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Come Ask Your Questions
Her question made me realize I really love the way comments and questions make me think. I learn so much from reading your comments—that's one of the greatest benefits of blogging. The comments have a way of taking us deeper with the topic than the original post.
In light of the long 4th of July holiday weekend, I'd originally planned to take a break from posting today. But after Krista's question, I decided I'd really like to hear more. So, I'm opening up the comments to your questions.
Feel free to ask anything. It doesn't have to be about me or my publishing journey. It can be anything you've been wondering about writing, marketing, social media, or publishing in general. I'd love to know the kinds of questions you're struggling with most, the issues closest to your heart right now.
I won't be responding to the questions within the comments this time. Instead, I'll store them away for future posts and try to answer them that way. But remember, since I'm no expert, you'll only get my lovely opinions on the matters!
I also wanted to take just a quick minute to say THANK YOU to ALL my blog readers. (And a very big thank you to my critique partner, Keli Gwyn, for the lovely gift pictured above!) If I haven't had the chance to personally connect with you yet, the best place to do that is on Twitter. Send me a tweet. I'd love to say hi! (Or if you're not on Twitter, stop by my Facebook page and say howdy.)
I don't have the chance to say thank you often enough. But I want you to know, it's because of you that blogging is such a pleasure.
So, fire away with your questions. What are you most curious about? What kinds of burdens are you shouldering? What's been hardest for you lately? What bothers you most in the publishing industry? Anything more you'd like know about my publishing journey?
*Come back Wednesday when I'll share how I find plot ideas, and Friday for how I organize all those ideas into a novel.
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When did you know you wanted to be a writer?ReplyDelete
~ Wendy
What do you do when your writing routine gets disrupted? How do you get yourself back on track? I'm struggling with the changes that the summer schedule has introduced and am curious how others adjust.ReplyDelete
Is it enough to call yourself a writer when you do it only for self satisfaction and the pleasure of sharing it with others?ReplyDelete
Or are you only a writer if you are published and won contests?
How do you find time to write with so many little darlin's running around your house (I'm trying to figure this out with just ONE!) :)ReplyDelete
Hmmm, I know I have questions but right now my brain is fuzzy. I'll keep this in mind though...ReplyDelete
And thank you! You know you're a part of this wonderful blogging community and you bless others just as much as you feel blessed!
I have that Willow Tree figurine, too. A friend bought it for me when I returned to school for my degree several years ago.ReplyDelete
I'm trying to create more of an online presence with limited time--Twitter, Facebook, building up my blog followers and blogging on a regular basis. I'm using time I have to write to interact with others...I need to find a nice balance.
To Jaime: I have 4 children, and they either keep each other entertained such that they don't bother me when I need to finish something, or they come by my desk one by one because they all seem to need me right that minute. The point is, though, that they often take care of each other.ReplyDelete
When you only have one (and yes I remember the days when I did), you are it for that child--no siblings for her (or him) to play with, dad's at work--so, no respite for you at all. But that partnership between you and your one child will pass away too quickly, so enjoy its beauty.
How long did it take you between starting to write The Preacher's Bride and querying it? I know you went through a professional editor, but I'm interested in your timetable for your first one.ReplyDelete
How important do you think Twitter is for writers? I just have never gotten the hang of it. Seems to me you have to spend so much time on the computer watching the tweets and seeing if one has something you need to know.ReplyDelete
I'm stuck on my revision. I need a revision class or something, to find my way through this! What are some revision tips you'd like to share or point to?ReplyDelete
I love reading historical fiction, but it's not something I write or even thought to write. Did you naturally fall into this genre? Do you write other genres as well?ReplyDelete
And how do you come up with all these great blog topics!
Your posts always reflect your loving heart, Jody, and your words bless us as readers. I wonder if, when you first began writing, you intended your novels to be a form of Christian outreach, or were you simply satisfying a desire to tell a good story?ReplyDelete
LOL! I started to read this and rub my hands together.... then I find out you're solicitating more questions, LOL! :-) I'm sure I have plenty but I'm on vacation today and have taken a VOW TO NOT THINK about ANYTHING too important today:-)ReplyDelete
I'll be inquisitive again tomorrow!
Great idea! You are always so "available" to us, Jody. I know before I pop over here that I am going to learn something useful or be encouraged in a powerful way. Thanks so much for all you do for the rest of us! :-)ReplyDelete
- AnonymousJuly 05, 2010 1:20 PM
You've mentioned you wrote several novels before beginning the querying process. What about those first novels told you that they were just "practice?" I've recently written my first novel and have sent several thousand words to a freelance editor just to get a professional's view on how far I am from being any good. Did you do something similar or was it just a gut feeling that you needed to grow?ReplyDelete
Now you're writing something all new. Any chance those early novels can be salvaged? I'm just trying to wrap my head around the idea of investing so much time and energy into something and then putting it aside.
*sigh* I just wrote a totally long comment and it disappeared on me. Take two;ReplyDelete
I'd love to hear about how it is working with an agent, especially one as awesome as Rachelle.
Does blogging ever become a grind?
I'm a homeschooler as well and I'd love to compare your writing schedule to mine when it comes to school days.
How do you think you'll react when you see your novel on the shelf in the bookstore? Fall on your knees? Bawl like a baby? Shake all surrounding unsuspecting customers? I really want to know!!!
You have a way of answering questions before they're asked! But here's mine: how did you know your ms was ready before querying? And how many rejections did you receive before you signed on with Rachelle? (maybe you've answered this before?)ReplyDelete
How important is blogging for someone who isn't yet published? I think I'm spending more time on blogging than I am on writing my novel. Am I putting the cart before the horse when I blog before my book is finished?ReplyDelete
As another commenter put, you're always so open to answering questions it's been a real treat see your journey with publishing. Thanks so much for allowing us this glimpse.ReplyDelete
Which method do you prefer writing the "first draft" longhand or typing?
Will you ever try to resurrect the works that got rejected?ReplyDelete
I'm dying to know how you keep up with it all. Home schooling, writing, blogging, normal motherly duties... I'm struggling with it all, and I leave the teaching to the schools. You amaze me!ReplyDelete
Hi, Jody. I just had my first face to face meeting with Bethany, at ICRS. The first since they offered me a contract.ReplyDelete
They were so nice, so SMART, so interesting to listen to. I loved it.
I heard you're new there so I'm going to read for a while and try to pay attention so I'll know what to expect...think of yourself as my 'canary in the mineshaft'. :)
Questions to ask... you've opened a big hole full of work for yourself. Just kidding, but I do have a question.ReplyDelete
When I first started looking for agents, I couldn't believe how many wanted my book, and that I would be able to choose. But now that the first book of the series is completed, and out there with my agent, looking for publishers, I feel like I've hit a stone wall.
My agent keeps telling me that this is the slow part, but I was wondering if you as a fellow writer would be able to set my mind at ease to whether that means I have written a book which is rubbish, or I just have to be more patient as my agent has suggested?
Sorry if I sound like I'm complaining, it''s just that I've been following a few blog sites on the topic of agents, and just started to wonder.
Hi Jody -ReplyDelete
I own several Willow Tree figurines. The one sitting on my desk is, "Wisdom, A lifelong love of learning." It's a little girl reading a book.
At this point, I'm content to read your answers to all these great questions.
Susan :)
These are great questions, so like Susan, I am looking forward to the answers. I appreciate all you do here and in the blogging world, thanks! Did I mention that I can't wait to read your book? :)ReplyDelete
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Hi Jody...My question is how does blogging or online interactions help writers who write for children, or who write MG/Chapter/Picture books or books for early readers. How do these writers connect with their readers, who will be in school.ReplyDelete
How kind of you, Jody! You already answer so many of my questions in your posts, but I would like to know...ReplyDelete
When I met Rachelle Gardener at the WTP conference last June, I mentioned your name. She said, "She is such a great writer!" What did you do to make it to the place where a top agent would say that about you? What steps did you take?
Thanks and love you,
I love to write, but my grammar...ehhh...lets just say I won't be getting a contract any time soon?ReplyDelete
Are there any courses online, (free or inexpensive-I don't have a lot of money in my Writing Expenses envelope) I'm in serious need of some refreshers.
I looked online, I know all the parts of speech but I have trouble distinguishing between certain things...when I see a word used to describe a certain part of the English language, I don't know what in the heck it is, until I see them...then I'm like..oh!
That's a gerund (spelling?)!
How do you keep on top of all the rules in the English lanugage?!
Wow! You've been pummeled enough.ReplyDelete
I'll enjoy reading the answers, which covered my questions.
Blessings, dear one!
I don't have a question right now, but want to thank you for this amazing blog. I learn something every time I come here, not just about writing, but about life and love and being as well.ReplyDelete
- AnonymousJuly 08, 2010 2:32 AM
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Useful article. I am writing my third novel as the earlier two head to that stage. I tried to rewrite the second one but could not concentrate. It was very difficult for me to unmake my creation. This was like making a new house. This realization egged me to start a third one.ReplyDelete
I queried widely (both) simultaneously but responses were identical, the same copy paste formal rejection. No agent as you know even decides to change even a word of her or his rejection letter. This kind of rejection frustrated me and recently i have decided to stop querying.
Sorry, i am passionate about my creation and it is not easy to unmake those unpublishable theme. In future i can think on writing fresh novel on those themes than salvage those. Better i would like to think them as practice papers.
Nevertheless, you have written a very good article. Thanks


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This is a touching scarf story of how Abba wants us to always focus on Him and that He is always watching out for us. Also the fact that we made exactly 2 more since we typically never usually have stock is pretty awesome too 🙂 Continue reading
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This young man placed an order with us for a couple of scarves and this is the beautiful testimony he had to share shortly after. Abba is just so amazing in how he uses every one of us in HIS and OUR unique way. Let's never let our gender get in the way of worshiping our King the way He puts it on our heart! It's so easy to let surroundings or people make us feel a certain way and intimidate us but always remember HE is the one that matters and soaks in our sincere worship towards Him 🙂 Continue reading
Special Order Tallit
Here we have a special order 35×84 8mm tassel tallit in the Divine Authority style. This was created at the request of a customer after the Father showed it to her in a dream. She LOVED the final product! Her response is below: Continue reading
Comfort in a Pruning Season
This is a fun scarf story (with pics and video) of a silk that went to Larisa! It is a 35×108 silk (she wears it all the time and the video below is her using it as a L streamer veil). Below she shares the story of her Cherished One silk in her own words: Continue reading
Believing God Loves…
I had the opportunity to do a trade with miss Kayla (of Blue Sheep Treasures). You may remember I shared an amazing Tree of Life necklace she created for me (see below) on Facebook – it was totally prophetic! And so we negotiated to do a trade for more. This silk (the first piece she got in trade) is a 14×72 called Love Song (which is the silk used in the Dyed4you Art piece Speak Tenderly). Continue reading
Covered in the Storm
This 35×84 silk called Covered by His Feathers that had tassels added truly blessed its recipient upon its arrival. I'll let her tell you the story herself, but let me just say we serve an AWESOME God whose timing is impeccable and love for us is beyond measure!
Beaded Tallit
Just a quick demo on our Beaded Ladies Tallit – this one is called Joy Comes in the Morning. These are delicate and beautiful. Each one is unique with its handmade beaded tzitzits and Hebrew lettering to go with your silk letter.
God TV Scarf Sighting
A friend from my old church was on God TV with an amazing healing testimony – and she's sporting her 30×30 Dyed4you silk called His Light. I know you'll be blessed by her amazing story 🙂 Continue reading
Burnout Scarf
This is a fun special order item – a burnout scarf! This size is a 15×60 with another 7″ of fringe approximately and it is in a style called Shroud. These feel so luxurious – for an approximate price idea check out out crepe fringes. Continue reading
XLR Quills and 14×72 Stonewashed Silk
Joshua using a pair of XLR quill flags called Transformed (you've seen him with these before) during their church service while he's wearing a 14×72 stonewashed silk called Hunger & Thirst. You can also see his Holy Fire swing flags on the table in the foreground 😉 Continue reading
Huge Confirmation
Six plus years and I never grow tired of hearing the testimonies! This is a 35×84 silk that was birthed just recently and was some timely confirmation…
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Circle Scarf
This is a fun special order item – it is called a circle scarf! It's much like our 22×72 only it is connected at what would be the bottom creating a large circle 🙂 Continue reading
Fear Not
You got to see a pair of Fear Not swing flags a while back, well this is an 11×60 silk that was created at the same time. I've nicknamed this style the "fear buster" 🙂
She received this as a gift and was very blessed by it! It is a great tangible reminder that we have not been given a spirit of fear, but power, love and a sound mind! Continue reading
Wall Builder
This was a gift purchased by a ministry leader for one of the ministries intercessors… the first intercessor. She got a 22×72 tassel tallit complete with Hebrew lettering as well as a copy of a yet-unreleased piece of Dyed4you Art called Frontline Warriors (which you've heard mentioned before and can see below). Continue reading
Feast of Trumpets Dance
What a difference a year makes! This is another video from my church's Feast of Trumpet's conference and in it you will see Allissa with the very first swing flags she got from Dyed4you just a little over a year ago. 🙂 Continue reading
Happily Distracted by Silk
A quick video snippet from this weekend at church. My little buddy (who you've seen before) had an allergic reaction to something someone had fed him. After we prayed and had done all we could do, we simply had to wait. And nothing keeps my buddy Isaiah happier than some silk 🙂 Continue reading
Gifting a Taking the Land Silk
I know how hard it is to gift one of your favorite silks – Father has done it to me more than once! So I understood the weight of this gift since I knew this silk was a favorite of hers, but when Father prompts you to bless someone, how can you be blessed by withholding the blessing? Sow in tears and reap in joy 🙂 Continue reading
Precious in her New Silk
You've seen this cutie-pie before in NextGen Dyed4you Community 🙂
In these she's sporting the new 21×21 silk her grandmother got her called Perfect Love, which is perfect on her! Continue reading
God Answering Her Questions
Recently, I had someone order a scarf for someone who is Russian and speaks no English. I have a Facebook friend who is Russian – someone I had never met before, but was acquainted with through mutual friends because she is part of our online church family – and so I contacted her and asked if she would translate for me, which she was happy to do. As a thank you, Father instructed me to send her a silk of her own 🙂
Quill from Dream Manifested
This is a beautiful story about a pair of 35″ (L) quills, a 30×30 silk and a bottle of Restoration oil from the Scent of Heaven. What's fun about this story is that when she ordered I didn't know they all were for her – she also ordered another silk and oil as a gift, and so I thought BOTH silk/oil combos were gifts! When I went to package the order to ship it and finally noticed that the quills were named Flourishing Hope and the 30×30 silk was named Hope I thought to myself, "I can't send her two things with the name so similar!!!" In the end, I sent what Father had told me to (of course) 😉 Continue reading


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Hey gang,
Regarding Kristen's question about leveling speed.
It's a tough question, because player enjoyment (which for many of us, myself included) often comes from seeing our characters evolve both roleplaying wise and power-wise. It's always fun to get new powers/skills/spells, especially at low levels when we have so few.
On the other hand, it's important not to level too quickly, so as to a) give ourselves time to integrate our new abilities and get to use them, b) not change TOO quickly (our characters current "OMG We're nobodies stuck in this frontier fort and we have to fight bandits" state of mind is fun because of our low power status right now) and c) for the GM a more measured rate of advancement allows for more planing in the developpment of a campaign. When your players advance too quickly it sometimes screws up planned adventures story-threads, because it's no ,onger in the player's playing field.
All that said, my personnal rate of advancement is usually 5-6 games to levell. I can live with an occasionnal 7 or 8, but beyond that I start getting the "are we leveling yet?" feeling. As to how to resolve the system's challenge-only xp system, I'll have to give it some more thought.
With that, love to you all, hugs and merry christmas.


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• Prep time: 30 mins
• Cook Time: 15 mins
• Makes: 10 medium stuffed balls
That's a tasty snack. How many calories per ball would you say we're talking about? I think at least 250 calories in my best guess. Delicious but hard on the diet.ReplyDelete
Wowww!!! Take it easy Mr Adela...250 calories per ball is definitely too much :). According to research, 1 milk cup of pounded yam contains 400 calories so each ball is probably far less than 250 calories (okay maybe i'm trying to overlook the oil used in frying).Delete
u give best recipes.. def trying this out :D
DEFINITELY TRYING THIS OUT. THANKSReplyDelete
With the pictures, it looks easy to make. Will try this.ReplyDelete
You are really talented Dobby! Where in the world did you learn how to make these? Wow! Will definitely try it soon.ReplyDelete
Dobby well done. U and matse are doing great ketchen job,putting smiles into the face of many while eating. Thanks for sharing your talentReplyDelete
It luks gud nd appetizing wil gv it a try.ReplyDelete
Really like thisReplyDelete
I cnt wait for sat to try dis outReplyDelete
I will definitely try this. My children don't like conventional yam dishes.ReplyDelete
I must try this out. my hubby doesn't like yam much, tryna see other ways of making it interesting for him.ReplyDelete
Thanks for this Dobby.. I will try this out!!ReplyDelete
nice recipe. different from the one i know. a must try
Great recipe Dobby! Can the yam balls be deep fried in a deep fryer? Or should we fry it in the same amount of oil as we will for puff puff?ReplyDelete
I tried it and it tasted great!!!!! ���� and filling as well. Tried it with the pepper sauce recipe.. its superb!! Thanks Dobby!!! ��������.
honestly i dont know about u guys but for me this is one of the best site i have seen dat i get idea on cooking. d ones known or d other way round.
thank u keep it up.
Can I bake it?ReplyDelete
wow, i love this, very easy than the one i know. thank u dobby.ReplyDelete
Nice recipe. May I know if I could use Irish potato for this as yam is not easily found where I reside. Thank youReplyDelete
Wonderful post however I was wanting to know if you could write a litte more on this topic?
I'd be very grateful if you could elaborate a little bit more.
I could not refrain from commenting. Very well written!ReplyDelete
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One particularly bleary-eyed Monday morning, I received an email from Levi's with a new denim style to show me. It was called the Wedgie.
After some aggressive blinking and another swallow of caffeine, I looked again. Wedgie. The Wedgie. (The Wedgie?)
Imagining this as some sort of typo, I perked up and clicked (you know, it's my job to look into these important matters to deliver to you, fine readers, out there!), and there it was:
"The Wedgie is vintage-inspired and embodies the heritage of the iconic 505 jean—the classic straight, slim fitting jean of the 1960s," said the press release. "The back pockets are slightly tilted inwards to give women that perfectly round derrière that vintage Levi's styles achieve so well."
Pardon me, Levi's? Did you just promise me—and you* Glamour *readers—the perfect butt? This, I had to try.
Now, we've been talking a lot about butts lately, with the Kardashians and/or Jenners typically spurring the conversation. Everyone, it seems, wants a pert, round, butt (no boots with the fur, thank you very much!). The bigger-the-better rear has never really been my thing, personally. I'm more of the bigger-the-handbag-the-better type of woman, after all. No judgements; I can recite "Baby Got Back" in iambic pentameter, upon a challenge (bring it), but my butt is something I've been hiding for, oh, a couple of decades or so—not my greatest asset (badum, chhh)—so, I figure OK, Levi's, let's see what you got!
When the jeans arrived soon after, the name "Wedgie" brought back some particularly juvenile high-school happenings, but I powered though and put them on—well, wiggled in was more like it. They have a nipped-in waist and a roomy seat with narrow legs.
First thought: I'm kind of having a Kylie Jenner moment.
Second thought: No, really!
You guys, I have never liked my butt before. Like, even a little. But maybe it was just about the wrong jeans! Because hey now, look at what these jeans did to it:
Sure, you don't have a "Before Butt" picture, so you'll have to trust me on this one, because it looks, like a totally different body. The way the back pockets tilt inward and are set far a part gives the roundness and the pocket placement at the bottom of the tush gives some lift. Not to mention, they are the cool-girl jeans I've been looking for, ever since I met Simone Kitchens, our beyond-chic associate beauty director, whose vintage denim collection is* insane*. And if the reaction from my fellow editors is any indication—they were just short of whistling—you'll be getting some attention yourself when you wear them!
Oh and the reason behind the name Wedgie has nothing to do with childish pranks. Rather it's a vintage term according to a brand spokeswoman, "as it is designed to create that vintage hugged look."
So guys, be delicate in the comments, OK? It takes a lot of courage to show your butt to the world (I guess this is my first belfie?). And if you try the jeans, you've got to let us know what you think. We're dying to hear.
The jeans retail from $88 to $98 at Levis.com.
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Procera AVH is a brain supplement using the herbal remedy approach to the issue of mood enhancement, brain fog, forgetfulness, mood swings, sleep loss, aging, and poor diet. The formula seems to address a rather high number of health issues given the fact that it only features three powerful nutrients. These health claims are not sufficiently scientifically supported as we will try to demonstrate further in this review
Is Procera AVH Right For You?
Procera AVH is another brain supplement using the herbal remedy approach to improving mood, reduce brain fog, forgetfulness, and mood swings, support restful sleep, slow down the natural aging process, and reduce the impact of poor diet. The company behind this product is Brain Research Labs.
This is one of the very few supplements manufactured by Brain Research Labs. Currently, the other products offered by this company are Ceraplex, GABArest, and Omega-3 DHA.
The official website claims their formulas are the result of many years of research alongside top neurosurgeons, neurologists, cognitive psychologists and neuroscientists from prestigious medical schools and universities. This particular formulation is marketed as a medical breakthrough, which was clinically shown to improve memory skills and rejuvenate brain function by 10-15 years. Although the name of the testing institution is revealed (Brain Sciences Institute – Australia), the methodology, age category, the number of subjects or the specific findings are not disclosed to the public.
The manufacturer's page continues to praise the formula's qualities by further describing it as a "patented product with a unique composition." The formula is claimed to owe its brain boosting effects to an herbal extract called Vinpocetine also shown to have the ability to enhance mood, focus, and concentration while improving memory and mental clarity.
Procera AVH is claimed to comply with all the conditions that make it a high quality, trustworthy source of brain nutrients:
- It has been clinically tested in a study that involved a pretty decent number of people (over 75 subjects as stated on the official site);
- It contains the minimal dosage of active constituents (proven effective in valid scientific trials or studies);
- The study complies with the FDA's guidelines (meaning it is a randomized, double blind, and placebo controlled);
- The study protocol has been approved by an independent review board.
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Ingredients of Procera AVH
Procera AVH contains the following ingredients: Proprietary blend (Vinpocetine, Huperzine A, Acetyl –L Carnitine), microcrystalline cellulose, dicalcium phosphate, stearic acid, croscarmellose sodium, magnesium stearate, silica and film coating (hypromellose, hydroxypropyl cellulose, polyethylene glycol).


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Daily Divine: Living outdoors.
If you're in a place where you can open the windows and let the breeze in, where you can wander outside frequently… do this!
Being outdoors changes us.
In summer for example, when we are up and out more: walking, biking, swimming, getting up early with the birds, staying up late and watching the sun set…. all of this expands us.
Our skin needs to breathe real air.
Our bodies need to be in light.
We need to feel the diverse and diffuse vibration that only nature can create.
With the longer days of summer, we experience pure delight, and this is because we can be outside more and more hours of the day.
We do better, as humans, when we honor our bodies, our true animal selves: when we can be in extended periods of contact with nature.
That's because we are nature too.
Not separate.
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The Adventures of Charls, the Veretian Cloth Merchant (Captive Prince Short Stories, #3) by C.S. Pacat
I'm a little late getting to the third short story installment of the Captive Prince series. Last year was not the best for me so my reading suffered because of it. Hence, why I am getting to this short story so late. But with the release of PET, the final short story in the series, I felt it was about time I caught up with the series and finish this amazing series C.S. Pacat created for all of her readers to enjoy.
I want to start off by saying that as an author, C.S. Pacat can do no wrong. I love her stories so much. They manage to capture my imagination from the very first line to the very last page. Her writing is intricate and flows so well from one scene to the next. She can create vasts worlds with a rich lore and characters to help bring that world to life. I am in awe of her writing abilities.
In this story, we follow the merchant Charls on a trade route where he discovers, from the help of Laurent and Damen, that someone is discrediting his name all throughout the land. It's such a light-hearted romp with these character, a nice change of pace seeing as how they majority of their experiences is covered in pain. I had so much fun reading about Charls still not realizing that "Lamen" is Damen in disguise and how he worried for his relationship with Laurent. It was such a cute and endearing short story where we get to see more of Laurent and Damen's relationship blossom even more and I loved every single minute of it.
If you've read every single story placed in the Captive Prince world so far then, of course, read this one. It's an incredible addition to the world and we get to see more of Charls hilarity which, to me, is just a bonus. Plus, you get to see more of Laurent being sassy and flirty with Damen, and who doesn't love that? Highly recommend you read this short story!


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A movement to end high-stakes testing in New York State and our nation. Parents need to start this revolution by opting out their children from state testing programs in order to take back public education from the corporate reformers who are destroying the education of our children.
OK New York, it's time to CHOOSE TO REFUSE! Keep Calm and Refuse the Tests! #ChooseToRefuse
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Portfolio Project: Interactive CV
I previously created an infographic CV last year, but now I'm moving it a step forward by making an interactive one. I'm using InDesign for this, as it has a lot of interactivity built-in. Buttons, links, rollovers and navigation are all quite simple to do, and there is a lot of help online to start even if you have never used InDesign before. I found this tutorial helpful when trying to create buttons.
There are, however, some known bugs that create issues with buttons. Make sure that you have the latest Adobe Reader installed or it will drive you mad.
I'm keeping to the same colour palette as my other websites and portfolio material. It will include a 'featured' section, some more information about my work and skills, and ways to contact me.
This is designed with a landscape orientation because it will primarily be viewed on a PC or laptop. Equally, it will still work as a printout.
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National and European Identity: The case of France
Title: National and European Identity: The case of France
Author: GUINAUDEAU, Isabelle
Date: 2011
Citation: Dieter FUCHS and Hans-Dieter KLINGEMANN (eds), Cultural Diversity, European Identity and the Legitimacy of the EU, Cheltenham/Northampton, Edward Elgar Publishing, 2011, Studies in EU Reform and Enlargement, 123-142
There is no simple relationship between national and European identity. Identifications fluctuate over the course of time as well as between individuals and sub-groups within the same nation – elements which are too often hidden by figures aggregated at the country level. A historical review of French conceptions of national identity confirms that the often encountered description of France as a political type of nation is an oversimplification: in addition of the politically based conception, specific groups always defended a more culturally based conception of nation. However, the empirical analyses of the ISSP 2003 national identity survey indicate that the political definition of nation has indeed a much wider reception in France than the cultural definition. Another French specificity consists in the highly disseminated distribution of respondents as to the type of national identity. Linear regressions establish that only the cultural type of national identity tends to be negatively associated with a European identity. The fact that only a minority of French citizens appear to uphold a cultural national identity suggests that national identity alone cannot be held accountable for Euroscepticism in France.
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Will the real Darren Clarke please stand up?
Darren Clarke would insist he's not a vain man but he was horrified that his svelte new-look had Twitter wags comparing him to former "Stars in Their Eyes" TV host Matthew Kelly, famous for his white stubbled chin as contestants impersonated showbiz stars for the masses.
"Tonight, Matthew, I'm going to be Matthew Kelly," would have been Clarke's opening line according to the Twitterati —" I didn't like that comparison at all!"
Given the multiple faces the 46-year old Dungannon man has shown the world over the last 23 years, he'd be equally at home on "What's My Line" where Eamonn Andrews would be asking "Could the real Darren Clarke, please stand up?"
Few golfers have shown as many personas to the world as Clarke - genial and fun-loving one moment, laughing and smiling with cigar in hand as the people's favourite, only to be transformed into a walking volcano for the waiting press, a brooding presence whose mood varied depending on his score.
So who's he real Darren Clarke? The bleach blonde amateur in the two-tone golf shoes? The cigar-chomping, beer drinking lad with the gut, beloved of the lads down at the pub? The widower, the hard-worker or the hothead? Or the thin, white-haired Duke of our TV screens during the recent Ryder Cup?
Speaking at "An Audience with Darren Clarke" at The K Club's Smurfit Course last Friday — a marketing vehicle for the "Educogym" fitness system that has transformed him physically in less than a year — he admitted to interviewer Shane O'Donoghue that his larger his life persona began as a teenager's desire to stand out from the crowd and cover up some insecurities.
"Why would you want to be the same, run of the mills as everybody else," he said of his desire to standout from the other amateurs in his day by dyeing his hair blonde and sporting flashy golf shoes that matched his equally brash golf game.
"If you want to be different you have to have a little bit of …. Is arrogance the wrong word? Maybe it is arrogance. But you have got to feel as if you are a little bit different."
Asked by O'Donoghue if he was supremely confident as a teenager or if it had all been an act, he said: "Of course, it is all a but of a act. For everybody it is a bit of an act. Confidence comes and confidence goes. But do you want to show your weakness or portray something different? It is the same in any walk of life.
"Do you want to be somebody that you look up to or somebody that you look down to? You want to be somebody to look up to, no matter what you do. And if you look better and you stand out a little bit more, then everybody is going to look up to you, whether it is right or wrong, we shall see."
Clarke admitted that in golf, his aggressive philosophy was "lie by the sword, die by the sword" and he might have won more had he been more clever.
His off-course decisions have also come at a price.
He was once bosom buddies with Paul McGinley until the race for the 2014 Ryder Cup captaincy, described by outgoing European Tour CEO ats "unseemly", drove an already damaged friendship onto the rocks.
His image as just one of the boys, which has made him the darling of US golf fans and had them, by his own admission, "throwing beers at me, throwing cigars at me" has been blown out of the water since he met Educogym founder Jamie Myerscough at a charity Pro-Am 12 months ago and set about transforming his body.
Weighing in at more than 18 stone at his very heaviest, Clarke shed almost 50lbs in 13 weeks last winter going from a 42 to a 32 inch waist through a regime of no-sugar, weightlifting and what he admits was "OCD" driven determination to make the system work.
He is now almost unrecognisable, prompting those Matthew Kelly jibes from viewers who didn't get to study him up close until he sat in the pundit's chair during the Ryder Cup for Sky Sports and US TV.
Fast forward just over a month and he's considered by European Tour insiders as a virtually certainty to be name 2016 Ryder Cup captain by a five-man committee, which will include McGinley, early next year.
Whether political astuteness or simple common sense has also transformed him into a McGinley fan remains to be seen but his insistence on stage on Friday that the Dubliner will be the first person he rings for advice if he gets the Ryder Cup captaincy certainly struck a chord and gives a whole new meaning to the term Operation Transformation.
"If I was fortunate enough to be given the job, Paul would be my first port of call," Clarke insisted onstage." I think every European Ryder Cup captain, it has meant so much to them that all they want to do is help their successor."
Asked to elaborate after the show, he smile and said: "He'd be the first phone call, why wouldn't he be?"
There are many reasons why it would be an awkward phone call considering they have no relationship bar a nodding acquaintance these days.
Clarke sent McGinley a letter in 2011 offering his support for the 2014 captaincy but later changed his mind and put himself forward for the role.
He withdrew when it became clear that he might be lack support from the players and committee members and when Tom Watson was named as the USA captain, Clarke appeared to suggest (without naming names) that the 2010 captain Colin Montgomerie should also be considered.
"Whoever it is standing on that stage opposite Watson needs a huge presence," Clarke said, ending whatever remained of his friendship with McGinley.
On Friday, just an hour or so after McGinley had hosted an outing for his sponsors Allianz on the opposite side of the River Liffey at the Palmer Course, Clarke tried to suggest that the idea that he was anti-McGinley was a media driven misconception.
"That was a very, very tough period because Paul, first and foremost was an incredible captain," he said of the controversy. "He got everything dead right. The only thing that Paul possibly got wrong was Poults and Stephen Gallacher not working out for him. But he did everything unbelievably well.
"At the time everything was coming up (in the captaincy race), I was perceived as going completely against Paul, which was not the case. Somebody got the idea of what was going on, they ran with it. I was never given the opportunity to state my cause and I am not going to get into it now.
"But he was a wonderful captain and thoroughly deserved all the backslapping he has had since. You could not fault him in any shape or form.
"We still speak but we were strained. But at the end of the day, I have nothing but a huge amount of respect for Paul and always will do."
Asked to explain exactly what happened and to clear up the confusion over his real stance on McGinley during that captaincy campaign, Clarke refused.
Getting ready for a great night with @DarrenClarke60 here @KClub with @educogym. Talking life, career & weight loss! pic.twitter.com/0npHY4yPMN— Shane O'Donoghue (@ShaneODonoghue) November 7, 2014
"There is no point in dragging up anything that has gone on in the past because Paul has done such a fantastic job," he insisted. "There is no point in going anywhere backwards. End of."
If all goes to plan and Clarke — who has been publicly backed by Rory McIlroy, Graeme McDowell, Padraig Harrington and Lee Westwood — is preferred to Miguel Angel Jimenez for the 2016 captaincy, he knows he must build the template refined by McGinley and sit down and talk.
"Brilliant. Everything he did was wonderful. Paul had his plans of what he wanted to do and had it down to the fine tee," he said.
Clarke also refuses to comment on the disastrous American aftermath of the defeat that began with Phil Mickelson's public humiliation of Tom Watson, leading to the eventual resignation of PGA of American president Ted Bishop and the creation of a "Task Force" to stop Europe winning their ninth Ryder Cup in 11 editions at Hazeltine.
Asked if the Americans, in reality, had simply been guilty of the cardinal sin of disrespecting or underestimating the enemy, Clarke could not disagree.
"Of course," he said. "They were up against a really good team."
As for the fallout that has rocked the US Ryder Cup set up, he was reluctant to comment but simply added that the back-biting and soul-searching (and the "Task Force") was a good sign for Europe.
"It's great to see it means so much to them," he sad. "They were up against a very strong, well organised, well captained team."
Filling McGinley's shoes, will make losign 50 lbs look easy. But Clarke, never a man to shirk a challenge, is up for the job.
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Many angels swoop in to help save vets' shuttle
Here's some excellent news to muse while enjoying your morning cuppa coffee: The Veterans Express, the shuttle service that helps our vets get to VA appointments in Santa Barbara and Los Angeles, has been funded for another year, courtesy of a semi-anonymous angel.
The shuttle — overseen by Ride-On Transportation — was veering toward extinction as of June 30 if $26,000 in operating costs couldn't be found. Well, it's July 1, and the shuttle is funded.
The short story is that a gentleman named Dell — a Central Valley resident who has a home and a couple of sons living in San Luis Obispo — heard about the shuttle's plight while on a visit to the area.
According to Mark Shaffer, executive director of Ride-On, Dell — a Vietnam vet — immediately pledged $26,000 and then "came in the next day and cut a check for $10,000."
I'll take a moment for that to sink in, then ask: Do adjectives like "wonderful" and "amazing" fall short in doing justice to Dell's generosity? And yet this angel's contribution is just part of the story; there are many other angels out there.
Consider Donna Donovan, a proud member of the San Luis Obispo Elks Lodge No. 322. Donna and her benevolent brothers and sisters have been supporting the shuttle since 2007, taking up monthly collections that now total $1,851.73.
Consider, too, 9-year-old Hannah Amador, who donated all of her pennies totaling $4.47 to the veterans shuttle.
Or Jim Neil, who donated $50 in the memory of Chuck Piper, the Elks' previous services chairman. The Santa Maria Elks are now also considering funding the shuttle.
Ride-On's Shaffer adds that a "gentleman with the Boy Scouts is creating a committee to raise funds, with its first meeting to be held this week." Another gentleman is donating $100 a month for a year on his MasterCard. (Ride-On is working on a homepage for online giving. It should be up and running this month.)
And let's not forget Greg Shearer, who's been carrying a disproportionate load in keeping the service funded with annual fundraisers since 2005. Shearer is planning yet another round of golf and poker tournaments and a barbecue on Veterans Day, with all the proceeds going to the shuttle.And then there's Ron Waltman.
Last August, I wrote about veteran John De Sousa, who, through a series of governmental Kafkaesque contortions, found that although he'd served his country honorably in the military, he wasn't an American citizen.
Waltman, who's the commander of American Legion Post 432 in Cambria, kicked the issue in the slats by rallying as many legion posts as he could find to petition Rep. Lois Capps on De Sousa's behalf. They were successful, and De Sousa's citizenship was expedited.
Waltman and Post 432 have now directed their resources toward Capps in finding permanent federal funding for the shuttle.
In a letter dated June 25, Waltman wrote to Capps, saying in part: "This seems like a familiar song. Our veterans sacrifice for all of us, but when the time comes that they need help, our government says there is some bureaucratic glitch that prevents them from doing the right thing. We are asking you to cut the red tape. The VA has funds for veteran transportation expenses. Many of our aging veterans are not able to get from San Luis Obispo to Santa Maria without the critically provided assistance from Ride-On ... You need to find a way that the VA can reimburse Ride-On for this service."
Ride-On's Shaffer says he and others will be meeting with representatives for Capps and Rep. Kevin McCarthy this month to get the VA to participate "so we won't be in this same spot next year."
And as to the congressional excuse that the VA can't interface with Ride-On, well, that's simply a canard.
"We're considered part of a government entity (Consolidated Transportation Services)," Shaffer says. "We have exempt license plates, for God's sake."
As to future federal funding for a service that our country OWES to those who went into harm's way, here's a note to Reps. Capps and McCarthy: $26,000 is roughly what the government spends in 1 minute, 10 seconds, according to usdebtclock.org. Must this vital service depend on the good graces of a child and her cache of pennies to survive?
I didn't think so, either.
Bill Morem can be reached at firstname.lastname@example.com or 781-7852.


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Baltimore is not known as a hotbed of Thai cuisine, so when one choice outlet is lost, it reverberates throughout the community. Such was the case with Mount Vernon's My Thai, which was destroyed by a 2010 fire. But like the lead character in a foodie drama, the restaurant is getting a second chance, reopening in the Holland Tack Factory building, next to Heavy Seas Alehouse in Little Italy. My Thai (1300 Bank St., [410] 327-0023, mythaibaltimore.com) still faces the daunting task of re-establishing itself as a go-to place for Thai food in the city, but if the meal we had there was any indication, they are off to a good start.
The restaurant that used to be Lemongrass has been stripped of all decorations and giant Buddha statues. My Thai takes a minimalist approach to the room and lets the space speak for itself, with industrial design and a gorgeous 40-foot bar. The back room is large and features large communal tables; the front contains smaller tables as well as a new grill bar that features a revolving menu of Thai street foods. It was there that our meal began.
Grilled beef tongue ($7) was a good starter. Charred and skewered slices of tongue were propped up over a grilled rice ball sitting on top of a mango salad, chives, and a ginger and garlic soy sauce reduction. The meat was seasoned and grilled properly but a bit chewy. The rice was a delicious surprise: It was as if they sliced a puck of congee (rice porridge) and fried it on both sides until crisp. It mixed wonderfully with the meat and the salad underneath. Chicken livers ($6) were fried with a crunchy batter but came out slightly overdone. The baby bok choy with sweet soy beans and oyster sauce made up for the mistake and kept us coming back until the plate was empty. The crispy green beans ($6) owed their crunch to a light tempura batter that didn't overwhelm the green beans and kept the dish from becoming heavy or oily. The sweet black pepper sauce accented the beans well.
The drinks at My Thai, while not particularly Thai in nature, complemented the cuisine and showed a sophistication missing from many cocktail lists. The "Legally Yours" ($8) was a mix of absinthe, apple vodka, sour-apple liqueur, and cava. The anise flavor peeked through a sour haze which was lightened up by the cava at the end. The lovely green and cloudy appearance of the drink gives the drinker the impression that they're drinking a potion. The "Eye Opener" ($8) was refreshing and sweet, a combination of whiskey, honey, cucumber liquor, and muddled basil. The drink was balanced, with none of its ingredients overpowering each other.
After the street-food station, the menu hewed more closely to dishes traditionally found in American Thai outlets but was nevertheless well-executed. The tom ka gai ($5), or coconut chicken soup, was delightfully pungent, full of vegetables and chicken, and lemony, with coconut milk to take the edge off. The My Thai noodle bowl ($7) contained a good amount of roasted duck meat and Chinese broccoli situated between rice noodles and a sweet and meaty broth. It was ruined only when I decided to be a hero with the jars of various chili preparations brought to the table at the start of the meal. Luckily I was 75 percent finished before I accidentally made the dish a sadistic hell-broth of duck and chilies. The duck curry ($14), like most of the dishes at My Thai, can have its spice/heat level adjusted to taste. Gun-shy after the chili experience, we ordered ours medium and it was still plenty spicy. The red curry and coconut milk broth intertwined with the duck, pineapple, tomato, and peas to create an exotic mashup. The heat level built up to a sinus-clearing crescendo by the end, but it was a bearable burn.
Dessert was coconut custard with sticky rice ($5). The thick slice of coconut custard was rich, creamy, and full of coconut flavor. The rice it was served with added a texture change but otherwise just interfered with great custard. Like the proverbial phoenix, My Thai has made its way out of the ashes to become bigger and at least as good as the previous incarnation. Given how recently it reopened, it has the potential to become much, much better.
My Thai is open Sunday to Thursday 11:30 A.M. to 10:00 P.M., and Friday and Saturday 11:30 A.M. to midnight.


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The BTtoP Project, in partnership with the S. Engelhard Center and the Association of American Colleges and Universities, has for nearly eleven years offered theoretical, financial, and practical assistance to colleges and universities of all types working to strengthen their campus cultures for learning. These campuses are among the most intentional in addressing an underlying issue higher education now faces—the uncertainty regarding its core purposes and thereby its failure to achieve an integrative vision of educational aims and outcomes. All of the other issues facing higher education—spiraling costs, access, how to adapt new pedagogies, technologies and "delivery systems," etc.—will be resolved or not depending on how the underlying issue of purpose is addressed. To that end, the Project has encouraged all campus constituents to devote their energies, resources, and attention toward support for the whole learner and opportunities for engagement and purposefulness—intellectual, emotive, behavioral, and civic.
We have supported campus initiatives that have deepened engaged learning opportunities; encouraged student well-being, self-realization, and flourishing; and led the campus to a deeper understanding of what 'the civic,' civic learning, and actions entail. And, recognizing the need to seek reliable indices for achieving such objectives, we have worked to provide means for direct assessment of core outcomes and their interrelatedness.
Throughout the earlier years of our work, our research, conference programs, and grant support (including over twenty multiyear demonstration site grants) focused on identifying and assessing engaged learning. The capstone of that work was the publication of Transforming Undergraduate Education: Theory that Compels and Practices that Succeed (Rowman & Littlefield Publishers, 2012).
During the same period, the Project began a commitment to deepen and to help realize the civic mission of our colleges and universities. To achieve this objective, the Project committed to publishing a Civic Series of five volumes exploring the connection between the civic and contemporary higher education. The first of those volumes, Civic Provocations, was distributed without charge to 40,000 faculty, administrators, and practitioners in 2012. The next four volumes will appear over the next eighteen months. Supplementing the Civic Series, the Project will provide institutional grants—up to 200—to campuses designing inclusive conversations about their own institutional civic missions.
We are currently designing the means and processes that, as a Project, we will use to support institutions in addressing the psychosocial development, flourishing, and well-being (the choice of language fitting the campus culture) of their students.
Having higher education institutions present, develop, understand, and assess their psychosocial mission will require significant campus support. While appropriately concerned with students who are floundering or suffering, and how a campus culture can use learning opportunities to identify and assist them, we are more focused on an even larger population of students who are not, in the language we have borrowed from the research of Corey Keyes, truly flourishing—and on what campuses could be doing to help all students flourish.
BTtoP cofounder and primary funder Sally Engelhard Pingree is leading our efforts. We have held two small seminars of scholars, presidents, faculty, students, and student affairs professionals to discuss the optional processes and practices that we could meaningfully support. It appears that BTtoP will be one of the few organizations calling for the greater realization of higher education's psychosocial mission—viewing it as an integral and interdependent aspect of the institution's core purpose. At a time of multiple demands on campus priorities, it will not be an easy case to make. We will be inviting campuses to share their best ideas regarding what, for their campus and students, the psychosocial mission can mean, and what sustainable plans they have for action—plans that are intentional in involving their students. Our effort will be to support those campus efforts with various levels of grant support.
As we go forward with our work to lift up student well-being as the third "leg" (the first being engaged learning; the second the civic) of BTtoP's agenda, we ask for your thoughts and suggestions. We need your consideration of many questions: How will any specific language of well-being or flourishing get integrated into the general discourse regarding higher education's integrated mission? How does student flourishing become understood as essential—and not accidental—to academic learning opportunities? To civic opportunities? And most importantly, how does flourishing apply to the whole student and to all students? How can it be understood as integral to the work of all campus constituencies and not an "add on?"
Thank you in advance for your thoughts and suggestions as we move this important agenda forward.


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She brings to Higgs a substantial background in criminal litigation covering state, federal, and juvenile courts spanning both criminal prosecution and defense.
In 2016, Ms. Conforti was named to San Diego Business Journal's "Best of the Bar," a list honoring 293 local attorneys chosen by their peers as the most outstanding in their field. She has been nominated for both the Young Attorneys 2011 for the San Diego Daily Transcript and Outstanding Young Attorneys 2011 for UT San Diego.
With community engagement a priority to Ms. Conforti, she maintains active involvement in a number of organizations. In 2008, she teamed up with San Diego High School L.E.A.D.S. and established the "Peer Court Program," a peer mediation group dedicated to resolving conflict among students, their peers, and faculty. Ms. Conforti is currently serving as a Board of Director for California Western's Alumni Association and is an active member of the San Diego Family Law Bar Association.
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- ABA Spring Conference, Family Law Section, Panelist, May 2015
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The 2008 hunting season was unsuccessful. For the first time in years we had no venison in our freezer. I volunteered to drive to the butcher's and pick up a processed deer for a more fortunate hunting buddy. Surely, he would take pity on me and toss me a steak or two for my trouble.
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I told the Trooper I would call the game commission and report a road kill, which seemed to satisfy him. The buck was killed by the collision, but looked undamaged, so I dragged the deer into the woods to field dressed it. The Trooper helped me hoist the buck into the trunk. Before I left, I extracted a broken antler from the poor fellow's radiator.
We finished our trip to the butcher's, picked up my friend's venison, and dropped off a fresh kill. I was happy that this deer would go in my freezer, and not go to waste by the side of the road.


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11 Video Lessons
Options Expiration & Assignment
Regardless if trade weekly or monthly options you are going to consistently go through expiration each year. That said, you should feel 100% comfortable with the expiration, exercise and assignment process when you eventually encounter it - because you undoubtedly will if you plan to trade options long-term for income.
Our goal is to make sure you understand the logistics of how each process works and the parties involved. If you don't feel confident in the processes or have questions that you just can't seem to get answered, then this section will help you.
Options Expiration Explained
Unlike traditional stock investing, all options contracts have a limited lifespan and a definitive "end date" or "expiration date" at which ...
What is the Options Clearing Corporation (OCC)?
The Options Clearing Corporation (OCC) is jointly owned by the exchanges that trade options and issues all listed options and controls and e...
Physical vs Cash Settlement Options
The difference between Physical vs Cash Settlement for options trading is quite easy to understand and very important depending on the types...
American vs. European Style Options
In this training lesson we'll cover the major differences between American and European Style Options. Pay attention close to this video b...
Weekly Options Expiration
Weekly options are options that are listed to provide expiration opportunities every single week. Weeklys are typically listed on Thursdays ...
Weekly Expiration Tags/Codes
Because weekly options create so many more choices for expiration dates we wanted to cover the different ways to understand the "tags" you'l...
Options Assignment Process
A more advanced tutorial on the exact process that happens behind the scenes when an option contract gets assigned. From the exercise reques...
Options Exercise Process
A more advanced tutorial very similar to our assignment process video we'll break down the exact process that happens behind the scenes you ...
Expiration Calendar Video
We'll give you some tips on looking out in advance to options expiration dates (and market holidays) to help plan new trades appropriately. ...
Trading Timeline (Duration)
The beauty of options trading is that we can pin-point and select the exact timeframe we want to trade. While the additional options (no pun...
Kirk Du Plessis
Course Instructor
Full-time options trader, real estate investor & Option Alpha founder. Former mergers and acquisitions investment banker for Deutsche Bank in New York, REIT Analyst for BB&T Capital Markets in Washington D.C., and Options Strategy Consultant for multiple hedge funds.
Course Objectives
What You'll Learn:
- Options expiration basics and the roll of the OCC in options trading.
- Understanding the different types of expiration settlement.
- Weekly options expiration timing and mastering the new date "tags".
- Mastering the entire assignment and exercise process from start to finish.
- Conceptual discussion about trading duration (timeline) and mini-option contracts.
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