. Smetzer: That was a trick question. I said SILENCE!
Karaoke Surprise[edit]
- Kevin: It is nice that we have high ceilings in this house. We should totally put a trampoline in the middle of our room.
- Joe: That would be awesome! We could somersault into bed, or back flip into the bathroom.
- Nick: Like a pirate needs a hook for a hand, an eye patch, and a parrot. Wow you need a lot of things to be a pirate.
- Stella: You can't do homework later, cause you're too busy… doing… homework?
- Stella: Okay, spill it!
- Kevin: (Drop glass so the juice spills.) You know that was my last glass of cranberry juice? You could've said, oh I don't know, DRINK IT?
- Joe: Macy? What are you doing in my house?
Home Not Alone[edit]
- Joe: Dudes, we have the whole place to ourselves, let's do something crazy. Like, brush without flossing or floss without brushing. Better yet, run with scissors! No. Too dangerous. Run without scissors!
- Nick: I think I liked it better when dad called.
- Joe: There's not enough time. There's not enough time! THERE'S NOT ENOUGH TIME!
- Nick: Joe!
- Joe: Sorry. But there's not enough time.
- Kevin: Wow. They're good.
- Nick: They're fast.
- Joe: They're a little scary.
- Macy: They're Jonas-heads.
- Mom: We would've been home sooner, but the plane made an unexpected stop.
- Kevin: Oh, really?
- Nick: She doesn't mean, "In mid-air".
Forgetting Stella's Birthday[edit]
- Dad: Give me a C !
- Kevin: C!
- Dad: Give me an O!
- Joe: O!
- Dad: Give me a-
- Nick: Dad, we've got school. How many more letters are there gonna be?
- Joe: Got to go. Science. You get there late, you have to sit in front, and… Mr. Ingalls's a spitter. Bye.
- Kevin: And also… I LOVE the tiny shampoo bottles you get at the hotels. You know I like to be in the shower and pretend I'm a giant monster and go, "Ah! Watch out tiny shampoo! You will die!" "Ah, tell soap I love her!" "No! You have no chance! Ha ha!"
- Macy: I can't believe they did that. I'm gonna go yell at them.
- Macy: You know, if I didn't like you guys so much I wouldn't like you guys so much.
- Kevin: How 'bout we through you a surprise party at the zoo!? Oops, uh… You know what? We're gonna do that next year. I'm just… gonna… stop.. talking now.
- Dad: The last band to cancel an interview with this guy was the Happy-Teens.
- Joe, Kevin and Nick: Who?
- Dad: Exactly.
- Joe: Stella, I know you probably never wanna see us again,
- Nick: Which would be kinda hard, since we go to together and you work with us.
- Kevin: C'mon, five-second dance party! (Dances to music) Who's in it? (Music stops) I'm turning into my father.
The Tale of the Haunted Firehouse[edit]
- Nick: Well, if you see a ghost wearing a belt and suspenders, be sure to run for your life.
- Kevin: Oh my gosh. That was so scary. I didn't think I was gonna make it. AAHHH!!! I was having a flashback, I'm sorry.
Double Date[edit]
- Kevin: Everybody knows you and Stella have a crush on each other, except… for you and Stella.
- Nick: Oh, for the love of all that is Mike, stop talking.
Cold Shoulder[edit]
- Nick: Remember how bummed you were when the tour ended? And you thought your heart never be, (pulls out pen and paper) mended? (Starts to write.)
- Kevin: That rhymed! Wait a second, do you really care or are you just writing a new song?
- Nick: I care! (Continues to write.)
- Kevin: What are you writing?
- Nick: Do you wanna go on tour again, or not?
- Nick: Kevin had, like, three milkshakes for lunch, so… I think we should get out of here before he blows.
- Joe: Quick, everybody look serious in a different direction.
- Stella: She dances just like my grandma, well, back when she had her own hips.
- Macy: Oh hang on, I'm not really sure how to use my new smart phone yet, (barking noise come from phone) oops, I think I just bought a puppy.
- Kevin: Will you to the dance go with me!
- Stella: Yeah I know, and your note was delicious.
- Kevin: If I bring Norway her way, maybe she won't go away.
- Joe: Really? So we're just gonna leave 'em in there? Guys!
Beauty and the Beat[edit]
- Dad: Joe, did you just break a window with a shoe? That then hit a cat, causing a British ambulance to crash? Which then scared a cow, who sat on a fat guy playing bagpipes?
- Joe: No. That was my ringtone.
- Dad: Oh, hey, Joe your phone.
- Joe: (Grabs for phone, but ends up falling down the fire pole opening) AHH!
- Kevin: (Looks down hole) He's good.
Exam Jam[edit]
- Macy: The bigger, and better than the last tour, tour!
- Joe: I'm working on doing a flip… off a gigantic amp… and landing in a split! Yeah.
- Nick: Good luck with that.
- Joe Jonas - Joe Lucas
- Nick Jonas - Nick Lucas
- Kevin Jonas - Kevin Lucas
- Chelsea Staub - Stella Malone
- Nicole Anderson - Macy Misa


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Harry Styles 'Hearts' New Tattoo [PHOTO]
It's swoon time, Directioners. Harry Styles is showing us his heart. Sort of.
The One Direction hunk, known for his smattering of not-so-good tattoos placed all over his body without much in the way of connective artistic tissue, has added another piece of ink to his ever-growing array, this time in the form of an anatomical heart on his bicep. The tattoo is done in black ink, as are most of Hazza's pieces.
Yes, yes, yes, some might say that Hazza is wearing his heart on his sleeve, albeit a sleeve made of his own skin.
The singer was seen in L.A. wearing a white t-shirt and a Keith Richards-like scarf in his famous hair. With the sprinkling of tattoos up and down his arms, Hazza looked every inch the rocker.
Directioners and PopCrushers, what do you guys think? Do you heart Hazza's latest inking? Or is enough enough already? Sound off in the comments below.


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Thursday, 15 December 2011
An obvious (and slightly inconvenient) truth - Nicola Morgan
Non-fiction is much easier to sell than fiction. And now I realise why.
First, let me tell you how I realised that this was even the case. In August I published my book on Twitter - Tweet Right - The Sensible Person's Guide to Twitter. And in November I re-published Mondays are Red, which was my debut novel back in 2002. I published both books as ebooks only.
Now, Mondays are Red should have had an advantage because it has been published before and has a raft of lovely reviews from newspapers as well as readers; also, it's been out of print for a couple of years and people are still asking for it. But it's selling about a quarter of the number that Tweet Right sells on a weekly basis. (Which is not a vast number, let me tell you, but it's very respectable.)
And this is despite the fact that I did more to push Mondays. A blog tour, for example, which I didn't do for Tweet Right. And TR is more expensive. And shorter. It is, by word count, much less good value. With Mondays are Red, I pleaded with my blog readers and employed blatant emotional blackmail. I never did that with Tweet Right.
However, none of that really worked. (I'm actually a bit relieved - I don't like pleading or blackmail! And btw, let me be clear: I do NOT expect people to buy out of duty.) So, TR continues to outsell Mondays by about four times.
And it seems to me the reason is obvious.
When you try to persuade a reader to buy your novel, you're trying to persuade them to want this one more than thousands - hundreds of thousands - of others. Even if yours is the genre they like to buy, you're still competing in a crowded, often poorly differentiated market. It's easy to be invisible. (Especially since there are some things I won't do to get myself or my book seen.)
Write a Great Synopsis - An Expert Guide, coming in January!) - there are very few books that I'm competing against. Very few indeed. It's easier to be seen. Also, it's relatively easy to find the audience, because you know where they hang out. But readers of novels are everywhere, everywhere, I tell you. And they are slippery. God, they are.
So, it's obvious when you think about it, isn't it? It's much more a numbers game than we'd like to think.
In view of this, I will not bother to plead with you to buy Mondays are Red. Honestly. Don't. There are hundreds of thousands of other novels you might like almost as much. But, on the other hand, there's only one at the other end of this link. :)
EDITED TO ADD: I have a suggestion: if any published* UK authors with YA titles which are also in ebook format for Kindle would like to get in touch, I'll do a blog post (on my blog) after Christmas which will list them, with links. SO, if your book is YA, published and in ebook format, email me, in this order: title, author, publisher, 25 words to describe including genre, and Amazon link (UK or US, just one). By Christmas Eve. firstname.lastname@example.com
(* I'm really sorry but I have to offer this only for authors who have had novels published by a trade publisher. This is purely so that I don't end up having to put eleventy million books in a blog post when I could be eating mince pies.)
24 comments:
- Sarah Duncan said...
E-publishing is great, but I think people forget that it's only the technology that is new, the principles of self-publishing remain the same - that producing a book is relatively easy, selling it is quite another matter.
Book production you control, buyers you don't (worse luck). The new technology doesn't change that, if anything, it makes it worse because book production used to be harder and more expensive so it limited the numbers trying self publishing. As you say, it's an inconvenient truth that the numbers matter, but hey - at least you're selling!
- 15 December 2011 at 08:57
- catdownunder said...
I think there is one other thing as well. Some people are being reminded of the book's previous existence so they hunt out their copies and pass it on. Other people will pick up second hand copies after hearing about it. The numbers may not be large but they may have a small impact. That though does not help you much!
- 15 December 2011 at 09:00
- Nicola Morgan said...
Cat, I think that's really unlikely and won't impact. If they are reminded of its previous existence that only firms it in their minds and makes them more likely to recommend. Seriously, if you're suddenly reminded about a book you like you don't think, "Oh yes, i'll go and find it on my shelf and then lend it to someone." You either do nothing, read it again, or recommend it when it comes up in conversation. And the secondhand copy thing has always been an issue but again does serve to tell people about the book.
Sarah - indeed!
- 15 December 2011 at 09:28
- M Louise Kelly said...
Thanks, once again, for sharing your experiences, Nicola. It's so helpful for those of us still on the dark side (i'm still pretending to believe it'll all be lovely and sparkly and bright in publishedville) to have the benefit for your experiences.
I did buy Mondays are Red on ebook - and i already have a paper copy - cos I did think it was payback time, so don't feel embarrassed....
My main thought, however is about buying ebooks as presents You can't. Can you? (if you can, can someone please let me know how.)
How many YA sales are accounted for by present purchases, do you think? I bet lots of kids' books are bought as presents. but i'm genuinely not sure about YAs. I buy lots for the teens I know, but don't know if me choosing the titles is actually seen as dictatorial! Also, lots of christmas-time sales are bought as presents, so maybe this is a slow time of year to launch something which needs necessarily to be a purchase-for-self.
Anyway, hip hip hurrah for you. You didn't even hesitate in turning what might be seen as negative into something giving and that deserves a big chocolate (70% min) santa *squashes one into the keyboard in the hope some will make its way thru the ether to you*
- 15 December 2011 at 09:33
- Liz Kessler said...
I think it's over-simplifying things to say on the basis of this experience that it's easier to sell non-fiction than fiction. In my opinion, the main reason your non-fiction book is outselling your fiction book is probably much more to do with the subject matter than the simple fact of it being a non-fiction book. A book about using twitter is absolutely 'on trend' at the moment, and is much more likely to be gobbled up than a re-release of a novel that doesn't necessarily (or at least, obviously) relate to something that is quite so 'now'.
Plus, the places that these books are being mentioned are largely social networking places - which again totally fits the subject of the non-fiction one. I think that your synopses book will also sell well - not because it's non-fiction, but because it's about a subject matter which is very close to the hearts of the people who follow your on twitter, read your blog etc.
So it's not non-fiction per se that sells. It's getting the right subject at the right time. You have done this very successfully - yay! :)
Having said that, I think that selling ANY book is hard, and depends on a huge number of factors - the largest of which being the ones that no one can pin down with 100% accuracy - thank goodness. If they could, we might not have the wonderful variety of books that exist today, and publishers might stop taking risks on anything outside of the latest 'big thing'.
- 15 December 2011 at 09:51
- Stroppy Author said...
I'm close to Liz on this one. Your followers are the market for your n-f books; they are not the real market for your fiction. Some might buy it out of curiosity, or loyalty, or because they like reading teen fiction, but they are not teens looking for fiction to read. In addition, those of us who have read it as a part of our background reading in YA are not going to buy it because we've read it. (I'm not being unsupportive here, but you *know* writers are in financially hard times at the moment, and buying a second copy of a book is not top of the list of must-do spending.)
It's also true that if someone who had never come across your work searched on Amazon for books about twitter, yours might come up (haven't tested, but I assume it would). If someone searched for YA fiction, Mondays are Red would not come up in the first few pages (unless, perhaps, you were searching the Kindle store). So partly true, but there's a lot else going on.
In terms of selling to publishers, it's currently harder to sell non-fiction than fiction (or so I'm finding). Which is a complete turn-around...
- 15 December 2011 at 09:59
- Nicola Morgan said...
Stroppy - "It's also true that if someone who had never come across your work searched on Amazon for books about twitter, yours might come up (haven't tested, but I assume it would). If someone searched for YA fiction, Mondays are Red would not come up in the first few pages (unless, perhaps, you were searching the Kindle store)." That's exactly my point. It's easier to sell and find the market for non-fiction, because when you're looking for something on a topic there are fewer to search amongst.
And Liz, what you say is kind of what i'm saying as well. Mmmm, chocolate - thank you!
Thanks for all comments, everyone. I *do* agree that it's wrong to make a judgement based on a tiny experience, but I still *do* think it's easier to sell non-fic.
I think my main point is that the fiction marketing probably only reached people who already knew me and/or the book, whereas the non-fiction marketing reached outside that.
And I didn't mean to suggest that my blog-readers didn't buy Mondays are Red - they have been very supportive. I meant the whole caboodle of what I did didn't seem to pay off as well as for the non-fiction title. I'm hugely greatful not just to people who bought but to people who tweeted or even mentioned it. And I certainly didn't expect anyone to buy it twice!
Thank you, Louise, btw! Above and beyond!
- 15 December 2011 at 10:48
- Nicola Morgan said...
Louise - it is possible to "gift" a kindle title if you have the kindle email address (each machine has an email address, which is cute!) AND if the recipient makes sure that YOUR email address is "unblocked" from the account. So, you have to communicate a bit with the intended recipient. I'm sure it will get easier.
What I'm hoping is that this is the year when lots of teenage readers get Kindles for Christmas and they'll all be looking for ideas...:)))
Which leads me to suggest something to help all of you published authors who have YA titles in Kindle format - see the bottom of the blog post, where I have added something.
- 15 December 2011 at 10:59
- Katherine Langrish said...
This and all the comments are fascinating - I haven't even bought a Kindle yet, but I'm beginning to feel I really must, or be left behind. Some of the things I used to think wouldn't work on e-books (pictures, etc) already are, and I'm sure it's all going to get even more exciting. As for what makes someone buy a book, wish I knew. But Nicola, I'm in awe - you are a trail-blazer! :)
- 15 December 2011 at 11:31
I think there is a problem about buying Kindle books as presents especially for Young Adults. There needs to be something tangible in this gift. What if when a kindle book was bought they were to send a card to the recipient that says something like
On 25th Dec XXXX book has been bought for you. Please download at your convenience.
Something like that
- 15 December 2011 at 11:53
- Liz Kessler said...
For what it's worth...I just put 'YA books about synaesthesia' in google, and Mondays are Red came up on the first page! 'Books about twitter' seem to have so many that actually, 'Tweet Right' didn't show up. (Although it did when I put 'twitter' in Amazon.)
Which doesn't really tell you much, except that this whole thing is really a LOT more complex than any sure fire answers that any of us (or anyone else!) can ever pin down with a formula!
And also goes to show that there are all sorts of ways you can fritter time away on the internet when you are on a deadline!
Oh, and I think the chocolate came from Marie Louise not me by the way! Although I'll have some if it's going spare :)
- 15 December 2011 at 11:54
- Ebony McKenna. said...
How about this theory- your nf titles are selling because you've become an expert in your field . . . By writing fiction.
As in, your nf titles are all about the craft etc of writing fiction. With the exception of Tweet Right. But, you wouldn't be the expert you are and sell so many nf if you hadn't written all the fiction in the first place - and - the blog is where you've built a strong platform.
I don't know what sells fiction. All I know is that waaaaay back when I directly tweeted links to my books, I lost followers.
- 15 December 2011 at 12:00
- Stroppy Author said...
Yes, Nicola, I know that's what you were saying! I meant there are aspects of both - that searching, and your followers being the real market for Tweet Right - boost sales of TR rather than fiction.
Kath, you don't need a Kindle. You can read Kindle books on your phone, iPad or computer :-)
And I'm not convinced that so many teens in the UK have/use Kindle yet. My teen's peer group don't. Not at all. And they are literate, middle-class and in a high-tech oriented city. So adoption is patchy, at best. It is a very complex formula, obviously.
- 15 December 2011 at 12:22
- Nicola Morgan said...
Liz - I bow to your awesomeness and will now go and revise my whole thoery. Or ditch it and take up chocolate-eating. Oh, hang on...
And Louise - sorry and thanks for the chocolate from you. I'm all over the place today.
Stroppy and Liz and everyone is right. I'm wrong. But it was fun having a simple theory while it lasted :))
- 15 December 2011 at 12:24
- Liz Kessler said...
No! Wait! It's YOUR awesomeness that is the whole point! You've written a book that is absolutely on the money in terms of the market, you know how to write for this audience, you know your facts about the subject matter and you know how to get the book into your audience's hands as well. THAT is the awesome part!
My argument is just about the fact that I don't think the distinction is quite so clear cut, and that there are a lot more factors involved. I'm probably also motivated by a desire to believe that we CAN help to get our fiction books in front of the right people, because fiction is what I write!
And the theory is a great one because it's got us all thinking and talking about some very interesting issues! :)
- 15 December 2011 at 12:38
- Nicola Morgan said...
OK, we're *all* awesome :)) That's a much better theory.
Now, have a mince pie.
Stroppy - yes, it's patchy. But I've been asking the questions when I've done school visits over this year and there's a lot of excitement about the idea (of e-reading - usually on phones) amongst keen teenage readers. And, interestingly, lots of school libraries are investing in the idea, and that's helped me a lot. I gave afree ebook copy of Mondays are Red to a load of schools, and that may lead to sales later.
Any schools just need to ask me, btw - there's a copy for all.
- 15 December 2011 at 12:58
- Katherine Langrish said...
Stroppy, I know I can read on the computer, but I don't like to... though it may be something to to with the fact that to do so, I have to sit upright in a sort of hallway on a hard wooden bench. My laptop is not connected to the internet - the other thing I cd use would be my notepaddy thingy, but the screen is so small, and yes I know I could enlarge the font but I hate reading things a paragraph at a time, it feels like wearing blinkers.
But Nicola's all round awesomeness is beyond doubt!
- 15 December 2011 at 13:02
- Nicola Morgan said...
kath - I agree about not finding it comfortable or Bookfeelingy to read on a computer or similar screen. until I got a Kindle for my recent birthday, I was reading on an iPad, and I was quite amazed at how much I love reading on the actual Kindle and how much better it is than computer/notepad screens. that is not a helpful thing for me to tell you, and i will forgive you if you retract the awesome status thing.
And by the way, LOTS of people are doing the publishing-your-own-backlist-as-ebook thing, including lots of other Sassies and others. I'm not really trail-blazing or awesome :) (You should see the state of my flat right now.)
- 15 December 2011 at 14:29
Hi, Nicola et al. I'm one of those who bought Nicola's Tweet Right recently and as a result posted my first tweet this afternoon. I then followed a Twitter link here. I'm beginning to see how it all works - and I like it! Thanks so much, Nicola.
I remember my publisher (at Piccadilly Press) telling me that non-fiction for YA would outsell fiction because NF on an evergreen topic would live on. I've certainly found that to be true - but that could be down to my writing, pure and simple! (Perhaps my one novel didn't click. I know it could have been marketed better. It's lost in the mists of time, but I still get sales from the NFs.)
To crown it all I've just completed two fiction books for the 8-12 range, but am considering going down the ebook line. Does anyone know if younger kids read from iPads etc?
On the subject of chocolate, I'm thinking of starting a club called 'Chocolate Is Not a Girl Thing'. Honestly, the girls I teach think I'm a wimp when they discover my secret passion!
Re. mince pies. Oh-oh, yes... What a way to spend Christmas - but only if they're iced!
- 15 December 2011 at 17:25
- Katherine Roberts said...
Patience, Nicola, patience! The beauty of ebooks is that they (in theory) stay in print for ever - or as long as the Kindle format and Amazon survive.
Not being able to gift Kindle books in the UK yet is a big problem for children's ebooks. You can do it in America on amazon.com, but the "buy as a gift" button is not on amazon.co.uk yet, and neither can we loan Kindle books over here, which makes giving away review or promotional copies a bit difficult. (When I asked Amazon about this, they told me they are thinking about introducing these features to the UK soon, so I'm sure it will happen).
Congratulations on your e-launch, by the way, and do drop by at Authors Electric to say hello when you have a moment... we are making good use of that Twitter account you set up for us!
- 15 December 2011 at 18:17
- Ebony McKenna. said...
I have another theory that scares me.
Non fiction craft books sell the dream that "you too can write fiction".
There is a secret code - all books are written to a formula, obvs - and once those sneaky gate-keeping writers let slip those secrets like a Freemason's handshake, everyone will have the secret knowledge and everyone can be a best seller.
Meanwhile, fiction only sells dreams.
A part of me died inside as I wrote that.
- 15 December 2011 at 20:38
- Keren David said...
Funnily enough,I was recommending your twitter book to someone this week - as I explained to them how to use twitter - and they weren't able to buy it because they didn't have a kindle or the technological know-how to work out how to read e-books on their PC. And I wondered if the people who need the twitter book most are the ones least able to access it.
As for Mondays are Red, surely it's because the twitter book is for all ages, while Mondays Are Red is mainly for Young Adults?
- 15 December 2011 at 21:21
I found your Twitter book by searching for something to help my SIL and that led me to this. It also reminded me that I had a copy of Mondays Are Red. (Have to confess I started to read it and never finished it.) I gave Mondays Are Red to my younger cousin. Her verdict was "it was a bit weird". I guess we all like different things but the Twitter book is great! Andrea Tomlinson
- 15 December 2011 at 22:45
- Nicola Morgan said...
Frank - hello! Thanks for buying Tweet Right and I'm I terested in your experiences. And hooray for being in touch with your chocolate side :)
Keren - but I don't think the YA market is necessarily smaller than the market for a book on Twitter. After all, most people on Twitter got there without any book.
Katherine (Roberts) - ah, I'd forgotten about the gifting thing not being available in the UK. And yes, I will have patience. I still think selling fiction is harder. Last night I was a the Publishing Scotland party and we were talking about it - all those i spoke to agreed that this is the case.
Anonymous - hang on! Mondays are Red is VERY weird!
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- Basic (at a minimum) shooting and editing skills, including Avid and/or Premiere
- Knowledge of Photoshop and/or After Effects a plus
Production internship duties may include:
- Assisting the production staff in various aspects of production
- Logging and transcribing interviews
- Assisting with social media as needed
- Attaining skills to assist in the production of segments, which may include online research, field work, and logging applicable segments
- Assisting production staff with YouTube captioning
- Assisting production staff with metadata creation, including writing descriptions and tags
- Providing clerical and administrative support for the production and management of local KLRU productions, including DVD duplication/labeling and labeling/mailing tapes
- The opportunity to attend studio productions and client events on occasion
- The opportunity to produce, shoot, and edit a project over the course of the semester
In accordance with KLRU intern programs, the intern must:
- Be in attendance of an accredited college or university at the undergraduate or graduate level
- Earn academic credit for internship
- Provide confirmation of credit eligibility from college registrar's office
- Work a minimum of 10 hours per week, 150 hours per semester
Students interning for KLRU will have their internships terminated and will not receive college credit if they:
- Do not maintain a consistent work schedule
- Show a limited interest in the production process
- Do not notify staff in advance of tardiness or absence
- Are unable to perform required duties listed above
Internship is unpaid.
Interested applicants should submit a resume, letter of intent, which should include information regarding applicable software knowledge, and three references via email to:
Emily Steele (email@example.com) Production Coordinator
Annual Internship Application Deadlines:
- Summer Semester: April 26
- Fall Semester: August 16
- Spring Semester: November 29


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I was playing an aos called ninjas on battle.net, it's pretty meh with some creative stuff, but what cought my attention was that they had an attribute system which added an icon which had the small number attached on it as well to your hero after you surpassed level 18. What I'm curious about is how they got the small sub-number (like when you can upgrade a skill and whatnot) displayed on the icon. From what I remember of the map editor, the only abilities that would show that are flare and sentinel, and both have to target things. And I'm still not quite sure how those abilities work, but perhaps I'm missing something here. Is there some other way to get that display other then custom making the damn icons (which I'm pretty sure they didn't do it that way)? I'm pretty sure the base skill was from the spellbook ability, and I know there are some weird tricks you can do with that so...yeah i dunno.
On a side note, does anyone have the testmap for abberate with the nice attack blur? I had a copy but my comp crashed (hard drive shit out and i hadn't backed up any wc3 stuff) and now I don't have the map anymore.