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Palladium enolate complexes such as (PPh₃)₂PdX(CH₂COPh) are potential intermediates for coupling reactions in which a new bond is formed between the enolate [alpha]-carbon and an sp or sp² carbon via transmetallation or electrophilic C-H activation. However, at the elevated temperatures often required for these coupling reactions, such Pd-enolate complexes are subject to first-order decomposition, and the release ofPPh₃)₂PdX, acetophenone, and other unknown Pd complexes. Kinetic decomposition studies by ¹H NMR spectroscopy were pursued to determine the mechanisms of this conversion. Our results suggest the formation of a bis-enolate complex, which results from a ligand disproportionation of the original Pd-enolate complex. When [beta]-hydrogens are present, this disproportionation competes with [beta]-hydride elimination. Deuterium labeling studies indicate that in the absence of [beta]-hydrogens, the enolate ligand receives its hydrogen via C-H activation of the phenyl group on the second enolate
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Kornecki, Katherine, "Mechanistic studies of Palladium enolate complexes" (2008). Honors Project, Smith College, Northampton, MA.
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Physical Likeness of Rineke Dijkstra:
Rineke Dijkstra is a Dutch photographer born in 1959 who is well known for capturing her subjects in moments that are both self-conscious and unwittingly revealing. I will be focusing on this style from the artist within her commercial beach images in 1992.
These beach photographs were taken in many countries such as America, Britain and Poland, the subjects were young teenagers in their beach swimwear, the photographer basically planned not to specifically speak towards these young sitters, but to make them break out of their characterisations and become a form of physical likeness within their feelings of awkwardness. The subjects adopt a standing pose more or less of their own choosing before Rineke would take the shot with her 4×5 inch camera.
I was interested in this uncommon way of photography since I would usually see the beach as a happy place while Dijkstra's photos of the beach are rather used as an un-distracting background to create a large amount of focus on the subjects that express what Rinkeke Dijkstra is capturing for her project.
It would have been a little more extra special if I saw this exact photography in different environments since the sitters can become this form of physical likeness in other places than beaches such as the cities for example which I thought would be a good recommendation because other people in the background showing their characteristics while the main person or sitter would have no characteristics will show an interesting comparison.
Characterisation of Claude Cahun:
Claude Cahun was born in 1892 in Nantes, France, her artwork encompasses writing, photography, and theater. She is most remembered for her highly staged self-portraits and tableaux that incorporated the visual aesthetics of surrealism that express her from being a Jewish lesbian to another random character or person. Cahun has dressed up as many types of characters such as the opposite gender of a man, a doll, a fairy and other religious icons.
The "Don't Kiss Me The Art of Claude Cahun and Marcel Moore" (2006) quoted that in the 1920's Claude Cahun's narcissism photographs suggest that her rejection of traditional femininity went beyond that pursued by the fashionable New Women of Paris. These self-portrait photographs not just show stripped feminine garbs, but also with Claude's shaved head which is an extreme version of the close-cropped hair of the New Woman. Sometimes, the artist's aim seems not to have been to affect boyishness, but to strip herself of gender characteristics altogether in pursuit of some core of self.
I personally was interested in one of her most famous self-portraits taken in 1927 which was a photograph of herself with creative makeup on her face and the shirt with the text saying "I AM IN TRAINING DON'T KISS ME". This is because that she was creating a combination of both a changed person and thought provoking mystery prompting questions to be asked. I would describe her appearance as a clown, not for the sake of comedy but for the mixed gender and surreal performance that would make viewers asked those prompted questions.
TATE. (2003) Rineke Dijkstra: Artist's Talk Available from: http://www.tate.org.uk/context-comment/video/rineke-dijkstra-artists-talk. [Accessed: 13th November 2015]
Michael Fried "Why Photography Matters As Art As Never Before (2008)
Don't Kiss Me "The Art of Claude Cahun and Marcel Moore (2006)
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Who ELSE would like to beat up on the pharmacist?
Its time to head back into posts about pharmacy for a bit. Pharmacy Chick has certainly had her fill of stupid human tricks and doctor errors the last few days. And without exception I seem to have to don boxing gloves to fend off the attacks. Am I to be everybody's babysitter, overseer and keeper? Shall we commence with some of the stories?
A refill comes in from a patient.(note: Patient orders this med..not me, the doc, or our autofill feature) It needs a Doctor approval, which we get ON THE SAME DAY. We fill it, patient picks it up, goes home and calls us up and says " you filled the wrong prescription". (note: WE FILLED wrong rx). I pull hard copy and tell patient that a) patient punched in number with date and time it arrived…b) it was filled correctly by staff and c) dispensed and signed by patient. " What exactly did we do wrong Ma'am?" Thats not the one I wanted. " That doesn't appear to be the pharmacy's error". She complains that we have POOR customer service. How is filling her prescription exactly as she ordered it POOR CUSTOMER SERVICE?
A doctor sends in an E-script for a patient with the same drug (Prednisone) with 3 ( count them!) 3 different sigs, all slightly different, over a period of 30 minutes. I call back to determine which pray tell is the RIGHT one? I get a snarky nurse who says " WELL the LAST ONE ! isn't that obvious?" Not exactly. Maybe I should have done all 3.
A clinic sends over a E-script for a patient. We fill it, the patients wife comes in , picks up her own and her husbands Rx ( with appropriate counseling). Hubby calls back and says he wasn't supposed to get this rx. I( again, pull hard copy , verify it was for this patient) tell him that it was a new order from his doc, and if he has a question about the rx he may want to call the office…which he does and the med assistant says " we sent no such rx to your pharmacy"…. Mama Bear goes in to full alert and contacts said Med Assistant and ask her " why would you tell your patient that you sent " no such rx to the pharmacy?" Because we didn't…" would you like to see the E script you actually did send?" I produce the document…to which she says "I don't know why we sent that" Well it doesn't matter why, you did. Well he doesn't need it, you can just refund him. "(WTF) and shall you reimburse the pharmacy for refunding the patient for a medication you ordered unnecessarily …and denied ordering at all?"
A Dr escripted a RX for buproprion HCL 100mg tabs. I filled it correctly. He meant to order SR 100mg It went to patient. What agency should I report a med error to? If this had happened to me I'd have a report 9 pages long to account for this error.
Another Rx came in for Nortrel 0.5/35. It was NOT a refill request, it was a new order.. We filled it, but noted that it was a different dose from the 1/35 that pt had before. Pt was counseled and I noted the dose change. ANOTHER error from the doctors office. Patient elected to leave rx here since she was sure it was wrong. It was. They sent over another rx in about 2 hours. No calls, no explanations, no " hey thanks for catching that"..
A patient brought in a computer generated script from ER doc for Amoxil 250mg suspension..get this Dispense 187.5ml give 13.1 ml bid. WTF? Really? first off she is 7 years old and this is essentialy 750mg of amoxil twice daily for a 7 year old. and secondly, doesn't anyone read these rx anyway? Dad asked if we had chewables instead of liquid which she hated. I asked them if they had discussed this before they left and he said no.. " Ill call, but it will delay the rx considerably…and the dose is pretty wonky. I need to check on that too". Sure enough the doc admitted he hadn't even looked at the rx, he just signed it and changed it to chewable 25omg 1 bid # 14. ANOTHER clinic error. At least the doc was nice about that.. " I better look better at these computer rxs"
A irate customer fills out a survey…this is what is wrong with OUR pharmacy and why he hates us: a) we are in the back of the store and don't have a drive thru–well it is a grocery store sir and if you want us to remove the freezers, the entire back room and the loading dock behind the store then we can manage that drive thru for ya. most pharmacies ARE in the back of the store. b) auto fill "never " works. well if you call filling your prescriptions and letting them sit til they are re-shelved and ignoring your 2 reminder calls as " never working" then ya, I guess it never works for you. and c) we are too stupid to figure out his insurance .when ya enroll in medicare, you get new insurance right? that means you get new coverage and a NEW CARD.. which you really should give to us and not throw away. He transfers to competitor. We aren't upset.
A man and his girlfriend bring in two rx's from the urgent care next door. He is new but the girl said " Ive been here before" . Great, I collect the rx and HIS insurance info, (both medicaid patients) and I see the prescriptions, one for her and one for him. These rx from urgent care are very complete. All patient info is preprinted on the form, so I find her in the computer at a different address than he is at but verify that they are living in His address now . I fill his but hers rejects " coverage terminated". I page her back but nobody comes. Eventually they find their way back to the blood pressure machine and I say " Connie, your insurance is terminated"….and she ignores me. I say louder " MAAM, I have Tom's rx ready but yours rejected ". She looked at me as if I had grown horns and said " I didn't give you a prescription". I pick up the 2 documents they gave me and I said . "here are the two prescriptions you gave me–one for Tom and one for Connie." I am not Connie. and I think we only gave you one prescription.. "No, Tom gave both of these to me". ANOTHER Dr error… The clinic gave a patient someone else's prescription. At the very least its a HIPAA violation and at the worst he may have received someone else's medication. I called the clinic to tell them of this error and this is their reply" oh dang, I wondered where that went".
alrighty then..
You know, its hard enough trying to keep my head above water and manage not making my own mistakes. and I have to wade thru everyone else's muck too. I read the Facebook page " this is a Pharmacy not a fast food restaurant" most days and I am astonished at the errors coming from drs offices nation wide. E-scripts and Technology haven't reduced errors, they have magnified them exponentially with ridiculous decimal quantities, redundant and repetitive prescribing, and auto sig population with absurd verbiage that makes no sense whatsoever and patients often walk away with scripts in their hand that were also sent somewhere else electronically and end up with duplications. Doing a DUR becomes a nightmare when I look at a patients profile and see 6 scripts for every drug a patient takes with multiple refills because the office sends a new one every 3o days +6 refills. by the end of 6 months Joe Blow has 6 mirtazapine, metformin, lisinopril, fosamax etc etc etc.. rx's with refills on his profile..and all of them filled exactly once. AND because people believe in and trust technology, ( like that doctor did) hard copy rxs aren't being verified for accuracy before handing off to patients and they aren't being looked at before being e-sent…
Oh the Joy…
and speaking of Joy, Have a very Merry Christmas to all of my readers who Celebrate the season! Happy Hanukkah ( which just passed) and Kawanza and New Year and Festivus for the Rest of ya! 🙂


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LABOUR is breaking out its big guns on the Scottish front in the battle for Downing Street, with appearances from several senior figures.
Deputy leader Harriet Harman will meet voters in Glasgow with shadow Scottish secretary Margaret Curran, while former prime minister Gordon Brown will be in neighbouring Elderslie with shadow foreign secretary Douglas Alexander.
Labour has a better plan for working familiesHarriet Harman
Ms Harman will launch a consultation on allowing working grandparents to share parents' unpaid parental leave, allowing a grandparent to take time off work to help look after a grandchild without fear of losing their job.
Speaking ahead of the visit, she said: "There have been many ways in which family life has changed, but public policy remains rooted in the past.
"Labour has a better plan for working families. The sharing of parental leave with grandparents would give families in Scotland more flexibility by recognising the important role that grandparents play."
Mr Brown will urge "patriotic Scots" to reject full fiscal autonomy and back Labour's plan for full employment in Scotland.
"Full employment should be a priority objective and not just an afterthought," he said ahead of his visit to Elderslie.
"And when the issue is who will deliver change in a UK Government that benefits the Scottish people, I tell you from my experience as Prime Minister that a Scot such as Douglas Alexander would have more power to affect positive change during a 50-minute Cabinet meeting than any SNP MP could achieve in five years of protest outside of government."
Elsewhere, SNP leader Nicola Sturgeon will join female activists in Glasgow to launch the SNP's women's pledge, committing the SNP to further action to promote gender equality.
Ms Sturgeon said: "No young girl should grow up in 2015 with the prospect of facing a glass ceiling that limits their ambitions. We all owe it to future generations to end gender inequality once and for all - which is why I am launching the SNP's women's pledge today.
"Westminster's austerity cuts have hit women the hardest of all, with 85% of cuts to social security and pensions affecting the incomes of women.
"SNP MPs at Westminster will stand up for gender equality at every turn. We will work for an end to austerity, for equal pay, more and better jobs and to end the barriers that still block the aspirations of too many women in Scotland and across the UK."
Scottish Conservative leader Ruth Davidson will visit a falconry in Fife, and then join activists at a street stall.
Scottish Liberal Democrat leader Willie Rennie MSP will tomorrow set out his party's plans to introduce five green laws to put the environment at the heart of government policy.
He will cycle into Edinburgh from his home in Fife with a group of local cyclists and join Lib Dem activists and thousands of other cyclists in the Meadows ahead of his appearance at the Holyrood Pedal on Parliament rally.


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How is everyone today? Im great!
So what is everyone thinking about these things going on right now? You might have heard of them- its called the Olympics. And I, as an Englander like a few others in the world, am very excited about the Olympics 😀 I was there at the opening ceremony- well, not really; I was in my pyjamas with a cup of tea and a blanket on the couch for the 10,000 hours it felt that the countries were walking in (half of which I had never heard of in my life), and I was thinking at the end (at 2am when I had to be at work at 9-oops!) thinking about it and what I had just witnessed, for what would be the only time in my life, they say. At first, when I saw the opening ceremony, I couldn't help –like many others- comparing it to the opening ceremony in china 4 years ago (I saw the highlights- bloody hell it was sparkly) and felt like, "that was it?". But when talking about it with my friendlings over coffee (yes, we are sophisticated 😉 ) it kind of dawned on me how spectacular it was. See, England is one of the many countries which has a true history, and I think we were right to choose to honor that and show it to the world, and not give in to the pressure to put on a big avent garde song and dance. I just hope people from other countries understood the concept and were able to learn something from it, but sadly, from the people I have spoken to, they have not. But the actual games themselves are amazing. I have pretty much sat on my couch with my bi-daily (is that a word?) punnet of blueberries watching the gymnastics (my favourite!) and the diving and the swimming and the basketball (also my favourite) and ive just been in awe of everything, and it takes a while to take it in. all of the athletes giving everything to their 10seconds or so to win something for their country, and how they have trained all day every day for year, just to take part in that one race, or to do that one gym routine and its so amazing and incredible how people from all around the world can come together, forget all differences and conflicts in the world, and just come together to take part in friendly sporting events. Its mind blowing, but also humbling at the same time.
However, there was one incident on twitter (if you haven't followed me yet- please do 😉 @RachaelHannahx3) during the opening ceremony that really got to me. It shouldn't, but it did. Now, I am British, with American citizenship, and a jew. So I am impartial to countries, but I have that special support for team GB, Team USA and Team Israel (I have a lot of friends in Israel) and when I was on twitter, you know, when people make a comment on every country that walked in like "who are they?" "where the hells that country?" "love their sexy outfits" (they all looked like air hostesses- like you see in the virgin atlantic commercials? I couldn't get past it :L) but when it got to Israel, I was like WOOO YEAAAH ISRAEL, as you do, but some people on twitter were like "Israel, I spit at them" and "f*ck off you pieces of sh*t!" and other very not nice things, and I was like, how could one person, who has had no personal offence towards them from the whole country, take such a hate to a certain group of people from a certain place?? It was so disrespectful, and kind of made me lose hope in many parts of the human race, and it was just disgusting. Ok that's my spiel.
So yeah- im going to be so upset when the Olympics are over (I still haven't gotten tickets D: ) because it seems that the weeks leading up to the Olympics and while the Olympics are here, England is such a happy place. Especially living so close to London, everyone is on such a high right now, with all of the towns being decorated with 2012 stuff and its just so cute- whats going to happen when everyone goes home? Its going to be so so depressing 😦
Well- enjoy your summer guys! (im still waiting for my first hot day so I can go to the beach for like the first time in years!) I'll see you next week!! 😉
Again- follow me on twitter @RachaelHannahx3
And I've just joined this new craze thing that's going on on twitter right now? Its called ask.fm, It seems like that formspring thing people (admittedly, I had it, too, as you know :P) so if you want to ask me any questions (no barriers, no such thing as a stupid question!) just shoot it this way- http://ask.fm/RachaelHannahh
Ok see you next week 🙂
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a/perture cinema, the Official Movie Sponsor for The Less Desirables, presents The Less Desirables Movie of the Week, Good Morning Vietnam (1987), starring Robin Williams, Forest Whitaker.
Per IMDb: "In 1965, an unorthodox and irreverent DJ named Adrian Cronauer begins to shake up things when he is assigned to the U.S. Armed Services radio station in Vietnam."
The late, great Robin Williams stars as a wacky, on-the-fly and humorous DJ, who's also an airman, sent from Crete to Saigon to host two shows daily on the USAF radio station on an army base. Immediately, he meets resistance as his immediate supervisor, Lt. Hauk (Bruno Kirby) has control issues and lacks any kind of real humor or musical tastes, but thinks he's abundant in each and his supervisor's superior is Sgt. Major Dickerson (late J.T. Walsh) who just has a stick up his rear end wants to make life heck for Adrian.
Adrian's liaison around town is Eddie Garlic (Whitaker) who is truly a lovable but awkward fellow. Eddie shows him where the G.I. bar is, some sights around town and is even his driver on assignments. While Eddie is driving, Adrian notices a pretty Vietnamese girl and wants to talk to her. She tells him to buzz off but Adrian is persistent. He follows her to a school that teaches English and bribes the instructor to let him teach the class. That allows him to get closer to the girl (Chintara Sukapatana). Her brother, Tuan (Tung Thanh Tran) tells him to keep his distance, but becomes Adrian's friend after a while.
Every piece of news that comes across the news wire must be censored by a pair of twins in order to be read on the air and that rubs Adrian the wrong way. It is also a point of contention between him and his superiors. I can tell you more, but I'd be giving away all the highlights. Does he get the girl? Does he make it out of Vietnam alive? You need to see it for yourself.
Robin Williams was phenomenal in this film. Almost all of his radio broadcasts were improvised and minimally scripted. The rest of the acting in the film was great, too. The locals who got the English right enough to speak, really had it down like it was real and not a movie. The scenery was vivid and beautiful, even the destruction and blowing up of stuff in the film was perfectly shot.
I had the soundtrack on cassette. In fact, I wore out the first copy and got a second. I now have it on CD and the film on DVD. It's currently only available through Netflix's DVD.com or you can rent it from Amazon Prime for $3.99. If you subscribe to Cinemax though Amazon Channels, you can watch this for free. Rotten Tomatoes has it at 89% Fresh with an Audience Score of 82%. IMDb has it at 7.3 stars out of 10. We watched this with 3B, on DVD and I will rate it 4.25 stars out of 5. Have you seen it? What did you think? What would you like to read or hear me review?
Until tomorrow, same blog channel…
Scorp out!
"The Mississippi River broke through a protective dike today. What is a protective dike? Is it a large woman that says 'Don't go near there! But Betty- Don't go near there! Don't go down by the river!'… No, we can't say 'dyke' on the air, we can't even say 'lesbian' anymore, it's 'women in comfortable shoes. Thank You.'" – Adrian Cronauer


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Vatic Note: I found this and put it up because of what they did in the Gulf, they appear to now be doing the same thing in the northeastern conservative part of the country, in West Virginia. Is it depopulation alone or are there other secondary reasons for poisoning massive levels of population? Here is my question...... what do the evil ones expect us to do about this disclosure?
Is this suppose to trigger that great big giant civil war that the Homeland "Gestapo" Security has been promising us? Is this all a set up? Is this how they intended to get martial law and get our guns? There are too many times they did drills which turned into live events, such as Sandy Hook.
Is it a production or fiction written for our consumption and action? Too many of the monied elite live along the coast line both up in WV and in the Gulf, so why are they poisoning themselves OR ARE THEY? After all, there was a movie production at Sandy Hook, why not on this one? Or have the elite already gone underground to avoid being harmed by these acts?
These utterly insane psychopathic edomites are not beyond pretending using elaborate false fronts and actors to achieve their desired affect and results they are going for that we know nothing about. Is or was the CIA and Mossad involved in this? Who knows. Read this and see what you think.
If True, then the executives and board members should serve serious time for this criminal act upon the American people in both parts of the country and the EPA should also be arrested for complicit behavior in both events.
Gulf Oil Spill Corexit Maker Nalco Behind West Virginia Water Crisis Curtain
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Saturday, January 18, 2014 13:58
Nalco, owner and producer of the dispersant Corexit, also effectively owns the patent and all rights to the frothing process used for the chemical that is creating havoc in West Virginia, "Crude MCHM," that government has failed to regulate Freedom Industries, that has had carte blanche to apply, reminiscent of the catastrophic Gulf of Mexico oil scandal.
Nalco's chemical dispersant Corexit is the mixture of compounds secretly applied to the Gulf region since BP and Transocean's April 2010 oilrig explosion and the subsequent ongoing oil volcano eruption.
Nalco applied to the patent office on behalf of the inventors, to use "at least 4-methyl cyclohexane methanol" to clean coal with a froth flotation method. This method separated particles of different sizes by washing them with a frothy solution.
The froth bubbles lift unwanted particles, such as dust, to the surface, where it can then be skimmed off and the particles can be separated from the cleaning solution and discarded.
Disposing the resulting sludge, including the Crude MCHM and other components; and the fate of frothing components that bind to the cleaned coal, raises health and safety questions, similar to those raised about Nalco throughout BP's Gulf oil scandal.State and federal agencies declared a state of emergency nine days ago and ordered over 300,000 residents in nine counties, one quarter of West Virginia's population, not to drink or use tap water for any purpose other than flushing toilets.
West Virginia residents' complaints and cries for help and information since the poisoned water scandal are eerily similar to those of Gulf coast residents since the oil crime occurred there in April 2010, as seen in the YouTube video below.
Nalco was assigned the rights to the "Crude MCHM" frothing process patent, meaning they effectively own it and all rights for using the process. "Nalco Holding Company is a wholly owned subsidiary of Ecolab Inc. Corexit, its oil dispersant, was widely used in the BP/Transocean/Military Deepwater Horizon oil catastrophe.
In 1994, Nalco and Exxon Chemical Company announced forming their joint venture, Nalco Exxon Energy Chemicals L.P., to provide products and services to all facets of the petroleum and natural gas industries.
Daniel S. Sanders, previous president of Exxon Mobil Chemical Company, a subsidiary of Exxon Mobil; serves on the Nalco's (now, Ecolab's) board.
On 9 December 2003, the private equity group consisting of the Blackstone Group, Apollo Management LP and Goldman Sachs Capital Partners collaborated to acquire Ondeo Nalco Company from Suez SA for US$4.2 billion… In July 2011, Nalco announced a merger with Ecolab, Inc., and it became a wholly owned subsidiary of Ecolab Inc. in December 2011 after the completion of the US $5.4 billion acquisition by Ecolab.
The Center for Responsive Politics documents Nalco Company Political Action Committee financial contributions to political candidates, with 2010 contributions to Judy Biggert (R-IL), Charles Boustany (R-LA), Dan Lipinski (D-IL), John Shimkus (R-IL) and Dick Durbin (D-IL).
The CRP also lists Nalco Holding Company's spending on lobbying, including $160,000 in 2010 to Ogilvy Government Relations to lobby on their behalf to the U.S. House of Representatives and the Senate, the Department of the Interior, and the Environmental Protection Agency between April 1 and June 30 of 2010, on 'issues related to the use of corexit 9500 in the Gulf of Mexico oil spill'." (Wikipedia)
The CRP also lists Nalco Holding Company's spending on lobbying, including $160,000 in 2010 to Ogilvy Government Relations to lobby on their behalf to the U.S. House of Representatives and the Senate, the Department of the Interior, and the Environmental Protection Agency between April 1 and June 30 of 2010, on 'issues related to the use of corexit 9500 in the Gulf of Mexico oil spill'." (Wikipedia)
"Corexit is a product line of oil dispersants reportedly used to dissolve oil spills. It has been used in BP's Gulf oil catastrophe in attempt to hide the oil.It is produced by Nalco Holding Company that is associated with BP and Exxon.
Corexit is the mixture of compounds applied in the Gulf region after the April 2010 oil gusher.
Corexit was used in unprecedented quantities during the 2010 Deepwater Horizon oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico. Its use was continued and some have evidence that it is still being used today to hide the Gulf oil from one of BP's wrecked wells in the Macondo Prospect in the Gulf of Mexico. It took months on end for the Gulf residents to learn what was in the toxic brew that was hitting them through water, air and land.
Same holds true today in regards to the chemical poisoning of West Virginians. (VN: Jay Rockefellers stronghold. Wonder for how long?)
Nalco in the Gulf
In February 2009, Warren Buffet's Berkshire Hathaway increased its holdings to 9 million, making it the second-largest holder of BP oil-related Corexit manufacturing company, Nalco. (1)
Nalco was affiliated with the Argonne Program at University of Chicago, under auspices of the U.S. Department of Energy. Argonne received $164 million in federal stimulus funds in 2009. It added two new executives to their staff, one on NALCO's payroll.
What would eventually come under the public microscope was that BP had tapped NALCO for a world supply of the oil-based dispersant Corexit 9500 to "break up oil spills," (actually to hide oil). Rodney Chase, NALCO Board Member had served on BP's Board with Carl Casale, Executive VP and CFO of Monsanto. (2) From October 14, 2008 to December 1, 2011, Casale served as a Director of NALCO.
In 2012, scientific research found Corexit increases toxicity of oil in rotifers by 52 times.
"While many Gulf victims, collateral damage of the petrochemical-military-industrial complex (PMIC), bled from all orifices, the PMIC [petrochemical-military-industrial-complex] continued gassing them, combining one of the most carcinogenic substances known, crude oil's benzene, with lethal Corexit. Benzene is a toxin released by fossil fuel oil, lethal enough for public health concern and action even without Corexit." (Vampire of Macondo)
The government claimed that the lethal practice of applying Corexit had ended in July 2010, three months after the carpet-bombing began. By August, however, Gulf Coast residents along the coast reported that Corexit was still being applied. Residents continued to witness the carpet-bombing of Corexit, in some places, even in their back yards.Not only that, long after government said the spraying had ceased, photographic evidence showed the Corexit dispersant had been delivered to Louisiana in military containers.
"The super weird thing was that there was acres of natural non-toxic [dispersant] rotting away, while there were 176 empty containers of COREXIT 9527A, with barge and boat dispensers right by them," citizen reporter Cheryl Foytlin stated.
BP had bought all of the natural, organic dispersant one manufacturing company had, and ordered much more. The company manufactured what had been ordered, but BP never paid for it, crippling the entire safe dispersant manufacturer.
"Toxic air, water and food posed increasingly serious health risks to all people of the Gulf, particularly pregnant women, the elderly and people with health vulnerabilities, such as asthma and emphysema, as Dr. Gina Solomon, NRDC Senior Scientist had outlined and warned Louisianans and other Gulf Coast residents."[3] (Vampire of Macondo)Despite a handful of congresspersons, who tried to ban Corexit and carpet-bombing the Gulf Coast and its residents with it, using it was approved in the US by the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA). That decision was called into question in 2013 following a report by the Government Accountability Project (GAP).
The GAP alleged 'devastating long-term effects on human health and the Gulf of Mexico ecosystem' stemming from the use of Corexit. With the military at the helm of the Gulf oil operation, however, attempts to stop the Corexit application were doomed to failure.
Corexit has been banned in the UK since 1988. UK authorities have an approved list of products that must pass both "sea/beach" and "rocky shore" laboratory toxicity tests. Corexit failed the rocky shore test.
"Where economic imperialism has not worked, such as Iraq and Afghanistan, the PMIC resorted to fabricating false flags for full-blown military action. Gulf coast involvement of the military, including spraying lethal poisoning, might appear analogous to Iraq and Afghanistan. It might be a logical continuation of relentless corporate criminal behavior in coal, gas, and nuclear industries and the financial sector that have acted with government collusion." (Vampire of Macondo.)
As in the Gulf, only time will tell how many West Virginian lives are shortened by today's water crisis. Some scientists have predicted between four million to forty million Gulf Coast residents' lives have been or will be shortened due to the Gulf operation. (VN: Depopulation program. Clever..... but as usual they are getting caught and no one is prosecuting this attempted murder, and massive felony assault on those millions of residents.)
"The numbers of birds, fish, turtles, and mammals killed by the use of Corexit will never be known as the evidence strongly suggests that BP worked with the Coast Guard, the Department of Homeland Security, the FAA, private security contractors, and local law enforcement, all of which cooperated to conceal the operations disposing of the animals from the media and the public,"
say a team of journalists, including Charles Hambleton, Academy Award-winning documentary director of The Cove and Jerry Cope.
That team found that the PMIC was conducting most of the Gulf animal disposal operations under cover of darkness.
Nalco got off scott free in the Gulf oil crime.
Even as the National Academy of Sciences warned about dangers of Nalco's chemical dispersants, during the BP trial in New Orleans, U.S. District Judge Carl Barbier dismissed all charges against Nalco. (VN: anyone check her bank account? Is that not aiding and abetting a crime? Doesn't she get prosecuted right along with those who committed the crime? There is a way and the local sheriff can do it.)
[1] Jessica Resnick Ault, "Little Nalco Will Benefit from BP's Spill," Business Week, 13 May 2010
[2] Shelley DuBois, "Who Is Nalco?" CNN, 14 June 2010
[3] Gina Solomon, "Q&A PART 2: Gulf Coast Oil Spill and Your Health – Who's at Risk?" Huffington Post, 6 May 2010: http://www.huffingtonpost.com/gina-solomon/qa-part-2-gulf-coast-oil_b_566082.html
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The Barton Community College men's track and field team raised their season total to seventeen national qualifiers adding eight this weekend at the Holiday Inn Invitational hosted by the University of Nebraska in Lincoln, Nebraska. Competing against both NCAA and NJCAA level teams along with professional athletes training for Olympic hopes, the Cougars had fifteen top-10 finishes to go along with the national qualifying performances.
Sophomore Alexander Richemond highlighted the results this weekend taking first place in the 200m in national qualifying 21.73. McKinley West, who qualified for nationals in the 60m last week, added his second event for his national trip by taking fourth place in 21.86 with teammate Paul Kinney slipping into the top-10 with a ninth place 22.35 time.
Richemond also helped the 4X400m relay team capture third place joining with Anthony Adderly, Kadeem Williams, and Jaquez Wilson to shave five seconds off last week's national qualifying time crossing the line in 3:14.94. Williams had earlier punched his national ticket in the 600m finishing eleventh in 1:22.18.
The distance medley made its 2016 indoor debut finishing eighth but secured their spot in nationals as Tyler Thornton, Micah Carey, Anthony Forrest, and Devyn Brotherton recorded a 10:31.20 time. Brotherton, who qualified last week in the 3000m, added his third national ticket taking third place Friday behind a pair of University of Nebraska-Kearney runners at 4:23.96.
In the 60m hurdles the Cougars just missed out on reaching the finals but had two national qualifying times. Jermaine Jones improved on last week's qualifying time just missing finals by .01 crossing at 8.33 seconds while Kevin Turner will join Jones at nationals with an 8.45 in finishing thirteenth.
Barton took second and sixth in the 60m dash with McKinley West matching his NQ 6.84 time finishing second to a Brooks Running competitor while Chedlin Sageese finished sixth missing the national standard time by .01 with a 6.88 clocking.
Leading the jumpers was Denroc Dixon taking second to a Husker athlete leaping a national standard 7.26. Leon Boyd also claimed his national spot finishing just two spots below Dixon flying 7.10m as he also has a triple jump entry from last week's 15.44m distance. Boyd didn't compete in Saturday's triple jump but Adama Mbye gave the Cougars two entries for nationals going 14.76m to finish in fourth place.
Barton's Donald Daley and Ricky Nelson both already have secured their national spot in the weight throw and both again reached national standards finishing seventh and eleventh with throws of 16.73m and 15.45m respectively. The case was the same for Steven Crooks in Saturday's shot put as Crooks put up another standard throw finishing fifth at 15.47m.


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It's a banner day, America! NBC has announced the cast for the second "sensational" (no, really) season of Celebrity Apprentice, which premieres Sunday, March 1 at 9 p.m., if you want to get the wife and kids out of the country ahead of time. Take a deep breath and get ready to lose your remaining respect for: Clint Black, Andrew Dice Clay, professional poker player Annie Duke, Tom Green, boobalicious LPGA golfer Natalie Gulbis, figure skater Scott Hamilton, noted motorcycle enthusiast Jesse James, professional suitcase holder Claudia Jordan, Khloe Kardashian, Brian McKnight, Joan Rivers and Melissa Rivers, Playboy bunny Brande Roderick, Dennis Rodman, Heisman Trophy winner and former Dallas Cowboys running back Herschel Walker, and Tionne "T-Boz" Watkins.
I swear to god I just about started crying.
But look — no one (with the possible exception of Dalton Ross) watches this show to see what enchanting business ideas this cast of overachievers will come up with as they battle it out for charity. The only reason to tune in each week is to see who gets fired, and why. To that end, and in the interest of public service, I've decided to cut out the middleman and look into my oft-hazy crystal ball to predict their departures from the 15-more-minutes-of-fame game. Some inevitable eliminations:
T-Boz: Wants to have it her way or nothing at all. Additionally, moves too fast
Tom Green: Poops on boardroom table
Scott Hamilton: Slashes Andrew Dice Clay with a skate after enduring one too many fairy jokes
Andrew Dice Clay: Severed artery
Brian McKnight: Inability to count higher than five deemed impractical in a business setting
Khloe Kardashian: Asked to leave once Trump realizes she's not Kim
As for the rest…go for it, PopWatchers. The crystal ball is all yours.
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James Ragan is the subject of the award-winning Arina Films documentary "Flowers and Roots: An Ambassador of the Arts," based on his life as a poet, playwright, and screenwriter. The film will be broadcast on PBS.
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|Oscar Peterson. Photo credit: Al Gilbert.
Commemorating the 90th birthday of celebrated Canadian pianist Oscar Peterson, a free livestream of the launch evening concert for new album Oscar, With Love – featuring jazz royalty such as Kenny Barron, Benny Green and Gerald Clayton playing Oscar's own piano – will be available online on Friday, 11 December.
The new release showcases premieres of Peterson's compositions, recorded in his home studio on his belovèd Bösendorfer Imperial. Announcing the new recording back in June, Oscar's widow, Kelly, said, "Oscar cherished his piano. It is impossible for me to think of him without it. It is one of the finest and most unusual instruments in the world. Oscar handpicked it at the Bösendorfer factory in Vienna in 1981. It has never before been heard publicly." And she added, of the concert, "We will be treated to performances of Oscar's music by artists he greatly admired."
Indeed, this album's interpretations come from some of the greatest players in the world, including Monty Alexander, Bill Charlap, Robi Botos, Oliver Jones, Renee Rosnes, Ramsey Lewis, Michel Legrand, Hiromi, and also Chick Corea who performs his own new composition, One For Oscar. Primarily a solo piano recording, some tracks are accompanied by Peterson's longtime friend and associate, bassist Dave Young.
Oscar's piano is being transported to Toronto's Koerner Hall for the special evening which can be livestreamed for free at The Royal Conservatory website.
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Last weekend Aiden Davies competed for the GB & NI Athletic Team, in the Combined Events International Indoor match at Sheffield EIS.
He had a really successful weekend scoring PBs throughout the two days of competition and finishing the weekend in 4th place in the U20M Heptathlon with an overall personal best score of 5067 points.
This score puts him into 19th place in the All-time rankings for an U20 male indoor Heptathlon.
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Aiden started the competition with an equal PB of 7.25 in the 60m sprint, and then went on to set a new PB of 6.78m in Continue reading


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|Banks Push U.S. Fed to Delay Volcker Rule
Banks are lobbying U.S. policy makers for a delay of up to seven years from a provision requiring them to sell investments in private-equity and venture-capital funds.
Bank officials, trade groups and lawmakers are quietly pressing the Federal Reserve for a multiyear delay of the rule that limits their investments in private-equity and venture-capital funds.
The "Volcker rule," part of the Dodd-Frank law, restricts banks' ownership stake in hedge funds and private equity funds.The rule prohibits banks from making speculative bets with their own money.A delay of the rule would affect large banks such as Goldman Sachs Group Inc (GS.N), JPMorgan Chase & Co (JPM.N) and Morgan Stanley (MS.N).
The private equity business has become less appealing in general to banks because of the 2010 Dodd-Frank financial reform law. The Volcker rule, expected to be implemented in a few years, prohibits banks from investing in any fund they do not manage.Since the Volcker Rule was adopted, some banks have already made changes.The Federal Reserve could not be reached for comment outside of business hours.
JPMorgan spun off its last remaining private equity business, One Equity Partners, and sold almost half of its stake in the portfolio. Morgan Stanley in 2011 spun off most of its ownership in the $4.5 billion hedge fund FrontPoint Partners.
Representatives from Morgan Stanley, JPMorgan and Goldman Sachs also could not be reached outside of their business hours.
The opinions expressed do not constitute investment advice and specialist advice should be sought about your specific circumstances.
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Steve Jobs:
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"Do not conform to the pattern of this world, but be transformed by the renewing of your mind. Then you will be able to test and approve what God's will is—his good, pleasing and perfect will."


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Experience the incredible Stonehenge outside London. Enjoy an afternoon visiting Stonehenge where you can explore this UNESCO World Heritage Site in your own pace. Included in the price of your tickets is an audio guide telling you about the fascinating history of the site.
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Your driver will take you to Stonehenge and onto the site. From here you can enjoy the next couple hours walking around and exploring this amazing place, which truly is one of the great wonders of the world.
With your free audio guide you'll learn much more about this historic site. No one knows why it was built, but it has been a place of worship, a Bronze burial ground and an astronomical clock and it dates back nearly 5,000 years.
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Tis the season for pumpkins! Since orange is my signature color it should come as no surprise that I love a pumpkin! We typically go on a yearly pumpkin picking trip where I stock up on pumpkins for our front stoop, but it's we haven't gone yet. That hasn't stopped me from getting my fix. Last week at Trader Joes I picked up little baby pumpkins for our mantle and then this week I found the full size ones for only $3.99! It's madness! Head over and pick up one or two or three! Now, I can't leave good enough alone. I needed to take my orange canvas and do a little DIY action on it! Brushstroke patterns have been having a moment and I decided to take some inspiration from Kate Spades brushstroke pattern and paint my my pumpkin with brushstrokes!
It's so simple! All you need some acrylic paint and brush!
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Ashbourne College has successfully offered A level retake courses and one year A level courses since its inception more than thirty years ago.
What to consider before retaking your A level courses
Most universities will regard a decision to retake as a sign of determination, perseverance and ambition. Nonetheless, any student considering retaking their A levels should ask the relevant university faculty to confirm that a re-application will be welcome and to specify the grades that might now be required.
If you have missed your offer by a small margin you should contact the university's admissions department who may be pleased to accept you anyway. If not, the university might be able to offer you a place on a course that is closely related to your first choice. You may need to be patient getting through to the department during busy application periods.
Benefits of retaking A levels at Ashbourne
- Small classes enable teachers to offer individual attention, set and mark much more homework and communicate more effectively.
- Lots of teaching time means that you may complete the syllabus in a relaxed and confident manner, with plenty of time for engagement and structured, supervised work in class.
- Specialist courses Ashbourne offers more than 30 years' experience in delivering highly successful A Level retake and one-year courses.
- A fresh, more grown-up approach to education quickly renews the spirit and provides a clean break from stale mind-sets and attitudes. Students' performance is revitalised through contact with colleagues who share similar ambitions and aspirations.
- Exam practice is too often in the background at traditional schools. In any field, excellence is achieved through dedicated effort guided by inspired and inspiring teachers and coaches. Our straightforward focus on examination preparation is simple, effective and transformational.
- Individual attention, communication and feedback. The importance of small classes cannot be exaggerated but they are more effective when complemented by Personal Tutors. These dedicated teachers encourage and guide students to realise their academic potential and are a reassuring point of contact in dealing with parents' concerns.
Apply to retake your A levels at Ashbourne College
Please contact our Admissions Team for further information or to apply on 020 7937 3858, email firstname.lastname@example.com or use our enquiry form.
Ashbourne is a private fee-paying college.
What grades can you expect at retake?
Depending on your initial grade, you should expect to improve by one or two grades for each subject you retake. Thus either an E or C grade might easily improve to a B grade. On average, we expect our A Level retake students to achieve A*, A or B grades.
Getting into the right university
Ashbourne's UCAS Tutors offer individual and expert guidance on finding and applying for university courses that match students' ambitions and abilities. They also provide invaluable interview technique practice for those applying for demanding and highly popular degree courses. Ashbourne also runs specialist Medical School and Engineering programmes, with seminars and outside speakers, as well as preparation for any aptitude tests required by a particular course.
Alternatives to retaking
Your grade(s) might be so inconsistent with your own and your teachers' expectations that you may consider a request to the exam board for remarking. Be aware, however, that grades often do not change as a result of remarks and may even go down! All remarks must be organised by your school. You can find more information on remarking and post results services here
If you are unsuccessful in getting a place at the university of your choice you may wish to enter the clearing system. You will automatically be sent a'clearing passport' number by email. Should you wish to take up a course at another university you will use this to confirm your acceptance. Courses which are still available may be found on the UCAS website.
Gap year
Taking a gap year to travel and work can often help to clarify your thoughts about your future and thus make the years spent at university, should you decide to reapply, more enjoyable and productive.
Useful links
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Club members. It is with regret that I must inform you that we need to restart the ongoing election process due to procedural irregularities. Many of you received an email, mailing or both that contained election materials that were not authorized by the Election Committee for distribution. This was a serious infraction that resulted in a candidate's disqualification. The club has strict policies regarding protection of your contact information.
Any votes cast to date will be scrubbed, and voting will resume November 11. A revised candidate list will be posted. Also, and consistent with club policies and the election process, a series of three club-approved campaign emails or mailings will occur Friday November 11, 18 and 25. The material will be from the candidates, or candidate teams, and is intended to better inform your voting decisions.
I do apologize for this unfortunate inconvenience and hope you take the opportunity to read the forthcoming material and again cast your votes for the candidates that you feel best represent your best interests, and those of your fellow club members.
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I believe the practice of law is the bedrock of our country. My grandfather was a lawyer as were all three of his sons, including my father. The legacy my family gave me forms the foundation upon which I've practiced law for 25 years. I have been blessed and thrilled to represent more than 1,500 clients, who have suffered personal injuries, most against large national companies. This David and Goliath story is replayed over and over in my practice, I strongly believe that a committed attorney can bring an injured individual justice under our great American legal system.Linda Durant Houssiere
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How the MELT Method Can Help With Chronic Pain
Recently, Dr. Oz brought two experts on his talk show to offer solutions for chronic pain and weight loss. These experts offered unique insights into how the human body works and how to use exercise and diet to regain excellent health.
People who live daily with symptoms of muscle and joint pain know how distressing chronic pain can be.
Chronic pain restricts the activities you participate in and can leave you miserable when it is at its worst. In most cases, constant pain is a sign of an underlying disorder.
For example, chronic pain is one of the distinguishing symptoms of fibromyalgia.
However, there are a number of effective techniques for relieving chronic pain.
The MELT method is one such technique. The MELT method is a self-treatment system for eliminating chronic pain. It was devised by Sue Hitzmann, a holistic health expert, and recommended by Dr. Oz.
The MELT method involves simple and short exercises that can easily be done at home. This exercise method only requires a soft treatment ball and soft body roller (or foam roller). As Sue explained on The Dr. Oz Show, our daily movements cause cumulative stress and inflammation in the muscles and joints.
To relieve this stress and the associated chronic pain, simple exercises that cause connective tissue dehydration are required.
Sue recommends exercising with the techniques of the MELT method for 10 minutes every day. One commonly recommended example of Sues techniques only requires a foam roller. To melt away your chronic pain with this technique, simply lie on your back on the roller so that the length from your head to your tailbone is on the foam. Then bend your knees and keep your feet planted flat on the floor.
Sue recommends that you rock your body slightly for half a minute before tucking and tilting your tailbone while keeping your ribs still. These movements should be repeated with your hands on your ribs and then on your pelvis and collarbone.
There are more such techniques to eliminate chronic pain in Sue Hitzmanns book on the MELT method.Besides exercise, diet also plays an important role in eliminating chronic pain.
For example, experts usually recommend fibromyalgia that patients avoid pro-inflammatory foods.
Dr. Oz recommends resetting your fat loss hormones if you want to get rid of your belly fat and reduce your risk of heart disease, diabetes and chronic pain. Along with another guest (Dr. Natasha Turner) on the show, Dr. Oz explained the benefits of adopting hormone diet and carb sensitivity program.
According to the two experts, these dietary changes will help you lose weight, get rid of belly fat, reduce food cravings, control your appetite and improve your energy level.
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WASHINGTON — The massive hack of background check records at the Office of Personnel Management compromised the data of 21.5 million people — five times more than were affected by an initial breach, the agency announced Thursday.
The revelation brought more calls from Congress for OPM Director Katherine Archuleta to be fired.
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When the hack was revealed early last month, OPM officials said personal information from the personnel records of about 4.2 million current and former federal employees had been breached.
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Today I'd love to share a double dose of Dutch. Originally designed for New York, the team behind The Dutch NY recently opened up it's second location, The Dutch Miami.
The New York location feels undeniably warmer, darker, and a bit more industrial while the Miami location is brighter, more streamlined, and a bit more contemporary. Both locations feel pulled together and represent seafood well but each does a great job incorporating its environment and location.
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"Writing is like prostitution. First you do it for love, and then for a few close friends, and then for money." --Moliere
Thursday, September 20, 2012
The Rebirth of a Book...and a Challenge to My Sanity
Formatting e-books is no fun. Formatting previously published novels without original Word documents is as difficult as getting through airport security the day before Thanksgiving. My conventionally-published books were either written on my old electric typewriter or saved on disks that are no longer compatible with any computer or program.
They were written in the late '80s-early '90s. I think the last of them were saved onto small diskettes....but I have no idea where they are now.
So...to convert them to ebooks left me with two options: retype each book (I'm not exactly speedy on the keyboard, so that would have taken a long time) or scan the pages, use OCR software to lift the text from the scanned pages, convert it to a Word file, then to HTML...and pray the final product looked professional. Hmmm...maybe retyping wouldn't have been such a bad idea after all....
The process is even more complicated than it sounds. And getting it right on the first try...not likely. The first time out was initially a disaster. I scanned the pages, Collin took care of the OCR process, I converted it to a Word document, Martin edited it, Collin converted it to HTML and uploaded it...and the sample I got when I clicked "Look Inside" was...the JPEG images of the scanned pages!
How'd that happen?
I still don't know. But Collin managed to fix it...for the most part. We fixed everything we found, because some readers will write a nasty review if a misspelled word destroys their reading experience. (And I thought I had a short attention span.)
Funny how they never notice the errors in conventionally-published books....
We thought we'd learned from that experience, that it would never happen again...but it did. Over the weekend, we published the third of my backlist books via Amazon KDP. After it went live and was in the middle of a two-day free ebook promotion, we discovered a handful of errors. After a couple of days of intense editing, we have it set up at Amazon once again.
Maybe next time, I'll type it....
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It's crazy the number of things that can go wonky in the conversion/uploading to the sites, Norma. Truly a ton of trial and error involved, and I'm not sure you could catch all of it on your own. Good you have a team to help sort through it all!ReplyDeleteReplies
I just wish they'd make it easy. Critics say it's too easy to self-publish. I respectfully disagree!Delete
You must find a good friend who can type ! and let me tell you that is not me, hahahahahaha. I am the worlds slowest typist.ReplyDelete
You wrote about formatting books before, sounds way to complicated for me. Are you not happy Collin knows how to do all this computer stuff.
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I am soooo relieved Collin can do this stuff!Delete
In the future, triple check everything before going live!ReplyDeleteReplies
I did promise you I would wait a week after completion before uploading.Delete
The problem is that a lot of the errors don't show up until it's been uploaded. The review page in Alaxander's Empire (ebook) has numbers on it, for some reason. The numbers do not appear on the scans, the manuscript or the HTML. Go figure.
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We are FINALLY moved into our new house! (insert happy dance) And by moved in, I mean we are living here, furniture still taped up and surrounded by boxes. But we are here :)
As you can imagine, it has been a crazy week. Amidst all the moving (and packing, and party planning, and painting our entire house back to boring beige....) we had to transfer the big man into a new kindergarten class at a new school.
There were lots of tears (alright, they were all mine!), because we LOVED his last school (I mean, seriously, every student gets their own ipad and itouch to use!) and LOVED his teacher. Not to mention, I was room parent and in charge of an art program they did, so I was kind of a big deal LOL.
In the weeks leading up to his last day I kept thinking about how I really wanted to do something special for his teacher as a thank you. But what do you know, there I was, the day before his LAST day, standing in our new place literally HOURS after we moved all our stuff in thinking, "sh!t I didn't do anything for his teacher!!" :::sigh:::
Thank goodness for Pinterest, right? Awhile ago I had pinned this image:
found on my Pinterest Board
I had pinned it originally as an idea for a gift for our teacher at the end of the year party (in case you were wondering I was planning an amazing Chicka Chicka Boom Boom party :).... Wouldn't this be adorable for that kind of party??)
I knew I could totally copy it for only a few bucks, so off I went (in the snow no less!) to the dollar store. I am so excited to show you my results in the first of what I can only assume will be a gazillion entries in my series
I started by purchasing a simple cylinder shaped vase that would fit inside a larger cylinder vase I already had purchased from Goodwill for another project. (I think maybe it held candy at a party or something). My original concept was going to be to use all ABC magnets with a cute note that said something like "thanks for teaching me my ABC's" , but our store only had numerical magnets. Normally, (since I am obsessed with detail) I would have gone to a different store, but since it was the night before, I just decided change my game plan. I did the numbers and made a card that said something about being happy to spend one hundred days together (100 days is something every K parent knows is a big stinking deal!).
I didn't take any pictures of the process because, honestly, I shlept it together half an hour before I had to walk out the door :) But you put the smaller vase into the bigger. The space between you fill with the magnets and the smaller you fill with flowers. You can kind of see here:
For this size vase I used four packages of magnets. That is also because I used the dollar store cheap kind so they are a lot thinner than the nicer fat ones :) That said, as a tip I would make sure to have enough room between the two vases to fit the magnets. Mine were kind of a tight squeeze.
I got mixed flowers specifically to bring out the colors in the magnets.
I LOVE the fact that his teacher can take this apart and reuse the numbers. Plus, it just looks adorable and school-like.
And I think she really enjoyed it as well :)
So, in another Pinterest Saves the Day note, I guess you can consider this project D.O.N.E :)
I hope you are all inspired to try out a pinterest project as well!!
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NDK Original Vacuum Bottle from Smart Planet GIVEAWAY!
I blogged about glass bottles earlier this week, and the theme of the month has been about learning to avoid BPA in all of its nefarious shapes and forms in the kitchen.. but what happens when you want to take your hot or cold beverages on the go?!
For those instances where glass may not be the wisest option due to the breakage factor (going hiking, for instance) the next best option to avoid BPA and maintain a sustainable lifestyle is… *drumroll*… stainless steel!
About the NDK Original Vacuum Bottle from Smart Planet
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This Nidecker Design 18 oz. double wall stainless steel bottle from Smart Planet features a stylish, unique (yet classic) design, that can keep your liquids hot or cold on the go.
Enjoying some hot homemade apple cider and a re-read of Harry Potter on my front porch, just enjoying the fall!
How Vacuum Bottles Work
This bottle really ideal for on the go drink storage, ESPECIALLY now that it is fall, with winter approaching, and hot drinks are pretty much mandatory this time of year, haha. A vacuum bottle is a super-insulated flask. The bottle has an inner chamber and an outer case separated by two layers of stainless steel with a vacuum in between. There's also a tight, screw-down stopper on the top.
These few, simple features prevent virtually all heat transfer by either conduction, convection, or radiation. The vacuum prevents conduction. The tight stopper prevents air from entering or leaving the flask, so convection isn't possible either. There's virtually no way heat can escape from a vacuum flask and a hot drink stored inside will stay steaming hot for several hours.
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It's that time of year again. With thanksgiving around the corner, holiday traveling is underway. Whether by car, train, bus or plane, high travel prices won't keep students from going home this thanksgiving.
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Yesterday one of my oldest, bestest friends and I went on a walk to relieve some dissertation/revision stress! We are so lucky living in Yorkshire to be surrounded by beautiful countryside.
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After having perfected the art of ice cream here and a competition being set here I knew exactly what I wanted to do for my next ice cream flavour. I am a chocoholic and my favourite ice cream is triple chocolate ice cream – chocolate flavour, with chocolate chips, and a chocolate sauce running through it. So, what better thing to do at home than make it myself?
I started by making the chocolate sauce and then went on to making the ice cream.
- 290mls milk
- 4 egg yolks
- 110g castor sugar - I used fructose
- 30mls cocoa powder
- 290mls cream
- 100g chocolate, chopped into pieces
- heat the milk in a sauce pan until it is nearly boiling
- while you are doing this, whisk the egg yolks and the sugar until they reach ribbon stage
- add half of the milk to the eggs while whisking
- pour the mixture back into the sauce pan and whisk in
- cook over a moderate heat while stirring all the time with a wooden spoon
- as soon as it has thickened enough to coat the back of a wooden spoon add 1 tablespoon of the cocoa and mix in well
- when mixed, add the second tablespoon of cocoa and mix in well
- when mixed take off the heat and whisk into the cream
- place all the ingredients into your ice cream maker
- churn according to the manufacturer's instructions
- pour into an ice cream container and stir in the chocolate chunks
- place into the freezer and after a couple of hours mix the ice cream to ensure an even distribution of the chocolate chunks
- you will need to warm the chocolate sauce before adding to the ice cream - add as much as your heart desires
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