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Seems like a good time to pick it up! Or, if free digital books on the Kindle aren't your thing, pick up the paperback!
FREE Kindle version: http://amzn.to/TIE6PL
Paperback: http://amzn.to/UwOlXK
Seems like a good time to pick it up! Or, if free digital books on the Kindle aren't your thing, pick up the paperback!
FREE Kindle version: http://amzn.to/TIE6PL
Paperback: http://amzn.to/UwOlXK
After a good month or two of working on it, Cages is now available in Paperback form! I used Amazon's CreateSpace service, which has so far been amazing! The book is propagating through the various online stores, so it's only available at CreateSpace.com right now, but in a few days it'll be available everywhere. You should even be able to order it from a Barnes and Noble if online purchasing isn't your thing.
Also, I'm holding a giveaway for 3 free copies of the paperback version right now on GoodReads, so enter if you want a chance to get a copy for free!
Giveaway ends February 23, 2013.
See the giveaway details
at Goodreads.
The games industry is a volatile place. Anyone who's been in it longer than a year or two knows this firsthand, whether they've been let go themselves or survived a company downsizing. As the recipient of another headcount cut no more than a week ago, it seems apropos to reflect on how my response to these events has changed.
When I left Adult Swim for Kongregate in San Francisco in 2007 everything was awesome. The economy was doing great, the move represented a great step up in the business world for me and I was going to get to make awesome games. It was also a banner year for games – I remember being halfway through BioShock for the first time when I made the move and finishing it in my 450 sq ft studio apartment off of Mission and 6th a week later when my TV arrived.
Well, then the economy went south. I didn't think it would really affect me at the time – people weren't going to stop playing free web games, were they? – but in the end what I was doing wasn't part of the core Kongregate business and everyone was feeling the pinch to cut costs. I understood – in fact I'm sure I would have done the same thing if I were in the founders' shoes. It still didn't make it any easier and emotionally I took it hard. After all, I had never been made to leave a job I didn't want to leave at this point, and I had grown to enjoy working with the people at Kongregate.
Jim and Emily Greer, the co-founders, were wonderful about it. Jim handled my dismissal himself and admitted it was the hardest thing he'd had to do in his career so far. I think the fact that he took it so hard made me buck up more – I didn't want to add to his burden by being choked up about it. My wife (who was working in TV and commercials at the time, and had only moved out to San Francisco to be with me a year before) wasn't finding work anyway, so we decided the best place for us both to be was LA. Well, Jim and Emily had made the extremely generous decision to keep me on until Remnants of Skystone finished, and then made the even more generous decision to pay our way to LA, even taking over rent on our SF apartment. Words really can't describe how thankful I am for their generosity. They made what was a painful and disheartening experience survivable and made it possible for me to move on to the next stage of my career. Thanks, guys.
I was lucky – within two months of my last paycheck from Kong, I was hired by Break Media in Los Angeles. This was a godsend – it wasn't exactly a booming job market at the time and Break was just the sort of place where my previous experience could be of use. I think those two years were some of the most exciting in my life – I was doing work I loved with people I liked; my wife and I were expecting a baby; and I was flying off to foreign lands on a regular basis where we worked hard but had a lot of fun together too. But the games group never managed to pull off the hit game that would have saved it (for dozens of reasons I won't get into here), and it crumbled. This time was less painful – maybe I had grown some emotional immunity since the first time, or maybe it was because the trajectory was a lot clearer ahead of time. I was still unhappy about it, though, and the fact that we had a little girl now made it potentially a lot more devastating if i didn't get a new gig soon. Break was really good about this as well – they were aware of my daughter's genetic condition and graciously provided 6 months of health insurance for us.
Well, luckily, I only barely needed two. I began working with Majesco soon after, first working remotely and then moving to Boston to be with the core games group. Now, with the studio having dissolved a year later, a few people have asked me if I regret the move, but I don't think I do. I think being in Boston allowed me to interact with the rest of the team in a way that would have been difficult otherwise. I learned a lot in the past year and I find it difficult to regret any of that. This time it was a bit like pulling off a band-aid. There was some pain, but it was quick and I was able to move on to the next step of looking for my next job without mourning this one too much. I think I've become a lot more hardened to the realities of the game industry.
Still, I hope the next place I go to will last me a while… I'm getting tired of changing addresses!
Last Friday I was informed that the studio for which I've been working for the last year, Majesco Boston, was going to be shut down. I'm deeply saddened by this for obvious reasons, not least of which is that I now lack a full-time job, but second to that comes the unscratched itch that comes with leaving projects unfinished.
Most of what I was working on I can't talk about, but I'll mention one in particular. Sci-Fi Heroes is a game for iOS that I can say I slaved over as close to literally as possible without going over. It was originally released during the first week of November, 2012, to mixed reviews. The negatives we can save for another day – there were some obvious flaws relating to performance and some inadvertent UI mistakes that led people to believe we were greedier than we were. (All things, by the way, that were being fixed in an update slated to be submitted extremely soon. No idea if it will still be updated, but I hope so.)
What thrilled me most about people's reaction to the game was how much they enjoyed the humor. When I first came on board, the design for the game was serious – very sci-fi military with some retro sci-fi characters. I really don't know why this seemed so imperative to me, but I insisted that this game needed to be funny. Maybe it was all the Red Dwarf I had been watching during my previous job search window, or some latent desire to get back to my Adult Swim roots but I imagined the game almost as an office comedy rather than a war epic.
I started writing interstitial videos introducing each character, inspired by Valve's "Meet the X" promo videos for TEAM FORTRESS 2. (All hilarious, if you haven't seen them.) I also started an intro video laying out the extremely bare-bones plot. (Aliens invade. Good guys fight 'em off. Yay! It didn't need to be complex, just a backdrop for the office comedy, the same way in which "the Office" is about a documentary about a paper company, but that's not at all important.) In writing all of these, I kept finding myself writing with the voice of Ben "Yahtzee" Croshaw in my head. (The host of ZERO PUNCTUATION. Also hilarious. Trust me.) I resolved to find a voice actor who could pull off that same dry, British machine gun delivery, but in the end I thought… hey, maybe we can just get Yahtzee!
After I managed to contact him (which I did like a raving idiot, leaving comments on his blog and other such indelicate methods) and he agreed to do it, we recorded the sessions. I actually had a completely different opening written, but it really wasn't working the way I meant it to. Yahtzee was too polite to say so, but he agreed when I mentioned my concerns. So I rewrote it to be less clunky – I was trying too hard to be funny by stringing long complicated sentences together that, if you parsed them right, would equal a soft chuckle at best.
Original Sci-Fi Heroes Opening
Intro (should be very fast and tight)
An info-graphic style representation of four planets in orbit. Initially they're green with the Alliance symbol, but quickly a dotted line bounces from one to the other, filling the planet with red and marking it with the Empire symbol.
In the days after the Calimar space horde conquered the last civilized planet in the solar system, things were understandably a little tense. Those who could afford rockets evacuated.
Icons of green rocket ships blasting off from a conquered planet.
NARRATOR (Cont'd)
Those who couldn't either stayed and became die-hard fans of tyrannical dictatorships or found creative ways to liberate the aforementioned rockets from their affluent owners.
Icons of pipes and an unfolding kind of Swiss-army wrench, with dotted lines coming from them, like schematics or diagrams. The pipe icon hits a stick-figure man in the head.
NARRATOR (Cont'd)
Usually with a pipe or some sort of wrench-thing. All of which meant that four days after the conquest, every ship within a thousand light-years was heading away from the New Calimar Empire as fast as the laws of physics would allow.
Icons of rockets all speeding away from a planet on the right, going left.
NARRATOR (Cont'd)
Except for one.
A swerving representation of the Aphelion moves from left to right, causing the other ships to swerve and crash in to each other. Zoom in to see the normally animated version of the Aphelion, then zoom in again through the hull to see the Aphelion crew standing in a line, idle, each doing some animation in character (spinning a gun, petting a tiger, etc).
NARRATOR (Cont'd)
It's been said the crew of the dropship carrier Aphelion are the best special forces team in the galaxy. Usually by the crew of the dropship carrier Aphelion. The thing is… they could be right.
The characters all adopt a battle stance, spinning swords, cocking rifles, etc. Then a moth-like creature flies by over their heads and Sarge opens fire wildly, laughing crazy. The others duck and cover. Soon he stops, looks at the others and shrugs, grinning.
NARRATOR (Cont'd)
It doesn't mean they're not a little unhinged.
The crew picks themselves up and stand tight together. The camera zooms out.
NARRATOR (Cont'd)
I mean, one dropship crew against an entire army spanning the whole solar system? That's crazy, right?
The camera finishes zooming out. The logo is hanging over their heads: Sci-Fi Heroes!
NARRATOR (Cont'd)
Yeah, too complicated and honestly the visuals were too reminiscent of Yahtzee's own Zero Punctuation style. So instead I centered the action around Sarge, arguably the goofiest and most iconic character in the game. You can see the results here: INTRO VIDEO
Yahtzee was great to work with, and always turned around everything I needed very quickly. (he's in Australia, I'm in Boston.) He also added his own take on a couple of lines which made the whole thing flow much better. In hindsight, it might have been better to hire Yahtzee to actually write his own lines — I'm happy with how it turned out, but I think we might have ended up a bit tighter and maybe a little more biting had I given him free reign. He's never given me his opinion on the game, but I'm hoping he liked it enough to never review it.
Aside from the intros and character introductions, there was scene-by-scene story to write, which I actually found fairly challenging. The purpose of having a story in a game like this is to hopefully a) entertain and b) make the player want to continue playing to see the end. I had a lot of limitations in that regard – I couldn't do scripted events or animations. There were no sweeping story lines planned out early on, so all I had to use were the character dialogue panels at the beginning of each level. I could have also put some at the end, but there was so much going on at the end of each level, with rewards given out with victory and advice given out with defeat, that it seemed like too much.
I limited myself to four panels a level only, which was a challenge in brevity. As any writer knows, it's a constant temptation to write War and Peace any time you step up to the keyboard, but this restriction forced me to write in short, digestible chunks. Setting up jokes in only four exchanges is actually a lot harder than you'd think – the entire process actually took me about a month in constant revision, usually working late at night (to concentrate, and well, because that's how much work I had going on at the time.)
One thing I really loved that will likely be removed in the update (for performance reasons) was that every time a character intro was shown, the other crewmates used the opportunity to rag on the featured character. In games you don't often get the chance to break the fourth wall elegantly and I had a lot of fun with that.
If I had it to do over again, I think I would have spent more time on the dialogue panels. Had the headshots animate like they were talking, showing emotions, things like that. I think that would added some empathic kick to it. But all in all, it's one of the games I'm most proud of. Check it out below!
I'm sitting in a hotel in Athens, GA, to see my family for the holidays. It's 12:30am in the morning. I have just consumed 10 Fla-Vor-Ice bars at once and am seriously considering trying to sneak out on my sleeping wife and child to get more. The convenience store on the first floor of the hotel has them already frozen, for ten cents a piece!
When I was a kid I would down these things like crazy. I would sometimes get little cuts on my lips from sucking on too many of the plastic sleeves in a row, but I didn't care. Now, at 33 years old, I find myself browsing Reddit in the middle of the night, using a small kitchen knife to as-quietly-as-possible saw through the top of the sleeve so that my wife doesn't hear it and berate me for being a frozen favored sugar water glutton. I realized early that my initial process of going back to the refrigerator, sawing one open, and returning to my desk was stupidly inefficient, so I now have a paper towel spread on my desk with eight empty plastic sleeves and a kitchen knife on them.
I'm here for four more nights. I wonder if you can get poisoned from too much sugar water?
So, I'm no stranger to criticism. I used to work at Adult Swim, where I had people who (with all the best intentions in the world) necessitated some pretty thick skin. As a game designer this has been very useful experience, because as the designer, you're always the fall guy when a project goes bad, whether it's valid or not. Everyone thinks they can do your job better than you, because design is a skill that is almost completely cerebral – people don't see the process the same way as if you show them awesome art or screens full of code.
Now that I've published Cages on the Kindle store, I've been bracing myself for bad reviews. Luckily for me, the majority of comments have been very good and as of this writing my US rating is at 4.7 out of 5, with 7 reviews. Only one review, which I'll discuss later, has been negative.
This is my favorite review, from Amazon UK, from "caitmcc": http://amzn.to/U84peR
This is the first Zombie book I have ever read and I absolutely loved it! I don't normally go for these kind of books and I've never really read a book in which the main character is a boy (closed minded I know) but this book has become one of my favourites of all time. A dream to read which has made me laugh out loud and brought me almost to tears (I am very sad). I finished this book at 4am on a Sunday night even though I had work the next day, I just couldn't put it down!
I highly recommend this book as it, after reading a few other Zombie book (after I had read this one), has put its own spin on the whole 'how zombies came about' thing and it really is quite refreshing.
Why is this my favorite? A) Because I don't know this person at all. I don't think it's someone I solicited to read the book among my friends and family, or among the Adult Swim forums, or Reddit. That someone found the book on their own and had this positive a reaction to it is amazing. B) Because the enthusiasm for it so closely mirrors the enthusiasm I've had for other books myself that I've loved. To be able to engender that in a reader is extremely moving and makes me feel like a successful writer even if Cages never sells another copy.
Another favorite is from "SaltyRich." Full disclosure, "SaltyRich" is someone I worked with before, so his feedback may not be completely unbiased, but we're not such close friends that I think he'd be compelled to bullshit a review for me. We talked very little about the book before he left this review, and to complete my full disclosure, he admitted later that he thought I had too many typos. (Fair enough, working on it.): http://amzn.to/TPZIc6
At first glance, Cages is a horror story about a parasite that terrorizes society by randomly turning a percentage of its teenagers into deadly monsters. The story effectively depicts the institutions set up to deal with this horrible nightmare as well as the trials and tribulations of the infected teenagers and the security forces tasked with keeping order.
Digging a little deeper, Cages is about being a teenager in school, trying to fit in, making a mark, challenging authority, finding a tribe, and dealing with physical and emotional transformation. It's bound to strike a chord with anyone who has gone through or is going through teenage existence. The book examines the fascinating real-world theme of youth who still depend on support from adults and simultaneously undermine authority. The protagonist finds himself caught between the thirst for independence and the need for a parental shield from danger and fear. He is also dealing with the fact that he, and everyone around him, is changing. Some make it through unscathed, some are damaged, and some are destroyed either by their own internal molecular war or by getting caught in the crossfire. In Cages, just like in real life, being a teenager is about being in a state of metamorphosis, coping with the unknown that looms on the other side, and dealing with it en mass in a closed environment designed for learning but often engineered for incarceration.
Beyond the entertaining horror story, and the human story of innocence lost, Cages offers much more to the curious reader: a war rages between order and chaos, between structure and freedom, between conformity and anarchy. Cages is about a society that imprisons their youth to protect them from themselves. Is living in fear really living? Is living in a cage really living? Is the power structure really protecting us, or prohibiting evolution, cheating us of our full potential? And what would happen if one wants to walk out the door and leave the rules and the illusion of security behind, or if one wishes for an all-powerful, yet destructive, transformation? Is true freedom worth the shedding of one's very humanity? Is the prison of our own ruleset the cohesion that makes us human? Without it, would we all become monsters or savages? What do we benefit from trying to destroy the system that is designed to protect us, even if it must diminish us in the process? The characters of Cages wrestle with these concepts, and therefor, so did this reader.
Cages is a fun, accessible, page turner. The story is linear, event driven, and swiftly propels itself forward with minimal expectations of the reader. In this respect, Cages a satisfying post-apocalyptic infection-based pandemic horror story set in a quarantined high school prison. But that's really just a point of departure. There are many ways to explore this story and the actions of its characters. I highly recommend reading Cages. While the text is guaranteed to deliver a wild ride through a morbid fantasy, the subtext is likely to sneak up on the psyche and unlock some cages of its own.
It should be clear why I like this review: it makes me seem smart. As the proud holder of an English degree, I'm not so immune to praise that I don't enjoy people seeing the layers I wrote into the book, whether they're interpretations I agree with or not. This review is the first to really dig below the surface and look for more beyond the plot. That the books seems to be enjoyable on both levels is something I find delightful.
Ok. So, negative reviews. I actually only have one I consider really negative – the other one was broadly positive with some quibbles that earned me a 3-star, so I won't count that. This one is also from Amazon UK, by "Sarah.": http://amzn.to/Uwsb5l
Chris is trying to be smart here and is conveying a story on two levels 1st the Cages the result of a parasitic outbreak and 2nd – real life oppression. We even get some nice little ramblings of the "characters" view on social pressures and media influence. The story starts with promise, goes downhill from there and the ends disappointingly. I would have given this 1 star but the book flows nicely and the authors ramblings, as i like to call them, where readable.
There was a part of me that resented this review, but after all this time of making creative works, I've learned to take it at face value. This person just didn't like it. That's perfectly fine. I obviously disagree with her assessment, but what can you do? I appreciate enough that she took the time to read the book in the first place, and that she gave me two stars… as she notes, it could have been one. I do dislike that it's driven my UK rating down, but I think it'll eventually come up. I can't force the book on people. I can only hope the book stands on its own merits at the end of the day.
So, there were my reviews! Be sure to hit me up on Twitter and Facebook where I'll probably discuss new reviews more quickly and (thankfully) more briefly. Also, thank you to everyone who has taken the time to review the book – I appreciate every word.
So. First Blog post. No pressure. I can do this. So what if I've tried blogging before? So what if the only reason I'm doing this now is because I'm too tired for the game design I'm working on to make sense any more? So what if I can't think of anything relevant to say about anything?
Everyone says it's boring for writers to talk about their writing, so that's out. I'm worn out thinking about games, so I'll avoid that today. Facebook and Twitter have nothing interesting for me to rip off… No subject matter? Who cares! That's never stopped bloggers before. So here I go. Right. Now.
Ok, I got nothing. Think, think! What can I talk about that the internet craves like a WoW addict craves sweet loot? *Ding!* Got it!
Let me tell you about one of my cats. His name is Conner and he's a giant wuss. Seriously, of my four cats (yes, bad planned parenting on our parts) he's by far the largest, the most muscled, with claws so sharp and avian I've seen passing falcons look on in envy as he casually shreds the carpet. He's a transforming Ninja, silent as he walks, black when he's dry and white when he's wet. Did I also mention he only has half a colon and only one eye? But he's the biggest scaredy-cat in the world.
We have another cat, Mia. The lone female, a pretty tiny specimen of a feline. But she hunts him day and night. She is like the hunter from that story, the Most Dangerous Game and he's like… well, the hunted guy from that story. (Minus the one-line twist ending. So far.) She waits for where he knows he's going to walk and attacks. Hisses when he comes within a four foot radius of her. In one apartment we had where all the doors happened to lead through one single junction point, she would sit at that point and dare him to try to move from Room A to Room B. Just try it, sucker.
Maybe Conner is a pacifist, but he always runs away and hides under the bed. He's so bad about that, the time we drove cross-country from L.A. to Boston for my new job, we thought we had lost him at a hotel in Oklahoma City. We had security looking through the calls, scrubbing through security video from our hall… it turns out he had just burrowed his way into one of the beds' box springs and hid there. We did not get our security deposit back.
But maybe not. Maybe he's just waiting for his time to strike. To finally take his revenge. Here's to you, secret ninja cat. Here's hoping you grow a(nother) pair.
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NEWPORT, N.H. — Jon M. Huntsman Jr. was in jeopardy of arriving late to his own rally here the other night. But his wife's desperate need for caffeine forced them to stop for gas-station blend at the Bradford Market, where an admiring clerk added to their delay.
"You have a working knowledge of China," the clerk, Jason Reid, told Mr. Huntsman, the ambassador to China until last spring. Mr. Reid said he would vote Huntsman in the Republican presidential primary on Tuesday. But, calling himself "a realist," he added, "Say Romney does get the nomination or something like that: could you see yourself working in an executive position for him in some capacity?"
Pausing for a moment, Mr. Huntsman pursed his lips and said as politely as he could, "Don't want to even contemplate that."
For good or for bad, this is Mr. Huntsman's moment. An early favorite of the pundit classes in Washington and New York — invited for cameos on "The Colbert Report" and "Saturday Night Live" — Mr. Huntsman, out of other options, has bet it all on New Hampshire.
Glimmers of promise appeared for him last week: an endorsement from The Boston Globe, the unveiling of his first television advertisement Friday morning, and the taste of possibility implicit in Rick Santorum's come-from-behind showing in Iowa against Mitt Romney. But there have also been challenges, including Mr. Romney's solid lead in polls and new strength from Mr. Santorum and Ron Paul. And he was only a secondary presence at Saturday's night Republican debate in New Hampshire, barely attacking his rivals.Continue reading the main story
But nothing has quite threatened his candidacy like his own relatively minuscule campaign bank account, which constrains his ability to carry on even if he does well here in New Hampshire. It is one of the great incongruities of the year: that a race being run by the son of one of the richest men in the world — the chemical magnate Jon M. Huntsman Sr. — could fail because of a lack of money.
Aides predicated the building of Mr. Huntsman's campaign upon the idea that he would tap his father's resources and connections to have one of the best-financed operations in the Republican presidential field. But through a complicated father-son dynamic — Mr. Huntsman, 51, a former governor of Utah, has spent much of his life trying to balance the benefits of being a Huntsman against a drive to make a mark on his own — he told advisers and even reporters that he would not accept extensive help.
Still, it is an outside group financed in part by his father that has kept him in the running, putting advertising on television here when he could not afford to. Barring a first- or second-place showing here, Mr. Huntsman will most likely require the sort of quick infusion only his father could offer to carry out the never-say-die plan his aides have hatched for the weeks ahead: to muddle through the next few contests doing just well enough to survive, and then make a bigger stand against Mr. Romney as the rest of the field presumably drops away.
"If he doesn't prevail, it's going to be for lack of resources," said a close supporter, who would speak about Mr. Huntsman's financial situation only on the condition of anonymity. "And this is from one of the great wealthy families of America."
Of course, there are other significant factors at play. Analysts, rivals and even some former aides have wondered aloud in interviews whether he was not his own worst liability, unwilling to run the kind of rock-ribbed conservative campaign that his rivals are using to show their toughness against President Obama — who until 10 months ago was his boss.
And in a climate where the loudest, pithiest voices stand out, he is soft-spoken, given to detailed policy lectures about China, the "trust deficit" in Washington, or his calls to limit the size of banks.
From the start, Mr. Huntsman's father was prepared to press his network of high-flying associates — and underlings — into the service of raising money for the campaign, two people with knowledge of the early operation said.
The family relationship was already complicated. And while the father is a Mormon church elder who strictly adheres to the religion's tenets against coffee, tea and alcohol, the junior Mr. Huntsman and his family do not, a choice that especially rankles his mother, family associates say.
Though he lent his campaign some $2 million to help it along, Mr. Huntsman has said publicly that he should be able to raise the necessary money without depending on the family fortune. That stance seemed to signal ambivalence at best about reliance on his father, who had helped start his career by helping him get a low-level job in the Reagan White House.
So without a clear go-ahead from his son, the senior Mr. Huntsman was willing to go only so far to help his campaign, most importantly donating hundreds of thousands of dollars to the Our Destiny "super PAC" — which can accept unlimited contributions but cannot work in coordination with Mr. Huntsman and his campaign — but not the many millions aides believe he would have put in had his son invited it. Campaign filings show that only a smattering of his employees gave to his son.
People familiar with the situation, who would speak about it only on the condition of anonymity, have described a stand-off between two headstrong Huntsmans, one unwilling to help greatly if he is not asked, the other unwilling to ask. That in spite of a lobbying effort by supporters who were said to have even sought to enlist his wife, Mary Kaye. Asked during a campaign stop in North Haverhill on Saturday if she had been approached, Mrs. Huntsman demurred. But she said Mr. Huntsman would not want to "buy an election."
"He wants to know at the end of the day if he gets to the finish line it's because the people took him there," she said, "not his money."
With no real money to advertise on his own, he has had to campaign door to door, learning hard lessons along the way. After Senator John McCain endorsed Mr. Romney last week, Mr. Huntsman said of his steadfast support for Mr. McCain in 2008, even when times were grimmest, "That was when loyalty trumped politics."
Mr. Huntsman's senior strategist, John Weaver, who was a close friend and adviser to Mr. McCain for years, dismissed Mr. McCain's endorsement of Mr. Romney as "further evidence that the Washington insider class is trying to coalesce around a fairly moderate candidate that they're comfortable with."
Then again, Mr. Huntsman and his aides caught a whiff of possibility last week. Our Destiny landed several new donations that it says have allowed it to double its advertising here and start running commercials in South Carolina. They did not come from Mr. Huntsman's father; while the names are not yet public, one donation came from the Nike co-founder Phil Knight, according to two people familiar with the contribution.
And Mr. Huntsman's aides were hoping that the Boston Globe endorsement would help among women and independents in New Hampshire and push him into third place — perhaps an optimistic view, given the attention being paid to Mr. Santorum and Mr. Paul as the most prominent alternatives to Mr. Romney.
In a strategy memo for supporters, Mr. Weaver noted that Mr. Huntsman had moved from ninth place months ago to a tie for third in several recent polls. He laid out a possible situation in which Mr. Huntsman exceeds expectations here on Tuesday and then goes on to South Carolina and Florida with enough momentum to eventually emerge as the sole rival to Mr. Romney in the race.
That strategy will require still more money. Mr. Huntsman has dismissed questions about whether he would relent and ask his father for more help fund-raising, saying, "We don't operate that way." On Saturday, he added that some people seem to be making assumptions about his family's wealth: "People forget, we have given everything to humanitarian causes."
Mr. Huntsman has been circumspect on how well he would have to do to carry on after Tuesday.
"We have to wake up the next morning and say that we exceeded those expectations in order to go forward," he told reporters. "Otherwise, the marketplace isn't going to reward us — we won't raise money; we won't get volunteers. So, that's our goal."
An article last Sunday about Jon M. Huntsman Jr.'s presidential campaign in New Hampshire referred imprecisely to the established Mormon position on caffeine. While the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints bans coffee and tea based on an original prohibition against hot drinks in a book of scripture called the Doctrine and Covenants, it does not ban caffeine. The imprecise reference also appeared in some editions on Tuesday in the Appraisal column, about dissension in a Mormon congregation in Harlem over plans to sell church property to a developer.


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Perils On Planet X and Gravedigger webcomic sites are now live. Feel free to check them out and bookmark them now!
Perils On Planet X will launch on February 1st, with page one of "Captives of the Corsair Queen," the first chapter of the "Hawke of Terra" story arc. There will be a new page every Friday.
Gravedigger will launch three days later, on February 4th, with the opening salvo of "The Scavengers." There will be a new page every Monday.
I'm very excited to be bringing these properties out to the public again; they've both been locked up in my files for far too long. I hope that they'll find appreciative audiences.


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For the B section, the three upper voices break into parts in flowing harmony over the bass line.
The transition features the horn on a high melody, with the trumpets playing a little latin-sounding answer over the top.
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Bouncing Back?
I hate change with a passion. And "rolling with the punches" gets old when it feels like that's the only thing I'm doing lately.
I hate change with a passion. And "rolling with the punches" gets old when it feels like that's the only thing I'm doing lately.
The life for God is one of the most tempting traps to fall into. It sounds so perfectly good. Isn't this something we're called to?
Often, it is hard to understand what someone is going through. I mean, truly understand.
You have to know the person well enough and the person should trust you enough to show one's true feelings instead of hiding behind the mask of "I'm fine" and smiles.
Extroverts and introverts differ in one major characteristic. When extroverts are dealing with something, their path to healing is "talk it out." For introverts, however, it is to "take it in" (or "think it out") rather than "talk it out." So when I was presented with my friend's burden, I felt crushed by it.
For someone who has grown up in a Church, who was involved in all ministries (except the women's group – I didn't really fit in there), who taught kids in Sunday School and camps for years, realizing that I still have so much to change in myself is overwhelming.
Last night we have spent few hours packing the food for people who are stuck in the war zone since we were planning a trip down there this weekend. Today found out that the trip to the east is delayed because of the attacks (military does not let civilians to enter the war zone during the active attacks because that would mean even more possible victims).
I am a Thomas, whose prayer is echoing that of an Israelite father: "I believe, Lord. Help me with my doubts!"
Reflections about Maidan and sharing the pictures from the newly-renamed street of "Heroes of Heavenly Sotnya."
How to get your soul back, why you might die in the process, and how to get motivated to pray for the enemies.
Once again, I come to you with a humble request.
Please pray for my country, the country called Ukraine.
The country of people who want to be free and to be treated as a nation of people. People who want peace in the country and government that respects the citizens.


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Jasika Nicole (born 1980), the stage name of Jasika Nicole Pruitt, is an American actress and illustrator from Birmingham, Alabama. She is most famous for portraying the character of Astrid Farnsworth in the TV series Fringe. She draws comics in her spare time and posts them on her website.
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Nicole is the oldest of four children. Her youngest sister is autistic, which was the subject of one of her first comics [1] In high school, she performed in show choir. She later studied dance, voice and theatre at Catawba College in Salisbury, North Carolina, before moving to New York City to pursue her career in acting. She starred opposite Bronson Pinchot in the title role of the world premiere of the musical "Chasing Nicolette," and has appeared in several stage productions, most notably in the off-Broadway '60s musical "Café A Go Go" and the world premiere of "Believe In Me…A Bigfoot Musical" at the 2004 NYC Fringe Festival.
Nicole made her feature film debut in the ballroom-dancing movie "Take the Lead" with Antonio Banderas, and soon after landed an appearance on "Law & Order: Criminal Intent." She was also cast as the villain in the highly praised sitcom pilot "Mastersons of Manhattan" written by Gary Janetti, starring Natasha Richardson and Molly Shannon and directed by James Burrows. She also had a recurring role on FOX's "The Return of Jezebel James" with Parker Posey and Lauren Ambrose. She has been open about being queer since she started dating women while she was filming Take the Lead; she is currently partnered with photographer Claire Savage.[2]
She started reading comics with Alison Bechdel's Fun Home and Ariel Schrag's Likewise.[3] She groups her comics, which are mostly autobiographical, under the title "High Yella Magic". She is currently working on a new comic called "Closetalkers," about the evolution of the relationship between two women who are long-time friends and roommates when it turns out that one is in love with the other.[4]


text: Pinterest Boards Posted on November 8, 2016November 8, 2016 by Hilarey I decided to add pinterest boards for readers of my novels. I will release the newest board when I am closer to the publish date, but for now… here is Sovereign Ground: and Heart of Petra: Enjoy! Share this:SharePrint


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happy blog-iversary to me,
happy blog-iversary to me-e-e-e-e-e-e,
happy blog-iversary to me.
it has been an interesting exercise, this blogging thing. my initial intention was for motivation to return to making things again and to meet some like-minded people.
it has so far exceeded my expectations. my experience has only been positive and encouraging. i have enjoyed a surprising return to the tactile pleasure of knitting. it helps me express myself in new ways and to be more bold. i like that.
in keeping with blog-iversary traditions and as a token thank you to the wider blogging community (and any lurkers):
i have one of these and one of these and one of these and one of these, oh, and one of these, to give to five lucky commentors (or commentees? or commenters? or just those who leave some love in the comments section!) before midnight, sunday 24 February.
and as i have an average of about 3 comments per post, you have a mighty excellent chance of getting something!
new blog-iversary resolutions?
well, i would like to attempt to update my banner.
finish my quilt (yeah, right. how long have i been saying that...).
designing and making more clothing.
maybe a small etsy shop attempt. maybe. only maybe. eek.


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11 January 2012
Colliers International Korea today announced a strategic alliance with Real Estate Development Network (RDN) to provide clients with professional and comprehensive real estate solutions in Korea.
RDN, led by Jay J. Kang, is a specialist real estate consulting and project management company based in Korea. Major mixed-use development projects in which RDN was involved include Midan City by Nippo, DMC Landmark by Daewoo, Robot Land by Incheon City, Songdo New City by Gale & POSCO, SIFC by AIG, Alphadom by Lotte, a logistics center by Alpha Investment and more than 50% of the leading development projects in Korea. Currently, RDN is working as the leading project advisor in Raintree – the project management company established by Korea Asset Management Corporation (KAMCO) - on the revitalisation of non-performing loans owned by KAMCO.
Colliers International has been working with RDN as business partners for more than 10 years. Recent projects which the two companies are jointly working on together include the leasing of 30,000 sq m of new prime offices in the central area of Seoul and 10,000 sq m of a neighbourhood shopping centre at Seoul Metro area.
"We are delighted to announce the strategic alliance with a respected industry veteran in Korea like RDN, which facilitates the leverage of resources and knowledge of both companies to provide real estate solutions to our clients," said Alan Liu, Managing Director, North Asia of Colliers International. "As a leading global real estate services organisation, Colliers combines the resources of real estate specialists worldwide to accelerate the success of our clients. The global platform of Colliers combined with the partnership with RDN will offer clients currently in Korea or those who are interested in entering the Korean market an excellent integrated real estate services platform."
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EndAngEred SpEaCies….
Hmmm…. Let's see. Who is Gamba? Im a simple man… A small town man, born and raised in the middle of no where Florida, Avon Park: dirt roads, fishing, hunting, Tropicana Orange Juice, the country for real but we rep it still. Around 1994 I moved away from AP to Tallahassee, where I continued down the path most young Africans in America tend to lead, crime and drugs the whole spew but in those years, is where I linked up with Dead Prez (Then known as the Masses of Hedz from the Attic) through my aunt Hekima Hapa of Harriet's Alter Ego Brooklyn fame, who was dating M-1 A.K.A. Mutulu Olugbala of Dead Prez. Eventually we'd all move to the big shitty, NYC, BK to be exact. Franklin & Eastern Parkway Buckshot's stomping ground. Anyway First we were on some people army shit mixin it up witht he wrong element when Chairman Omali Yeshitela of the African people's Socialist party put the bug in M-1's ear on some… If ya'll want to organize, organize for Uhuru, and all the serious soldiers moved from people army to the National Peoples democratic uhuru movement, now known as the INTERNATIONAL peoples democratic uhuru movement, partially based off of the steam and new life we gave it as a new york chapter and as the next generation in general. we went from 3 people in a room, Myself, M-1 and Hekima, I was hand drawing the propaganda and would eventually get work at a Kinko's where I secured my first mac with quarkXpress, Illustrator adn Photoshop. I started cranking out propaganda fro the local chapter to our way to being the largest most active branch in the APSP/NPDUM. From 3 motivated individuals, in a small Brooklyn apt. to 200+ members at the Pamoja House on Marcus Garvey in Bed Stuy. around this time I had my first born (my only born) Ikemba Shange Gamba, went back to school and got an Associate Degree in the field of MultiMedia Productions, did an internship at CBS New York and worked for the countries top corporate lawfirm Skadden Arps freelance designer on a small scale.
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It is important to reiterate this point over and over, until JEWS IN ISRAEL AND PEOPLE THE WORLD OVER UNDERSTAND AGENDA 21, and what it means to us and our lifestyles. OPEN YOUR EYES AND STAND UP FOR YOUR RIGHTS, FOR G-D's SAKE!!!
- Taking away the rights to common law, watch out. Time to overturn the status and REINSTATE COMMON LAW. There are ways!
- HERITAGE STATUS, watch out.... Speaking of which, see the article below about UNESCO, i.e. the U.N., i.e. AGENDA 21, PLANNING TO GRAB THE DEAD SEA FOR THEMSELVES. Are you aware that just recently INTENSE DRILLING TOOK PLACE IN THE DEAD SEA, in which German scientists prospected for various elements? Do you think this is by accident? First they prospect, then they grab. TIME TO REBEL AGAINST THESE THIEVES AND MURDERERS. THE DEAD SEA BELONGS TO THE JEWISH PEOPLE AND NOBODY ELSE. True, according to this article the initiative to nominate the Dead Sea as a UNESCO world heritage site came from the PA. But PA and UN are like two fingers of the same hand, I can assure you they would not do that without strong support from the UN, or even covert initiative by the UN.
PA Moves Ahead with Plans to Register Sites with UNESCO
Omar Awadallah, the head of UN file in the PA's Ministry of Foreign Affairs, said that the committee's mission was to prepare heritage sites for the list to "protect them from harm."
Each ministry has been asked to cooperate with the UNESCO committee, and will prepare the files, he said.
"For example, the Ministry of Culture will present the Palestinian narrative to register it as intangible cultural heritage," while a different department would be charged to register the Dead Sea as a body of water, he said.
In January, PA experts finalized the entity's 2013 submission to the World Heritage Committee, proposing the ancient Bethlehem village of Battir as a heritage site.
The committee will vote on whether Battir receives World Heritage status at the June general conference, Ma'an reported.
The PA was admitted to the UN cultural agency in 2011, and last June UNESCO designated Bethlehem's Church of the Nativity and the nearby pilgrimage route as a World Heritage site.
After it succeeded in getting the Church of the Nativity recognized as a World Heritage Site, the PA had announced it would seek to have additional religious sites recognized by UNESCO.
The PA's Foreign Minister, Riad Malki, named last year the Cave of the Patriarchs in Hevron and Mount Gerizim near Shechem as two sites the entity plans to have recognized by UNESCO as endangered World Heritage sites.
Last week the PA expressed outrage over a new exhibition at Jerusalem's Israel Museum, which sheds new light on the life and death of Herod the Great, the ancient king whose empire sought to straddle imperial Rome and a flourishing Jewish culture.
Local Arabs are denouncing the exhibit's utilizing artifacts from Jericho and Herodium, which they consider to be in the "Israeli-occupied West Bank."
Hamdan Taha, director of antiquities and cultural heritage at the Palestinian Authority tourism ministry, accused Israel of displaying the antiquities "without the approval" of the Palestinian Authority in what he claimed was a "violation of international law."
"Showing those relics at an Israeli museum aims to create historical facts to serve the goals of settlement activities in the state of Palestine," he alleged, adding that the PA would raise the issue with the UNESCO.
And now this: It has nothing to do with UN regulated gun control? See EVIDENCE, below.
To me, it appears that there is a slow and deliberate take-over of Israel by the UN while our parties argue and fight with each other. It's called "Divide and Conquer". And not to forget, of course, their infamous and deadly UNRWA schools we just witnessed in my previous post.
Following Police Reforms: School Trips Lack Armed Protection
The cancellations are the result of a police decision two years ago, to close down its carbine rifle department. The IDF continues to demand that school trips to Judea and Samaria be accompanied by guards carrying long rifles, and these need to be authorized by police. Therefore, security firms have informed schools that they can no longer provide security for school trips to the Biblical heartland.
The principal of Kfar Etzion Field School, Yaron Rosenthal, sent a letter to Education Minister Gideon Saar this week, following the cancellation of hundreds of school trips to Wadi Kelt, Samaria, Hevron and the Binyamin region.
"The police have carried out reforms, but army regulations have not changed," he wrote. "Because of bureaucracy and discord between two security bodies, the Israel Police and the army, trips are being cancelled."
Rosenthal noted that the cancellations are particularly frustrating because they are taking place at a time when schools that used to oppose trips to Judea and Samaria on ideological grounds, no longer oppose such trips. "These are schools that, in the past, would not have even considered traveling to such areas, and now that they want to – they can't," he added.
"After years in which we have been making an effort to remind the Nation of Israel that the Land of Israel does not end at the Green Line, and that the cradle of the nation is located in Judea and Samaria – the schools want to go back to travelling in the larger Land of Israel," he noted, "but government bureaucracy is preventing that."


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5/2: Stroke Support Club
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You are not alone! Each year, over 795,000 people in the United States will suffer the effects of a stroke. That's why Northside Hospital & St. Petersburg General Hospital have partnered to offer a free monthly Stroke Support Group — to offer you advice and provide shared experiences so you can get back to the things you love.
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Spend an enjoyable evening learning baby care basics. Topics covered include newborn characteristics, growth and development, infant safety, and the joys of parenting. No Fee – optional First Year Baby Care manual offered for $20
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All pregnant women and women with babies are welcome to attend our breastfeeding support group. Topics will include: Breastfeeding benefits of the baby, techniques, education and helpful hints; networking with other breastfeeding moms and making new friends; ask questions to one of our International Board Certified Lactation Consultants; moms learn from one another and from community resources who periodically provide a short presentation for the group.
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This class is for the men in the family. New to family life or want to sharpen your skills? This is the place for you! Taught by a veteran fire and EMS expert, learn everything from how to hold your infant, diapering, bathing and what to do in an emergency. This class is for the men in the family. New to family life or want to sharpen your skills? This is the place for you! Taught by a veteran fire and EMS expert, learn everything from how to hold your infant, diapering, bathing and what to do in an emergency.
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5/17: Breast Cancer Support Group
St. Petersburg General Hospital – Breast Center
You have found the right place for support, information and understanding. As an accredited cancer hospital, we are here to help before, during and after treatment. We will discuss clinical trials, surgery, lymphedema, lumps and cysts, genetics, side effects and much more.
5/18: Hernia: Get the Facts on Pains, Symptoms and Surgery
Grand Villas Pinellas Park
A hernia is a bulge of tissue and sometimes has symptoms like nausea and sudden extreme pain. The most common hernias are in the groin and in the abdominal area and affect more than 3 million people each year. Minimally invasive robotic-assisted surgery may help get you back to your daily life quickly. Join Dr. Couch as he explains surgical options.
5/18: Obstetric OB and Delivery Preview Tour
St. Petersburg General Hospital – Auditorium
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5/24: What to Expect When You Call 911
Madeira Beach Recreational Center
Hopefully you'll never need to call 9-1-1. However, if the time should ever come, knowing exactly what to do will reduce stress and help you provide emergency responders with vital information. Attend this informative seminar to learn more about what you need to know if you ever have to call.
5/27: Prepared Childbirth Class
St. Petersburg General Hospital – Auditorium
This course covers the latest techniques to prepare you for your childbirth experience. Your instructor is a Lamaze certified RN, ICEA Certified and prepared with labor and delivery experience! This class content includes labor and delivery, relaxation and breathing, pain management, coping with unexpected events, and the immediate post-partum period. Wear comfortable clothes for floor exercise, please avoid dresses and skirts.
5/31: Opposable Thumbs – The Problem with Thumb-Based Arthritis
Sunshine Center
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Helping people
I recently watched the movie "Unbreakable" again and a certain bit caught my attention.
Bruce Willis is explaining to Samuel Jackson that everyday he feels depressed. Jackson responds that he believes Willis feels this way because he is not fulfilling his destiny by helping people.
This little exchange in the movie struck a chord with me, because I often battle with depression about the direction my life is heading. I often feel as though I am wasting my life. And I've recently been wondering if I didn't feel this way for exactly the same reason as in the movie.
Not that I'm a superhero or anything, but I love helping people.
It can be as simple as helping a customer find the product they were looking for, but the excitement of it can — I kid you not — give me goosebumps. I look for ways to help people everyday. But I want it to be more of my life than it is. I want to be the kind of person that when calamity strikes, I can hop a plane and be there helping people. The recent situation in Haiti comes to mind.
I also think this is why I have such a love/hate relationship with photojournalism. That profession has such a powerful potential to help, but it also has a great potential for harm as well. I wanted to use my photography to help, even if it was just giving someone a pretty picture to look at on the front page.
But that's not really what sells newspapers. So more often than not I found myself shoving my lens into folks' disasters, into the face of their grief. And yes I understand that in some macabre way that can actually help by raising other people's awareness of a crisis, but it's not something I feel good about.
So I thought, well if I went to Haiti to photograph the disaster I would focus on the recovery efforts instead of people's loss. But what I realized was that I'd much rather be the person hauling cases of bottled water to people in need instead of the person photographing the person hauling cases of bottled water to people in need.
The problem is that I don't know how to do this. The kind of life I've chosen to live doesn't earn much money, and I prefer it that way. But that means that I can't just hop on a flight to haul cases of water. So how can I make my dream of helping a reality?
The Fisherman
Here's a story I've always liked, I have no idea who wrote it:
One day a fisherman was lying on a beautiful beach, with his fishing pole propped up in the sand and his solitary line cast out into the sparkling blue surf. He was enjoying the warmth of the afternoon sun and the prospect of catching a fish.
About that time, a businessman came walking down the beach, trying to relieve some of the stress of his workday. He noticed the fisherman sitting on the beach and decided to find out why this fisherman was fishing instead of working harder to make a living for himself and his family. "You aren't going to catch many fish that way," said the businessman to the fisherman. "You should be working rather than lying on the beach!"
The fisherman looked up at the businessman, smiled and replied, "And what will my reward be?" "Well, you can get bigger nets and catch more fish!" was the businessman's answer. "And then what will my reward be?" asked the fisherman, still smiling. The businessman replied, "You will make money and you'll be able to buy a boat, which will then result in larger catches of fish!" "And then what will my reward be?" asked the fisherman again. The businessman was beginning to get a little irritated with the fisherman's questions. "You can buy a bigger boat, and hire some people to work for you!" he said.
"And then what will my reward be?" repeated the fisherman. The businessman was getting angry. "Don't you understand? You can build up a fleet of fishing boats, sail all over the world, and let all your employees catch fish for you!" Once again the fisherman asked, "And then what will my reward be?" The businessman was red with rage and shouted at the fisherman, "Don't you understand that you can become so rich that you will never have to work for your living again! You can spend all the rest of your days sitting on this beach, looking at the sunset. You won't have a care in the world!"
The fisherman, still smiling, looked up and said, "And what do you think I'm doing right now?"
Gotta love it.
What do I want out of life?
This is a question that has hounded me for some time now.
And I finally realized that I actually know exactly what I want out of life, I just have no idea how to go about getting it.
And what I want out of life turns out to be really simple:
- I want to spend my time engaged in pursuits meaningful to me, not always chasing after money. In other words, I want to life a life and not spend all of my time earning a living.
At least, it sounds simple. Turns out, not really simple at all; unless of course you happen to win the lottery or get left millions by forgotten Great Aunt Millie. Neither of which conditions apply to me … yet … hopefully.
So how does one escape the seemingly-inescapable trap of working your life away? I have managed to discover a few tips and tricks and I'll be happy to share them after I get my thoughts a little more in order.


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I am linking up with Molly from Lucky to be in First for a New Year's 2015 sale!
All my products from my TpT store are discounted 20% off.
Some items that may be of interest for January include:
'There Was a Cold Lady Who Swallowed Some Snow' retelling pack,
'Bear Snores On' retelling pack,
'Polar Bear, Polar Bear' math and literacy extension activities
I finally finished my latest retelling pack. It's based on the book 'The Snowy Day' by Ezra Jack Keats. This is one of my all time favorite winter books. I love all the descriptive language Keats uses to describe Peter playing in the snow. My retelling pack includes story sequencing, vocabulary words, retelling cards, an emergent reader and essential questions to help your little ones comprehend and retell the story. I will be posting it soon at my TpT store. I will also blog about all the activities the pack includes, so check back soon!
Happy New Year to you! I hope 2015 treats you well!!!
Thanks for reading. Have a great day. :)


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Registration is now open for the Northumberland Coast Area of Outstanding Natural Beauty (AONB) Partnership's 2015 Annual Forum.
This year's forum is being held at the Hindmarsh Hall in Alnmouth on Friday, November 13. The forum will include a mixture of updates on the work of the AONB Partnership and guest speakers. Speakers will include Andrew Bainbridge, talking about what it means to be a location manager for many of the big movies and dramas set on the Northumberland Coast and Paul Morrison will talk about Coquet Island and the work of the RSPB there.
The event is also the partnership's standing tourism forum and we are excited to welcome Richard Hammond from Greentraveller.com who will be unveiling our new Greentraveller Guide for the Northumberland Coast.
Susan Briggs will give a lively and challenging presentation about how we can use local distinctiveness and experiences to increase the value of tourism based on her experiences working elsewhere in the UK.
Other speakers are Andrew Best, from Natural England, explaining what the new England Coast Path will mean for Northumberland and Melanie Ashby will talk about her Year in Beadnell.
Councillor John Woodman, chairman of the AONB Partnership, said: "This is a great opportunity for anyone interested in the Northumberland coast to come together and contribute towards the work of the AONB Partnership. We will be telling people about the current work of the Partnership and some exciting new projects for the future. We have an excellent range of speakers adding to what I am sure will be an interesting and thought provoking day."
Lunch and mid-morning refreshments will be provided. Places cost £10 to cover our costs and are limited, so registration is essential.
To book your place visit our Eventbrite page http://northumberlandcoast_aonb.eventbrite.co.uk or access it via the AONB Partnership's Facebook page. http://northumberland-coast-aonb.eventbrite.com.For more information about the event contact the AONB Partnership on 01670 620306.


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Is Illinois turning to pot?
Illinois is carefully evaluating its pilot program of the sale of medical marijuana, and while the revenue recreational marijuana sales could produce may be tempting for lawmakers, Illinois has not gone down that path – yet.
So it's here, whatever your stance. What does that mean for dentistry?
It seems there are at least three prisms for dentists to view the presence of medical marijuana:
- its availability as a prescribed pain reliever for patients who can't tolerate other medications, or as an alternative to opioids;
- its purely physical consequences, including its use by patients and possible interactions with medications used during a procedure;
- its stigma and acceptance (or not) in a dentist's patient base.
It was 2013 when the Illinois General Assembly approved the pilot medical cannabis program; dispensaries started opening by 2015. So far, retail sales in the state have hit $42 million, despite a raft of restrictions and a narrow list of conditions medical marijuana can be used to treat. While Illinois allows 41 conditions, Colorado – an early and lenient locale for medical and recreational sales – allows medical marijuana cards for a broad range of symptoms and conditions.
As more alternatives are sought to prescription opioids, marijuana is considered a safer and less addictive pain reliever. According to an article in Scientific American this year, several pharmaceutical companies are developing "marijuana-derived" drugs, though final approval from the Federal Drug Administration could be a decade away. But with ultimate approval, an "FDA-approved marijuana-based painkiller would ensure consistent dosing and potency, and availability across the country," the magazine noted. "Doctors like to be able to write a prescription and know that whatever they wrote is pure and from a blinded, placebo-controlled trial," Brian Murphy, CEO of California-based drug company Nemus, was quoted on the potential for medical marijuana drugs.
There are different worries for dentists, however, that require vigilance in the office. Dentist and author Harold Crossley cautions in his programs to dental groups that marijuana use increases the potential for periodontal disease as it does for any smoker.
Other research notes that marijuana use produces stains on the teeth, xerostomia and even chronic inflammation and delays wound healing. Additionally and importantly, Dr. Crossley urges the dentist and staff to assess whether a patient in for treatment uses marijuana or is under the influence at the time because its use makes IV and oral sedation more powerful.
How to handle patients who use marijuana is a work in progress. While its use is more accepted today, patients under its influence may present questions about informed consent for procedures. The National Institutes of Health points to a case where a dental clinic patient in need of a tooth extraction refused treatment after staff questioned him about his marijuana use hours earlier. The patient was offered an appointment the next day, "but he refused, citing bias in regard to his cannabis use." Our culture today is more likely to see marijuana as a "soft" drug, or even no drug at all. Old stereotypes of the "stoner" don't square today with people of all cultures, ages, genders and socioeconomic backgrounds who use marijuana. Many of your patients may be marijuana users for medical reasons, anxiety relief or simple relaxation. How you and your staff open conversations with these patients about their marijuana use should be delicate but honest.
There are consequences for their oral health, and patients should be informed and educated on special care. You can expect to hear more about marijuana sales in Illinois and elsewhere. In the U.S. and Canada, marijuana sales grew by a staggering 30 percent in 2016, to $6.7 billion, according to Forbes magazine.
And that total is generated from only eight U.S. states with recreational sales and 23 states with medical sales. Chances are good legislators will return to this potential revenue source. Remember the shift on casino gambling?The views expressed in this column are those of the writer and not necessarily the opinions of the Chicago Dental Society. CDS presents Front Desk, a column addressing problems dentists and staff members experience in the office. Front Desk is prepared by Stephanie Sisk, a freelance journalist.
Photo by istockphoto.com.


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Will Ferrell has revealed details about the insanely different initial version of the screenplay for Anchorman: The Legend of Ron Burgundy, a draft the actor said was once rejected 10 times in one day.
In a guest appearance on The Bill Simmons Podcast, Ferrell recalled this darker, loonier incarnation of what eventually made it to the big screen in 2004: "The first version of Anchorman is basically the movie Alive, where the year is 1976, and we are flying to Philadelphia to celebrate the Bicentennial, and also, all the newsmen from around the country are flying in from their affiliates to have some big convention."
Ferrell continued, "Ron convinces the pilot that he knows how to fly the charter jet, and he immediately crash-lands it in the mountains. And it's just the story of them surviving and trying to get off the mountainside. They clipped a cargo plane, and the cargo plane crashed as well, close to them, and it was carrying only boxes of orangutans and Chinese throwing stars. So throughout the movie we're being stalked by orangutans who are killing, one by one, the team off with throwing stars."
Ferrell also revealed that Ron and his guys, naturally, dildn't heed Veronica Corningstone's advice on how to get back to civilization.
In the end, Ferrell said all the rejection Anchorman faced in getting produced helped make it his favorite of all of his movies, calling its journey "the Cinderella story of the movie no one wanted to make."


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Hi guys! I'm back with the 28th day of the challenge. And for this post I have some nails Inspired by a Flag. I did think of doing a Philippine Flag for this since it's my country. But I opted to choose another flag that does not represent a country or a state.
I decided to do something simple yet a little unique.
These nails are inspired by a Semaphore Flag.
Semaphore Flags are used to communicate between ships and the port. I am not exactly sure how this works, but I thought the design is pretty simple.
I used Caronia Sweet Surprise as the base color and then "swiped" on the red using Sally Hansen Cardinal.
I loved how simple this has become. I know you won't easily recognize this at first glance, but it's worth the try.
Tell me what you think. ;)


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