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HFM necesitaba un nuevo diseño de logotipo y lanzó un concurso de diseño en 99designs.
Un ganador ha sido elegido entre 193 diseños de 46 diseñadores freelance.
Honest Answers Customer Care, LLC
We are seeking a logo for our business. We provide telephone customer service for our products and products of external clients. Our company is built on the foundation that honesty is the best answer in servicing customers.
The logo is for our business cards, stationary, and websites.
•Modern, clean, distinctive design.
•The deliverable should be a scalable vector graphic, Adobe Illustrator file or layered PSD.
•The logo should be a combination of graphics and our name, "Honest Answers Customer Care." "customer care" may be secondary or de-emphasized in comparison to "Honest Answers." This would be okay and potentially even preferable.
•We are looking at Blue and Green in the color palette.
•Should work on both black and white backgrounds.
Don't Wants
•Normal looking (read: boring).
•Blah, not stand out.
•We do not want to see non-original layout or icons.
•Anything that is similar to another company's logo or trademark. A trademark search will be done for similar logos with our legal team before a winner is chosen-- it must be unique and original!
•Please no clip art or photos.
•Nothing cluttered or whimsical.
•Not too many different colors.
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In Shmeul Aleph Perek Gimel Shmuel becomes a Navi. Pasuk Gimel Pasuk Daled it says that Hashem called to Shmuel and he(Shmuel) said Hineni. But them Pasuk Hey continues by saying the Shmuel ran to Eli because Shmuel thinks Eli is calling him. Then for two more times Hashem calls Shmuel by his name and then runs to Eli who sends him back before Eli finally realizes it is Hashem who is calling Shmuel. Each time Shmuel speaks to Eli he says Hineni.
How do we understand that Shmuel seems to respond to Hashem in Pasuk Daled and then runs to Eli because he thinks Eli called him? Who does Shmuel think he is speaking to?

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Reinke: 'This is not a normal day' – Eye On Boise – Spokesman …
Reinke: 'This is not a normal day'
Posted by Betsy
June 12, 2012 8:10 a.m. – Updated: 8:11 a.m.
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"We're here today to carry out the court order," Idaho state Corrections Director Brent Reinke announced to the press this morning at an early-morning briefing, …
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Nuremberg is a city in the German state of Bavaria, in the administrative region of Middle Franconia. Situated on the Pegnitz river and the Rhine–Main–Danube.
The Nuremberg defense: "I was just following orders."
Didn't work for the Nazis!
I follow the news about all my "kinsmen". While not the most uncommon name in the world, I don't know ANY other related "reinke's". And, only a few unrelated Jaspers who share the name. (I try not to embarrass them for the purposes of a Google search.)
This saddens me.
Where does the State ever get right to kill its "citizens" in cold blood? One libertarian philosopher I read once made the case that in RARE instances, it might be justifiable, if the human represented a "clear and present" danger to society (i.e., a Doctor Hannibal Lecture that was too dangerous to confine). But that would be an extreme rarity.
I'm hard pressed to find this comparable to that.
IF faced with such a "duty", I'd have to resign.
Makes me think of Saint Thomas Moore.
"And when we die, and you are sent to heaven for doing your conscience, and I am sent to hell for not doing mine, will you come with me, for fellowship?" Paul Scofield as Thomas More in "A Man for All Seasons" (1966)
So would you, could you kill a fellow human being, no matter how flawed. If the Eastern philosophers are correct, we are all but "fingers" on the same "hand".
Would you cut off one of your fingers without a very very very good reason?
And the death penalty is as final as we can get. No eraser can make it right.
Nope, sorry, this is "wrong" by any standard I can find.
And, if an individual doesn't have the right to do it, then creating a mob or a Gooferment doesn't change the calculus.
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Recently released scientific studies by Switzerland's of Pharmacology and Toxicology, conducted in 2001, prove a link between synthetic sunscreens and hormonal disturbances in the body. The chemical compounds in synthetic sunscreens have been found to accumulate in body fats and in breast milk, and, by mimicking the effects of estrogen, can induce undesirable hormonal changes.
100% natural mineral pigments can deliver effective UVA, B and C protection. Mineral pigments create a physical shield that sits on the surface of the skin to block UV rays and do not in any way affect the healthy functioning of internal organs or the normal balance of reproductive hormones.
Titanium Dioxide and Zinc Oxide are minerals used in natural sunscreens. These natural minerals builds a physical protection layer on the skin and reflects the sunlight naturally without transforming into a toxic compound. There are several advantages to 100% Mineral Based Sun Protection:
- Titanium Dioxide and Zinc Oxide are the active ingredients - they are non-estrogenic, unlike some synthetic sunscreen actives.
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text: Finally finished! This build is a bit sloppy, but honestly I was just trying to finish it.. It was way more parts intensive that I originally intended, and really was an exploration in techniques I hadn't used before. by the time I was done, I felt I could have done a better job in the front from where I started and the overall design, but such is life


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Monday, July 11, 2011
Bargain Finds at Target
Have I mentioned that I love the Target dollar section this time of year? I picked up the above items for roughly a dollar each, with the exception of the glues, which cost .20 cents each. The best finds for me, were the dry-erase writing boards. They are, in my opinion, an essential product for homeschooling families of K-3rd because you will use them daily. They also allow you to save on money and cut down on the amount of paper you use.
Most of the other items are for an idea that a friend of mine gave me a couple of years ago. During the school year, I keep a "School Shop." It is my reward center. During the week, my kids can earn school "money." They can then use it to "buy" things out of the shop. I try to keep the products educational or school related in some way - NO candy. But things like erasers, pencils, notepads, mini-clipboards, puzzles, stamps, books, crayons, mini-markers, etc., are in high demand. So I keep my eyes open throughout the year when I visit Target, Michaels, or other stores.
This not only rewards the kids for hard work, but it also teaches them about couting money, how prices work, and saving.
How do you reward your children?
by Monica
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Great idea! Your blog is so amazing! Thanks for all the resources you share, especially as we try to decide if homeschooling would work for us!! The facebook updates are really helpful!! Thank you!ReplyDelete
Thank you for your kind words! It is good to get feedback so that I know if you all are enjoying the information that I share.ReplyDelete
Even if you don't decide to homeschool, many of these resources are a great way to supplement your children's education. They can be used for fun summer learning, or simply for weekend projects.
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Sundsvall & Medelpad
The city of Sundsvall on the coast of central Sweden is situated at a bay of which all of its beauty has been devastated by industrial complexes. However, the centre of town still maintains the grandeur it got after big city fires centuries ago. Sundsvall is the main city of Medelpad / province of Västernorrlands (län).Read More


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Tissue World 2013
March 18 - 21, 2013
Location: Barcelona, Spain
Venue: Fira Barcelona (Gran Via), Hall 1
Booth number: A530
The original Tissue World, which began in Nice in 1993 and is now held in Barcelona, is THE BIG ONE: The world's largest show specifically for the tissue business. It gives tissue makers, converters and suppliers to the tissue making and converting industries a unique experience and opportunity for meetings, idea exchange and learning. It is truly a global event with visitors and exhibitors coming from all over the world, and average attendance around 2,000 visitors from 80-90 countries
Website: www.tissueworld.com


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Java-Hosted Algorithm Visualization Environment
JHAVÉ is a java application that renders algorithm visualizations. Students explore algorithms by viewing visual representations of data, controlling movement and by responding to pop-up questions. We provide a large collection of free materials for students and faculty to use.
JHAVÉ currently supports algorithm visualizations in three different scripting languages: GAIGS, Animal, and XAAL. Thanks are due to Guido Rößling of the Darmstadt University of Technology, Germany, for contributing the source code for the Animal scripting language and to Ville Karavirta of the Helsinki University of Technology for contributing the source code for his XAAL animation scripting language.
The JHAVÉ project principal investigators are Thomas Naps (University of Wisconsin - Oshkosh), David Furcy (University of Wisconsin - Oshkosh), Scott Grissom (Grand Valley State), and Myles McNally (Alma College). Please send reactions and questions regarding JHAVÉ to Tom Naps at firstname.lastname@example.com.
Congratulations to Alejandro Carrasquilla and Shawn Recker whose JHAVÉ visualization of the Sutherland-Hodgman Clipping Algorithm won an award in the recent voting conducted at Virgina Tech's AlgoViz.org site.
You can start JHAVÉ within your web browser by using the Webstart launcher.
Working in conjunction with Guido Rößling and using his Translator class, we have been "internationalizing" the help, informational, and tool-tip messages that appear in JHAVÉ. You can see the early results of our work by Web-starting the German version of JHAVÉ.
You may need to set up the preferences in your browser to associate "jnlp" files with the "javaws" program in your Java runtime environment. In many browsers, you can make this happen by selecting the "javaws" program when your browser asks what it should use to open the "jnlp" file. Once you've done that for the first time, it will then typically be stored in your browser's preferences. For example, in Mozilla Firefox, you can view/edit these preferences by selecting Edit -> Preferences -> Downloads -> File Types.
Special thanks are also due to the students at Lawrence University, the University of Wisconsin-Oshkosh, Alma College, Grand Valley State, and the JHAVÉ REU site who have worked on this project over the past 19 years: Christopher Hundhausen, Andy Whitsitt, Pamela Trittin, Phoutha Keopanya, Beth Martinson, Lambros Piskopos, James Gorlinsky, Brian Swander, Jeremy Stenglein, Haiyan Zhao, Yin-so Chen, Eric Bressler, Eric Chan, James Eagan, Laura Norton, Stanley Makalew, Alex Zimmerman, Jessica Gowey, Orjola Kajo, Richard Teviotdale, Rosemary Dutka, Benjamin Tidman, Chris Gaffney, Stu Bachner, Mike Gilmore, Andrew Jungwirth, Joe Naps, Adam Klein, Sudhakar Pandurangan, Ben Vollbrecht, Marshall Schmitz, Justin Henry, William Gates, Andrew Gifford, Logan Chyla, Chao Shen, Eric Schultz, Erica Mutsch, Kimberly Gero, Matthew Burch, Mitch Loudenbeck, Nicola Klein, Tom Fairfield, Alejandro Carrasquilla, Caitlyn Pickens, Cory Sheeley, David Adrian, Nancy Decker, Shawn Recker, Sean McKenna, William Clements, Adam Voss, Alex Sedgwick, Christopher Jenkins, Christopher Witt, Daniel Rammer, J. T. Gralka, Kimberly Barth, and Shauna Hetrick. Their collective efforts have moved the project along from its original conception in Vax Pascal on DEC Vax workstations, to a Turbo Pascal implementation on PC's, to the the initial Java networked client-server version, and finally to the present JHAVÉ II.


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Frost bites: Cold weather kills 300 acrobatic insects at German flea circus
BERLIN – An entire troupe of performing fleas has fallen victim to the freezing temperatures currently gripping Germany.
Flea circus director Robert Birk says he was shocked to find all of his 300 fleas dead inside their transport box Wednesday morning.
The circus immediately scrambled to find a new batch so it could fulfill its engagements at an open-air fair in the town of Mechernich-Kommern in western Germany.
Michael Faber, who organizes the fair, told The Associated Press that an insect expert at a nearby university was able to train 50 fleas in time for the first show Sunday.
Faber says "I hope we'll get through this without any more fatalities."
Birk said it was the first time his circus had lost all of its fleas to the cold in one go.


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One mistake that most website owners and businesses are currently making is that they depend on their traffic to come from search engines alone.Some are even squandering hundreds of thousands of dollars monthly doing (Pay per click) PPC campaign.This is fatal.It is impossible for all websites to rank at #1 or among the top 10 all at once in any search engine.So, once businesses realize this obvious fact, it should be common sense for them to know that the solution should be to diversify their marketing and promotion.Stop depending on the uncertain search engine traffic otherwise you'll go bankrupt soon.You need to do different kinds of marketing and promotions both online and offline.Some of them are newspaper and magazine advertising, TV, cable and radio advertising, direct mailing promotion, text-link campaign, link exchange campaign, events sponsorship promotion, press release, article promotions.When you do all these promotions, you get a lot of exposures, traffic from many sources and will not be forced anymore to depend on search engines traffic and rankings alone.I have also noticed that most businesses are still using the old tactics of copywriting that worked during pre-internet era.Perhaps that is why many of them have problems in making their websites profitable.In these internet times, a website content has to be short, direct, interesting and must have a unique selling proposition to be effective and to convert visitors to buyers.Many people just don't have the time to spend all day reading the content of one website when they are aware there are thousands and millions more they may have to read before they make up their minds to buy.I see many website contents which are professionally written, organized and designed.But all have one common mistake. They forget this fact that I am pointing out:They are way too long, too desperate in their sales pitches, hype and most of them will not even allow you to read more than one word before their subscription pop-up forms come up and block the websites.What a very rude and annoying way to welcome a prospect to your website.In other words, they do so much to repel the customers, instead of doing so much to attract them.May these insights into website promotion, work at home business income program, online income opportunity, website marketing, work from home business, affiliate programs, internet promotion help you improve your online marketing so as to achieve more success and happiness.Please feel free to print or publish this article anywhere and read and also send it to your friends and well wishers and please preserve the author's resource box and website below.Ikey Benney
Just What Is A Hostile Work Environment?
We have all heard the term "hostile work environment", but do you know what it means? Unless you are an attorney, you may not quite understand everything that constitutes a hostile environment under the law. The problem is that many people need to learn what this means and why it matters to you as an employee. A hostile work environment creates a liability on the employer's part for employee lawsuits, harassment claims, and other legal issues. On top of these serious problems, it can also lead to lower productivity, a high turnover rate, and very unhappy employees. Let's take a look at what makes an environment hostile and what can be done about it.To begin with, let's go through some of the areas that do not make up a hostile work environment. Most people think that a hostile environment includes things like a rude coworker, a mean supervisor, or a single incident. However, these areas do not make a work environment hostile. The U.S. Equal Opportunity Commission, or EEOC, lists a hostile work environment as the following:
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Involving "unwelcome conduct that is based on race, color, religion, sex (including pregnancy), national origin, age (40 or older), disability or genetic information"; orIt occurs when "enduring the offensive conduct becomes a condition of continued employment" or the conduct creates a workplace environment "that a reasonable person would consider intimidating, hostile, or abusive."Now that you have read what the EEOC says defines a hostile work environment, let's take a look at what that actually means to you as an employee.Here are some general examples of offensive conduct in the workplace:Offensive jokes – including racial or sexual jokes,
Name calling – including racial slurs, epithets, and other offensive names,
Physical threats or assaults based on race, color, sex, etc,
Intimidation because of race, color, sex, etc,
Ridicule or mocking of any person in the workplace based on race, sex, color, etc,
Insults and put downs based on color, race, sex, etc,
Offensive pictures and objects based on sex, race, color, etc.All of these items constitute a hostile work environment and can be on the part of a coworker, supervisor, agents of the employer, or even non-employees, such as a vendor or customer. The conduct may not always be offensive to the employee or person that it is directed towards, but it may be offensive to the people or employees around that observe the actions.
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The very best way to ensure that you are not contributing to a hostile work environment is to take an active role in preventing any of these areas on your part as an employee. If you have concerns or feel unsafe or offended in any way, go through the proper channels at your workplace to report them to a supervisor and document any issues, threats, problems, or other offensive behavior when it happens.
Developing Original Humor for Your Talk
Most humor in the business setting is unplanned. It just happens. Spontaneous events with clients and co-workers create the surprises and uncomfortable situations which call for humor as a coping tool.We all have differing abilities to recognize, appreciate and create humor. How's your HQ (humor quotient)? Do you work with people who are full of wit?Regardless of where you are now, you can increase your humor skills. When you study humor, it's obvious there's more to it than just spontaneous laughs. There are times when you may want to deliberately use humor, maybe even plan it in advance.Perhaps you want to spice up a training session or a planning meeting. Maybe you want to lighten up a sales presentation. You can learn ways to administer a dose of laughter to help you connect and communicate.There are three elements which can help you understand and structure your humor: surprise, tension and relationships.
First, humor is based on the element of surprise. Humor often comes from something as simple as someone saying the unexpected. The surprise twist creates the humor.Because of the element of surprise, when we are deliberately structuring a piece of humor (perhaps for a speech) we don't want to telegraph the joke. A line like, "a funny thing happened to me on the way over here," signals your listeners that a joke is coming. This will lessen the element of surprise.To enhance the surprise, it's best to place the punch line at the end of the joke. And within the punch line, the punch word is usually given last. The punch word is the word that makes the humor work. It's the trigger that releases the surprise.If your humor falls flat, do what professional humorists do. Pretend you are serious. Since the listeners didn't realize you were making a joke, you never need to apologize or explain it. Turn your surprise into a secret.
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It's no surprise to people who work in pressure-packed work environments that humor is also based on this second principle: release of tension. Laughter is a pressure valve which releases muscle tension. Uncomfortable situations, fear and pain are all tension builders that cry out for humor. We find ourselves laughing at risqué humor and embarrassing situations because they make us uncomfortable. We release the tension they create with humor.People who intentionally and frequently use humor know tension can be used deliberately to heighten the impact of the humor. A pause placed just before the punch line or the punch word builds a sense of anticipation, a form of tension, which makes the joke stronger.In most jobs, daily challenges give you the opportunity to purposely use tension in setting up your humor. Simply by sharing a real life humorous situation, you can recreate the spontaneous circumstances which generated the laughter in the first place. Although there's nothing like "being there," you can improve on the actual event by embellishing to create a little more tension in the set up. You can structure the punch line for maximum effect by putting the punch word last. And you can pause to add impact.As we plan our humor, we also notice that the third principle of humor is relationships. Most humor is based on how things are related and not related. We can create humorous twists when we play with relationships.Gary Larson's Far Side cartoons are well known for twisting relationships. One of his frequent tools is giving animals human characteristics. For example, the cartoon shows a car driving down the road. Driving the car is a bull. Sitting next to the bull is a cow. And in the back seat is a calf. They're driving past a field with humans standing in the pasture. The picture, by itself, creates a funny picture by twisting the normally expected relationships. The calf sticks his head out of the car window and says "Yakity, Yakity, Yak!"Understanding the principle of relationships, you are able to create your own, original humor. You can create "shopping lists" from which you search for humorous connections.Let's say you had an idea for building some humor. We'll call this idea a seed from which the humor can grow. Perhaps, on a difficult shift at a hospital, someone made a comment that working in a hospital was like working in a war zone. This is the starting point for developing some humor.You'll begin by creating two "shopping lists." On one list you'll put "hospital things." And on the other, you'll list "military things." It will work better if you choose "military" rather than "war zone" because it's a broader category which will give you more options when looking for relationships.Your first step is to brainstorm by making the lists as long a possible. The more items you have on each list, the more likely you'll be able to make some humorous connections.As you make your lists, you'll look for opportunities to branch out and create sublists to multiply your chances of finding humor. For example, if the idea "basic training" comes to mind, your sublist should contain everything you can think of relating to basic training: drill sergeants, marching, inspections.The next step is to search for connections between your two lists which might lead you to humor. Play with it. Then set it aside and come back to it later. Once you find something with humorous possibilities, you'll massage it to maximize the humor impact.
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To see what this exercise might produce:"Why a Hospital is Like the Military."1. In the military, soldiers take orders from people with silver and gold on their shoulders. In a hospital, nurses take orders from people with silver and gold in their wallets.2. When discharged from the hospital after a Lower GI Series, you get the GI bill.3.,Nurses, like soldiers, see a lot of privates.4.mWhen filling out a hospital shift report, you sometimes resort to the policy of "Don't ask, don't tell."5. Nurse training is like boot camp. Never before had you seen so many bald body parts.6. In the military, a fatigue is what you wear. In nursing, it's what wears on you.7. Soldiers get combat pay. Nurses don't…but should.Whether you're creating a list or a slogan to go on a poster, looking for a monologue to open a speech or training session, or just searching for one joke to make a point, you can use these lists to create your humor. It works.These three principles of humor are illustrated by the classic slip on the banana peel. The slapstick spill illustrates surprise because we weren't expecting someone to fall. We also experience tension. When we see someone get hurt we get startled, and react with tension. It also twists relationships. Seeing a distinguished person sitting on the sidewalk is something our of the ordinary. Surprise, tension, relationships…we laugh!Natural, spontaneous humor is one of your greatest tools for coping with stress as you work. By understanding what makes the humor tick, you can become better at planning and deliberately using this powerful adjunct to your success arsenal.
Free Internet Marketing Software Keyword Generator
As you begin your search for new free internet marketing software and free keyword generator programs there are certain things that you must do to maximize your efforts. Remember that time is your most valuable commodity as an internet marketer and simply put we as marketers do not have time to waste looking at, reading about and testing new software programs that offer the following;1.) Trial Use2.) Limited Use3.) Timed Use4.) Demo Only5.) Light VersionI'm sure that from time to time you will find a truly wonderful program that defies all of the odds, but let's look at this from a practical point of view here. How much time was spent getting to the point where you found that software program? Was it really worth all the hassles? More often than not I'm sure that you'll agree that it would be better if you could simply find a website that reviewed these so called "free internet marketing software programs" and "free keyword generators". And of course finding such a site that also offered a blog or forum for viewer comments would be even better.To prove this let's do a brief study on free internet marketing software and high quality free keyword generators. For the sake of argument let's run a search on Google for a "free keyword generator".Case Study #1:Free Keyword List Generator by Stomper Net – My first thoughts were WOW another GREAT free or low cost promotional tool being offered by Stomper Net! Then I realized that I had to sign up for their email list AGAIN and register to use the tool. Once I'd jumped through these initial proverbial hoops I was shocked to find that I'd overlooked the fact that this software uses Word Tracker Keywords.
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This means that my software would need to be upgraded to unlock it's full potential, which of course would cost money. Worse than that I might need to sign up for the Word Tracker Keywords program and that means I could possibly end up paying for a monthly or annual subscription to their service.* Before I offend anyone I do realize that Stomper Net and the Word Tracker Keyword program are both well respected staples in the internet marketing niche. However, in this case it is my goal to help people find completely FREE full version internet marketing software and keyword generator software that they can use to promote their products, services and affiliate programs with.Case Study #2:Good Keywords – At first site their website looks very well organized and professional. They offer free full version keyword research tools and keyword generator software that looks like it will do exactly what we've all be looking for. At one time this may have been a state of the art program back when Yahoo's Overture worked reliably on a consistent basis.The problem with this free internet marketing software group is that it is completely reliant on a program that is so over used that the mere traffic to the Yahoo Overture website alone bogs down their system so badly that you're lucky if you can even get their website pages to load from one visit to the next.* Also sadly in this internet marketer's humble opinion the results that are pulled with the free Yahoo Overture tool has proven to be unreliable and unstable at best. Again, I don't mean to offend anyone and I'm sure that at one time this was a GREAT program, but there are newer and better things.Case Study #3:Global Promoter – The first thing I noticed on their website was this;"Please be patient. This may take up to 2 minutes because it compiles the results of 6 major search engines. Sometimes no results are returned even though there are queries performed on the keywords you typed in during the given month. If this occurs, just hit submit again until the correct results are returned."In theory this looks GREAT if they're really using this free internet marketing software program, or in this case, free keyword generator software, to search on SIX major search engines! However, what I found next really bothered me.
"No Searches Done in March 2008 on the Overture network of search engines for your keyword."This only left me thinking that there I was again using a program that was completely reliant on Yahoo's Overture, which again in my humble opinion was outdated, unreliable and inconsistent.Case Study #4:Google AdWords Free Keyword Generator Tool – With this free internet marketing software program I thought that I'd finally struck oil. After all no website is more revered, searched and used online for things of this nature than the mighty Google themselves! With that in mind I typed in my favorite set of keyword search terms;"free internet marketing software"Unfortunately the results that were returned consisted of 3 targeted keyword phrases and 11 other keyword phrases that had NOTHING to do with any form of internet marketing software.Case Study #5:Traffic Zap's Free Keyword Generator – Let me cut this one short by telling you that when I tried to use it the first thing I got was a POP UP with something that looked mildly semi-pornographic. It then appeared to be processing for some time only to return an error message that once again leads back to problems that we've already discussed regarding the long list of free internet marketing software programs that rely on Yahoo's Overture.
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At this point we've researched ALL of the top 5 unique listings on Google for "free keyword generator" and we have yet to find a truly reliable free internet marketing software program that we can use to promote our products, services or affiliate marketing programs…..other than ones that we would most likely have to PAY to upgrade, such as the program by Stomper Net mentioned above.Final Case Study:Free Keyword Generator by IM Software 4 Free – This program checks for a list of popular keywords by searching on Google, Yahoo and MSN combined to come up with a more complete starting point for internet marketers to use. It also runs a search on these 3 major search engines to find out how many competitor posts show up for each of the chosen keywords.While no free internet marketing software or free keyword generator is going to be perfect this tool is truly a GREAT program to use and best of all it's completely FREE to download and use. There is no trial use, limited use, timed use, demo or light version that leads to a paid upgrade or leaves you out hanging in the wind to PAY if you want to use the software after a specific time frame.
Online Computer Science Schools
Computer education is a necessity these days as tasks in all professions has become digitized. Computer sciences applications have a far reaching impact on how we live our day-to-day lives and the need for computer trained and IT professionals is greater than for any industry or field in the world today. In this Article we review how online computer sciences courses can help prospective professionals find careers in any industry.OverviewComputer sciences are the study of the foundation of computing logic and the applications to computer architecture, hardware and software design as well as specific applications to program development and the use of industry standard technologies. The education starts with the study of natural sciences as they relate to computing and then diverges into a study of the specific niche area – such as hardware, software, graphics and information technology etc. Most institutions offer students the opportunity to learn about all these areas to some extent before choosing a specialization.
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Online computer sciences institutions offer students a variety of fully online – to – blended courses in a variety of subjects; students can complete a choice of degree or certificate at any level (diploma, associates, bachelors, masters, PhD or certifications through shorter courses) in general computing or a specialized area – all from the comfort of their own homes and be able to work around their jobs and schedules – without having to enroll for time consuming classes and without having to relocate or spend and money commuting to and from lectures.Enrolling in an online computer science course means prospective students can now fit their education around their work and personal schedules and save the money and time normally required in order to attend lectures and lab sessions. Most online institutions offer their enrolled students a free online resource center for all the information – e-books, lecture slides and practical experiments – that is need in order to finish their coursework.Areas in computer science educationTheory of computation: This area deals with the logic use by computation systems and the mathematics that relates to computational logic. It defines the limits of computability (solvable problems) and computational complexity (resources required to solve these problems in terms of time and space).Algorithms and Data structures: This side deals with functionality such as searching data storage structures and the formation (of models) of data storage (linked-lists, arrays, trees etc).
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Programming Languages and Methodology: This area addresses the methodology used to formulate problem solving software code and the programming languages that are used to write viable code. It also deals with modern software development tools and tricks-of-the-trade which are used in modern compilers to formulate accurate running code. Languages may include c, C++, Java, c-sharp etc. Tools may include Visual C++ etc. This area defines the methodology of writing logical code step-by-step and the use of common best-practices.Computer Architecture and logic design: This area deals with the knowledge of how a computer processor works and how is uses its resources to solve computational problems by breaking complex code down to minor mathematical and logical problems. This area includes digital design, automation, architecture and compilation.
Pros and Cons of Wild Animals As Pets
Many people find the idea of having wildlife as pet as exotic and exciting. However, if you want a wild animal as a pet, you should have thorough understanding of the animal and its behavior and needs. The people who have these animals as pets are invariably trained to handle them, but even they will tell how unpredictable these animals can be. You may have read stories in the newspaper of zoo keepers being mauled by their wards.So, having wild animals as pets has become quite a sensitive and controversial issue. Some people like to highlight the pros, while others just point out the cons. However, both should be weighed equally and only then a decision should be taken to keep a wild animal as a pet.Here are some pros and cons of wildlife as pets.Sometimes, conventional pets like dogs and cats cannot be kept due to lack of space. In such circumstances, one can keep a wildlife like a hedgehog or gecko as a pet as they do not require that much space. Some wild animals have their own benefits. Like a hedgehog can be used to keep insects and others pests at bay in a house.
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Often it has been seen purchasing a wild animal can be cheaper than purchasing a pet that is popular and has a pedigree.Also, many proponents of wild animals feel that some species have a better chance of survival if they are adopted. It has been seen that the dart frog is facing a problem in the wild as its natural habitat is diminishing. Hence, if this animal is adopted, it will have a better chance of survival.However, there are sufficient cons and disadvantages of owning wild animals as pets. First of all, one has to take into consideration the welfare of the animal. Having a wildlife means giving due consideration to its diet, exercise and social interactions. Often, the animal will not have any interaction with other animals of its own species and will be left to leading a lonely and solitary life. Also, the owners will not be equipped to provide proper care to the animals as they may not be well-versed in these things. Many wild animals look cute and cuddly when they are small. However, as they reach adulthood or sexual maturity, their wild side takes over and the animal becomes aggressive. This is the time many owners abandon their pets or give them away to zoos.Wild animals are carriers of many diseases that are lethal to humans. For instance, reptiles and amphibians are carriers of salmonella infection and each year thousand of people in the US contract this disease due to their pets. Also, rats imported from Africa are known to carriers of monkey pox. An outbreak of this disease occurred in the US in 2003 when Gambian rats brought in the monkey pox into the country.
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Above all, the demand for wildlife as pet is increasing. So, many illegal traders are taking advantage of this demand. Most of the wild animals are captured and then transported in cruel and inhuman manner to reach their owners. In addition, majority of the owners do not know to take care of the animals and this causes them to fall sick or even die.So, weigh the pros and cons of having wild animals as pets before jumping to adopt one. Make sure that you are properly equipped to handle the care of the animal. Do not adopt one if you have any doubts.
Credit Collection Laws And You
The Fair Debt Collection Practices Act and the Fair Credit Act has helped thousands of debtors free themselves from collection agents and junk debt buyers who act like complete Neanderthals when collecting debts. Junk debt buyers, collection agencies and sometimes, even original creditors are known mostly for their unforgiving, intimidating and often illegal collection tactics to extract money from debtors. Since laws have been enforced, consumer rights are protected against mean-spirited credit collectors, which is why it is important to educate yourself with credit collection laws to minimize the chances of being harassed by creditors or collection agencies.
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One of the most common ways debt collectors obtain information from debtors is asking for their bank or credit card information. In the past, debtors have no other choice but to divulge such sensitive information from creditors or collection agencies. However, things have changed, laws are enacted and junk debt collectors and collection agencies can no longer make a person give his or her credit card and bank information.Once contacted by a debt collector, debtors are given 30 days to dispute the debt and make the debt collector prove the ownership of the debt in dispute. The bottom line is, you don't need to pay anything just because someone claims you owe them money. If they can't produce proof that you owe them money, they can't collect the money nor can they file a credit card lawsuit.Apart from proving the debt's ownership, collectors can no longer threaten, use profanity, vulgarities or use demeaning language to scare debtors into paying the debt. They can no longer humiliate you or talk to third parties about your financial problems. They can no longer discuss confidential debt information to other people. They can no longer threaten to garnish your wages, put lien on your properties when they haven't gained legal authority to do so. They can only obtain a portion of your paycheck if they win the credit card lawsuit they filed otherwise, no such threats are allowed under the FDCPA.
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If debt collectors continuously call you at the dead of the night or early in the morning, you can send them a Cease and Desist letter, information them that you do not wish to be contacted via phone calls and will respond only in writing. In response, the debt collector can only notify you about their next step, usually filing a credit card lawsuit, in writing. If they refuse to comply, they are violating the mandates of collection laws and will be brought to justice.
Video Game Tester Jobs Can Jump Start You on Almost Any Game Development Path
Video game QA testing may be low on the game development totem pole, just above "personal projects" you'd never think about including in your resume. But used correctly, both can carry you a long way towards becoming a game programmer, story line creator, or graphics designer.It's all about broader experience inventory and growth through progress.It would seem fairly obvious. Look at anyone in college working towards a career in a high paying field like medicine, and what do you see them doing? That's right, working at any job in a hospital, clinic, or private practice environment (a relevant environment) which they can find. They know even a role only loosely related to the one they aspire towards in their chosen field serves as a stepping stone towards more relevant positions once the opportunity becomes available.As is the case in medicine, software development is a industry made up of many narrow roles. If you're only focused on "qualifying for your desired role", you may end up short changing yourself in two ways. First, by not recognizing applicable experience you've already obtained through non-professional work and personal hobbies. Second, by overlooking potential resume building opportunities while limiting yourself only to the ones not available to you.Let's look at the first problem: "not recognizing applicable experience you've already obtained".I don't see this problem a lot in sales and marketing, regardless if it's computer entertainment sales, advertisement sales, or used car sales. In fact, newer "greener" aspiring sales reps often need to learn a page from aspiring software developers about "Never put anything in your portfolio that someone wouldn't pay you for". Where the aspiring gaming professional falls short is recognizing what actually counts as valuable to those they present their resumes and portfolios to. They'll often include what they consider "real job experience", such as "Manager at Macy's", or "Audits and Accounting at Wells Fargo" (neither of which has anything to do with game or software development); but avoid including things like "my dorm mate and I wrote "Squares vs Circles" (an iPhone app) for fun while we were in college, it got 500,000 downloads within a month of release" (so what you are saying is, you wrote, developed, tested, and published popular and successful software on your own for fun?)It's as if those aspiring to game development roles almost seem to have an "inferiority complex" when it comes to the kinds of experiences relevant to the gaming field. While considering any work they think of as "from a real company" with "a real paycheck attached" automatically more important. The thing is: the person looking over your resume doesn't care about any of that. They're not your dad who thinks you should get a "real job", or your mom who worries about you're "spending too much time on the internet", they are people looking for someone with experience that has to do with games. Don't discount experience because it was "just a personal project". If you want to be hired in the area of game development you need to show how you have already performed successfully in game development. Whether or not you got paid, and regardless whether or not it resembles what you or your peers think of as "a real company", "real work", or "real professional". What matters is that it was developing a game, and you completed the project as defined – or better. That's what people want to hear about.
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Now take a look at the second problem: "overlooking potential resume building opportunities while limiting yourself only to the ones not available to you".This one is a little trickier, because it requires a balancing act. You see, another important thing to remember is "Build your portfolio around a single focus". I'm not going into detail about that here, as it mostly goes beyond the scope of this article. But, it needs to be mentioned as it's the other end of the spectrum in so far as: on one level, you don't want to overlook potential resume building opportunities, but at the same time, you don't want to build a portfolio of non-relevant experience and garbage either.The best way to look at it is, if you have an opportunity to work in a position which is highly relevant to your desired role in gaming – say for example story line creator – by all means favor that work over work that's less closely related. But when such positions are scarce or highly competitive, don't overlook opportunity to work in any game development role – even if it falls outside the scope of the game development area you ultimately aspire towards.The reality is, jobs in game development are places where many come – but few may enter. There simply aren't enough positions to fill in any one role for everyone who applies at the door. And even experience outside the role you aspire towards can help you as it gives you familiarity, exposure to a variety of technology, and broader experience with the roles of others you might have to later work with.The lowly and relatively low paying Video Game Tester Jobs.Compared to other gaming industry roles, video game QA tester is the lowest paying. According to The Game Developers 12th Annual Salary Survey (conducted in 2013), freelance and temporary assignment video game QA testers, with less than 3 years' experience, earn an average of $22,000/yr., roughly equivalent to $10/hr. – assuming a 40 hour work week. This is because of the much lower amount of education needed to enter video game QA testing.However, consider those "working towards a career in a high paying field like medicine", who I described at the beginning of this article; the ones taking "any job in a hospital, clinic, or private practice environment (a relevant environment)". They're doing this for a few good reasons. It helps to offset college costs, gives them a chance to gain experience and familiarization within a related work environment, and the jobs they take are often the "lower paying roles" due to lower entry-level education requirements – which equates to ease of entry. High turn-over rates as people in these positions attain the qualifications to move on to their desired careers, make these jobs readily available. And those who later move on to higher positions will have previous industry relevant experience to add to their resumes if needed. If needed being the key. If they don't need it, or feel it would distract from experience more relevant to a particular job, they can always make less mention of it or leave it out entirely.Which bring us to the real question – why are those seeking software development careers so averse to including video game tester jobs along the way? Think back about the "inferiority complex" among "those aspiring to game development roles" which I spoke of earlier. And the corresponding "superiority complex" among those becoming "material" for higher paying, more respected roles such as graphics designer or programmer. When people think of, for example, becoming an environmental art designer, they often think of highly sophisticated technical skills, and expensive but well-worth-it college degrees – leading to well-earned and well-respected salaries. When people think of a QA tester job, they often think of someone who was lucky enough to get paid to play games.Video game quality assurance testing is seen by many as almost a kind of "red-headed-step-child". Some treat it the same way one might treat a cheap book promising the secret to unbelievable income sold on a poorly done website alongside thin porn, payday loans, and mesothelioma related attorney services.The reality is – a video game tester job can provide the same things to the soon to be 3D character model designer that a clerical position with a small clinic provides to the soon to be medical technician, nurse, or doctor. Video game tester jobs are readily available, industry related, work with which you can offset other costs while in school or training for your desired role, gain experience and familiarity with the software development process, and which comes with relatively low entry requirements.Video game QA positions require only that you have a high aptitude for basic skills applicable to any job, such as attention to detail, ability to follow instructions, diligence, and being able to write reports. Yet they provide game industry experience, familiarity, and exposure to a wider variety of related technologies. Also, while QA testing may be "low paying" compared to other development roles, it's actually on par with many part-time jobs that aren't even career connected which people typically take while working towards their desired career path.
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The key is, don't look at QA tester work as a job you "don't take seriously", consider it instead as a useful tool in a strategic plan. Consider those too good to be true offers you see promising "$4,000 a month playing games" for some small monthly fee. These offers are usually made by assignment aggregators. Assignment aggregators are companies in the business of offering a central location for freelance video game QA testers to find temporary video game QA assignments. Whether the promises of easy money come true or not, you could use those to get work (resume experience) handed to you even though you have not yet attained any work history or qualifications, in addition to some extra income. What you really want is for the assignments to serve as documented work history in QA Testing to support obtaining a regular entry-level position with a gaming company. You want to be able to say "I've completed projects in the gaming field"… as opposed to the other applicant who hasn't.From here it depends on the options available to you, and your desired career path. If you've already chosen a career path in another game development role, then I'd recommend NOT moving all the way from freelance to full-time QA testing – as you want to focus your efforts on obtaining a job closer to your desired role. Until you do, you may wish to simply remain a freelance tester. Despite the lower hourly pay, this will give you the greatest flexibility and control over your time. Should you decide to become a regular part-time tester with a gaming company, the pay could actually outstrip many other non-career connected part-time jobs.If you're still deciding when it comes to what role you want to have in game development, you may want to consider that QA testing does become more lucrative with experience – all-be-it not as quickly as in other development roles. It rises to just under $40,000/year as a full-time job with 3 years' experience, and "maxes out" around $70,000/yr. Not as much as the $85,000/yr. you could be making as a programmer, but still fairly decent compared to other professional roles.Video game QA testing may be the lowest paid type of work in game development. However, those aspiring for such roles as game programmer, story line creator, or graphics designer would be wise to look beyond just work related to their desired role in game development.
Web Hosting – A Guide for Beginners
So you're looking to learn about web hosting and what it has to offer or you may not know much about web hosting? There is no shame in not knowing this information. Everyone has to start at the beginning at some point. On that note, lets begin learning about web hosting.First off, what is web hosting and how does it work?Web hosting is the business practice of providing space and bandwidth on a high-powered computer server that is connected to the Internet at very high speeds. Hosting companies maintain large networks of high-powered web server computers in a physical location known as a data center. These computer servers are connected to a very fast, and generally redundant, Internet connection. The data centers have primary and backup power, a fast connection to the Internet, and a security monitoring staff.The web hosting companies provide a share of disk space and available bandwidth to a customer for a monthly fee. Once the customer is signed up, they can upload files to their personal space on the web server and the information is then viewable to anyone interested on the Internet. The monthly fee the web hosting company charges is much less than what it would cost to run a server out of your own home or data center. This is the reason these companies exist. They take care of all the hardware, software, and other technical needs for you.Types of web hostingThere are many different types of web hosting offers, but the main three are shared, reseller, and dedicated. Each type of hosting is for a different purpose.Shared Web HostingShared web hosting is the most popular form of hosting. Shared hosting is a portion of disk space and bandwidth provided to you by the web hosting company on a high-powered server. There are many other web sites hosted on this server, and the hosting company is likely to have quite a few of these servers in a large data center. The resources of the server are shared by as many other websites as are allocated to that computer.Shared web hosting is the best form of web hosting if you are looking for a great price and don't have more than a couple thousand daily visitors to your site.Reseller Web HostingReseller web hosting is a popular, low-cost solution to starting your own web hosting business. There are two types of reseller hosting, private-label and a reseller of services.The private-label is the best type of reseller plan because it allows you to retain full control over your customer's websites. A private-label plan allows the reseller to keep the full monthly payment of the web-hosting customer, but the reseller must pay a monthly fee to the larger hosting company for the reseller space. The more hosting accounts a private-label reseller can sell, the higher the profit for them. Private-label hosting allows you to host many more websites than if you were using shared hosting for each. This is a great solution for someone who has many sites they need to host in one location to save money.
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The reseller of services plans resell the regular web hosting plans of a larger web hosting company, but you get a discounted price for providing the customer and earn a monthly fee for as long as they remain a customer. This plan does not allow control over customer web sites and you only keep a portion of the potentially monthly revenue.Dedicated Web HostingDedicated web hosting is the most powerful and cost effective solution of hosting a busy web site without resorting to buying your own equipment and paying hundreds of dollars per month for a fast Internet connection. Dedicated hosting consists of single server with no one else hosting on that computer. This allows for the greatest of configuration options. Anyone who has a busy website will find dedicated hosting is the necessary choice.Web Hosting ConsiderationsWondering about all the other information listed in web hosting plans? In this section, I will explain the most important considerations in choosing a good web host.PriceThe price of web hosting services is one of the most important. There are many hosting companies out there with cheap hosting packages, but they may be lacking in other areas. Don't let the price of a hosting package fool you. There are some hosting companies out there who have great prices and the other features are just as good. Price may be one of the most important decisions of a web hosting plan, but there is much more to consider in choosing a quality web host.Disk Space / Storage SpaceDisk space is the amount of physical storage space a web host gives to you to store your web files. Hosting companies these days have plans with disk space being measured mostly in terms of gigabytes, but some are still offering plans in the megabytes for storage space. Depending on your needs for file storage space, you may need more or less. Generally the more disk space offered, the better.Bandwidth / Data TransferThe amount of bandwidth available can make a big difference in choosing a quality hosting plan. In general, the more bandwidth a hosting company makes available to you, the better. This means you can support more traffic to your web site as your business grows. Be wary of web hosting companies that offer unlimited or unmetered bandwidth. While many of these are legitimate offers, there are some out there who are overselling their bandwidth in hopes the average user won't use much.Customer SupportIn any business, it is very important to provide exception customer service. Web hosting is no exception to this. Many of the hosting companies are available all day and night in case you have a problem with your web site, but there are some who are just available specific hours of the day. If your web site goes down in the middle of the night when they're not available, this means lost revenue for a business. 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Some sites have specific requirements that only the Windows operating system can satisfy, but there are always alternatives to those requirements.BackupA good web hosting company will have a regular schedule to backup the data on all the web servers. The more often the data is backed up, the better. At the very least, a web hosting company should backup web site files daily.Control PanelThe control panel is the point of contact the web site administrator will have between the host server and their own machine connected via the Internet. It is essential to have a well organized and easy to use control panel interface. My favorite control panel is cPanel, which is one of the leading web hosting control panels out there today. Plesk is another good one, and many companies will create their own control panel for you to use. Most web hosting companies will provide a link to a demo of the control panel they use with their hosting plans. The control panel used is a matter of preference, but it should be user friendly.EmailEmail is essential part of communication on the Internet. Most web hosting companies out there will give you more email addresses and more space to hold email messages than you will ever need. What you need to watch out for is the companies that have decided to be a little strict on their email accounts and only offer a small number or a small amount of message space.UptimeUptime is a term used to describe how often the average web site hosted by a company is available online. No company should be expected to provide an exact 100% uptime. This is impossible due to things such as hardware, software, and power failures. A vast majority of the companies are very good with uptime, and they guarantee it. It is still a good idea to be conscious of the uptimes posted by the company. If it is not at least 99.5%, it is probably not worth hosting with that company.
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StatisticsAs a webmaster, it is nice to know how many visitors you've had, where they came from, how long they stay on your site, and how much bandwidth they've used. This information is collected by the web server and is placed in a log file. A statistics software package can read this data and provide meaningful information to the webmaster. The information gathered from these logs can be very valuable in improved services to the viewers of the web site.FTPFTP stands for file transfer protocol. It is a way of quickly uploading or downloading many files to and from a web server. Most web hosting companies will allow their customers access to their web hosting accounts via FTP. FTP is very useful and is a great feature to have when paying for a web hosting account.ScriptingSince the World Wide Web began, many scripting languages have been created and have evolved into the dynamic and interactive environment we enjoy today. A scripting language is a way of adding functionality to a web site, whether it be to calculate numbers or to load information from an external database. Scripting languages have made electronic commerce possible. Some of these languages include PHP, ASP, JSP, Coldfusion, VBscript, Javascript, and Perl. I won't go into the details of these in this article for the sake of complexity. If you know how to use these languages, you should know what to look for in a web server for them.DatabasesA database is a place to store data that can be used in a large variety of ways. Databases are used on the Internet for applications such as shopping carts, message boards, and product catalogues. The more databases the web hosting provider allows you to create, the most applications you can deploy on your web server. Databases are used by the more advanced web master, but information is freely available online should you be interested.ConclusionsWeb hosting can be a very difficult decision with the many thousands of hosting companies out there. It is critical to find a plan that fits your needs and to have a good hosting company. I hope this article was useful in making your decision about which company to host with. Happy Hosting!
Publishing Choices For Writers – Self-Publishing Print on Demand, Introduction
Under the self-publishing umbrella, there are many options for writers when they are considering how they want to get their work out into the general public. Traditionally, authors were limited with either working with a traditional publisher, or finding someone to help them self-publish their work. As discussed in other articles of this series, there are many different ways for authors to get their work out there depending upon each author's individual needs.In the past, whether an author worked with a traditional publisher or self-published, hundreds of their books needed to be printed at any one time. With the advent of new technology, writers can now actually see their work in print prior to printing without sticking them with too many unsold copies of their book. In addition, they have the option to print a copy of a book only when one is sold. Authors can do this through Print-On-Demand (POD) technology.
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Print On Demand, as the name implies, allows an author to print as small a number of copies as they want, whenever they want, through a digital printing process. Because the book is being printed digitally, there is no need to set up the traditional offset printing presses, which would be cost prohibitive for a single or a just a few copies of a book. Once the set up is done for the digital format, it is done and can be used repeatedly whenever the need arises.Print On Demand solves many issues for new writers not being published by a publishing house. For example, prior to getting their work out to the general public, authors may want to have an advance review copy of their book for either their own review or to send to a book reviewer. Having an established book reviewer give a good review of a book prior to full printing is a good indication as to ultimately how many copies should be printed. In the alternative, a bad review might indicate the need to go back to the drawing (or in this case writing) board to clean up the work.Also, Print On Demand solves the storage issue for books for both a publisher and an author. In the past, whether published traditionally or self-published, when a book was done, there were copies hanging about until sold. Both publisher and author would have to warehouse them which could get expensive, although the author usually ended up with hundreds of books on their kitchen table or in their basement. With Print On Demand, a book is only printed when needed.
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At the same time, in order to see a copy of their book in print prior to printing the larger number of copies, an author would have had to pay an absorbent amount of money to a printer to get the single copies. Now, it is usually just a small set up fee to the digital printing company and an author has a book in print.All the above are some benefits of Print On Demand. However, it is not the answer to all publishing ills. In the other parts of the POD series I will discuss some negatives that may be deciding factors on not going with Print On Demand publishing.


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ENGLISH 81: Philosophy and Literature (CLASSICS 42, COMPLIT 181, FRENCH 181, GERMAN 181, ILAC 181, ITALIAN 181, PHIL 81, SLAVIC 181)
What, if anything, does reading literature do for our lives? What can literature offer that other forms of writing cannot? Can fictions teach us anything? Can they make people more moral? Why do we take pleasure in tragic stories? This course introduces students to major problems at the intersection of philosophy and literature. It addresses key questions about the value of literature, philosophical puzzles about the nature of fiction and literary language, and ways that philosophy and literature interact. Readings span literature, film, and philosophical theories of art. Authors may include Sophocles, Dickinson, Toni Morrison, Proust, Woolf, Walton, Nietzsche, and Sartre. Students master close reading techniques and philosophical analysis, and write papers combining the two. This is the required gateway course for the Philosophy and Literature major tracks. Majors should register in their home department.
Terms: Win | Units: 3-5 | UG Reqs: GER:DB-Hum, WAY-A-II
Instructors: Holliday, J. (PI) ; Hoyos, H. (PI) ; Parmer, W. (TA) ... more instructors for ENGLISH 81 »
Instructors: Holliday, J. (PI) ; Hoyos, H. (PI) ; Parmer, W. (TA) ; Soler, C. (TA) ; Therieau, M. (TA)
2019-2020 Winter
3-5 units |
UG Reqs: GER:DB-Hum, WAY-A-II |
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Section 01 |
Grading: Letter or Credit/No Credit |
| Students enrolled: 5
01/06/2020 - 03/13/2020 Mon, Wed 3:00 PM - 4:20 PM at 260-113 with Holliday, J. (PI); Hoyos, H. (PI); Parmer, W. (TA); Soler, C. (TA); Therieau, M. (TA)
Exam Date/Time: 2020-03-17 8:30am - 11:30am (Exam Schedule)
Instructors: Holliday, J. (PI); Hoyos, H. (PI); Parmer, W. (TA); Soler, C. (TA); Therieau, M. (TA)
ENGLISH 115A: Shakespeare and Modern Critical Developments
Approaches include gender studies and feminism, race studies, Shakespeare's geographies in relation to the field of cultural geography, and the importance of religion in the period.
Terms: Spr | Units: 5 | UG Reqs: GER:DB-Hum, WAY-A-II
Instructors: Parker, P. (PI)
2019-2020 Spring
5 units |
UG Reqs: GER:DB-Hum, WAY-A-II |
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Section 01 |
Grading: Letter (ABCD/NP) |
| Students enrolled: 7
03/30/2020 - 06/03/2020 Tue, Thu 3:00 PM - 4:50 PM at 460-334 with Parker, P. (PI)
Instructors: Parker, P. (PI)
ENGLISH 115C: Hamlet and the Critics (ENGLISH 215C, TAPS 151C, TAPS 251C)
Focus is on Shakespeare's Hamlet as a site of rich critical controversy from the eighteenth century to the present. Aim is to read, discuss, and evaluate different approaches to the play, from biographical, theatrical, and psychological to formalist, materialist, feminist, new historicist, and, most recently, quantitative. The ambition is to see whether there can be great literature without (a) great (deal of) criticism. The challenge is to understand the theory of literature through the study of its criticism.
Last offered: Winter 2019 | UG Reqs: GER:DB-Hum, WAY-A-II
ENGLISH 122A: Austen and Woolf
Reading of three novels by Jane Austen¿arguably the most influential and gifted of British female novelists-¿and three novels by Virginia Woolf, whose debt to Austen was immense. Topics include the relationship between women writers and the evolution of the English novel; the extraordinary predominance of the marriage plot in Austen¿s fiction (and the various transformations Woolf works on it); each novelist¿s relationship to the cultural and social milieu in which she wrote.
Last offered: Winter 2008 | UG Reqs: GER:DB-Hum
ENGLISH 124: The American West (AMSTUD 124A, ARTHIST 152, HISTORY 151, POLISCI 124A)
The American West is characterized by frontier mythology, vast distances, marked aridity, and unique political and economic characteristics. This course integrates several disciplinary perspectives into a comprehensive examination of Western North America: its history, physical geography, climate, literature, art, film, institutions, politics, demography, economy, and continuing policy challenges. Students examine themes fundamental to understanding the region: time, space, water, peoples, and boom and bust cycles.
Terms: Spr | Units: 5 | UG Reqs: GER:DB-Hum, GER:EC-AmerCul, WAY-A-II, WAY-SI
Instructors: Cain, B. (PI) ; Fishkin, S. (PI) ; Freyberg, D. (PI) ... more instructors for ENGLISH 124 »
Instructors: Cain, B. (PI) ; Fishkin, S. (PI) ; Freyberg, D. (PI) ; Kennedy, D. (PI) ; Nemerov, A. (PI) ; Petrov, P. (TA)
2019-2020 Spring
5 units |
UG Reqs: GER:DB-Hum, GER:EC-AmerCul, WAY-A-II, WAY-SI |
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Section 01 |
Grading: Letter (ABCD/NP) |
| Students enrolled: 9
03/30/2020 - 06/03/2020 Tue, Thu 10:30 AM - 12:20 PM at 200-002 with Cain, B. (PI); Fishkin, S. (PI); Freyberg, D. (PI); Kennedy, D. (PI); Nemerov, A. (PI); Petrov, P. (TA)
Instructors: Cain, B. (PI); Fishkin, S. (PI); Freyberg, D. (PI); Kennedy, D. (PI); Nemerov, A. (PI); Petrov, P. (TA)
UG Reqs: GER:DB-Hum, GER:EC-AmerCul, WAY-A-II, WAY-SI |
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Section 02 |
Grading: Letter (ABCD/NP) |
| Students enrolled: 5
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ENGLISH 126B: The Nineteenth Century Novel
A set of major works of art produced at the peak of the novel's centrality as a cultural form: Austen's Emma, Bronte's Wuthering Heights, Eliot's Middlemarch, Dickens's Great Expectations, Stevenson's Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde, Hardy's Tess of the d'Urbervilles. The paradoxes of work, consciousness and the organization of narrative experience, habit and attention. Urban experience, shifting forms of individualism, ways of knowing other persons. Binary and concentric structures, happiness and moral action, arrays of characters.
Last offered: Spring 2019 | UG Reqs: GER:DB-Hum, WAY-A-II
ENGLISH 134: The Marriage Plot (FEMGEN 134)
The centrality of the marriage plot in the development of the British novel beginning in the 18th century with Samuel Richardson's Pamela and ending with Woolf's modernist novel Mrs. Dalloway. The relationship between novelistic plotting and the development of female characters into marriageable women. What is the relationship between the novel and feminine subjectivity? What aspects of marriage make it work as a plotting device? What kinds of marriages do marriage plots allow? Is the development of women's political agency related to their prominence in the novel form?
Last offered: Spring 2018 | UG Reqs: GER:DB-Hum, GER:EC-Gender, WAY-SI
ENGLISH 139B: American Women Writers, 1850-1920 (AMSTUD 139B, FEMGEN 139B)
This course traces the ways in which female writers negotiated a series of literary, social, and intellectual movements, from abolitionism and sentimentalism in the nineteenth century to Progressivism and avant-garde modernism in the twentieth. Authors include Harriet Beecher Stowe, Harriet Jacobs, Rebecca Harding Davis, Emily Dickinson, Kate Chopin, Edith Wharton, Gertrude Stein, Willa Cather, and Charlotte Perkins Gilman.
Last offered: Autumn 2018 | UG Reqs: GER:DB-Hum, GER:EC-Gender, WAY-A-II
ENGLISH 143A: American Indian Mythology, Legend, and Lore (AMSTUD 143M, ENGLISH 43A, NATIVEAM 143A)
(English majors and others taking 5 units, register for 143A.) Readings from American Indian literatures, old and new. Stories, songs, and rituals from the 19th century, including the Navajo Night Chant. Tricksters and trickster stories; war, healing, and hunting songs; Aztec songs from the 16th century. Readings from modern poets and novelists including N. Scott Momaday, Louise Erdrich, and Leslie Marmon Silko, and the classic autobiography, "Black Elk Speaks."
Last offered: Autumn 2018 | UG Reqs: GER:DB-Hum, GER:EC-AmerCul, WAY-A-II, WAY-ED
ENGLISH 144: Major Modernists: Virginia Woolf, James Joyce, Katherine Mansfield, T. S. Eliot
What made modernism `new? Is the movement `evergreen? We examine representational change, narrative innovation, and political aesthetics in the poetry, short fiction, and novels of four iconic pioneers: Virginia Woolf, James Joyce, Katherine Mansfield, and T.S. Eliot.
Last offered: Spring 2018 | UG Reqs: GER:DB-Hum, WAY-A-II
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Susan Kearney used to light herself on fire four times a day. Now she does something really hot — she writes romantic suspense for Harlequin Intrigue.
While she hasn't performed her signature "fire" dive from a 10-meter platform in years, she started diving at age 10. By age 12, she'd won the New Jersey State Championship, and by college, she was a three-time All-American Diver.
While attending the University of Michigan, she earned a business degree that led to her diverse careers as, variously, a partner in a barter business, a real estate appraiser, a mover and renovator of houses, and a once- owner of three hair salons. Finally, in 1995, she sold her first book and became a full-time writer. She's currently plotting her way through her 30th novel.
Of all her careers, her favorite is wife and mother. She married her teenage sweetheart and lives with her husband, two children, and Boston terrier in sunny Florida. She now beats the heat not by diving into cold water, but with her new hobby — figure skating. Susan also enjoys writing science fiction, screenwriting, boating, and traveling to foreign countries.
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'Go The F**k To Sleep': Kosher Version
from the halal-version-presumably-right-around-the-corner deptAs Dr. David Arredondo suggested during his panicked moralizing, if Go the F**k to Sleep had been written about "Jews, blacks, Muslims or Latinos," we would all immediately stop our hearty chortling and view Mansbach's best-seller as the evil racist book it actually is.
Good news, everybody! Someone did exactly that! Marc Tracy over at The Tablet converted Mansbach's bedtime story to Judaism (so to speak) and has knocked one "marginalized group" off Arredondo's list. Here's an excerpt:
It's Yom Kippur, and you're far away,The whole thing can be read at the link above.
The last thing I want's to be cruel.
I'm your mother, son, you know I adore you,
But please go the fuck to shul.
You'd only go for a few hours,
Shorter than a full day of school.
You'll probably run into people you know
If you go the fuck to shul.
We don't observe the birth of Christ, son,
This isn't some lame fucking Yule.
It's the Day of Atonement, a big deal:
Go the fuck to shul.
Go ahead, eat something beforehand.
Gay gezunt, no reason to drool.
I'm not asking you to believe in it,
Only to go to fucking shul.
With that out of the way, and no one the worse for wear, I'm sure it will only be a matter of time before Dr. Arredondo emerges again, perhaps to make a statement like: "Well, that's all good for the Jewish community, but this only highlights how often authors (and bloggers) exclude blacks, Muslims and Latinos from their mockery."
You can't win, but what the hell? You'd think at least we'd be allowed to laugh without having to keep all of these "possible" (I'm using that term loosely, hence the quotes) ramifications at the back of our minds, just in case. Or maybe Dr. Arredondo could have used some of the time he put into creating a set of victims into researching Adam Mansbach, who has already written other books dealing with Dr. A's favorite underserved demographics.
There's The End of the Jews, which "explores the creative interchange between blacks and Jews and the give-and-take dynamic of artistic partnership." Angry Black White Boy is described as Mansbach applying a monkey-wrench to "the formula of the angry black man in the white man's world" and "cutting to the heart of the issue of race in America today." So, if anyone would have written a book dealing with sleep, the word f**k and multi-culturalism, it would have been the evidently fully-qualified Mansbach. And since he didn't do it, there's really no reason to assume that he just forgot to, no matter how perversely happy that would have made a certain overwrought doctor.
The books is, and will always remain, simply a piece of satire. If anyone wants to read anything else into it, they'll have to drag their interpretations, kicking and screaming, into the book and beat them with Fists of Twisted Logic +2 until they fit.


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Unidentified young woman, Carte de visite portrait, c.1880-1884
by Henry Bloomfield, Waterlooo Street, Burton-on-Trent
Henry F. Bloomfield is something of an enigma. He arrived in the brewing town of Burton-upon-Trent, Staffordshire around 1880, and described himself as an "artist in photography." Although he remained in Burton until his death in 1900, and was listed as a photographer in trade directories from 1888 onwards, few examples of his work appear to have survived. The carte de visite shown above must date from fairly early during his stay in Burton.
H. Bloomfield, artist, photographer, engraver & writer
As well as photography, he advertised his services as artist, engraver and writer, and it is possible he was emplyed by one of the Burton newspapers. Both he and his wife Jane (or Jenny) were born in London around 1830, but nothing further is known about his life prior to his arrival in Burton.
Please do get in touch if you have any further images or information about this photographer.